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Things Over Heard at Work

Big ups to Scribble Scrawl for this exchange.

Woman 1: Hey, are you wearing socks today?
Woman 2: Yeah....
Woman 1: Can I have them?

Now I never wear socks, but I can't fathom the situation where I would be at work and need to borrow some other persons socks. Also you should check out Scribble Scrawls blog on a divine birth mark.

Sometimes I am like an Ostrich

I have owned The West Wing The Complete Series for over a year now. I bought it the second it came out. I have been obsessed with the show for as long as I can remember. For a myriad of reasons, I missed season seven. I spent the last year not watching season seven. I couldn't come up with a single reason why I did this. So this weekend I sat down with the intention of powering through the final season. Well I did it. I finished at 2:30 AM Monday December 17. Guess what I learned? I was better off not having seen it. Not because it was a bad season (actually it was fucking great), but because it's now really over. Before I could just pretend the show wasn't over b/c there were all these episodes out there that I had never seen. I can't do that anymore, and I am not exactly wild about it. Some how I have developed what can only be described as an unhealthy obsession with these characters. Let's just say that when the end credits were rolling it was real dusty in my room.

This is huge

I brought this up at brunch yesterday, and it seemed as if people had not heard about it. Let's cure this disease so that I never have to hear Bernie Mac say Sickle Cell Anemia again.

On Music

I don't really speak much about music anymore. The main reason being I got tired of being called an elitist or some other such non-sense. Believe me, I want to share my thoughts on music with people, but I simply don't. It causes to many problems, and tends to leave both people in the conversation staring blankly at one another due to a lack of common ground. The number one draw back to this is that people have no clue what kind of music I enjoy. So I figured I would post a bunch of links to various bands that I like a whole bunch, and could let people listen at their leisure. None of this is necessarily representative of everything I like, but this should give a good idea of the things that make me sing along in the car.

The Heavier Stuff
Yage
Orchid
Reversal of Man
Torches To Rome
City of Caterpillar
Four Hundred Years

More for the masses
The Casket Lottery
Billy
Mineral
Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbreaker
Knapsack

All of the above bands have the misfortune of no longer being together.

So everything below is a hodge podge of bands who are still around and putting out records. These are no particular order and I suggest giving them all a shot.


Three Mile Pilot
Boards of Canada
A Silver Mt. Zion
Explosions In the Sky
Envy
Des Ark
Kids Explode
Pinback
Desert City Soundtrack
Settle Fish
Rats on Radar
Careta Careta
Verse En Coma
Harlan T Bobo
Swearing at Motorists


And last but not least my favorite band (defunct). I could not find a descent recording or video so this will have to do. The camera man can't move the camera and Mag's voice is a bit off, but overall I think it represents them.

Yaphet Kotto

So this isn't an exhaustive list by any means. I left off tons of bands who mean the world to me, but this is a descent primer.

A quick lesson in computers and probability

If a computer is processing thousands and thousands of things, and you get an answer you don't agree with for one thing out of the many thousands, what is more likely:

A) There is a huge sweeping flaw in the computers logic?
B) Something is actually wrong with the one person?

I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader.