Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in cars, complaints, culture on Jun 6th, 2008
People are going out to the movies less due to gas prices. That fact has been all over the media. I haven’t seen any stories and photos about the gas lines at the wholesale clubs, but they’re there. With gas prices hovering at $4 per gallon, people have also begun to realize the cost of [...]
The Annapolis Greek Festival 2008 is going on this weekend, Saturday 11am-11pm and Sunday 12pm-7pm. Those hours aren’t listed on the web site, but I happened to stop by this evening to grab a bite to eat and check things out. The festival has been hosted by Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church forever, [...]
While waiting at a stop light, I took a photo of a large brick building at the corner of W. Pratt and Greene Street the other morning. The color of brick is in stark contrast to the white building behind it, so much so that the entire photo looks like I ran it through a [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, in the news on Apr 4th, 2008
The weight of everything is being lifted, one bit at a time. Lots of little things that I’ve been working on have finally come to fruition. My tax returns are completed and mailed. I contracted to have a new and improved splash image created for my placeholder site and am pleased with the results. Over [...]
Posted in culture, healthcare, idiots, parenting, youth on Mar 20th, 2008
There are a lot of kids in my community that are spoiled rotten these days by their parents.
As I was running out to do some errands the other day I saw no less than nine cars parked on the side of the road, whose occupants were all waiting for their kids to be dropped off [...]
There’s something uniquely manly about socket wrenches. I remember flipping through the Sears catalog as a child, seeing the kits containing thousands of pieces and thinking “wow, that’s a lot of shiny stuff.” Manly stuff mind you, but still shiny and attractive.
My socket set started out in a green metal case. There was a plastic [...]
I went to a cocktail party at friend’s house on Saturday night. Aside from work-related events, it was my first. The house parties I attend are usually a bastion of comfortable apparel, but it was really neat seeing everyone all dressed up. The gentlemen in suits and ties and the ladies in little (mostly) black [...]
Posted in boozing, culture, food, gadgets, web sites on Dec 11th, 2007
Since Google Maps allows us to do custom layers, all the smoke free places on the list so have been plotted on a map. I was going to do this via the Google Maps API, but this was so much easier than dealing with the XML plus it allows collaboration.
The Map (which has a hideous [...]
I remember in the mid-80’s when smoking was banned in shopping malls and when the smoking and non-smoking sections of a restaurant were divided by invisible lines. Just like people took issue with the fact that smoke could still travel from one section to the other (unless separated by a wall or some great distance), [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, healthcare, things i'd like to see on Dec 2nd, 2007
Reading about that lingering bar smoke aroma that emanates from our clothes, it reminded me that I left Bateman’s Friday evening, my clothes reeking of stale cigarette smoke. I was only in there for 30 minutes and I didn’t see a single person actively smoking. It was all residual. This is a sharp contrast to [...]
Posted in culture, things i'd like to see on Nov 20th, 2007
Having dinner with my family one night the conversation turned to what to do in the event of an explosion. Not a freak gasoline fight accident, but a bombing in a public place like a mall, airport, or museum. The consensus was that after the initial blast that we ought to wait a minute to [...]
Posted in culture, film, things i'd like to see on Nov 19th, 2007
I saw Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead at The Charles Theatre this weekend. Two brothers plan to rob their parent’s jewelry store and it goes bad. Without giving away any details, this is a violent film that didn’t live up to my expectations. My expectations in this case being I saw the preview and [...]
Posted in boozing, culture, healthcare, humor on Nov 13th, 2007
Over the weekend I was described as “a binge drinking, promiscuous enabler.” Even there were no ugly people present, it reminded me of the t-shirt design to the right. The comment was made in good fun and I’m still chuckling about it a few days later. Does that mean that I enable promiscuity? Or are [...]
A group of students from Severna Park High School are convening on Facebook (in an AACC group, oddly enough) with the purpose of “[making] some crucial changes in the directing staff” of this year’s Rock N’ Roll Revival XVIIII. Led by the kid who played the hydraullicly-enabled Billie Jean last year, the group claims that [...]
Amazon.com WidgetsFor the most part, trips to the bathroom are uneventful. That is, people go in and take care of their personal business and leave, hopefully washing their hands on the way out. Today was a bang up day for restroom weirdness at the office. I observed two uncommon behaviors while taking care [...]