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You should'nt make me angry… in the morning.

Life, Randomness

I don’t know if it was the fact that I hadn’t had my coffee yet, or that loud noises in the morning really set me off, or just that violence against women in general really pisses me off… but some guy on the metro just got a earful of Mark’s patented blind rage.

I was just sitting there reading the metro paper when I heard a guy’s voice yell “Stop Pushing me!” , “You’re pushing me!” Like most outbursts on a quiet crowded metro it came as quite a shock to my senses. I turned around to see a man in his late 40’s yelling in the face of a woman about a foot shorter and 20 years younger that him. Without any response from her or anyone around him that I could see his shouting quickly turned into “F*** You! F*** You!”

That’s when the details of this confrontation sort of get fuzzy for me because I went into this sort of blind rage but I’m pretty sure I stood up turned around yelled at him and then pointed at him and yelled “Why don’t you shut the F*** up you big piece of s***” or possibly “You want to yell at someone, why don’t you pick on someone your own size”. To which I swear he looked over at me and said “But… she’s pushing me” because he sounded like a little kid, the only thing I could think to say was… “Boo hoo, she’s pushing me.” and maybe something about yelling at a woman… I don’t know really… it was pretty intense.

I’m actually really thankful that there were so many people in between us because in my Mark-Hulk rage I probably would have grabbed him by the neck and thrown him off the train… and that would have been bad… enjoyable… but bad. I really need to learn to handle these situations in a more “Fezzik from Princess Bride” sort of way and less HULK style. But I think Laurel was proud of me in some way.

Mark

Snow-Fizzle my Nizzle

Interests, Life

Lots of stuff has been going on in the last few weeks, I “ran” a Thanksgiving 5K race at 6:30am, I’ve been snowboarding twice, and I’ve been strangley motivated to get things done… just not this blog.

My thoughts on snowboarding in the Washington DC area.

Sometimes it’s not all that bad. I’ve been going consistently for about 3 seasons now and haven’t had any problems with the mountains close to the area. Whitetail, Roundtop, Liberty. But I think I’ve finally hit the wall, it’s not so much that the mountains are too small… because I get tired after about 40 seconds anyway. Its the value, we started out the season by going to Seven Springs, PA for the opening day. It’s about 3.5 hours away so a day trip is an adventure to say the least, but the prices are so much better (37 and 43) and almost the whole mountain was open already. Last weekend we went to Whitetail in MD and the prices sucked (53 and 56) and there were only 5 runs open, none of them black. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled now that I’ve seen real mountains and real snow out on the west coast. But I’ll have to say that I don’t think I’m going to go back to the smaller mountains this year, it just seems like wasted money. I am going to Wisp this weekend for the Wisp Days, $7 lift tickets! So we’ll see how well I can deal with the crowds of other frugal boarders.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that I ride much faster and enjoy it more with a soundtrack. My new helmet has those speakers in the earflaps. I thought it was a little distracting last year but something is different now. It could be the choice of music. Nothing gets me down the mountain like Notorious B.I.G’s Greatest hits album.

and yes parents, that’s that “Gangster Rap”

and because I can, here’s a video of a kid taking a wicked header on the beach.

The Real Signs of the Apocalypse… and it's not Obama.

Life, Randomness

First it was the bees disappearing now its the acorns.

In some areas trees are not producing acorns, not just less, but ZERO.

A naturalist in Maryland found no acorns on an Audubon nature walk there. Ditto for Fairfax, Falls Church, Charles County, even as far away as Pennsylvania. There are no acorns falling from the majestic oaks in Arlington National Cemetery.

We’re DOOMED… doomed…. doomed…

via [neatorama]

I really want to be Peter Schiff right now.

Life, Rants

Not just because he probably pulled all of his own money out of the markets well before the current situation. But mostly because he has the ultimate “I told you so” going on right now. It’s not just like “I told you the Giants would win the Superbowl” or “Tampa Bay is going to be really good this year” or “Obama”.

Here’s what I want to see… Camera on him sitting alone behind a desk. long pause… “Ben Stein, etc – For years you laughed at my ideas on national TV, suggested that listening to me was akin to believing in Santa Claus, and told people to put all their money in companies that were not only bad investments but actually went out of business in some cases, …you are all idoits, …how would you like to suck my balls. Thank you an goodnight.”

I think China has been playing “Win Ben Steins Money” and he didn’t even know it.

via [Boing Boing]

Later!

Know-it-alls, shouldn't evolution have sorted them out?

Life, Rants

I hate to make an argument against evolution, but isn’t the existence of Know-it-all people (KIAPs) proof that Evolution doesn’t exist? I hate these people, they aren’t good to talk to, they aren’t good to argue with, they aren’t even good to yell at. They’re always right even when they’re wrong, really really wrong. What’s even worse is having a conversation on a subject that you don’t really fully understand, and you fully admit that, and coming out of it feeling like an idiot anyway.

How do these people mate? It’s mostly men who are KIAPs, the women don’t seem to bug me as much because ALL women think they’re right all the time anyways. I don’t understand what kind of woman would want to be with a guy who constantly tells her that she’s wrong. It’s like pushing two north pole magnets together. People should be evolving into better human beings, not pompous jerks.

But I guess thats in a perfect world.

Damn dirty KIAPs!

Later!