according to a co-worker from the uk – they toss around the c-word pretty freely in england. overcoming all the sinister temptation, i told him it was less popular on this side of the pond.

to all the brave men and women who have given their lives to protect this country, or had them squandered by wreckless politicians, thank you.

its tough choosing between the three cities in research triangle park which will be the best place to live. given this news of the progressive southerners in durham – i there’s at least one clear choice.

Police responded to three reports of burning crosses Wednesday night… [whole story]

anonymous, unsolicited email stock advice promising a 200% gain in less than 5 days – i feel so lucky to have gotten this tip, i can almost taste early retirement coming…

many things are not as good as when i was a child, one of the exceptions to this is flintstone vitamins.

that there have been at least two people on this planet to think this justifies all the fear i’ve ever had of licking a bank deposit envelope.

palahniuk, chuck. choke.
“the guy rubbing his semen on the flaps of deposit envelopes at automatic tellers.”

the best part of the documentary enron: the smartest guys in the room was seeing how many people were willing to electrocute the shit out of someone else during milgrams experiment. everything else was just sad.

there should be an easter egg in windows that allows you to boot in to evil mode – that way when you dismiss the annoying search puppy (or any other obnoxious animated character for that matter) instead of having to wait for them to happily skip away, a flaming arrow can pierce him through the skull immediately ending his useless little life. side benefit of this feature since windows is already sending itself all kinds of your personal information is that they can notify the authorities if someone is enjoying these features maybe a bit too often…

there’s a guy i work with who is enjoying the current lunacy of the of the extreme right. he has a pendulum theory that says the farther out they get the more dramatic will be the ultimate correction. i’m working really hard to adopt this perspective and can’t tell you how much i hope he’s right…

i’m slowing down or time is speeding up… either way it sucks.

successfully putting our baby to sleep makes you feel like a super hero – not a bat cave, utility belt type super hero, but a justice league, wonder-twin powers activate kind of super hero.

i loathe inconvenience and am willing to pay a premium to avoid it. but when i pay a premium and still encounter it – then its best to not be that guy trying to merge in front of me during the rush hour commute.