#1191 Follow-ups

A few follow-up observations today. Sometimes folks read my essays and contribute thoughts of their own. Yesterday’s commentary was about Comcast adding one more LED light to the hoard around our houses already contributing to the carbon footprint.
One person noted LED stands for Light Emitting Diode. So is saying “LED Light” a redundancy?
Another feedbacker reported that he went around his house counting LEDS. He has 38 of them, including his 3 lighted switches. That’s a lot of devices. But it’s probably about normal.
What got me, though, was him having lighted switches. They worry about GPS navigation devices robbing us of the ability to organically orient ourselves. Lighted switches? Whatever happened to knowing your way around in the dark in your own house? That whole body memory thing that’s your only advantage against burglars or chainsaw murderers in the dark?
I also did an essay about the bottom surfaces of things you pick up in the supermarket, and where they may have been sitting that makes it a bad idea to set those things down on your breadboard on your kitchen counter. One reader pointed out that one scary place they may have been sitting was in the shopping cart itself.
When was the last time you saw stores disinfecting those? Bird poop, baby poop, sneezers without a sneezegard galore. And we put our groceries in these things.
Those reusable shopping bags are getting pretty filthy too. And we set them all kinds of places before we set them on the counter at home.
Or how about that gym bag? After a few placements on foot fungus infested locker-room floors, you sure you want to set it on the kitchen counter for just a sec while you run to grab the phone?
And finally, about a year ago I mentioned my quandary about what to call the plural of the Toyota Prius. Was it Prius-es or Pree-aye? The recent recall reports have resolved it. All the news organizations have settled on the plural form “Prius.”
So you can have one Prius or a group of Prius. Like deer, fish, and moose.
Coincidentally, deer, fish, and moose go and stop when they want to too.
America, ya gotta love it.