09.28.09
Posted in Memo at 12:49 AM by Myles
Police officers west of the Mississippi River are so much nicer than those in New England. It helps too to have their Sargent call them away, but even without such Providence… for some reason the police officers in New England are extreme hard asses. Every time I’ve been pulled over west of the Mississippi I’ve been asked if I needed help, been issued no more than a warning, or been let go without anything troubling at all.
In New England… a ticket, no matter what. Not hurting anybody? Ticket. Breathing? Ticket. Driving a car? Ticket. Driving on a road? Ticket. Following traffic law? Ticket.
I Swear: move west just for the sake of righteous and moral enforcement of the law.
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09.25.09
Posted in The Strange at 6:19 PM by Myles
While watching an epi of L&O:SVU that I had never seen before, Det. Stabler calls an RFID chip used to track your female partner’s movements a “hojack”.
Not having heard the term before, I look it up on urbandictionary. The one and only entry references the term being coined by Det. Stabler on the L&O:SVU epi I was watching.
I knew it was Bob Saget.
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09.22.09
Posted in Penny Circular at 7:24 PM by Myles
Busy busy busy. When’s January?
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09.19.09
Posted in Penny Circular at 12:16 PM by Myles
This new apartment manager is crazy.
I’m watching a dialogue-heavy DVD. This means that there are characters… talking. No music, no guns, no explosions. Talking.
I can hardly hear the talking INSIDE my apartment. The volume is NORMAL.
New Manager: “Hi, your TV is loud again.”
Bullshit.
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09.18.09
Posted in Penny Circular at 8:19 PM by Myles
I go to an evening appointment today and notice someone booting up their laptop. His laptop running… Ubuntu.
I stop by and talk to him a few minutes, and find out that he’s doing what I’m doing: using the LTS and trying out the latest, stuff like that.
Ho-rah.
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09.14.09
Posted in Memo at 6:38 PM by Myles
This year has not been good to famous people, regarding Death.
So Far…
• Michael Jackson [yes, I remember where I was]
• Billy Mays [right after appearing in the S.A.M. strip]
• Ted Kennedy ["...Why... I ask ye Why..."]
• Patrick Swayze [though I expected it]
• M*A*S*H Writer Larry Gelbart [though never heard of him before his death]
• Norman Borlaug [though never heard of him before his death]
• DJ AM [though never heard of him before his death]
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09.12.09
Posted in Telling Stories at 10:22 AM by Myles
Yesterday, I stop by the Post Office on my way to work [2nd shift]. There’s the typical line of cars snaking through the parking lot, though the car-snake just formed as I pulled in to join. The car-snake was three cars long, me at the end and a car pulling out of a parking space at the beginning.
A second car wanting to pull out of a parking space turns on. Two angry hick black women poke their heads out the windows and start breaking wind about needing to pull out of the parking space. They can’t wait the 90 seconds it’ll take for the car-snake to clear [the first parked car having quickly finished pulling out, with only two cars behind, mind you]. For reasons known only to genes made irreparable by generations of inbreeding, the two women chose me as their target.
After a verbal exchange that lasted until they pulled out of the parking lot and drove off [me having parked, waited, left my car and crossed the parking lot half-way in the mean-time], a fellow Post Office customer commented that there was “something wrong with that one”. I responded, “Probably the both of them, yea.”
It’s nice to feel vindicated after an in-traffic verbal exchange such as this one. I didn’t feel too bothered afterward, and still don’t.
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