Summer reading list, let me know any necessary additions:
Anthem – Ayn Rand
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Welcome to the Monkey House – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Wine for Dummies – Some Jerk, Probably
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Things I learned while “home” in Minnesota:
1. White Castle now sells a $1.49 sandwich, the Chicken Italiano. Tastes like deep fried blasphemy topped with marinara sauce.
2. You can taste the honestly brewed into Midwestern beer. Or maybe that’s just the overuse of hops.
3. I miss sitting on a patio and sharing some beers all afternoon, into the evening, and staying until bar close.
4. Chicken wings are delicious on the grill, as long as you don’t listen to how Peter wants them to be cooked.
5. I know a surprising amount of useless crap (where the best pizza is in mpls, how to calculate optimum weight given height, how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop), but have no idea how to get to routine places in Burnsville, the city I grew up in.
6. People don’t change, they just become more of who they are.
7. Stella’s Fish Cafe has an amazing roof-top patio. Just too bad it’s filled with douchebaggery.
8. I keep promising to make it to a Friday Night Mill (mall bar in the mall I used to work) but always have something come up – this time it was a birthday.
9. I don’t “shop” I “buy”.
10. San Francisco is fucking expensive. -
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This is why I hate Facebook.
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After calling one of my new bosses “Carlos” in multiple emails and documents he just corrected me that his name is “Cesar”.
This would bother me if he didn’t think that “Kyle” was pronounced “Kelly”.
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I just put in my two week notice at Apple.
Four days short of four years.
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While calling Circuit City I was given the following options (summarized):
Press 1 for DVDs and CDs
Press 2 for Computers
Press 3 TVs, DVD Players, and Blu-Ray Players
Press 4 for Boomboxes, Stereos, and Walkmen
…“Walkmen”? Huh? What? “Boomboxes”? The hell? Circuit City is hemorrhaging cash – maybe it’s becasue they are stuck in 1995? Or, is this just an elaborate ploy by Sony to sell more of their failing players? Either way, someone should fix that – it just looks bad.
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Bay to Breakers…
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The new Southern Style Chicken Sandwich is a McChicken without the mayo… that costs $2 more. Seriously people.
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“Well you see, Norm, it’s like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”
- Cliff on “Cheers”
Working off a wicked hangover from a combination of last final completion and spending time with retail types.
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When taking a grad level course it is apparently a good idea to purchase the related textbook, even when the class is called “remedial crap you learned in undergrad”. Especially if it comes with software required to complete the final.
