A guerrilla promo for Aqua Teen Hunger Force brings Boston to a halt. (Of course, this is a hoax story since it implies that there’s a traffic condition in Boston that’s dissimilar to a halt.)
I can’t make this up
Worst headline ever in a long time: UPS: A Big Brown Disappointment
Down by contact
Ahoy, dear readers! Sorry for the lack of posts; I was down-n-out with some sorta flu yesterday. I made it into the office for an hour or so, then gave up and came home to rest. The construction across the street — our neighbor’s building an addition on his house — made sure that I [...]
Over a barrel
Why have oil prices dropped from their near-$80/barrel peak? Because the laws of supply and demand trump the sneaky practices of speculators who kept the price inflated. Oh, and OPEC “has lately demonstrated its classic inclination toward ineffectiveness.”
Monday Morning Montaigne
From That the taste of good and evil depends in large part on the opinion we have of them: Indeed, just as study is a torment to a lazy man, abstinence from wine to a drunkard, frugality to the luxurious man, and exercise to a delicate idler, so it is with the rest. Things are [...]
Morning stroll
Amy thought it’d be a nice idea this morning if we lit out for Ringwood Manor and snapped some pix while the 8am light was going on. She wasn’t happy with her photos, but here’s the first image in the photoset I posted: Enjoy the set.
The Cokes are in the icebox, the popcorn’s on the table!
In other words, we’re havin’ a party! (of the Super Bowl & Mardi Gras variety) If you’re interested in coming out to NJ on Sunday, let me know!
Come Fly Without Me
This week, my boss & I went over the year’s conference schedule, to figure out who’s going where. As it turns out, due to a couple of local-ish shows and changes in our production schedules, I’m not going to have to do too much business-flying this year. It’s a nice change from the past 3 [...]
V for Vitamin
Those of you who pretend to know me through this blog pretend to know that I’m a creature of habit. When something works out for me, I stick with it till it fails. Then I kick it to the curb. When I break from this practice, I tend to get screwed. Last week week, for [...]
Road(kill) Warrior
Dear strange orange shadow-race of people who live on the edge of my suburban NJ town: Please stop eating the squirrels.