2/27/08

I was driving in to work this morning, listening to the “oom-tss-oom-tss-oom-tss” trance/house/dance music station, when a song I actually recognized came on. It was a song by Prodigy, the one about walking through minefields, but it didn’t sound quite right. I think the subwoofer in the Scooby-Doo was a little better than the one in Darth Versa. I wonder if it can be bumped up some somehow. Of course there is a bunch of stuff in the rear of Darth Versa which might be muffling the thing a little. I don’t know. So, John has a little Badtz Maru figure thingy on his dash to cover up the tire pressure monitoring system light in Admiral Akbar. He also has a Badtz Maru NISMO sticker on the back of the car so perhaps that would be a better name for it. I'm going to stick with Admiral Akbar until told otherwise. Anyhoo, the point is, when he was showing it to me I asked what I could put in front of my TPMS light. I remembered the little Darth Vader head I had on my desk. I took it to the car last night and had a look-see. I think if I just use the front half of it, it will work. I need to stick it down with some of that double sticky foam tape though as it slid around quite a bit. It does cover my turn signals but I think I can live with that. What is weird is the thing is much bigger than the Badtz Maru John has, which I never would have believed, but it is much smaller than a shift knob, which I also would have found hard to believe. I think covering the TPMS light will be the best automotive use for that thing. Ok, I have a question, but first a little back story. The other day someone bought pizza for the dispatchers. When that happens I am usually invited to partake. Not being the type to turn down free food, I accepted. I planned to bring my slices back to my office and eat at my desk. Well, I had nothing but water to drink in my fridge. I wound up grabbing a couple Coca-Colas from a storage closet and bringing them up with me. I put one in the fridge and drank the other with my pie. Well, yesterday I pulled the second one from the fridge to drink. Here comes the question. How the hell do people drink that vile crap? It tastes like rancid, farted-in vinegar, filtered through a skunk’s ass, and served in a dirty ashtray. It was ok with the pizza, but now that I think about it I was thirstier afterwards than I was before drinking it. Yeah, I had to drink four of those ten ounce waters over the course of the afternoon just to keep from dying that day. Some of that could have been the dried out pizza, but I’m going to blame the Coke for most if the problem. I guess it just goes to prove that a good marketing program can get people to buy the most wretched stuff: Coke, coffee, frozen yogurt, Chevrolets, carrot cake, chicken pot pies, Borat Osama, etcetera. Whoa, I just erased a bit that got really political and rather anti-Islamic. Well, that “gorilla in the corner” is really making it tough to continue with this rant. I want to ‘splain what it was I deleted but then it just degenerates again every time. I think I'm just going to have to shut up for the day and talk to y'all again tomorrow.