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January 05, 2009

My Roommate

Hal has been a raving madman tonight.  He talked about hiring the wrong people, the milk business, Hilton and Jonesy (his favorite employees ever), the Department of the Interior, snowmobiles, Indira Gandhi, how you have to pretend to be tough when you're an officer in the military, the United Nations, and, as always, Nelson Rockefeller.

Then he decided he'd had enough.

Shit I gotta go to bed.  I should quit this talking.

And off he walked.  Not anther word.

He came back to ask me if I'd deal with the dogs tonight and remind me to remind him to do a few things tomorrow, but the dramatic effect of the exit was top quality.

(Give an executive producer credit to LMW for this post.  It wouldn't have happened without her.)
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December 13, 2008

On Mousetrapping and Uncooperative Kittens

I think they've built a better mousetrap.  And I think cheese, the old school bait, the one they use in cartoons, does slightly more efficient work than peanut better.



8 traps set. 

4 cheese.  4 peanut butter.

4 old school style.  4 newfangled.  Peanut butter and cheese evenly distributed between types.

3 caught mice. 1 old school with cheese.  1 newfangled with cheese.  1 newfangled with peanut butter.

2 had their bait taken without snapping.  1 old school with peanut butter.  1 newfangled with peanut butter.

1 snapped but caught nothing.  An old school trap with cheese.

2 went untouched. 1 old school with peanut butter.  1 newfangled with cheese.  They were clearly placed on the wrong shelf and will relocate tonight.

I should have graphed or tabled that.  But that might have been a little overkill for a mouse catching experiment.  Oh well.  Maybe next time.

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November 26, 2008

A Pump Fake

The stories were plentiful on the drive to North Carolina. One started with one of my favorite opening lines of all time:
 
I outran a cop here once...
 
Sadly (and almost inexplicably, actually), the story went nowhere from there, but man did that line have me drooling.
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