Beyond Beyond Thunderdome

Our civilized society is very fragile. The entire thing is held together by the lines painted in the parking lot. I'm serious...you drive somewhere, you park, and there are lines that must fit your car into. You know that every time you go somewhere, and you see that Corvette parked in two spaces you have an urge to park on top of it. How DARE they!!

But then the snow comes down and erases all the lines. Suddenly it's every man for himself. First, the cars are parked every which way. Seriously, do people think that suddenly where ever your car slides to a stop is the parking space? After this last storm, I think the answer is yes. But after that, the gloves come off and it's like the horde circling the compound in the Road Warrior. I saw a woman carrying a baby almost get hit by someone who ran a stop sign. Then, while I was making a left turn (after two cars ran the red light) another car made a U-turn directly in front of me while I was in the intersection. Other people randomly decided that the appropriate thing to do on a 2 lane road was to go from 25 MPH in the right lane to 15 MPH straddling both lanes.

I'm telling you, the lines disappear and so does the rule of law. Next time it snows and you have to go out, bring your sawed off shot gun and a cross bow. You just might need them before you get where you're going.

Why is it so hard to use the turn signal?

I found out tonight I can eat a churro, set the cruise control, AND use my turn signal all at the same time. What do other people have going on that they can't use their friggin turn signals?! It's one of those things that I have no control over that eats at me.

Cell Phone Karma

Here's a good ad for Kyocera...I like it not so much for the advertising value, but squirrels latching onto a guys face always makes me laugh.

We just left the Legacy Dinner for the Denver Rescue Mission. What a humbling experience...it was really good to see where our donations are going, and that they are contributing to a greater good. The work the people at the Mission do is defintely on a higher plane than what I do day after day. If I'm not doing it, at least we're funding it.

This is a test blog

I've finally bitten the bullet and got a data plan for my Treo. One of the things this gives me the capability to do is blog on the run, and this is a test to see how well it works. If it works well, then you can expect to see a lot more entries from me.

What In The Wide, Wide, Wide World of Sports?

I was watching TV the other night and an ad came on for "Aussie" shampoo. The premise of the ad is that a giant stuffed purple kangaroo is getting a massage. I don't know how this is supposed to make you want to buy this brand of shampoo, but the masseuse for some reason finds it necessary to do an elbow drop on the kangaroo and a bottle of shampoo goes flying out of her - pouch? Is it her pouch? You decide.

It hard out here for a 'ho

While I was playing Zuma tonight, I heard the TV in the other room. As usual, it was a reality show, which is why I was playing Zuma and not in the other room. Anyway, I heard someone refer to Paris Hilton as looking like a "high priced hooker." This got me wondering...is that supposed to be an insult? I did a search on "high priced hooker" on google, and amongst the real ads for hookers were some images of the hooker that got NY Governor Eliot Spitzer busted. She's pretty hot, looking at the camera in a sultry kind of way. I then looked for images of Paris Hilton and found one where she's looking similarly sultry, and is pretty hot too.

I mean, if you're a high priced hooker, I think the odds are that you're above average looking or you could not command a high price. It's simple economics...a 'ho can only charge what the market will bear.

Take the next two for instance. On the left a real hooker. On the right, a smelly pirate hooker from Whore Island - AKA Brittney Spears. Adam Smith is long dead, but I bet 232 years ago when he was writing The Wealth Of Nations he would have postulated that the invisible hand wouldn't have touched either of these two for more than a few bucks, while Girly Sue above was pulling $4000 a visit out of the NY Gov.

My point, if I have one here, is that saying a woman looks like a high priced hooker is not much of an insult. Women obviously spend a lot of time and money to look that good.

Also, mailmen aren't the only ones who have to work in the rain. If you're a hooker, invest in a good umbrella.