Barnes Donalds Pepsi

Thursday December 14, 2006 at 11:14pm oddities Comments (0) »

Just some notes from things I encountered today:

1) At B&N, I saw something I'd never seen before: "After Coffee Mints". This struck me as odd - can't you get mint and cinnamon flavorings in your coffee? Doesn't that make the 'after coffee mint' somewhat redundant?

2) McD's seems to have developed a new 'you can see your food, but you can't have it' policy. I pulled up to the pick-up window to see a bag just on the other side of the glass that looked as if it could quite easily contain my two sandwiches and fries. I could literally have grabbed it had the window been open. Unfortunately, I had to sit there and look at it for a full minute before someone actually came and handed it to me.

3) I discovered one of the cans in the pepsi cube i bought was closed, but empty due to a hole in the bottom of the can. This is the second time I have encountered this. I think there's a soda gnome in our kitchen.

~PS

Bill? Tom?

Monday August 28, 2006 at 12:32pm random encounters, oddities Comments (0) »

So I've had a random encounter of the funishing kind. In our breezeway saturday night, sheri and I found a tv stand. Attached to it was a note that said 'Tom: Sorry it took me so long to drop this off. -Bill'.

I don't know who these people are, but i think Tom is going to continue to be more and more dissappointed with Bill as he wonders where his tv stand is.

~PS

Cakebread?

Tuesday April 4, 2006 at 4:50pm oddities Comments (3) »

I would just like to point out, that nowhere on this website does the word 'cakebread' appear. Well...it does now, but you know what i mean.

Apparently, i've been accused of being one Jared Cakebread. I don't know who this other Jared is, except to say that it's not me. Sam, I'm sure this must be your fault because a google for the inverse-imposter turned up a cycling website with your name on it. There will be vengeance.

;)

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Transexual Drive-Thru

Friday March 10, 2006 at 11:33am oddities Comments (2) »

Yeah, this was disturbing.

At Wendy's. Last night.

me: (drives up)

(female voice): "Thank you for choosing Wendy's, can i - [static]"

me: ?

(male voice): "Can i take your order?"

me: !? "...yeah, i'd like, uhm...a number 1"

(female voice): "Anything else?"

me: "Gah! uhm...no...no thanks..."

By this time, ginger (who was in the jeep at the time) was laughing out loud.

I think i've discovered what people who work in fast food restaraunts do to entertain themselves on slow shifts.

~PS

Activity Spike

Thursday December 8, 2005 at 3:39pm oddities Comments (3) »

You ever have one of those days that's kinda slow and relaxed and there's nothing terribly pressing all day and you're taking things one at a time and then, out of the blue, suddenly everything wants your attention at the same time and your brain, which is horribly lathargic from the lack of stimulation, goes into conscious synaptic convulsions?

I have. I think i freaked poor ginger out when i started mumbling frazzled, exasperated comments through my cheese crackers while gesticulating wildly.

~PS

Do you know the times?

Thursday December 1, 2005 at 3:38pm oddities Comments (0) »

Ok. I've had some very strange happenings today. I think the concrete physical and the somewhat abstract technological information-flow spheres of existance are mingling a little too intimately for my taste - to the point that i'm getting confused as to what belongs in which.

Occurance Chi:
I recieved a letter today from my mom. It contained a print-out of an email. The email was about computers.

Occurance Psi:
About thirty minutes ago a received a spam on my cell phone.

Between the snemail, tele-spam and the fact that my yogurt this morning said on the label that it was custard style but was, in fact, regular yogurt, I am having the distinct feeling that something is unmistakably amiss in the world today. If a traveling insurance salesman comes to my door and asks me if i want to buy some Ethernet, i'm going into my room and i'm not coming out.

~PS

ow, my brain

Thursday April 7, 2005 at 11:46pm computers, work, oddities Comments (0) »

well, penpen's mostly back up in running. as i type, i'm just waiting for the last of my mp3's to be copied back over to this machine. looks like the rebuild operation was a success.

in other news, i spent the better part of the day with Brian West (one of my coworkers)(he's colorblind - can you tell? ;)) going through a bunch of computer-generated php in an effort to salvage it for a migration. this, combined with the fact that i didn't eat anything till about 5pm, gave me a pretty major headache.

on an unrelated note, i've heard that Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' follows the beginning of the Wizard of Oz in some sort of uncanny fashion. thus far i've noticed no such correlation between 'Comfortably Numb' and Return of the Jedi.

~PS