Month: May 2005

62

I want everyone on the internet to concentrate on the number 62 for me.

The company I work for has this little game they play called Safety Bingo. Everyone has a bingo card and every day that no one has a recordable accident a number is “called.” If there is a recordable accident the kitty is cut in half. With the second incident wiping the game out. The winning card gets $20 a square and we do play all the different bingo games so sometimes a winning card is worth a good bit. The current game is “Around the Block” and the kitty has been halved, but a win would be worth $160.

All I need is for 62 to be called and I’ll be a winner.

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Totally Bankrupt

I’ve got nothing, so here is a joke from my Maxim magazine that came in the mail today:

A trumpeter is hired to to play music for a movie, but isn’t told what the movie is about.Two months later he receives a notice that the movie will debut in an adult theater. On the night of the show, he wears a trench coat and shades to avoid being seen and sits in the back row of the theater next to an elderly woman. For the next two hours, he watches hardcore porn where the lead actress has sex with a dog.

“I wrote the score,” the man whispers to the elderly woman partway through. “I just came to hear the music.”

“That’s nice,” she whispers back. “I just came to see my dog.”

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I Miss Joe & Jerry

I hate these west coast swings. And not just because the Sox are getting their hats handed to them, but I like hearing the games in the background as I internet (I thought I would start to use the word as a verb because I hate the term surf) at night.

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Revenge of the Seething

Bless my mother-in-law, she means well. She knows I’m a Star Wars fan, so she saved me the “special” two-page poster from this Sunday’s USA Weekend. I thanked her, but I’m generally uninterested. About the poster and so too, to some extent, the movie. I am considering not going to the theater to see it and just waiting for the DVD. I will still probably get sucked in and see it on the big screen, but it will be more like late June once the crowds have died down. And I will probably be underwhelmed.

I’ll leave you with the last couple of lines from an Ed Halter column for the Village Voice, If you are interested the rest can be read here: May the Force Be Over

But blockbusters have since become an overbred species, and Lucas’s work has likewise degenerated into unbalanced overproduction. Post-Jar Jar, our expectations have sunk so low that now fans will celebrate a film just because it doesn’t completely suck.

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This Is A Deal?

I have been getting my daily status report at work about how many spams Postini has stopped and we have crept up to over the 100 mark and pretty much stayed there since early April. I haven’t said much about the spam recently, mainly because it is literally the same old shit, but apparently I was wrong.

One new way the spammers have to grab your attention is to mix a random city with a random newspaper name, i.e. Woodbine Enquirer or Las Vegas Tribune to lend some authority to their junk. I need to get something like that spam title generator for the title of my blog, might give it some internet cred.

And it seems backgammon is the new poker, as I got a half dozen invites to $10,000 tournaments today alone but none mentioning Texas Hold ‘Em. I wonder who Bravo will get to host Celebrity Backgammon?

Here is my favorite email from over the weekend: bnyykpe@doramail.com is offering Wndows Millenium $50. Who would possibly be tempted to buy a 6 year old operating system and arguably the worst version of Windows since version 2.0? For fifty bucks? Don’t they know how much C$ALIS I can get for that much money?

24,000 Kalmias

Donna and I went for a nice little walk in Hitchcock Woods this morning. At first we weren’t going because it was supposed to rain, but radar showed no chance of it for a while, so off we went. For a change of pace we went in a diffrent entrance than usual and we were glad we did. As we came to a halt the odometer turned 24000 miles.

There is a subdivision in town called Kalmia Hills and there is a path in the woods called Kalmia Trail, but for whatever reason (mostly I don’t know flowers from flours) I never put two and two together until today, the darn things are blooming all over the place. I know we have traversed that trail before, but never in the middle of May…

Kalmia

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How Many Minutes Is 692 Seconds?

And just how far will you go at an average speed of 53 MPH? My wife and I weren’t to sure about the answer to either of those questions this morning and that may have been our downfall. We totally blew a turn and had to back track several miles to re-engage the course. It threw off our time and mileage for the first segment, plus it skewed our Fiero checkpoint time so that we ended up losing out on 39 points. That probably would have been enough to put us near the top of the standings.

Our own fault. The general instructions for the today’s Master’s Miata Club TSD Rally said have at least a watch with a second hand… Last year the instructions were turn right at the third opportunity, but this year the instructions were full of: Turn right. CAST to 42MPH. Drive for 800 seconds. Turn left at next opportunity. First problem was all we had for a clock was the one in the dash which just gives hour and minute. Second problem was our rusty math skills in dividing triple digits numbers by 60. Third problem was remembering to remember the next approximate time for a turn all the while trying to find the answers to esoteric trivia questions in the surrounding environs.

We didn’t repeat our last year’s second place finish, we finished totally out of the money, but we did win a booby prize for having the highest score on the trivia portion of the contest. I now have a gift certificate for a free oil change at our sponsoring dealer. I also have yet another hat with Miata on it. This one is almost like the one I won in November except the word Miata is in navy, so it may actually get worn. Matter of fact, if anyone wants a nice never worn hat, cream colored with a navy blue bill with the word Miata embroidered in bright purple script, drop a comment in the box, cost is just a couple bucks to cover postage.

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