Category: random idiocy
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not snowing yet
It’s four o’clock in the morning here in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin, and it’s not snowing yet, although the National Weather Service has put us under a winter storm warning all day and we’re forecast to get anywhere from two to nine inches of snow. In April. Barely. I mean, it’s practically May! If anybody needs… Read.
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return of the lost hour
My Darling B texted me as I was wandering the aisles of the grocery store yesterday evening: “OMG it’s five o’clock! I thought it was four! Where did that hour go?” Well, I found that lost hour this morning. When Boo scratched at our bedroom door and I rolled over to glance at the time,… Read.
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no puzzle
WARNING: SYSTEM OVERLOAD. VENTING IN PROGRESS. Oh My God I don’t effing care how Kellyanne Conway and George Conway make their marriage work! How do garbage people like these keep getting headlines? It’s no wonder I gave up watching television news years ago! It’s really not such a puzzle! Maybe they still love each other!… Read.
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begging
Ran into a panhandler yesterday with a technique I hadn’t experienced before: shouting. It might not even have been a bad technique, if used correctly. Shouting at me triggers my fight or flight response, compelling me to either punch you in the face or get away from you as fast as I can. I have… Read.
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climate change
A few random thoughts about climate change, in no particular order: I don’t “believe in” climate change. I’m not entirely sure what the phrase “believe in” means. It’s most often used in the context of “believing in” god or supernatural phenomena or something for which there is no hard evidence. Until I see some hard… Read.
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usually blue tape
human trafficking a phenomena that has been going on for a thousand years or more and that you’d think ah was something modern society wouldn’t have and hate to tell you that because of the internet it’s worse than ever before human trafficking it’s a horrible thing and much of it comes it’s a world… Read.
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boogie oogie oogie
How many times has this happened to you: After you wish a good morning to maybe a half-dozen people in a crowded coffee shop where you stopped to pick up a steaming cuppa joe, and said hello to maybe another two or three at the news stand where you picked up a morning paper, you… Read.
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Hutchinson’s Law
“If a situation requires undivided attention, it will occur simultaneously with a compelling distraction.” — Hutchinson’s Law Has your mind ever been hijacked by a stray thought, really hijacked so that you stopping doing whatever you were right in the middle of, oftentimes something very important, and just sat there, apparently helpless, and stared into… Read.
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bon voyage
It took something like two and a half hours to get from the Hill Farms office building back to Our Humble O’Bode this evening, owing to the inch or so of snow on the ground. I have never been so embarrassed to be a cheesehead. One inch of snow and traffic all over Madison is… Read.
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ten ways to die
Tim and I once played a game we called Trying to Gross Each Other Out, which eventually turned into a brainstorm to figure out what we thought were the ten worst ways to die. I don’t know why only ten. I guess just to keep the list manageable. The ten ways we came up with… Read.
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