I was going to come into work at a normal time, this morning. Really, I was. But as I was getting ready to leave the house, the Oprah show came on, you know the last Oprah's Favourite Things show, where she gave away tens of thousands of dollars of stuff to each and every audience member... that show!! So I stuck around and watched for about 45 minutes.
It was fun to live in fantasy-land for a bit... I didn't stick around all the way to the end, where I know she gave away a Volkswagen to each member. My wife wants to know how they all manage to get all that stuff home... because of Oprah's studios location, I imagine that some of them might have arrived by EL (that's the commuter train, for those of you unfamiliar with Chicago)..
I envision that Oprah, in her ultimate generosity, sent them home with large muscular guys in m.c. hammer genie pants, to cart all their goodies home... but then I'm prone to such strange dreams.
So when Johnny Mathis and Josh Groban came out and started to croon Christmas tunes, that was my cue to leave.
Meanwhile, on the ride into the office, I was listening to Eric and Kathy on the MIX (don't judge me... don't you dare judge me)... and they were discussing a lady in Japan who was suing Google. That's right... suing Google!
What horrible infraction had Google enacted that caused her to want to sue them? Well, y'all know about Google Earth, and Google Maps... and they have those weird/fun street views... where you're kind positioned like your standing on the street, and you can look North, you can look South..., move up and down... look toward the houses.... it's as though you're right there... looking around (it rocks!)... Well, she was upset because the Google Maps street view showed her laundry hanging in front of her house, and there was a pair of her panties out there. She felt it was a violation of her privacy.
She became obsessed with it... became worried that it would cause her to become a victim of a sex crime... she lost her job... and now she's suing Google for the U.S. Equivalent of $7,000. Now I suppose that Google could just "pay" her as a nuisance suit... since sending Googles minions in bad blue suits will assuredly cost more than $7,000... but I hope they don't. I hope they sue HER for filing a nuisance suit. And they'll show photos of her panties in court, and that'll become part of the public record... oh, no, here we go again.
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