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Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
hey, don’t write yourself off yet
it’s only in your head you feel left out or looked down on
just try your best, try everything you can
and don’t you worry what they tell themselves when you’re away.It’s an oldie but a goodie.
November 05, 2009, 11:10pm
Physicists discover that the structure of a brain cell is the same as the entire universe.
One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light-years across. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated image of the universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena. (David Constantine)
more here
November 05, 2009, 2:03pm
that’s it.
November 05, 2009, 8:17am
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
November 02, 2009, 4:08pm
There are baseball fans and there are Yankees fans, just as there are Americans and there are right-wing Republicans.
Baseball fans pledge their allegiance to the sport before affiliating with a favorite team. Yankees fans are devoted to franchise first. Right-wing Republicans would rather see the nation crumble than see Obama succeed.
Baseball fans can happily watch a game regardless of the matchup. Yankees fans probably don’t watch the Cincinnati Reds take on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Right-wing Republicans aren’t interested in the game if their team isn’t in the big show.
Baseball fans can identify the greatest players in the game, citing a shortstop in St. Louis, a left-fielder in Milwaukee, and yes, even a first baseman in New York. Yankees fans are pretty sure Jorge Posada is the best catcher in the game. Right-wing Republicans think Ayn Rand was the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century.
Q.E.D.
October 29, 2009, 11:51pm
I was driving on Beach Boulevard behind an ancient guy in a beat up truck.
He decides to turn in front of me without a blinker.
I accelerate to swerve and avoid him, and this, overaerobicized woman jumps in front of my car with her hand up.
She proceeds to yell in my window, “Hey, slow down you idiot!” I’m a well-bred, mellow guy by nature, so I ignore this.
As I drive away, she yells, “*******” at me again. Twice? I turn around and drive up next to her.
“Do you have a problem?” I ask.
“Yeah, why are you driving like an idiot?”
“I was driving like an idiot? How, exactly.”
“You were speeding. I watched you.”
“You were? I see. How did you measure my speed?” (Ever the interrogator, I am.)
“I heard you.”
“So, you measured my speed by ear?”
“I can hear.”
“How fast did you HEAR me going?”
“Look,” she says, “I don’t have to take this. Here comes a cop. I’ll wave him down.”
THE POLICE? This woman is a trip. She waves him down, and proceeds to tell him that she observed me speeding.
“What happened?” he asks. I told him the story, and told him that I accelerated to an indicated 33 mph (the speed limit is 35) to avoid a collision.
“Are those mufflers legal?” Ethel asks.
She’s pushing it. I reply, “I have a C.A.R.B. exemption for them.” I give the paperwork to the cop.
She tries to find another thing to screw me with. She says “What about those big tires? They CAN’T be legal.” I began feeling little overheated gears in the back of my head start to turn.
“These tires were available on the 1970 Boss 429, “I told the cop,” Which makes them street legal as a replacement.”
Ethel gets angry. She whines, “So you’re not going to give out any tickets to this ******?”
The cop says, “No, I am not.”
I’ve about had it. So I say, “Sir, this woman told you that she left the street at the corner, and she met up with my car here. According to Title 39, pedestrians have to cross the street at a right angle. This woman admitted she crossed at a 45-degree angle, which is a ticketable offense.”
“What?” The cop looks confused.
“Also, she told you that she walked in front of my car to stop me. A citizen can’t detain someone without probable cause, under Terry v. Ohio (my new favorite case). Since she couldn’t measure my speed, she had no probable cause to detain me. That is an indictable offense.”
The cop says, “But, I didn’t see any of this.”
“But,” I said, “I did, and, as an officer of the Court, I can demand her arrest. I’ll agree to dismiss the Illegal Detention charge, but I want her cited for not crossing at a right angle and Hazardous Conduct on a Public Street.”
The cop called his Lieutenant, and after the cop told the story, he authorized the summonses.
She went home with $215.00 worth of traffic tickets, and they are worth a total of four points against her license, as well as the appropriate insurance surcharge!
And this, ladies and gents, is why you don’t fuck with someone who can throw the book at you.
This just made my day.
October 29, 2009, 9:37pm
