Under a Gibbous Moon

I’ve started taking classes at the local community college. At NCC they take pretending to be a real college way to seriously. They go on and on about campus life, hold event on the quad, and otherwise waste their limited resources.

Periodically, they send out emails called Northampton NOW. Contained within are upcoming events, social networking, and other minutia. The latest one though about made my eyes melt out of their sockets:

“Who would you rather have bite you: the vampires of Twilight or True Blood? Vote now!”

Shamelessly stolen from Topless Robot

I wonder if it’s too late to get a drop slip.

The marathon is over and it ended in utter disaster. Sure, people tell me that 22 miles is quite an achievement but I prefer to think of it as failure.

It doesn’t mean that I’m quitting, of course not. I’ll take what I learned from this year and I’ll be better prepared for next year.

Who the fuck needs a warrant or probable cause or any of that. Evidently a judge has decided that the outside surface of your car is public property. I never understand people that comment on stories about violating constitutional rights. Apparently if you aren’t doing anything that you feel is wrong, then you shouldn’t need the Constitution. I want to quote Ben Franklin here, but I think we all know which quote I’m going for.

Governments never take a dramatic action to remove freedom. They always will one step people into total tyranny.

Give up?

It’s supposed to be a deep dish pizza. Went to the local Pizza Hut with my wife tonight and instead of a large deep dish pizza we got a large hand tossed pizza. When we asked the waiter about the pizza he went back to check on it. When he came back we had what was probably one of the most awkward conversations he’d had as a server.

Apparently, they were out of large deep dish pizza dough and so, instead of saying anything, they just made a different pizza and hoped that we wouldn’t notice.

Yup, sounds like a plan to me. What makes this hilarious, is that this must be standard Pizza Hut policy because this happened to me better than a decade ago. I forget exactly what I ordered but the toppings were wrong. When asked about it, they said that they were out of the one (sausage if I remember correctly) so we just used this instead (pepperoni if I remember correctly).

Now Pizza Hut, shit happens, I understand that. You run out, things don’t go right, it happens to all of us, but please just be up front. This whole, hope we don’t notice thing turns small problem into a big mistake.

This says to me, “Road trip!”