Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in observations on May 19th, 2011
Amazon recently started using LaserShip to deliver DVDs to customers, resulting in absurdly fast delivery to Prime members. Electing for standard two-day shipping, I received my last order 19 hours after placing it.
On Thursday I placed an order around 10pm. Around 2am Friday I received a notification from Amazon saying that my order had been [...]
Posted in observations on May 5th, 2011
I found some chicken-scratch notes while cleaning up the living room, some of which date back to November 2009. It seems that I take notice of ways in which smaller cities are inherently different than the bigger ones.
Compton, Illinois: Heartbreakers Gentleman’s Club sits on RT-30 across from a weigh station somewhere between Shabbona and Rockford. [...]
Posted in observations on Apr 21st, 2011
Despite our first inclination to disbelieve, even overcast days can be beautiful.
They give us a tempting and hopeful glimpse of sun behind the clouds. Something to look forward to.
Posted in observations on Apr 7th, 2011
As I tweeted earlier, eating Cool Mint Cream Oreos is like brushing your teeth with chocolate.
Aside from the feeling that you’ve got chocolate particles in your teeth, you’ll feel minty fresh.
Try it.
Posted in observations on Feb 24th, 2011
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve discovered that I enjoy my time in the sauna.
It doesn’t seem to matter whether I’ve been hitting the gym hard or whether I’ve been thinking and writing all day, the dry two hundred degree heat loosens everything up. My cares and problems seem to escape my mind and muscle [...]
Posted in observations on Feb 10th, 2011
A bit of irony, as seen in Charleston.
Posted in observations on Jan 27th, 2011
I live a few miles from a set of train tracks used by CSX, MARC, and Amtrak. I enjoy the late night blast of the horn, making me feel like I’m in the mid-west plains of Iowa. I find the low rumble of the cars moving down the tracks at night to have a soothing [...]
Posted in observations on Dec 30th, 2010
Individuals who leave their shipping carts in the middle of the parking lot disgust me.
I can’t believe that they are completely ignorant of the effects of their behavior. Sure, the cart won’t hit their car. But it certainly could hit another car should a gust of wind take it for a spin. And it doesn’t [...]
Posted in observations on Dec 16th, 2010
Some so-called organizations — due to the clusterfuck nature of their internal policies and management — should not be referred to as such, since their behavior embodies the antithesis of the definition.
Posted in observations on Dec 2nd, 2010
Yesterday the sound stopped working on my gaming box (by which I mean the old computer I use periodically to access telnet-based BBS door games). When I go into Control Panel and try to play a wave file, I’m told that the sound card is already in use.
Logging out doesn’t help, which made me curious…
Microsoft [...]
Posted in observations on Nov 18th, 2010
After tucking into my sleeping bag after dark in a winterized bunk house, I heard some light scuffling and the sound of something small but hard hitting the the wood floor. Being dark, I couldn’t discern the source of the noise. Eventually it ceased and I nodded off.
When I woke in the morning, I peered [...]
Posted in observations on Nov 4th, 2010
If you’re short a friend to watch out for you at the bar, going the cash route isn’t such a bad idea. Except that there’s an ATM at most every watering hole.
Recommendation: When the ATM fee accounts for more than 5% of your remaining account balance, it might be time to call it a night. [...]
Posted in observations on Oct 21st, 2010
Neckties are like miniature nooses.
Back in the 1600’s neckties were used to keep complicated arrangements of clothing together and in place. That makes sense, but since the invention of the buttoned shirt I’m not sure why we still have them. Perhaps for fashion, but certainly not for practicality.
Every time I wear a tie there’s a [...]
Posted in observations on Oct 7th, 2010
Construction is a continual process near my office complex. New buildings are going up all the time, pipes for water and communications lines are being routed all over the place, asphalt parking lots are opened and closed and torn up with seemingly-reckless abandon. Boys (mostly) with their toys, making noise, sweating, and moving the earth [...]
Posted in observations on Sep 23rd, 2010
Nong Shim Bowl Noodle Soup (Spicy Chicken) are strangely named, given the ingredients. They appear to be flavored by beef and beef fat, monosodium glutamate, and lots of other things, but no chicken parts or extracts. Now I wouldn’t have expected to find pristine ingredients in a bowl of instant noodles, but I guess if [...]
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