If you’re ever bored …

… go to the McDonald’s on E. Virginia Avenue in East Point, Georgia and order a sugar free iced coffee For some reason, they ring up as $0.00. You would think this has happened before and that they would know how to handle it, but no. I’ve ordered them three days in a row now and every time it throws the entire drive-thru process into apocalyptic anarchy. One teller even said, “I guess they’re free now,” being completely serious. Three days in a row I got three different prices, and one day I got one with sugar, not because they… (read more)

Road Warrior

While in Atlanta for work this week I received an invite to a meeting next week in Washington D.C. So … looks like I’ll be driving from here (Atlanta) to there (D.C.) at some point over the weekend. I’ll have to do laundry at some point. I’m out of clean dress shirts. Susan surprised me yesterday by informing me that she and the kids are driving out to Atlanta for the weekend. It’s been a long and sometimes stressful week, so it will be good — no, great — to see them. Everyone I work with thinks Susan is crazy… (read more)

Weekend in ATL

Those of you who follow me on Facebook may have seen a few posts and check-ins over the weekend from Atlanta. That’s true, I am in sunny Georgia for the week. Early this year, my life-long buddy Jeff moved to Atlanta. This week I have a meeting in Atlanta, so I took advantage of the situation by taking vacation last Friday and driving out to Atlanta and hanging out with Jeff and his family for the weekend. Fifteen years ago (WOW), Jeff did the same for me. After Susan and I moved to Spokane, Washington for work, Jeff and his… (read more)

Meet the Man who Almost Killed Us

Just last week I was talking about UFO sightings and how human beings by design are terrible witnesses. With that in mind, here is my best recollection of what happened Friday afternoon. At approximately 4:45pm. Susan and I had just left work and were sitting at the intersection of SW 44th and Council Road. In the diagram below (which I just made using generic clip art and Google Maps), we are the blue car, facing west (left). The east/west traffic is stopped at a red light, but it’s about to turn green. Heading towards us all from the north is… (read more)

Pinteresting or not? A look at #Pinterest

The technical cost of admission to participate in online activities has been steadily dropping for thirty years now. Back in the dial-up days modemers had to possess (on at least some level) knowledge of DOS and terminal software and modem initialization strings to get their computers to talk to one another. It wasn’t until I first saw the World Wide Web, some dozen or more years after I began calling BBSes, that I first used a mouse in conjunction with online activities — a lowering of the bar that I was sure would “ruin everything”. (The verdict is still out… (read more)

Toy Firemen’s Helmet

Back in 1976, I received this plastic helmet for my third birthday. That toy helmet is the closest I ever got to becoming a fireman. One of my best friends, however, continued down that path. In the early 90s while I was busy delivering pizza, flunking out of college, and wondering what I wanted to do with my life, my friend Andy already knew: he wanted to be a fireman. In addition to working two full time jobs (delivering packages for UPS every day and delivering pizzas every night), Andy was also volunteering at his local fire department. I know… (read more)

UFO Sightings: Who Not to Trust

Last night after the kids went to bed, Susan and I (while flipping channels) caught a television special called “The World’s Most Convincing UFO Footage.” As you might imagine, the special featured several (six, I think) video clips of alleged UFOs, followed by interviews with the witnesses who filmed them. One by one while watching these witnesses tell their stories, I began creating a mental list of red flags when it comes to people who claim to have filmed UFO footage. These include: PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE FILM AND/OR SPECIAL EFFECTS INDUSTRY. If you are involved in the film industry… (read more)

The Modern Rarity of Musical Rarity

While flipping XM Radio channels on the way home today I caught the tail end of LL Cool J’s song Going Back to Cali. If you haven’t heard this twenty-five-year-old song by now I can’t imagine you wanting to start today, but here it is nonetheless: I first heard Going Back to Cali on the radio (KJ-103, I think) in the spring of 1988. For the longest time, the only copy I owned of the song was on a home made recording of the song that I had dubbed off the radio. I spent a lot of time that spring… (read more)

Weird Thoughts about Scale

When I was a kid my Dad told me about this theory that you could never actually get anywhere you were going. The idea behind the theory is, say you are standing at point A and needing to get to point B. In between points A and B is the halfway point — let’s call it X. So before you get to B, you come to X. At that point, X becomes A (because there you are) and you still need to get to B. But between the new A and the original B is another X, the new halfway… (read more)

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