Instead of boring old October 4th, can we designate today as one of the following?
- Talk Like a Trucker Day
- CB Radio Day
- Good Buddy Day
- Bandit Day
- Burt Reynolds Day
- C.W. McCall Day
- Convoy Day
Because that would tickle my sensibilities a bit.
Category: Deep Thoughts
Obligatory
[Opinion on government shutdown]
Special powers
I think the special power I’d most like to have is to stop time in the sense that the world around me freezes. It’s difficult to attend to the mundane when the overarching compels attention and right now I’ve got banalities like Wisconsin has cheddar.
Steampunk WWW
Overheard in re: a Metafilter conversation [1] about the original cross platform web browser; a line-mode application which is essentially a TTY [2] interface.
Imagine that… a typewriter that types by itself like some kind of terrible player piano. You read what it’s writing while it chatters away. And then once in a while it stops and you press a key that tells it what to type next. There’s fanfold of dead trees a thousand feet long under the desk, slowly being transferred into the trash bin behind it. And that’s you browsing the web.
Downright depressing, that.
[1] http://www.metafilter.com/132359/There-is-to-top-to-the-World-Wide-Web#5210791
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal
Bucket list
Another thing for the bucket list:
- Start a polka band named Rage Against the Indignities. Think Weird Al Yankovic meets Brave Combo mocking the latest manufactured outrage du jour.
Squicked
Dudes who use lavender, italicized script fonts in their work IM messages are dudes I just don’t get. In your personal life? Have at it. At work? Hrm…
The best limerick of all
The limerick is furtive and mean;
You must keep her in close quarantine,
Or she sneaks to the slums
And promptly becomes
Disorderly, drunk, and obscene.
-- Morris Bishop
Is I ill?
Confidence in my digestive tract after lunch is barely running above 50%. The mold spot I did see on the bun had to be on the very last bite. Kind of hoping that was the only spot…
Cornhuskers
For the third time ever, I’ll be walking through the gates of Memorial Stadium this afternoon. Bus leaves in just over an hour!
It’s almost hoodie/jersey time
The USHL teams released their final rosters/protected lists[1] today! Time to start working on the game face and stretch out the vocal cords. Seriously ready for some puck.
Surprises to me so far
- The Stars stand pat with an exceptionally inexperienced crew of forwards. Number of goals scored last year by returning Stars forwards this season: 0.
- On the other hand the Stars could have one of the most dominant blue lines around. Lots of size (except for Willett), lots of speed, and a couple of heavy slapshots.
- The Lancers have a billion returning starters this year and have to be a favorite to take the West
- Last year a Lancer, this year a Star: Dominic Sacco
- Wilson Vershay stays with the Stars instead of opting for the OHL where he was drafted
- Gersich didn’t make the Lancers roster–he’s still an affiliate. Absolutely loved the spark he brought at the end of last season to a team otherwise intent on navel gazing
- Nash Warden is a forward this year (at least to start the season). Fun to watch wherever he lines up.
The only home exhibition game is tomorrow night at Tranquility. Going to try to make that!