Totally missing the clue.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Boston Bans Bottle Service:

"...Letters are going out to unsuspecting bar and club owners at this very moment, informing them that bottle service violates Boston's existing ban on serving more than 2 drinks at a time to a customer.

The hilariously dismissive money quote from Boston Licensing Board Chairman Daniel Pokaski:

“We’re not New York and we’re not South Beach,” he said. “The city of Boston has a lot more to offer than just getting people inebriated. If all they can offer their clientele is just swilling down alcohol, then perhaps they shouldn’t be in the business.”

The "business" is the GOD. DAMN. BAR. BUSINESS. - you freaking moron.

This man has a great future as a supervillain.

Via Boing Boing Gadgets

A DIY Wrist Mounted Flamethrower.

America, land of the fre... uh, wait. Check that.

A new level of retarded.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Russell Pearce: American Hero:

"Rep. Russell Pearce, the excitable Arizona legislator who called McCain's immigration bill "treasonous," has a new idea:

Arizona public schools would be barred from any teachings considered counter to democracy or Western civilization under a proposal endorsed Wednesday by a legislative panel.

Additionally, the measure would prohibit students of the state's universities and community colleges from forming groups based in whole or part on the race of their members, such as the Black Business Students Association at Arizona State University or Native Americans United at Northern Arizona University. Those groups would be forbidden from operating on campus.

...Which values count as American, you ask? Let's consult Rep. John Kavanaugh:

"This bill basically says, 'You're here. Adopt American values,' " said Kavanagh, a Fountain Hills Republican. "If you want a different culture, then fine, go back to that culture."

Well, that clears things up..."

Shoes are fu*king your feet up.

Really lengthy article at the link... fascinating stuff.

How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine:

"...I’m afraid I have some bad news for you: You walk wrong.

Look, it’s not your fault. It’s your shoes. Shoes are bad. I don’t just mean stiletto heels, or cowboy boots, or tottering espadrilles, or any of the other fairly obvious foot-torture devices into which we wincingly jam our feet. I mean all shoes. Shoes hurt your feet. They change how you walk. In fact, your feet—your poor, tender, abused, ignored, maligned, misunderstood feet—are getting trounced in a war that’s been raging for roughly a thousand years: the battle of shoes versus feet.



Last year, researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, published a study titled “Shod Versus Unshod: The Emergence of Forefoot Pathology in Modern Humans?” in the podiatry journal The Foot. The study examined 180 modern humans from three different population groups (Sotho, Zulu, and European), comparing their feet to one another’s, as well as to the feet of 2,000-year-old skeletons. The researchers concluded that, prior to the invention of shoes, people had healthier feet. Among the modern subjects, the Zulu population, which often goes barefoot, had the healthiest feet while the Europeans—i.e., the habitual shoe-wearers—had the unhealthiest.

...Okay, so shoes can be less than comfortable. If you’ve ever suffered through a wedding in four-inch heels or patent-leather dress shoes, you’ve probably figured this out. But does that really mean we don’t walk correctly? (Yes.) I mean, don’t we instinctively know how to walk? (Yes, sort of.) Isn’t walking totally natural? Yes—but shoes aren’t.

“Natural gait is biomechanically impossible for any shoe-wearing person,” wrote Dr. William A. Rossi in a 1999 article in Podiatry Management. “It took 4 million years to develop our unique human foot and our consequent distinctive form of gait, a remarkable feat of bioengineering. Yet, in only a few thousand years, and with one carelessly designed instrument, our shoes, we have warped the pure anatomical form of human gait, obstructing its engineering efficiency, afflicting it with strains and stresses and denying it its natural grace of form and ease of movement head to foot.” In other words: Feet good. Shoes bad..."

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Rocks.

Overheard Roundup... man, I've gotta catch up on my interneting'.

And Never Ride the Subway

Cute nerd girl playing Scrabble #1: How many Ts in frottage?
Cute nerd girl playing Scrabble #2: Frottage? What's that?
Cute nerd girl playing Scrabble #1: It's when you rub against someone in a crowd, sexually. Like dry humping.
Cute nerd girl playing Scrabble #2: Oh yeeeeah, I knew that. Jeez, I haven't heard that word since that Psychology of Sex class I took a few years ago.
Cute nerd girl playing Scrabble #1, enthusiastically: That's because you don't read enough slash!

--Starbucks, 2nd & 9th
via Overheard in New York, Apr 25, 2008

They Pull You in With Candy --Then, Bam, You're a Sinner!

Little girl: Daddy, daddy, will you buy me some Easter candy?
Father: No, sweetheart. We don't celebrate Easter--we're Jewish.
Little girl: But mommy buys me Easter candy!
Father: It's not my fault your mother has abandoned her principles.

--Times Square
via Overheard in New York, Apr 27, 2008

3PM "The Strong Man Is Mightiest Alone," He Said

Engineer during meeting: So I tried to ask Hitler yesterday, but he was no help.

