The Impressive Sights of Midland

I spent much of last weekend riding all over Midland on my bike. I know, I know... Midland's pretty boring... but I like to get out on my bike and explore. One of the places I checked out was Overlook Park on Poseyville Road. Someone had the great idea to build a park that gives a great scenic view of one of Midland's most beautiful landscapes... No, not the Chippewa Nature Center or the Tridge or even the Rail Trail. This park gives a "breathtaking" view of the Dow Chemical Company.

http://www.midlandonline.com/wwwroot/moladmin/articles/articledisplay.cfm?art_id=80

The park overlooks pretty much all of Dow's Midland production facilities as well as what I think was supposed to be the cooling pond for the nuclear power plant that was never completed. It was eventually converted over to natural gas.

No, I didn't see any three eyed fish, but I was looking. Anyways, this park has several little informational signs giving details about Dow and the park and the local environment.

As I was reading one of these signs I spotted a part of the text that my beautiful grammar ninja would love:

Nice proofreading job guys. It only takes one click to run that spell checker. And no, "amd" is NOT referring to the microprocessor company. I had to chuckle just a little...

An Example of Why I Can't Support The Death Penalty

"A Forensics Charlatan Gets Caught in the Act" as posted on Reason.com

http://reason.com/news/show/132574.html

The idea that things like this actually occur is seriously scary. This "Forensics Expert" should be prosecuted. People being stupid is one thing, but when stupid people cause this much damage it just pisses me off...

Too many blows to the head...

I know the Lions suck but they are still my team. It's pretty obvious they don't get the smartest players. A prime example is running back Kevin Smith, who writes on his blog:

"I won’t make a prediction about how many games we’re going to win, but I will say this: We will definitely make the playoffs this season."

He goes on to say:

"Believe it or not we weren’t far off last year. Almost every game we could have won, we were one play or one player short."

Was I watching the same games he was watching???

Knock Knock...

Who's there?

Owen...

Owen who?

Owen Sixteen...

I can't describe how much I'd LOVE to see a playoff run this year, but Kevin, Captain Obvious needs to point out how stupid you look saying stuff like this. How 'bout you guys start by winning a game this year before you start getting cocky.

Here's a link to Kevin Smith's entire blog entry:

http://smith34.com/blog.html

Today's Quote

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

~Bill Cosby