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What do news paper boxes say about the behavior of humans?

Any one person can put in money and open it and give free papers to everybody else.

But we rarely see this happen. I put in some money and left the door propped open just to see what the next person would do.

Did they...

A.) Take a free paper and shut the door so no one else could get one.

B.) Take all the papers out and start passing them around the bus stop since they were so lucky today.

C.) Shut the door. Place their money in and get a paper the honest way.

The answer was = A

I am not really sure what this means about the fate of our species but I think I am going to work this into a thesis of some kind...

What would you do? And don't lie chances are I will have you on tape over the next six months..

Catch -22

Catch - 22, by Joesph Heller

Finished reading this last night and it was ok. Yeah it was funny and witty but I felt like I was hearing a joke for the 10th time when I was reading it.

I must have watched to much MASH or Hogans Hero's or something because it was all so familiar.

It is probably a credit to the author that so much of Heller's work has found its way into popular culture, unfortunately it also wrecked the impact of the book for me. I could see the merit in his work without a doubt but I wish I wouldn't have wasted my time.

Next Up - The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Globgress

Money?
By now I would have smoked 8 packs of cigarettes surface savings $4.28 * 8 = $34.24
But I was a thrifty smoker and always bought two for ones so really I have only saved $17.12
But wait I have also picked up a new habit....Chapstick. I have fought my entire life to avoid this one and now in my darkest hour I have faltered to the lip rejuvenation gods. 5 sticks of blistex (assorted flavors of course $5.36 bringing my actual savings down to under $12, still not bad)

Feel Better?
Not really I have started to puke up these brown goobers. They feel kind of like a leech that hasn't shaved in a few weeks coming out of my orifices.
Smoking might have actually been keeping me alive...
Acting as a buffer of smell keeping germ infested non-smokers at bay.

I have also had a few reverse asthma attacks where I feel little too much air is coming into my lungs and I am drowning in it.

The worst side effect easily is that I feel socially awkward...I have no idea how to act around people now..I am blushing and sweating when someone talks to me..it is just weird.

The bright side

Things are working better;) I can smell...it is kind of a trip and not always a pleasant but it is cool.

Free Wills Final Moment

In a willful world I find it interesting that one of the most significant acts we could choice to have control over completely surrendered to the fates.

We leave the way, how we will feel in that moment, the method, the place, the time, the aftermath almost entirely to chance.

Maybe self euthanasia is the ultimate act of free will?

The ultimate manifest destiny?

BNN #2541 - 1/7/2008

On my way to work this morning I saw the red flashing lights of fire rescue truck in my rearview mirror. I pulled over and cursed about how that was going to make me even later to work. After he passed and traffic got going again I started to relax. As I rounded a corner I saw the fire rescue truck with its lights flashing pulled into a drive way. In the drive way was a very elderly man laying on the ground clutching a cane with tears coming down his eyes. From his position on the ground it was obvious that he had fallen and broken his leg.

I don't know why I have been so sentimental lately but I started to cry. Something that we could shake off in our youth I have broken mine a few times, may very well end this mans independence forever. Confining him to a nursing home for the rest of his life. It just doesn't seem fair to make it that long through life's many hardships and lose it all with a slip on the ice.

It made me think of my neighbor Audrey and miss her very much....

Check this out...

Freedom?

Friday Clicks

Interesting Articles I'm Doing Great It's All of You Who Are F!@#ED....

Charity as a drug...I told you so ;)




P.S For my Minneapolis people is it just me or has the Star Tribune swung to the right? I can't put my finger on but just the word choice, layout, or stories or something seems to smell right wing... Like FOX secrete agents have silently killed alot of journalists and yet I felt no disturbance in the force?

Straight?

We have all heard things like, "I have been smoking for 20 years." or "I have been smoking since I was 13."

Well that is not really the case if you smoke a pack a day and we say you actively smoke a cigarette for five minutes you actually spend a good part of your day not smoking.

Lets run the numbers

20 smokes in a pack at 5 minutes each = 100 minutes smoking.
24 hours in a day 60 minutes in an hour = 1440

If we divide the numbers we see that you are smoking roughly 7% of the day leaving 93% to do other stuff.

So the smoker who has been smoking for 20 years and is so tough has really only been smoking for 1.4 years...

sorry this stuff is on my mind lately..

Goal Reasons

When most people say that they are going to quit smoking what I hear is that there life goal is to avoid getting cancer and live as long as possible. I am not those people and that is not my goal.

My goal is not to live the longest or smell the best or be the healthiest...

My goal is to enjoy my life to the fullest. You might then ask why bother quit smoking if you enjoy it so much? Well there are other things I enjoy more that it is interferring with...

I will let you draw your own conclusion to what those things are:)

Nothingness

I got nothing. I think all of my wit and power was lost as I beamed down new life forms of permanent liquid tar about 30-40 times yesterday.

Hope everyone had a happy New Year:)