Senlac Drive
Dallas, Texas

Overheard by: hope he doesn't know I'm jewish...
via Overheard in the Office, Apr 25, 2008

Isn't That Sweet?

[Skinny girl takes box of equal out of her pocket and puts half the packages in her coffee.]
Friend: What are you doing? You're going to get cancer!
Equal girl: Yeah, but I won't get fat.

--Starbucks
via Overheard in New York, Apr 25, 2008

I Miss This

Chick: Since we broke up you've been smoking a lot.
Guy: Yeah...
Chick: You shouldn't smoke.
Guy: You shouldn't suck so much dick but you don't hear me criticize you five times a day.
Chick: [Mouth wide open in shock.]
Guy: To start you should try closing your mouth!

--B Train

Overheard by: another now single smoker
via Overheard in New York, Apr 25, 2008

Training 20-21.

Saturday
PT
30m Rutten MMA/Thai Boxing/10-2m rounds
Working out first thing in the AM sucks.

Food
Cup coffee w/milk, equal
500ml diet soda
Bachan's breakfast - 2 eggs, sausage, pasta salad, fish
Iced cafe au lait
Steakburger
Almonds
Sushi
Sashimi
Triple burger - egg, bacon, cheese
1.5L water

Bed @2230

Sunday
No PT

Food
Bachan's breakfast - 2 eggs, sausage, rice
500ml water
500ml milk tea
5 slices pizza w/ranch
990ml diet soda

Bed @2300

Training 18-19.

Thurs
PT
9 2m-rounds Rutten MMA/Thai Boxing. Absolutely horrible wkout. Lethargic, slow... blah, blah, blah. Better than nothing. But barely.

Food
2cups coffee w/equal, cream
Shake - 2 eggs, peanut butter, cream, equal
2 salami sticks, pack of jerky, 4 chs snacks
500g pork chops
2L water
500ml diet soda

Bed@2330. No med.

Friday
PT
DB front squat - 25x10/10, 35x5, 40x5, 45x5/5/5
DB press - 15x10, 25x10, 35x5/5/5/5/5
Single leg DL - 10x10, 15x10, 30x5, 35x5/5, 40x5/5
Seated dips - 20/11/9
Shoulder dislocations - 25
Pushup/chins/shrugs - 1 set max
Neck nods - 40


Food
Cup of coffee w/equal, cream
1L shake - 4 eggs, peanut butter, inst coffee, cream, water
2.5L water
Cup of coffee w/equal
1 oz almonds
Subway BLT salad + 6oz tuna, black olives, ranch, cheese


Bed@2350+20m guided med.

Cindi?

Typhoid Mary Was Also an Avid Bowler

Woman at table dining with friend: I mean, I love infectious diseases, don't get me wrong, but that's not my life.

Red Restaurant
Nashville, Tennessee

Overheard by: kyndgrrl

via Overheard Everywhere, Apr 25, 2008

Fair warning, you dirty Gaijin.

Fake Police May be Casing Foreigners, Stealing Identities | Japan Probe:

"If you are a foreigner in Japan, you may want to take a good look at the officer the next time you are asked to show your ID, especially if at your own home. I just caught this story at a online blog community called Expats Japan... the poster tells of a suspicious cop who came to her home and asked for personal information. She later called the local police and sure enough, they knew of no such information collecting activities being performed by their own officers. They offered the following advice:

1) the police department usually sends officers out in pairs, not alone, to someone’s door
2) if the police want to collect personal info, they will tell you explicitly what it’s for (and this would be a very rare case). if language is an issue, they would encourage you to call a japanese speaking friend or would just leave and return later with an (insert your language here) speaker
3) police officers will always show clear IDs, and you can copy down their ID numbers for your records
4) police officers who come to your door will always be wearing large badges, also with ID numbers
5) and of course the usual….always keep your door locked, hide your valuables, don’t answer the door to anyone you don't know..."

At least.

4PM The Workshop Required Them All to Crochet "Fags Is the Best Girlfriends" on Little Pillows

Black female coworker: Oooh, honey, I love me some fags. Fags is the best girlfriends.
White queer coworker: That's 'cause we all want to be black women!
White female coworker: Can the rest of us get workplace diversity hours for listening to this shit?

Columbus, Ohio

Overheard by: Giggling in my cube

via Overheard in the Office, Apr 24, 2008

Another fine product of a Naval Academy education.

Tony Zirkle attended USNA, according to his "About" page here - About - from 1988 to 1990 [where he did very, very well, he'll have you know] before being medically discharged. He then, apparently, went on to get his law degree, and is now running for Congress in Indiana...

Crooks and Liars » GOP Candidate Tony Zirkle Wishes Adolf a Happy Birthday:

"On Sunday, Tony Zirkle, a Republican candidate for Indiana’s 2nd District, took time out from saving the economy by shredding vintage Playboys (of course!) so he could attend a 119th birthday celebration for Adolf Hitler. He claims he was only there to talk about his experience as a state’s attorney in Indiana, his wacky theories about pornography, and to preach the gospel, so of course his being there had absolutely nothing to do with his segregation plan that would allow blacks to “have six states, so instead of having one half-black senator, well they would have 12.”"

