Dorks And Losers

In my opin­ion, mete­o­rol­o­gists aren’t the smartest peo­ple in the room. That being said, peo­ple who repeat mete­o­rol­o­gists’ weather fore­casts prob­a­bly aren’t the smartest peo­ple in the room either.

Exam­ple. The weather fore­cast for Sacra­mento, CA was cloudy with a chance of show­ers. Okay. I’ll wear a sweater. I’m dri­ving on the free­way. The radio DJ says the fore­cast for today (May 2, 2007) would be cloudy with a chance of show­ers. In real­ity: it’s pour­ing. Chance of show­ers? That should be upgraded, and granted, the DJ is prob­a­bly sit­ting indoors with­out a win­dow next to her (female voice), but man your cred­i­bil­ity wouldn’t have been shot down if you had just taken two sec­onds to look out of a window.

BTW, it was REALLY pour­ing on my drive to school at around 7:20 AM.

And to be clear, my pet peeve is that mete­o­rol­o­gists and their weather fore­casts aren’t too accu­rate, and it would be nice to have intel­li­gent pre­dic­tions. You’d be sur­prised at how many times I’ve heard a fore­cast pre­dict­ing heavy rain only to wake up to a bright sun and 90 degree heat.
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Funny com­pi­la­tion of those great ESPN com­mer­cials. #10 isn’t that funny with Pey­ton and Eli Man­ning pro­vid­ing the sports star act­ing. #8 should be higher on the list with Big Papi David Ortiz and Jorge Posada.

But #1 is absolute gold. Up there for your view­ing plea­sure.
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*** 1:32 PM Update ***

1. A ter­rier, named George, only a foot high saved five New Zealand kids from two attack­ing pit bulls. This is another notch my belt as to why dogs are bet­ter than cats. Granted, the kids were being attacked by dogs. I HOPE this isn’t used as a means to ban pit bulls from being pets. They are great ani­mals and it’s almost always the own­ers at fault for the pets’ behavior.

“George was brave,” he took them on, and he’s not even a foot high,” Gay told The Asso­ci­ated Press. “He jumped in on them, he tried to keep them off.”

2. Found out about this yes­ter­day actu­ally. For­got to blog it. Gisele Bund­chen is no longer a Vic­to­ria Secret model. She report­edly wanted more than $5 mil­lion a year. As I have long said, she was never the hottest model for the com­pany. Adri­ana Lima is.

It was pretty hard try­ing to find a pic­ture of Adri­ana not wear­ing lin­gerie or a swim­suit. In any­thing, she always looks good.

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