More recalls from China
It's like Groundhog Day, you just get to live it over and over again...
This time it's our GeoTrax set that may or may not be affected. I'll have to look at serial numbers. My favorite quote from an article about the recall is this little gem:
"The country's (China's) health minister accused the west of scaremongering and described the safety fears over Chinese products as a sickness in itself. "I must remind some friends that we are certainly extremely sensitive towards this problem, but over-sensitivity caused by only seeing part of the picture, in medical terms, is called an allergy," said Chen Zhu, who is a Paris-trained scientist. "I want to tell everyone that they can have confidence in the quality of Chinese products and food safety. I also want to explicitly say that we support media supervision over health work."
Wait, wait. Um...so what's the first part, that they care, but that "over-sensitivity caused by seeing only one part of the picture" is "an allergy." Hmmm. Only part of the picture. Let's do a quick layman's translation, shall we? "Shut up, stupid Americans. If you want to sell your cheap crap to the coveted CHINESE MARKET, you will take our lead-coating offerings with grace and humility, and not embarrass us." And Part II about "supporting media supervision over health work" is just amazing! "Quit testing our stuff and muzzle your media!" Gosh, at the risk of sounding negative, NO.
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Made David clean up the floor, square by square, with the cleaning spray and a roll of paper towels. He didn't mind it too uch...his big fear was that I would "tell Daddy" what he'd done. I told him if he was so awfully worried about it, he could just tell Daddy that he's helping Mommy out. This worked for him quite well, and he ended up rather proud of the job he did at cleaning up.
We got one of our first quizzes back in class. Since I'd missed so much of the first one, I only got a 60% or so. The sort of thing I got wrong were questions like, "What is (the professor's) office phone number?" and "What are (the professor's) office hours?" My responses, since I had NO IDEA, were things like, "I don't know, this is what applications like iCal and Address Book are for," or, "No idea, that's why I have a smart phone, to remember stuff like this so I don't have to. Seriously, do you crud your brain up with this stuff? I have enough trouble keeping track of my car keys on a daily basis!" I got my paper back with the comment, "You're back! Love the Wagnertude."
Bite me.
Jen came over yesterday, bearing gifts (Superman comics and toys, and talking mirrors and unicorns) for the kids. She plunked right down on the floor and started playing, to David's absolute stunned delight. She had Darth Vader riding dinosaurs and stealing stuff, and heaven knows what else. The kids think she's a goddess. We went to the Art Foundry (note to self: See wire trees again. WAY cool.) and after that went through some of the areas of historic St. Charles which are supposedly haunted. Gotta tell ya, if those places are haunted, it's certainly not in the unfriendly, scary aspect. South Main Street is quite cozy and happy. We stopped in at an old-fashioned sweets shop...the kind with giant pans of fudge, hand-dipped strawberries, etc. and got ice cream cones. Lauren stopped in front of an elderly couple in front of the shop and announced in excited tones that she wanted to sit on a bench and eat ice cream, too! They smiled broadly at her, and when she came back out with her chocolate ice cream, they admired it with her.
Tomorrow we're supposed to go ride the paddleboats at Forest Park, and do SOMETHING with "Aunt Jen." We have no idea what yet. Guess we'll find out!
This time it's our GeoTrax set that may or may not be affected. I'll have to look at serial numbers. My favorite quote from an article about the recall is this little gem:
"The country's (China's) health minister accused the west of scaremongering and described the safety fears over Chinese products as a sickness in itself. "I must remind some friends that we are certainly extremely sensitive towards this problem, but over-sensitivity caused by only seeing part of the picture, in medical terms, is called an allergy," said Chen Zhu, who is a Paris-trained scientist. "I want to tell everyone that they can have confidence in the quality of Chinese products and food safety. I also want to explicitly say that we support media supervision over health work."
Wait, wait. Um...so what's the first part, that they care, but that "over-sensitivity caused by seeing only one part of the picture" is "an allergy." Hmmm. Only part of the picture. Let's do a quick layman's translation, shall we? "Shut up, stupid Americans. If you want to sell your cheap crap to the coveted CHINESE MARKET, you will take our lead-coating offerings with grace and humility, and not embarrass us." And Part II about "supporting media supervision over health work" is just amazing! "Quit testing our stuff and muzzle your media!" Gosh, at the risk of sounding negative, NO.
a
Made David clean up the floor, square by square, with the cleaning spray and a roll of paper towels. He didn't mind it too uch...his big fear was that I would "tell Daddy" what he'd done. I told him if he was so awfully worried about it, he could just tell Daddy that he's helping Mommy out. This worked for him quite well, and he ended up rather proud of the job he did at cleaning up.
We got one of our first quizzes back in class. Since I'd missed so much of the first one, I only got a 60% or so. The sort of thing I got wrong were questions like, "What is (the professor's) office phone number?" and "What are (the professor's) office hours?" My responses, since I had NO IDEA, were things like, "I don't know, this is what applications like iCal and Address Book are for," or, "No idea, that's why I have a smart phone, to remember stuff like this so I don't have to. Seriously, do you crud your brain up with this stuff? I have enough trouble keeping track of my car keys on a daily basis!" I got my paper back with the comment, "You're back! Love the Wagnertude."
Bite me.
Jen came over yesterday, bearing gifts (Superman comics and toys, and talking mirrors and unicorns) for the kids. She plunked right down on the floor and started playing, to David's absolute stunned delight. She had Darth Vader riding dinosaurs and stealing stuff, and heaven knows what else. The kids think she's a goddess. We went to the Art Foundry (note to self: See wire trees again. WAY cool.) and after that went through some of the areas of historic St. Charles which are supposedly haunted. Gotta tell ya, if those places are haunted, it's certainly not in the unfriendly, scary aspect. South Main Street is quite cozy and happy. We stopped in at an old-fashioned sweets shop...the kind with giant pans of fudge, hand-dipped strawberries, etc. and got ice cream cones. Lauren stopped in front of an elderly couple in front of the shop and announced in excited tones that she wanted to sit on a bench and eat ice cream, too! They smiled broadly at her, and when she came back out with her chocolate ice cream, they admired it with her.
Tomorrow we're supposed to go ride the paddleboats at Forest Park, and do SOMETHING with "Aunt Jen." We have no idea what yet. Guess we'll find out!
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