...the guy is thoroughly obsessed with other people's sex lives, too. Seriously, read some of his "position papers"... I defy you to get through them and not come away wondering just what incredibly large skeletons dude has in his closet. You know, besides Nazis. So very, very wrong in so many, many ways. The mind reels.

Let's all welcome Japan to the 1980s, shall we?

You keep it up and you'll hit the 21st century in no time.

NHK ventures into the closet for first time with program on homosexuality - Mainichi Daily News:

"Coverage of homosexuality by Japan's notoriously squeaky clean, hyper-conservative public broadcaster NHK has so far been as hard to find as a G-spot, but the taxpayer-funded network is finally coming out of the closet, according to Shukan Shincho (4/24).

NHK's Education Channel program 'Haato wo Tsunago (Let's Connect Hearts)' will screen a program on homosexuality on April 28 and 29, continuing its trend since hitting the air two years ago of taking on controversial topics like child abuse, learning disabilities and hikikomori recluses."

Smoke, mirrors and prison.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > The Long and the Short of Prison Sentences:

"New York Times legal writer Adam Liptak digs a little deeper into the story of America's astonishingly high incarceration rate and finds that the main explanation is longer sentences, as opposed to more frequent sentences or a higher crime rate:

People who commit nonviolent crimes in the rest of the world are less likely to receive prison time and certainly less likely to receive long sentences. The United States is, for instance, the only advanced country that incarcerates people for minor property crimes like passing bad checks...

Efforts to combat illegal drugs play a major role in explaining long prison sentences in the United States as well. In 1980, there were about 40,000 people in American jails and prisons for drug crimes. These days, there are almost 500,000.

Those figures have drawn contempt from European critics. 'The U.S. pursues the war on drugs with an ignorant fanaticism,' said [prison researcher Vivien] Stern of King's College...."

Well, I know how to spell Kropotkin... does that count?

Go Back to Williamsburg, Wednesday One-Liner!

Hipster: It was a mess. I mean, you don't want anarchists at the socialist barbecue. Haven't you ever read Kropotkin?

--125th St

Overheard by: Ali


via Overheard in New York, Apr 23, 2008

Ah, relationships.

Slylock Fox's Puzzle: How Many Things Are Wrong with This Conversation?

Thug sitting in traffic yelling into cell: I moved you and the goddamn kids out here! I robbed muthafuckas for you! I'm facing five to ten goddamn years for you, and I can't even get a goddamn thank you?! Bitch, you drunk?!

Highway
Orlando, Florida

Overheard by: scaredspectator

via Overheard Everywhere, Apr 23, 2008

Why I steal stuff.

Just kidding. I still buy most of my music on CD. I steal other stuff for other reasons. And DRM always sucks. Don't buy anything with it. For the record, once again, your archaic and outdated business model is not my problem. Welcome to the 21st century.

DRM's final insult - Boing Boing Gadgets:

"DRM is dead. And just like every activist, pirate and skeptic ever warned you, all the DRM-laden songs you bought will join it in the grave. Cory over at the motherboing notes that Microsoft is to close its 'license server' for good, making it so DRM tracks are useless on any computer other than the one they were originally downloaded to.

They're nuking customers' music collections from orbit, an expression of spite on a cosmic scale. It's unimaginably bad form, but you know what? If you're affected by this, you're getting exactly what you paid for."

Oh politics, when will you stop with the ice pick to my soul?

Balloon Juice:

"Hillary’s campaign now seems to boil down to her playing the role of Lucy, with little more than catcalls that Obama “can not close the deal.” “Sure,” she seems to say, “he has kicked my ass in every measurable metric this campaign, but why, oh why can he just not finish me off? Clearly that means you should make me the nominee.”"

Reducing/trying to wean oneself off of caffeine = serious ass dragging.

I'm an addict. That is all.

*Update* - tasty cola beverages = nirvana. Also, the world comes back into focus.

Training 17.

PT
Half assed my way through my workout, despite lethargy and soreness. But that's better than no wkout at all.
Single arm DB snatch - 20x20, 45x6, 52.5x6
Single row - 52.5x10x3
P-ups - 12/8/6
Press - 35x18, 40x10, 50x7
SLDL - 50x10, 60x10, 70x10
Neck nods - 50x
Spine board - 50 count

Food
2 cups of coffee w/equal and cream
Shake - 3 eggs, cream, coffee, water, equal
4 salami sticks, sausage
500ml diet soda
150g beef
Shake - 3 eggs, PB, equal, cream, water
2L water

Bed@2310+20m meditation

Sobering realization of the day - It's been a year since I've done any kind of scheduled, regular PT [excepting the last two weeks.] It's been about 5 years since I've been in any kind of passable shape. And it's been almost 10 since I've been in any kind of ass-kicking condition. 10 years? Jesus. So, when after 2 weeks, I've not transformed into Bruce Lee/Stallone/Arnold, I should probably bear in mind the reality that's escaped me the last 5 years or so.