Nice parking job. I get it, it’s a nice truck. Maybe if you want to take up more than one space, you can park a little farther away from the building.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.
— Milton Friedman
They call this potholes, situated conveniently in the middle of a fast food store driveway, “Oil Pan Ripper”
Consciousness Lottery - The gamble that the thing that needs to get done will arrive at the forefront of your consciousness at a moment you are able to accomplish it. It is as rare as winning the lottery.
— Me.
The Golden Rule is being systematically broken down and sold for its cash value.
Hard Work To Spend Money
Here’s how it works:
- Go to a website that has something you want.
- Indicate that you want to buy it by clicking “Buy it”.
- Fill in demographic information which would be useful if they needed to send you something. This is a downloadable product, so they shouldn’t need to send me anything. Mildly annoyed.
- Provide email address because you can’t buy it unless you provide one. I don’t want to be on their list. They won’t complete the transaction until they know my email address. Slightly more annoyed.
- Have to wait to buy it because the system has to generate an email with a link for you to verify that this is indeed your email address. Getting pretty annoyed.
- Clicking ‘Send / Receive Mail’ and checking the spam folder in a near-OCD fashion because I just. Want. To. Finish. The. Task. Eye is now twitching.
- Continuing to click ’Send / Receive Mail’ and checking the spam folder in a near-OCD fashion because there is apparently no urgency to sell anything on their behalf. Gritting teeth.
- Epiphany: Deciding to agree with the seller that there’s no urgency in buying the thing they’re selling. Forgetting about the thing. Calm returns.
Chaos
Dear City of San Luis Obispo:
Close the intersection of Johnson and San Luis Bay Drive on a weekday? Really? On the bright side, watching the chaos as the nearby high school let out for lunch was awesome.
