With my new job, I don’t have to drive around as much. That’s a good thing. When I was driving half of the day, I grew more and more annoyed with other drivers on the road. It was almost to the point where I wanted to inflict physical damage to others at stoplights.
My biggest peeve would probably have to be people that don’t use their turn signal. If you’re on the road with no one behind you or oncoming, then that’s fine. When there is someone trailing you or in front of you coming the other way/waiting to turn, then you should always use your signal to give them a heads up. I can see if you’re busy holding a phone with one hand and one hand driving, at least you have a reason for being an asshat. If both hands are free, then you have no good reason for not using your signal. In this case, you’re just a big donkey in my book.
Another thing that bothers me is when people exit on to a road and take it to the very limit of the ramp, sometimes passing that point. If everyone merged when they know they have to merge and the people already on the road let people in, then there would always be less of a backup. Of course that’s too easy and logical. Drivers that go to the very end piss me off. It pisses a lot of people off and in turn makes them unlikely to let people in. It’s a never ending cycle.
Coming in to work today I noticed this damned Mazda 6 that is always parked way to one side of a spot. It is usually parked within two inches of the line on the passenger side. The spot next to said Mazda is always empty. Guess why?
Oh, I just thought of another thing. When there is a lot of traffic and people have to stop at a green light because it is backed up beyond the intersection. Why is there always that jerk, that is turning right on to that road, that inches and tries to turn even though he has a red light? Wait your turn! That guy who has the green light didn’t stop so you could go!
That’s what the marketing geniuses at Corn Nuts want you to do, “Bust a Nut!” I don’t know how this made it to the public much less for advertising purposes. Listen to the ad here.
Go to your room and lock the door,
‘Cause when you try it once you’ll wanna try it some more!
Size doesn’t matter and that’s a fact,
It might be small, but it’s a big impact!
Bust a nut! Bust a nut!
Grab a bag of Corn Nuts™ and bust a nut!
They’re lightly toasted and hard as well,
Enjoy yourself, we won’t tell…
Everybody does it, they like it a lot,
You can do it at school , just don’t get caught!
It takes a few minutes, if you don’t delay;
Take your time and make it last all day!
“Corn Nuts™: An intensely crunchy corn snack.
Comes in seven nut-busting flavors.
Bust a nut at a convenience store near you.”
Look at what Bill O’Reilly has on his website! It is free with any purchase.
I need one of those. Of course I wouldn’t put it on my car, but I still want one. If you were hiding under a rock this week, then you didn’t hear about the University of Florida student getting tasered at a John Kerry rally. He asked Kerry some odd and long questions, got dragged away by cops, then tasered. Here is the video if you missed it:
Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius, mano a mano. The board on the turn was Ac-As-Jc-5d.
Ivey bet $100,000 and Patrik called.
The river was the queen of hearts.
There was $325,000 in the pot. Phil took a long, long time thinking of the initial action. I estimate about four minutes, because it seemed like an hour. I wrote on a note card, looking at the video monitor in the bar showing both mens’ faces, “A couple fierce looking warrior He bet $225,000. Allen Cunningham had walked back to the bar and said, “Phil just breathed a sigh of relief because Patrik didn’t call right away.” He predicted A-K for Ivey.
Patrik is looking at his chips, putting aside the $225,000, and holding his finger to his lips. THIS thinking looks a lot different than the “thinking” he was doing before the check-raise against Townsend. After a couple minutes, he quietly said, “‘I call.”
Ivey turned over J-J for a full house. Patrik mucked.
One hand! Remember, this is not a tournament so all those chips are real money and not tournament chips. If only I was better at poker.
How is Roy Pearson, the DC judge who sued Custom Cleaners, a judge? It’s ironic that he is because a judge is not supposed to act like a complete jackass. Judges are supposed to throw out ridiculous cases like this. He wrong doing has made these poor Koreans close their dry cleaning shop. At least they have another one. What was so special about these pants anyway? Were the sewn with pure gold threads? Were they his “I’m gonna get lucky pants?” Were they made by his dying grandmother? Hell, they were recovered a few days later!
The plaintiff claims that “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Same Day Service” signs posted in the shop were misleading.
That’s so absurd. The owners had started the Custom Cleaners Defense Fund to raise money for their defense costs. A fundraiser was even thrown and check out all those sponsors! Even if the case gets thrown out next year, enough damage has been done. I textually flick you off Roy Pearson. You’re a scumbag.
On my way in to work, all I heard was 80’s and 90’s rock/metal. It was awesome but I don’t think I could’ve listened for another five minutes. This made me think of our next party and what kind of theme it should have. It’d be fun to have a rockstar party where everyone dresses up in rockstar attire. Then again Halloween is coming up and I wouldn’t exactly need a theme. I still need to come up with a costume for that. If we do have a Halloween party, everyone is required to wear a costume! Showing up to a theme/Halloween party without a costume is lame and unacceptable. These are my two best attempts at costumes.
Tomorrow my wife will be in Philly with her family participating in Walk Now for Autism. She and I both have cousins that are affected by this disorder. I admire their parents for being strong people because it’s not always easy to communicate with autistic children.
I believe my 10 year old cousin is an autistic savant. I think he might be smarter than I am actually. He’s always been fixated on one thing. It used to be trains and now it’s computers. He can go on for an hour about networking if you’re willing to listen, or not. He’ll also fix your computer, for a small fee of course.
Todd Bridges was on the Junkies yesterday promoting Tahiti Village. He turned out to be one of the most entertaining interviews I’ve ever heard. Here are the podcasts broken down in two parts, Part 1 & Part 2.
I literally sat in my car in the office parking garage until the interview was over. He talked about his sexcapades, abusing drugs, boozin’, and Arsenio Hall being gay. Reruns of Diff’rent Strokes will never be the same.
I’d be pretty pissed if my friends did that to me. On the other hand, I’m already married so it wouldn’t matter now. I think the relationship between the two that got pranked must be awkward now. I mean the girl said yes! Now the rest of the relationship is all up to the dude and when/if he’d marry the girl. The pranker deserves a kick in the nuts if this is a real prank and not a setup skit.
Tiger Woods now leads the FedExCup race. He was fortunate because he wasn’t making birdies on the last few holes while Aaron Baddeley and Steve Stricker were hot on his trail. Woods ended up at 22 under, two ahead of the runner up Badds and 4 ahead of third place Stricker. The final event of the FedExCup Playoffs, the Tour Championship, will crown the first FedExCup champion who will also receive $10M.
While Tiger was hoisting his trophy, Roger Federer was looking to be in a little trouble in the first two sets. He wasn’t playing like the Roger I’ve come to know. Novak Djokovic had chances to win the first and second sets but failed to do so. He had beaten Federer about a month ago, so it’s not like he couldn’t do it. Federer has won three of the year’s four grand slams.
Two of todays best athletes won yesterday. Do you ever get sick of seeing either of these gods win? I certainly don’t but I’m sure some people feel like other athletes deserve to win and have their chance to shine. The BMW Championship was exciting because a few people challenged Tiger. Same goes with the US Open. Djokovic is really good and it’s only a matter of time before he grabs a grand slam. Leading up to the Tour Championship, all we’ll hear about is Tiger vs Phil. Steve Stricker, KJ Choi, and Rory Sabbatini have a chance to win but we won’t hear as much about them. The golf world is pining over a true Tiger/Phil rivalry and a battle this weekend would be exciting to watch. I’ll be rooting for Stricker, and KJ if Tiger can’t win.
