Who Do I Think I Am??

This one's about education.

30DBC PROMPT: "Yesterday, Sunday March 10, was the start of Daylight Savings Time. Research DST and provide us with your thoughts. Feel free to take this prompt anywhere you like."

What's up dear readers? I'm gonna be honest with you...I have no idea what time it is right now. I've got two cell phones and neither of them gave me the "thumbs up" this morning to say their respective networks switched to DST. Now, this I could understand from the busted-ass Tracfone I rock when I absoutely need to conversate, but this is so unlike the BlackBerry. Of all the years I've been with you BlackBerry, this is the first time change I can recall where you didn't alert me.

Ahem. All better. Now, even though I'm in prime east coast real estate, I myself need an occasional brush-up on what purpose DST serves. But not this year...I managed to take all my sleeping pills correctly and assumed whatever the time says it is on my BlackBerry is the correct time upon waking up. But then I walked into the library, and all of the clocks seem to have a different time. The computer I was on is two hours faster than my phones. The grandfather clock above the desk has arms that are too small to read, which is also wrong. And there's probably an old vcr in the basement that's always flashed 12:00 because nobody knew how to program it. I'm lucky I don't have to rely on this bastion of public knowledge to be anywhere today.

However, my quest for knowledge never changes its time. In order to fully rectify my day with the "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  prompt, I did what most people are likely to do: I used the internet. First, I went to Google to see what I could find. I skipped the first few suggestions out of habit. Or maybe superstition. Probably a little bit of both. Here's what I found...

For hippies: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

For tech geeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

For those living in the past: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/rules/usa/

Then I went to the next most reliable search engine: YouTube...

For those concerned about their health: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65SHDwsGJ0

For those concerned about fire safety: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ixBRh-Utc8

For fans of The Get Up Kids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqv5jXTc-d8

As you can see, there is so much out there that even I didn't know! And there's a way to learn it in a manner that's most comfortable for you. Thanks, internet!

BCF PROMPT: "The topic is the death penalty. Are you for it or against it and why?"

Yikes. The next topic is one I only have limited information about. That's pretty sad considering it requires my opinion, and there is no "turning to the internet" when it comes to opinions I might have posted in this here informational blast of opinionated internetical nonsense.

That's not to say that I haven't thought about it. I'm sure I have at some point. I think the beast I'm trying to poke here is "I'm selfish enough to think that I'll probably never be put in a situation where I'll be facing the death penalty, so I don't have to care one way or the other". Yes, these are the things that go through my head while you're raising children to be good citizens.

I suppose if it came down to it, a stance I could feel comfortable with you referencing me for my opinion online would sound something like this:

While I don't advocate the use of violence or death to justify the taking of someone else's life, it seems as if some states in our great nation have made that decision for us already. As long as it is done ethically and humanely, whatever your state of residence when you commit the crime says, goes for me. Don't want the chair? Move to a state that gives you a needle. Afraid of needles? Rot in a cell on death row. Don't wanna rot? Don't get caught.

MUSICAL BREAK!!

There aren't a lot of songs about time changes, and too many songs about death.

VITAL STATS:

What does DST mean to me as a single guy? It means there'll be less time in the day where I'll have to move the one light bulb I own to whichever room I want to use it in . (Yes, that's a bachelor joke I stole from Dane Cook.)

Ok, I think I managed to fulfill my obligation of educating the masses for another day. I hope this entry finds you well. Peace, and GOODNIGHT NOW!!