1853 Little Thinkers

It's the little things in life that get you thinking sometimes.
First, I heard a news story the other day about an ordinary soccer match in Seattle that had 66,000 fans attend. Pretty amazing. The back of my brain registered that you never hear of a Mariners game having 66,000 people attend. And yet you hear nothing but the Mariners on the news when they're limping along through the season. Doesn't seem fair somehow. Maybe if they want more people in the stadium they should suppress media coverage.
Then there's the Nissan Armada. Was driving behind one the other day. It was large. It blocked the view from my tiny Honda. But all that wasn't annoying. What got me was my historical memory. Or memory of history.
Come to think of it, all memories are history aren't they?
Anyhow, you probably also remember the story of the one armada most of us have been taught about. The Spanish Armada. The huge fleet of ships that was going to attack England and put an end to their privateering. It was supposed to be invincible. Like the Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable.
You might want to check those Armada airbags.
Lastly, I'm beyond thinking, and getting more than a little annoyed, at dropdown menus. You know the ones. You're filling out an online form for something and they want you to input your address. Easy enough, you're typing away, and then you come to the "state" and "country" fields. And they each have, instead of a type-able into space, a dropdown menu. You have to select your state and country from long lists.
Beautiful... if you are from Alabama and Argentina.
Totally sucks if you're from Washington, USA.
Ironically, where the Microsoft version of dropdown menus was invented.
America, ya gotta love it.