06-29-2004 16:35

Two more thoughts that returned to me in the time away from Florida...

• Police like to park their cars in obvious places to scare drivers. Since I wasn't driving, I didn't have to worry too much about slowing down. What scared me were the mannequins they put in the driver seat to make it look like someone is in the car. Just creepy, but unfortunately, I didn't have a camera with me when I saw it


• People in Florida don't just drive cars. They eat, talk on the phone, read a book, whatever. They just do whatever they want behind the wheel. I guess they just assume the other drivers will get out of the way for them. But the other drivers are doing their things too. Kinda freaky, and I'm surprised I didn't see more accidents.

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06-24-2004 01:57

A few thoughts I brought back from Florida:

• Potato chip bags get really pressurized at high altitudes. On the flight down, I had to bite into the side of the bag to make a small hole to let air escape. On the flight back, I realized they had a little perforation in the top so you could rip the bag open. Thanks Jet Blue


• Floridians like to wear clothes that say New York. I don't get that one. I could understand if it was one of the New York sports teams, but no, it would be t-shirts, jerseys, etc. that say New York in a very non-team related way, regardless if it's a sports shirt


• One was not meant to eat dinner at 5pm. After a week, you may get used to the early bird, but it doesn't mean you should be eating by the time normal people are still at work.

Good trip, got to see alot of family I hadn't seen in a while, and read Digital Fortress. Entertaining book, but not wholly unpredictable in its mysteries.

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06-11-2004 17:46

I'm getting ready to go away next week, and I decided I needed a new Gameboy for the trip, so I went out and bought this new toy:



A Gameboy Advance SP made to look like an old Nintendo Entertainment System controller. Pretty bad ass!

To accompany my GBA, I picked up Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. A Mario RPG and the Super Nintendo Zelda game, which is the only Link/Zelda game I never played.

Should at least keep my airplane flight interesting.

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06-01-2004 23:21

I've had a weird vampire thing going on lately.

It's been a long time since I've had my vampire obsession. I read Anne Rice up until Memnoch The Devil, at which point I thought she was more interested in writing about sex than telling a story. I played Vampire : The Masquerade. I dressed up as a vampire for halloween a couple times.

But now within the last week or so, I've picked up 2 vampire books and vampire dvds. I read the aforementioned Essential Tomb Of Dracula and watched the aforementioned Buffy Season Six. When I heard the World of Darkness was coming to an end, I had to read the novelizations to see how it ended, so I picked up Gehenna: The Final Night to see how it ends from the vampires' perspective. The Werewolf and Mage perspectives are also available (and will probably be read when I finish the vampires).

I have the urge to go drink blood now. Be sure to wear a high collared shirt if you go out this eve...

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