Mick spotted this in the mall. Personally I choose to think they are crying or trying to will him to resign from beyond the grave.

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The sodium lights and a long exposure make for neat colors

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Ah yes, the mother of invention rears her ugly head and innovation…. cries. We’re going to be doing a little team-building exercise later (read: Unreal Tournament 2004) and Matt decided that the glare on his monitor was unacceptable. Nothing some file folders, nylon pull-ties (for bracing) and tape couldn’t fix, apparently.

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This segment of ice on my car window made me think of the trickling data screen effect that was common in the Matrix (because, as you know, data is subject to gravity and trickles “downwards” just like water). Apparently these bits of moisture that were on the outside of my window continued to move downward as they froze. You can almost see the crystaline effect.

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If you’re in a place where you have never noticed the interesting (well, to me) ways that snow melts perhaps you consider yourself lucky.

The other night I got home about an hour after my roommate had and noticed the hood of his car. We had a fairly hard snow coming down at that point and as it landed on his recently driven car it melted unevenly, more or less an inverse representation of the reinforcement of the hood. You can clearly see where the crossbeams are and how they blocked more of the radiant heat from his hot engine as it cooled and the snow landed.

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So I am wandering past our CFO’s office last week and he calls me over to see something.

The something in this case is this…. odd … letter. Someone has stuffed a few news clippings into a manilla envelope and sent it to us. Well, not US I suppose – as far as I know we do not as a whole constitute “Jew Murderers.” Admittedly one of the company founders is jewish and we have some ex-military and really, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? But I am pretty sure as an organization we’re pretty much killing-free.

So given the lack of a person or company name it’s not real clear if this is meant for us or some prior tenants of the suite, though I think the previous tenants were in the water purification business. Maybe that’s just what they WANTED us to think…

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Saw this big Chinese New Year setup at a local mall. I am fairly certain that the text translates into “Please stop appropriating our culture for your whorish commercial purposes”

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Ah, it’s so sad when bad math happens to good promotions. Note the “Limit” line in smaller text to the left.

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I swear this guy got this plate and this car only so he could place the ad with this text:

“4 cyl 5 speed Manual transmission, moonroof, am/fm/cd stereo. dings for its age, crack in windshield. fair condition, new clutch, new timing belt, new battery.

I’ve rode yormom up and down the east coast, its been a solid car for me.”

washingtondc.craigslist.org/car/57023673.html

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