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Important Info:
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Send me an email if you're interested in
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weblog templates.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Tonight we're having pasta for dinner and salad and toast (there's only so many ways that you can make worse a dinner of boxed pasta and Prego and toast is one of them).
Anyway, we're a margarine household. We never really use butter, except in recipes, and even then only rarely. Today we're completely out of magarine and normally we have magarine on our toast. So what do you do?
Honestly, what would you do if you were making dinner for yourself and someone else who was expecting toast with margarine and you were completely out of maragine. Decide before reading the rest of this post (and 'I would never make toast with pasta for dinner' is not an answer)...
Do you have your answer?
All set?
Ok then, here we go...
Well I can only think of a few options that seem reasonable.
I might:
a. not make toast knowing that we've never had toast without the margarine
(This probably wouldn't be my choice but it's a good one.)
b. I might say, "Hey, we don't have maragine do you still want toast with dinner?".
(I think I'd go with this one.)
c. You could go to the store and buy maragerine.
This is logical but I don't think it would be a popular answer (it's just toast afterall).
Jenn didn't do any of these things. Well then, what did she do?
Without saying anything to me she made the toast and substituted unsalted butter for margarine... big gobs of unsalted butter. Does this make sense to anyone?.
I ate the toast, and of course noticed that something wasn't right. I asked her about it and she insists that I'm somehow wrong about this.
Why wouldn't she just ask first or at least tell me about the change or just not make toast... that would have been ok too (surprise, surprise, she didn't eat any).
I appreciate that Jenn made dinner (thanks Jenn) but that doesn't change the fact that this is insane behavior. Hey Jenn, why do you think I have magarine on my toast? If it's not the taste then why?
Do you honestly think that I use the margarine to grease my throat to make it easier for the toast to slide down or maybe I'm you think that I'm purposefully doing everything I can to eat more fat and cholesterol?
One of us is crazy. I'm not saying it's you but I will say that if I had to choose to sit and eat with one of two groups of people and one group was using margarine and the other table was slathering their food with unsalted butter then the people at that table would be crazy.
10:27:03 PM 
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Thank You, Heather Martian
Thank You, Jenn Martinelli
Thank You, Mac OS X/BSD UNIX
Thank You, The Magazine Industry
Thank You, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Family Guy (How'd you get so smart?)
Thank You, Boston, after Syracuse and Buffalo I needed you desperately.
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I know it's crass. These things are important to me but also I don't want to waste a lot of time on most of them.
Whether I write them down or not I carry them around in my head so why not just write them down.
Thanks for Nothing, RELIGION for thousands of years of oppression; ignorance and outright stupidity; seemingly limitless death, violence and destruction; hate and isolation. Real hope, even salvation doesn't carry so high a price.
Thanks for Nothing, Microsoft
Thanks for Nothing, Apple Computer/Steve Jobs
Thanks for Nothing, the Boston T
Thanks for Nothing, Boston's Musuem of Science
Thanks for Nothing, SUNY Buffalo/The SUNY Buffalo Classics department (by the way if anyone from SUNY Buffalo sees this please take me off of your alumni mailing list.)
Thanks for Nothing, Harvard University,
for being irresponsibly short-sighted in every way that doesn't
mean more money for your endowment or padding for your reputation.
There are more important things.
Thanks for Nothing, George W. Bush (Thanks for Nothingr father too).
For ruining America at precisely the wrong time.
Thanks for Nothing, Ronald Regan you brain dead piece of shit,
for helping to ruin my life by making me fear for my future and
the world around me when I was growing up.
Thanks for Nothing, My parent's generation for passing on your inadequacies, self-doubt,
fear... and not much else. Your children are your responsibility.
It's is your obligation to pay for their education because their future is your
debt. If you are so vain as to think that in a world of
6+ billion people
there is some need for you to procreate then you had better be prepared to
pay the price.
Thanks for Nothing, The Republican Party, for taking advantage
of the general population's stupidity to your own advantage.
Thanks for Nothing, the Democratic Party, for being too incompetent to figure out
how to help the general population in spite of our collective stupidity.
Thanks for Nothing, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
for taking out your frustrations over your pathetic movie career on
this country.
Thanks for Nothing, California (see Thanks for Nothing Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Thanks for Nothing, The people of Boston and Boston politics, for doing your best
to ruin a truly great city.
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You're not as smart as you think you are.
- Me
The Museum of Science is a shit-pit and I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that Harvard is killing babies to pad its endowment.
- Me
Success in life is about managing a continuous series of small failures.
- Me
I prefer all of my human interaction in magazine form.
- Me
Hold onto your grudges.
- They are a part of who you are.
- Your life and your experiences don't make any sense without them.
- They represent real knowledge gained.
- At times they're all you have that's of any value. Don't give them away.
- Me
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If I do any I'll post them here. Don't expect miracles ;O)
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Listen up everybody. I've decided to start keeping score.
You may not even realize that you're playing
(I won't tell you. It's my only advantage).
[ Life vs. Me ]
Life: 32
Me: 0
More info: Life gets 1 point for every year of my life to this point.
+1 point because I'm unemployed.
+1 point because my apartment is awful.
+1 point because I have fewer than 3 friends.
[ Dan from Liverpool High School vs. Me ]
Dan: 0
Me: 1
[ Jenn's horrible friend Stacie vs. Me ]
Stacie: 0
Me: 1,000,000
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This link references my Associate ID.
Buy something and I get a little kick-back.
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