garlic

either we've got some new neighbours who love asian cooking or some of our old neighbours have taken up the habit, and now the entire stairwell, but especially our floor, smells strongly of garlic, soy, and peanut oil, occasionally with an overpowering undertone of burnt (which still isn't enough to make it totally unappetising, though), almost every night. i want to knock on their door and beg. i know it wouldn't be that hard to get off my ass and get some recipes and cook some asian food - but (a) sans garlic it would smell and taste about 1/2 as mouth-watering and (b) i am lazy, and eating food always sounds like more fun than making it.

i bought an avocado at our grocery store a couple of weeks ago that was only €0,85, and it was actually halfway decent when i finally ate it - the difference was still noticeable because i suppose avocados really hate being shipped long distances to freakishly cold sunless climes, but once you mix it with lime and salt it's not as serious. i wish something similar to that would happen with garlic.

talking urinals

i'd link, but i got this in an email from my grandfather. o_O

New Mexico introduces talking urinals
RIO RANCHO, New Mexico (AP) — New Mexico is hoping to keep drunks off the road by lecturing them at the last place they usually stop before getting behind the wheel: the urinal.

The state recently paid $21 US each for about 500 talking urinal-deodorizer cakes and put them in men’s rooms in bars and restaurants.

When a man steps up, the motion-sensitive plastic device says, in a woman’s voice that is flirty, then stern: “Hey, big guy. Having a few drinks? Think you had one too many? Then it’s time to call a cab or call a sober friend for a ride home.”