WWWhat in the World Wide Web

If only all billboards looked like this.

Oh.

I ride the bus every day, AND I am looking for affordable health insurance. If only there was some way to keep informed of affordable health insurance solutions, while riding on the bus. A-and it would be even better if I could be informed every three stops, at maximum volume (because I am deaf and forgetful).

Oh, what kind of magical future world am I dreaming of?

So I was thinking, as I usually do, about how cool it would be to get a replacement body that was actually a robut and never had allergies. Or, how about that notion of uploading your consciousness to one of the inter-nets, or something like that. Anyway, I was thinking about all that, and then I realized that if that sort of thing ever came to pass, it would probably be supported by (read: STUFFED FULL OF) advertising. At least now, you can mostly (…mostly) escape the daily barrage of advertising by closing your eyes, plugging up your ears, running AdBlock, not owning a tv, not listening to the radio, not reading magazines or newspapers, showing up late to movies, and/or living in a cave in the wilderness, but if they were pumped right into your Mind, well, that would suck. Hard. Hardest.

And then I thought, we are probably already in the Matrix, and IT is supported by ads (and not our human battery juice). I mean, have you ever noticed how much advertising there is lately? Or the fact that one of the most popular TV shows is about… an ad agency? And I do sometimes have dreams about Name Brand Products™.

I finally have photo-graphic evidence of this!

Every so often, when there weren’t enough real ads to display, I’d see this weird one. But whenever I’d park in front of the billboard with my camera at the ready… nothing. Apparently today was a slow ad day, because I saw it at least 20 times during my lunch.

So I saw this jewelry ad, and at the bottom it said “jewelry enlarged to show detail” or something like that. Since this ad was on the side of a bus, and the rings pictured were three feet tall, I was actually a little relieved.

(And I can just see someone at some point chewing out a jeweler for not having the giant rings like on the bus ad. PS—watch out for that coffee, it’s hot!)

I saw this today while checking on my peeps:

Was it a lucky guess? There isn’t a place in the profile editor for entering your weight, is there?

BTW—I’m not overweight, I’m festively plump.