Category: random thoughts

when i first moved to baton rouge i soon became very familiar with siegen lane. if you live on the side of town that i do then siegen lane is going to be a staple of your driving routes. siegen is always crowded with very poor drivers and therefore it eats up your time and fuel. the one good side of this is that there was almost always something odd to see during the trip. i went through years of seeing completely random things occur on siegen. such as:

• i once i was stopped at the traffic light by chick-fil-a and i saw a woman get out of one car, run to the truck in front of her, pull her shirt up, and place her breasts against the driver’s side window of the truck. the really funny part was the response of the woman after she pulled her shirt down … it was shock. you could hear her shouting “it wasn’t them” as she ran back to her car. apparently she thought she knew the people in the truck and it turned out she was wrong.
• another time i was stopped in traffic and i saw a costumed quizzno’s cup and employee get in a fight in front of ihop. it was funny to see how many people honked and cheered as the cup took the employee down.
• for about a year siegen lane had a random street preacher who set up camp by the exit from i-10 onto the lane. he would stand on his soap box in the middle of the grass slope and preach up a storm concerning all the evil that those drivers flying by him had participated in. a couple of times when i saw him i stopped, pulled out a collapsible chair that i kept in my truck, and sat in front of him so he would have an audience. it was as if i wasn’t even there because he never acknowledged my presence.
• another time when i was driving past jim’s firearms i saw a helicopter randomly land on the side of the road about 60 feet away from me.
• once while i was filling my truck up with petrol i watched a grown man dance around in a crayfish costume while waving a live crayfish in his hand.

there are others that i could say but i think you get the picture. the problem is that siegen lane has turned plain and boring. i haven’t seen anything strange on the lane in a little over a year. i kind of think that everyone on siegen has started taking prosaic. i wish everyone would go off their meds and get odd again.
[tags]siegen lane, baton rouge, odd[/tags]

lifehacker posted a link to a yahoo article on “how to beat a speeding ticket.”

their desire to get you in and out can work in your favor when fighting a ticket. attorneys who specialize in traffic court cases have very high dismissal rates based simply on technicalities. in many cases, with a little effort and research you can obtain the same results.

i would never want to encourage breaking the law (it’s bad and wrong – it’s badong) but for those of you have a habit of getting speeding tickets i thought you might could use this article.

here’s the article.

is anyone else disturbed by the new chrysler commercials where the kids are acting unruly until the dvd player is pulled down and started. then the little hellions turn into perfect little stepford children. the add says “give them what they want and they’ll give you what you want.” i know that this is what most people use the built in dvd players for but is it something we actually want to encourage?

tonight after “the view“, our youth worship service, i went out to chili’s with a few people to talk over what i talked about tonight. i enjoyed the conversation with eveyone but i didn’t really want to eat because i was going to go home soon and watch “lost” since everyone else was going to eat i decided to just get a small appetizer and i decided upon chili’s bottomless bowl of chips and salsa. their salsa is about the most disgusting thing i have ever tasted. it was as though someone had taken a can of spaghetti o’s, strained out the the pasta, and added a few lame mexican spices. it was all the worse because we were supposed to have gone to casa lavida (my favorite mexican restaurant in baton rouge) but the plans were changed because blaine had eaten mexican food for lunch.

oh it was nasty and the chips weren’t any better.

i desparstely wish that google calendar would add a task list to it’s features. it’s the web based calendar that i enjoy the most and it would be tons better if it only had a task list (sung to the tune of “if i only had a brain”)

i’ve never really thought of juggling as an art form but after watching this demonstration by chris bliss i am beginning to change my mind.

here’s another guy who does the routine with 5 balls instead of 3 but i personally don’t think it’s as much fun to watch as the 3 ball routine by chris bliss. the 5 ball routine doesn’t seem as fluid and polished.

there seems to be a little confusion concerning the scoring of the ncaa basketball tournament bracket. basically the confusion comes from sharon trying to say that we are tied because we both have the same number of games correct right now. not so fast my 11 point trailing friend. the bracket is determined by the score rather than the number of games right. this means that each winner of a game is worth a certain number of points. specifically each win in a round is worth a certain number of points PLUS the seed number of the team that win. this means that picking a lower seed to win ends up equally more points. wins in each of the rounds are worth the following:

first round – 1 point per win
second round – 4 points per win
third round – 7 points per win
fourth round – 10 points per win
semifinals – 13 points per win
finals – 20 points per win

since you add the seed number to the win points it means that a win from a lower seed gives you more points (which makes since because it is harder/luckier to pick a win from a lower seed). this is win i am presently beating sharon even though we have the same number of wins.

so quit your belly aching sharon and deal with the fact that even though you are from basketball country (the mid west) this southern boy is winning.

of course, i think you are about to kick my but in the elite eight