BEST IDEA EVAR!!!!one!!

I have had the Single Best Idea in the History of the Internet™.

I am going to buy this car, slam it into this office, and twitter™ the tinyURL™ of the flickr™ album and YouTube™ videos to my FaceBook™ friends.

Thereby causing the Internet™ to go so meta™ that it collapses the universe™.

I will accept the Nobel Prize for Brilliance whenever you find time to hand that out.

Parking is worse than driving

Some parts of Chicago are cool.

Other parts of Chicago are so insanely awful that it’s amazing anyone lives here.

One is the weather.

Another is the 400% jump in parking fares.

Seriously, Four…Hundred…Percent…in quarters.

Chicago’s Privatized Parking Meters Are An Epic Failure

Update: Newton’s third law goes into effect – Has The Parking Meter Revolt Begun?

Vote By Mail FTW!

After getting up at 6:00 in the morning to go stand in line for two hours and witness the process of voting in Illinois, I can safely say that Oregon has it figured out.

Voting by mail is fantastic. It’s faster, easier, more convenient, ensures greater participation and encourages educated voting.

At least I didn’t have to use an electronic “voting” machine.

“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” -Joseph Stalin

My brain is trying to kill my body

I have been up since 3:30am today.

Three…Thirty…A…M.

I have a theory as to why this is, and it goes something like this:

When I decide that I’m going to be drinking, my brain says, “OK! Have fun! See you when you wake up!” and goes somewhere else to be productive. I’m clearly not going to be using it for a while.

I am not one to get up in the middle of the night, so when I do go drinking, and then need to get up in the middle of the night because my body needs to deal with a lack or abundance of water, my brain says “Hey! Welcome Back! Here are all your messages: …” and proceeds to make sure that I am both obnoxiously awake and thinking about stuff that couldn’t matter less at 3:30 in the morning.

So, after laying in bed for an hour trying to get back to sleep but still thinking about everything that’s going on, I decided to get up. And do some server maintenance. That’s reasonable. Right?

I’m not even hungover. Just annoyed. And tired.

…but we did take first in our league.

I hurt myself

Not, you know, for fun.

Snowboarding.

A few weeks ago my girlfriend and I went snowboarding in Tahoe with her family. This was my third time out and, obviously, I wasn’t professional yet. So, first ride of the day, I fracture my wrist. To be fair (to me), it was a double-black diamond on ice. Not snow. Ice. Snow breaks your fall. Ice breaks your bones.

I don’t know for sure that it’s fractured, but I’d bet $20 it is. I do know that I’ve fractured and broken bones in the past and this feels like a fracture. I also know it’ll cost me WAY more than $20 to go see a doctor who will tell me what I already know and tell me to do things I already know I should be doing. Or not doing.

One of those “do not” items is riding my bike.

I know that now…’cause I did it…and it hurt.

So, now I have a wrist brace. Which is probably one of those “do” items.

See? I don’t need a doctor.

Probably.