Web surfing hampers your sense of smell
It’s true. Surfing the web hampers your sense of smell. My wife was reading her favourite blogs just a few minutes ago a mere two feet from our dishwasher. Unbeknownst to her, the heating element in the dishwasher was slowly melting the lid of a Starbucks thermos (it fell from the rack).
She got up from her laptop, walked out of the kitchen and upstairs to my office to ask me if I could smell “that”. I just finished sniffing my Power Mac G5, worried that the CPU was beginning to melt. I ran downstairs to find the source of the burning plastic.
I went downstairs to the kitchen and the acrid fumes from the dishwasher were overpowering. I was amazed.
How could anyone sit two feet from a piece of burning plastic and not know where it was coming from? And she complains that the 9-year-old becomes a zombie when he plays the Wii. Sheesh!
Stumble It!Posted in Observations at 9:18 PM
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I object! It’s allergy season and stink rises and I was in the low-lying region on the main floor, I wasn’t surfing, I was working, intently, and I thought you were cooking something and I couldn’t smell it until I was half way up the staircase, because stink rises, think about the dog when he eats pepperoni it doesn’t smell down on the floor, it smells where you stand, stink rises, see? And…and… it was like that when I found it.
So there.
Posted by: The Wife on June 3, 2008 9:41 PM
Jay,
I just heard on the news this morning that computers are causing students to loose their problem solving skills, maybe this is also happening to your wife. BTW your wife mentioned education being a waste of time in her BLOG. She could always keep the 9 yr old at home and home school him with the Wii!
JB
Posted by: JB on June 4, 2008 11:16 AM
JB,
Don’t you have to have problem solving skills to lose them?
Posted by: G on June 13, 2008 11:20 PM
