Two things happened at once the other day, which led to a funny and kind of interesting thought. I've been reading Contact by Carl Sagan, and really enjoying it. I also watched the beginning of Wizard of Oz, before my Netflix disc gave up and was unplayable. One of the biggest ideas in Contact is that we have been sending our TV transmissions out into space for a really long time, and any alien civilization that has been paying attention has also been able to watch our tv. As I was watching Wizard of Oz, I couldn't help but wonder what the aliens (or the future anthropoligists) think of the movie the Wizard of Oz. Because parts of it are completely crazy. Of course, there is a lot of TV out there that would make other civilizations think twice about the mental well being of all of us Earthlings. Anyway. Maybe we need to send the aliens a copy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon too.
Here's a bit 'o luck/good karma story that happened to me the other day. I have a small, pink stuffed dog on my house keys, which I have had for a little over a year, and usually is hanging off of my belt loop with the keys tucked into my pocket. It keeps me from locking the keys inside of my apartment, or forgetting them at work. On my morning commute, after waking up extremely late and being generally grumpy, I noticed that it had fallen off in the train station where I switch to the local train. It was upsetting in the "I know it's only a keychain, but I am attached to it anyway so it sucks that its gone" kind of way, but since I was already running late for work, I couldn't really go back and look for it wihch made me even grumpier. BUT as I was walking up the steps to the next train this Chinese girl tapped me on the shoulder and handed it to me. Apparently she followed me around the station to give it back to me. Which was very awesome. Needless to say I thanked her profusely, and then we both went on our ways. It certainly brightened up my day.
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