Category: random idiocy

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • usually blue tape

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    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • bon voyage

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    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.

  • 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.

  • paint the town

    I took My Darling B out at dinner time last night and spent almost two hundred dollars! The venue: Broadway Tire Sales. The occasion: There was a screw in the left rear tire. There was a nail in it, too, but I didn’t know that until the mechanic took the tire off the wheel to Read.

  • new ports very importantly

    not only did we gain New Orleans we doubled the size of the United States we secured new parts and ports new parts of the map and globe that we never thought and new ports very importantly Read.

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