Rants and musings, without care for substance.
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 [...]
Amazon.com WidgetsI just finished reading Freakonomics, subtitled A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Very neat, clean, and approachable, this is not your typical economics book. But then again, Steven Levitt doesn’t appear to be a typical economist. The man attempts to answer simple questions using economic datasets. Such as (quoted [...]
If you call a hotel to reserve a block of rooms and advertise that your guests are going to be loud and obnoxious, don’t feign surprise or become angry when hotel management comes directly to the room where the party is at. When you book a room as part of such a block, hotel management [...]
Posted in culture, healthcare, life in general, youth on Sep 29th, 2007
I’m a morning person. There’s little better than waking up at 7:30 to a soft and crisp breeze passing through one side of the house to the other. Its air conditioning, by Nature. I can hear birds chirping happily outside the window. This is my favorite time of year, where the price of comfort indoors [...]
Posted in boozing, culture, plans, things i'd like to see on Sep 13th, 2007
A close friend and I have always talked about opening a bar. We’ve got a name picked out and everything. I think everyone dreams about running their own place at least once, having conversations that start with the phrase “if I owned the bar…” and ending with some absurdly crazy thing they’d like to have. [...]
Posted in culture, food, google, idiots, oddities, web sites on Aug 5th, 2007
I dropped someone off at Office Depot to pick up a few things yesterday. I had groceries in the car so I kept it running and backed into a space in the shade facing the front door so I could see when they came out. Bear in mind that I’m about 200 feet from the [...]
Posted in college, culture, web sites, youth on Aug 1st, 2007
There is an interesting article on Gene Expression about Intercourse and Intelligence (featured on Slashdot today). Many of the comments were from an NIH paper entitled Smart Teens Don’t Have Sex (or Kiss Much Either). You can read the documents yourself but here’s a few things that stood out to me.
“By the age of 19, [...]
The further into the projects you go the more it occurs. The more gangsta the rap artists or athlete, the worse it seems to get. It heard it on the radio this morning; the DJ was interviewing a football player. It’s just as bad as high school girls saying “like” to describe everything or people [...]
Posted in boozing, culture, film, in the news, money on Jul 25th, 2007
I predict that Emma Watson — who plays Hermione in the motion picture adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s bestselling series — will be in and out of rehab before the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is completed.
Think I’m wrong? Take a look at Google Images.
I fear that she’ll follow in the footsteps of [...]
Dave Winer thinks that blog comments are part of the problem and that they intrude upon my freedom of speech. That’s a bunch of hooey. I think they’re beneficial. As I expand upon ideas others can chime in with their experiences and opinions. I find that to be valuable. Few things are better than a [...]
Posted in complaints, culture on Jul 14th, 2007
Remember when you asked a question and got an answer to that question? I can’t remember when it last was, but I miss those days. People don’t take the time to read anymore. Not with any care anyways. Skimming is the trend now, whether you talking about letters, articles, newspapers, email, or text messages. People [...]
Posted in culture, healthcare, life in general, plans on Jul 3rd, 2007
I am a habitual drug user.
I take approximately fifty-five milligrams of methyltheobromine every weekday. Sometimes more, usually on the weekend or for special occassions. Sometimes I chase eighty milligrams with sugar water and immediately demand more from my supplier. On a few rare occassions I’ve taken so much that I’ve experienced muscle twitching and irregular [...]
Posted in culture, life in general on Jun 27th, 2007
Having gone to a few graduation parties this summer, the usual birthdays, and a handful of weddings I’ve been spending more time at Hallmark than should be necessary.
I never know what to write, so I usually attempt to get a card that says something witty so that I won’t have to. It takes me a [...]
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