Josef: man i'm tired i'm seriously debating going to sleep under my desk ever since i got back i've been tired, even with 8 hours of sleep Patrick: back from europe? Josef: yeah, well vegas but europe too i think it's cause i'm not drinking coffee all the time deuce and an espresso theme of the trip me: what's a deuce and an espresso? Josef: when you're backpacking and walking around a lot not many public bathrooms so we would go to coffee shops anytime someone had to deuce me: ah Josef: i even pooped in the ladies bathroom once me: that's my Pfeiffer Josef: they were screaming at me in portugese as i went in me: HAHAHA Patrick: hahahahahahah
Let's all just get on board with the fact that moustaches are cool. Remember when Arun threw on a moustache for a couple of days? That looked great. Unforunately, SOME people claimed it made him look stupid, and chased Arun off of being the moustache guy. Then Joe (pictured above with his rocking 'stache) grew one on his Europe trip. I admit that Joe's moustache is still a little thin there, but all it needs is time. Unfortunately, upon returning home, he gave up the quest. So, once again, the offical title of moustache guy is wide open.
Over the last couple of years, I have become far too attached to my beard to give it up. But I know there are those among you with the facial hair necessary, but you keep it neatly trimmed so as to look young and innocent. I'm telling you guys, there are at least two or three of you thinking about going for the moustache guy crown & scepter, but the first guy there gets the glory. You don't want to be the guy that copied Arun after he showed up a Christmas with that amazing handle bar.
Somebody make this happen - I want moustaches! Where's Metzger?
It always hurts when you find out TV and movies have been lying to you for your entire life. I just learned that again today when I experienced what is always portrayed as a crazy event in pop colture - I got stuck in an elevator. And it was totally boring.
I was in there with a girl from the office next door. We stood there and talked about shit for about a half hour, then the elvator shook around a bit, then the doors opened. Then I got Subway. Yawn.
No one gave birth, no one had sex, no monsters attacked us, and the elevator didn't fall hardly any distance at all. There wasn't even any life saving emergency surgery. Totally lame. Suddenly I wonder if it'd even be all that great to sneak into a school's office at night. My whole world is upside down.
Joe is still off running around Europe, and he's been more or less out of contact (save the occasional Twitter post), so we'll definitely be on that once-every-two-weeks schedule for the time being. But once Joe does get back, we should start off a run of episodes featuring more guests, and some pretty interesting places to visit!
Other than that, there isn't much to report. Maria and I move into our new apartment in just over three weeks, and until then we're pretty much just waiting and resenting everything that bugs us about our current place. I'm really excited to be back up in the old neighborhood, and just about everyone I know in the city will be within a few blocks of our new place. Once I get back from my many weekends in a row of travel in July the rest of this summer should be a blast.
A story just popped up on Digg about the world's greatest subways, and apparently there are only ten in the world, because the L made it somehow: "It's old, it's crowded and it's noisy as hell, but Chicagoans love the L like they love deep-dish pizza." This clears up that I am apparently still not a Chicagoan.
I did just ordered two books today: The Book of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau and The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.
The former is a book I just heard mentioned (because its being made into a movie), and the concept sounds awesome: in the future, a great apocalypse threatens mankind, so 200 people start a city deep within a mountain in a system of caves. The city is powered by a hydroelectric dam, and supplied by massive store rooms. The entire city has a 220 year time limit on it, after which the store rooms will run dry and the dam will fail. It has now been 240 years, and the instructions on how to leave Ember (which were passed down from mayor to mayor until the chain was broken by the sudden death of one) have been lost for decades. Some kids find a clue, though, and start looking. I'm pretty sure this is a kid's book, but if its at all interesting, I think that idea is pretty cool.
The Foundation Trilogy is a science fiction classic, and something I've been looking to read for a long time. I figured since I was buying one book I might as well add another. This is actually a somewhat similar idea, come to think of it - far, far in the future (galactic civilization far), humanity learns how to predict the future on a macro-scale (so they can predict the fate of planets or empires, but not individuals). Thus, they know the current galactic empire is about to fail, plunging the galaxy into a 30,000 year dark ages. To shorten that time span, they create two hubs of knowledge, built to withstand the coming collapse and jump-start the next empire in just one thousand years. I don't really know more than that general idea, but it sounds neat.
I've also been thinking about re-reading The Mote in God's Eye, and perhaps reading it's sequel. If you're a fan of sci-fi and you've never read this, you really should.
