Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in oddities on Jun 25th, 2008
Isn’t gas usually more expensive the closer you get to a city?
At the Shell on the corner of Riva Road and West Street (in Annapolis), gas was $3.89 a gallon today. I thought that was a pretty good price, perhaps indicative that prices may be falling a bit since it’s the first I’ve seen under [...]
I haven’t been driving as much these days which is better for my wallet. I noodled with the idea of taking the bus to work, so I did some quick calculations. It’s sad, but I determined that it is more cost effective for me to drive to work than to take mass transportation.
Bummer.
In other news, [...]
Posted in oddities on May 30th, 2008
A pack of cigarettes sits atop a copy of “Wellness for Life” magazine on the passenger seat of the car packed next to mine. That’s irony.
In the networking and firewall world, statements that begin with “the only conclusion is…” will typically be far from conclusive. That ought to be one of Murphy’s Laws of Computing.
In [...]
Posted in life in general, oddities, youth on May 26th, 2008
I experienced a brief moment of aging the other day. A clear indicator that you aren’t as young (and maybe foolish) as you once were. One of those moments where you realize that your priorities in life have changed.
You know you’re getting older when you see a magazine stuffed in between the couch cushions at [...]
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 cars, complaints, oddities, web sites on Feb 12th, 2008
I got a parking ticket in Federal Hill this weekend. The usual complaints about oddly worded parking signs aside, there’s no contesting that I was parked in the wrong place. I did, unknowingly, and I’m not worried. I have good karma when it comes to parking. I usually find it without too many problems and [...]
I am the proud recipient of an award. Though it stemmed from a email stemming from a blog entry comment, I was awarded the “Best Typo Ever in Life” award by Carol last week.
After years of writing silly things, I win an award. For a typo, of all things. I was speechless. I didn’t know [...]
Posted in advertising, gadgets, oddities, technology, things i'd like to see on Jan 14th, 2008
Heading north on Russell Street just before Ravens stadium there’s a billboard that proclaims “Marriage works” while depicting a cheery-faced couple. What are the advertisers trying to sell here in Baltimore? A church? the institution of marriage itself? As far as I can see from the street there isn’t a sponsor listed. Lots a people [...]
Last year I scored a bag of incandescent light bulbs when the ACW household replaced all of their bulbs with compact fluorescent ones. Those bulbs got gifted to another friend of mine, since his house — when purchased — was devoid of light bulbs for some reason.
I went to the bank this afternoon to deposit [...]
Amidst the Pennysaver and the usual junk mail, a few musings inspired by the contents of the mail bag this week.
From the Office of the President at my alma mater. “I hope you are enjoying the attractive address labels I sent you a few weeks ago.” Oh you know I’m enjoying them. Sticking them all [...]
Posted in in the news, oddities, web sites on Dec 21st, 2007
For those who need additional reasoning to have some of the late-night weekend sex or a horrible (but sourced, damnit) pickup line for trolling, here it is (courtesy of them thar Intarweb tubes).
Tomorrow, December 22 at 6:08PM GMT is Global Orgasm time. For us East Coasters, that is 1:08am 12/23/2007
(Sat night/Sun morning Saturday morning).
For more [...]
Posted in housing, life in general, oddities on Dec 13th, 2007
The overhead fluorescent light in the kitchen has been acting up for several months now. It hums a little more than normal and the tubes flicker dimly when you turn them on. Light output is cut in half. Besides complaining I haven’t done anything about it until the other day when the single flood in [...]
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 life in general, oddities on Nov 11th, 2007
Sometimes your body knows what you need better than you do. If you’re sleep deprived, you’ll fall asleep in the strangest of places despite all physical (standing up) or aural surroundings (during a rock concert).
After only getting a handful of hours sleep early Sunday morning, I crashed pretty hard late Sunday afternoon after picking up [...]
Posted in oddities, technology, things i'd like to see on Nov 1st, 2007
Every once in a while I’ll stumble upon something that I want to know more about. It could be the most remote thing that has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m doing or what I’m usually interested in. Then I have to stop what I’m doing and figure it out. It is akin to [...]