Smells Like Tuesday

[howeird]

Feels like Friday.
Work included the distraction of a new build for the current product, and with it a test I could do easily to verify a bug was fixed. Continuing to research Teletext and wrote some more test case one-liners. Many of them I have no idea how to actually do the tests. Those require the box to get its input from a satellite feed, and we don't have any European feeds that I know of.

Lunch was Boston Market, the half rack of ribs was good, but twice as much as I should have eaten. Small, dry cornbread. Not very sweet sweet corn. Decent loaded mashed potato. The very large plastic glass they give for soft drinks is a keeper. Finished the second Giver book, Gathering Blue. It isn't a sequel to The Giver but is billed as a "companion book". Nope, I don't buy that either. Totally different characters and setting, and different magic. Started #3, which is a sequel to #2 right off the bat. I love her writing. YA book which doesn't make me feel overqualified.

Looked up the remodeling company which was suggested by a friend and advertises in the community magazine, but there are no Yelp reviews and BBB doesn't know about them. Not a good sign. The mfg rep said she would send references, and we got a new magazine today which I'll do some checking against.

Put the small Seahawks logo decal on the car, and the a little too large college sticker, which was falsely advertised as a window cling.

Home after work, did my best to avoid it, but eventually sat down with the music and the script and tried to learn the words to my songs. Not very successful. The phrasing and cadence of the song lyrics is counter-intuitive, and there is no place to catch my breath. Will need much help at the rehearsal Thursday with music director. The theater is occupied so we'll do it at his house, where we had the first read-through.

Tried playing the two versions of the songs I have from Amazon, but neither of them matches the script. One comes close but they chop out the intro to the Big Numbah. :-(

In other news, have been infuriated once again by Da Meedea warping a story for sensationalism. Arizona passed a bill, which the governor has not yet signed, which simply allows a business owner to refuse to serve anyone on grounds it would violate business owner's religious beliefs. But instead of reporting it that way, they are all calling it the "anti-gay" bill.

Yes, someone whose religion holds that homosexuality is wrong could refuse to serve gays. But it also allows a Jewish deli owner to refuse to serve men who are not wearing a head covering, or a halal store owner can legally turn away women customers whose arms are not covered. That would make it a "right to bare arms" issue. I'm sure that with enough research, a Navajo could come up with a reason to 86 someone on religious grounds. "You are trespassing on sacred ground, leave!"

I am all in favor of allowing a private business to choose its customers. Just as I have a choice in which businesses I patronize. It should work both ways.

Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Bingo at the community center. A tough choice because there's a NASA talk at Foothill too, but I probably could not get up there in time.
Put in some more script time
Change the sheets

Comments

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

(Devil's advocate here) So, then, should a lunch counter in the South be allowed to put up a sign that says, "No niggers, kikes, faggots or Presbyterians served here"? Should an owner of a private bus company have a right to tell people he doesn't like to sit in back because they smell funny to him?

[howeird]

Yes.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased in many ways that Jan Brewer had enough sense to say no to this hot potato. The only part that doesn't please me is the fact she can dine in most restaurants now with no fear of contamination of her food. I do not agree with you that businesses should have a right to discriminate against customers. One of the unintended consequences of this bill is that a police officer might choose not to respond to a call from, say, a person with a foreign name because they think the person is not Christian.

[howeird]

It depends on whether you believe, as I do, that a business owner has the right to choose his/her/its customers, or whether you believe that customers have the right to choose to patronize any business they want to.

I can shoo anyone I want to from my lawn, why should I not be allowed to shoo anyone I want to from my business?

And then there's the ultimate silliness, why would I want to do business with a bigot?

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

There's a whole long list of places I won't patronize. That is not discrimination. Passing that law in Arizona was clearly an attempt at massive legalization of discrimination. There's a difference between denial of service for a reason, and a pattern of denial of service because people belong to a certain class.

[howeird]

Of course it's discrimination. That's why they call it being a discriminating shopper.

IMHO, the only difference is which side of the fence you're on.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

A discriminating shopper? You mean, like one who wanders through the store smashing items that aren't good enough, or one who shouts things like, "Get out of the store, you vile Argentinians!"

[howeird]

Argentinians are available in viles? Who knew?