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Exxon And Timex Release The Speedpass watch
introverted writes "Exxon and Timex have released a Speedpass-enabled watch. From the article, this sounds like a regular Timex watch with an RFID chip in it. According to a radio news story, you can not only use the watch to buy gas, but at some locations in Chicago you can also use it at McDonald's. The watch is available from Timex. This was first mentioned on Slashdot in March last year."
My dog is a big giant asshole. She is one year old and I have spent every available minute with her when I am not at work. She sleeps with me, she runs errands with me, and I put her stupid photo on my friggin christmas card last year. Despite my love and attention she has done the following:
1) Eaten seventeen pairs of panties, ten of which cost more than fifteen dollars a pair
2) Chewed the legs off the new furniture after I've fallen asleep at night
3) Ripped out two sago palms worth roughly forty dollars each
4) Eaten four T-bone steaks directly off the grill
5) Pissed in my new late model SUV while I was in the grocery store (less than ten minutes each visit) not once, not twice, but THREE times.
6) Shit in my friend's car who swore that I just needed "a little time out" from her...TWICE
7) Ripped out every cactus I planted BY HAND into a little bed in the backyard when I sent her out for a pee-pee break.
8) Shit IN THE SINK in my guest bathroom, when I put her in there briefly b/c a neighbor's child showed up unexpectedly
9) Dug a hole entirely surrounding my A/C unit, thereby rendering it structurally unstable
10) Ate a stick of butter unattended on the kitchen counter and diarrhea'd all over the carpet the whole night while I was sleeping
11) Ate a first edition P.J. O'Rourke signed book--simply unforgivable
12) Blasted shit OUT OF her kennel through the bars of her doggie cage while a friend dog-sat her. I am not kidding--she literally put her ass against the bars and expelled crap so that it went across the kitchen floor. Our friendship nearly ended over this incident.
13) I found another unsuspecting friend to dog sit and she conspired with his dog--who had a rudimentary working knowledge of the neighborhood layout--to travel to within a mile of the local shelter, thereby ensuring their capture.
14) There is so much more: the drawings my children made that she ate while I was folding laundry ten feet way, the lanterns in the garden that were destroyed by a whip of the tail...so much more....
And don't think that I don't pay enough attention or that I should take the time to train her. I've done both. She is fully trained to both whistle and hand commands. She has more toys than most children, and she sleeps in my bed at night. She's just evil and destructive. And don't bother sending me flaming emails about responsible pet ownership, I'll just delete them because you have NO IDEA what it is like to live with a dog who dedicates its life to destroying all that you hold dear. My little four-legged terrorist is bored, angry, whatever...I don't care. THIS NEEDS TO STOP.
the FBI.
No more filesharing for y0u !
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
It sure keeps me busy adding all these to my router block list.
The truth shall set you free!
Posts like this need a new mod.
(+5, Blantantly Obvious and Original Poster should be Humiliated)