Yarrrrrgh!
Avast and link, me mateys! Iron Tom Kidd, be I.
mike sold out at - 17:55
8.25.2003
Irony of ironies
I am falling asleep at my desk right now with a full cup of coffee in front of me and I'm too tired to drink the coffee.
mike sold out at - 14:06
8.19.2003
Results of the Weekend
Favorite technology of all time: refrigeration, followed by mass-transit, recorded music, and the electric fan.
Had to write a check to Citibank (aka megawhorebank) for $0.25. I was really resentful of this fact (the story is unimportant and not at all pithy, but involves my old video store in Park Slope not having change for a five-dollar bill), so I wrote out the amount as complicated as possible: "One quarter-dollar and zero hundreths of one dollar." Ha! That'll show them!
Excerpt from a press release I got from the Queens District Att*rney's office: "On any given night dozens of street walkers frequent an eight square block area at the foot of the Queensborough bridge aggressively blocking traffic while selling their wares..." Seriously now, "aggressively blocking traffic"? is that an important component of being a hooker?
mike sold out at - 11:33
8.15.2003
Baby, When the Lights Go Out...
So the NYC Blackout 2003 wasn't anything like a Backstreet Boys concert (probably a good thing). But it was kind of cool, as I spent much of last night drinking in public. I'm at work now, where there is power again, but no power at home yet.
mike sold out at - 11:07
8.07.2003
Swish?
So the woman who was cutting my hair proposed to me today. Imagine the following dialogue with her having a Russian accent:
Masha: You are nice boy.
Me: Thanks.
Masha: You are married or have girlfriend?
Me: No.
Masha: Why nice Jewish boy like you not married? I marry you.
Me: Um...
Masha: Jewish boys are rich. I bet you are rich.
Me: Uh, I work for a non-profit.
Masha: [I don't understand] Yes, I marry you.
mike sold out at - 23:51
8.06.2003
Watching the Detectives
So there's this show on PBS called "The History Detectives" which i happened to turn on for a few minutes. It's hilarious, because the whole show are these history professors running around trying to solve a historical puzzle. The acting is horrible and overdone, and the best part is that the theme song is "Watching the Detectives" by Elvis Costello. Turn it on for a good laugh sometime.
mike sold out at - 16:28
8.05.2003
From this article:
When serving ads for content sites, both Overture and Google employ technology that infers the topic of a page by scanning for words and phrases, searching through a database of tens of thousands of advertisers, then delivering a relevant text ad... The technology is not yet foolproof. The online edition of The New York Post, which is owned by the News Corporation, ran an article last month about a murder in which the victim's body parts were packed in a suitcase, and Google served up an ad for a luggage dealer.
mike sold out at - 16:30
8.03.2003
We The People, In Order to Form a More Perfect Union of Less Filling and Great Taste....
So after a visit to the fam in Buffalo, my sister and I decided to stop by a bunch of thrift stores in North Buffalo. Among assorted t-shirts, we also bought a mirror that has a copy of the U.S. Constitution printed on it, but in the lower left corner is a logo that says "Miller High Life - 1787 to 1987" It's awesome.
mike sold out at - 21:09
8.02.2003
I Do Not Practice Santeria
Nor do I have a crystal ball, but here's a funny story about work today: I was supervising a crew sweeping up under the Queensboro Bridge, when we come across a dark, matted pile of feathers on the sidewalk. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the body of a chicken with its feet bound that had been there for some time. That's right - it was a sacrifice of a chicken at a crossroads, a Santeria practice.... good times in Long Island City.
