A man in Oregon tied 105 helium balloons to a lawn chair, and flew into Idaho, 193 miles away. Do you believe that? A man tied 105 helium ballons to a lawn chair, and flew into Idaho! He flew 193 miles. In a lawn chair, with balloons tied to it.
He used 105 balloons. That’s a lot. Can you count to 193? Can you say “Idaho?” Good!
Sorry.
I needed to get some work done on my car, and spent an hour and a half sitting in the customer lounge at the dealership, where a small girl was watching “Dora the Explorer” and related shows on tv, with the volume turned way up. To paraphrase Travis Hime, this show has very low entropy. And now I feel like repeating every goddamn thing I say three times…
To be fair, it was an improvement over the Tyra Banks show, which was on before the little girl and her father came in. Which really says something about Tyra Banks, and what it says isn’t good.
If this is the current state of children’s television, now I know why I have to explain everything three times in my classes. Honestly, was Sesame Street this annoying?