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So we decide because it’s a nice night out we’d walk up to Subway for some deliciousness, but wow… what a bunch of assholes live in this tiny town. First of all, there’s the regular batch of dickheads such as the “Doctors” who live down the road who haul balls through the two closest intersections for no other reason than they’re the town doctors and can get away with it.

Then, some girl who’s no more than about 10 yards from a trash can decides to chuck a fountain drink in the street. The highlight of my day, my mom in law decides to yell out “you should pick that up, there’s  a trash can right there” and the girl actually went back and did it. It was awesome.

On the way there and back, no less than four different drivers were in such a hurry that they decide to begin turning while there’s still pedestrians in the crosswalk. Right of way be damned, Indiana rednecks got shit to do! “I gots to race home and beat my wife before my beer gets cold!”

Was Twitter: Man, there’s some assholes out tonight! On our way to/from subway, people almost running people over and shit, some girl littering for no reason…

Okay so my truck’s out of action for now, and my wife wanted some stuff from various grocery stores so we decided to catch a ride with Norm and Pam to Walmart and a few other places. Somewhere along the line, Sabs and Norm start arguing about video piracy, and about how it was wrong because it was driving the price of DVDs up.

Yes Norm, those DVDs you get for $5 in the bins at Walmart could be $4 if it weren’t for those assholes at Piratbyrån. Personally my feelings are that I don’t really buy DVDs, and I don’t really watch movies. Heck, I don’t even really watch TV. We probably go to the movie theaters about once a year, and we probably buy under 5 movies a year, usually around Christmas time. My wife downloads a few things here and there, but not much – and truth be told if all the illegitimate BitTorrent sites were to suddenly go down we probably just wouldn’t watch any of them.

The last DVD we bought? The Matrix – That also happens to be a movie I pirated about 5 years ago, and my wife also pirated The Simpsons Movie only to buy it on DVD for the kids a few months later. I’m sure it’s pretty obvious that pirate activity in our household has no effect on our movie purchasing behaviour… but oh no, Norm thinks it’s evil and because the fact that he spends at least $50 a month on movies and he could be saving 10% of that if only those nasty pirates would go away!

So as we’re leaving, he crunches into someone’s car in the parking lot, adding another dent to his truck like notches on some college prep’s belt. When my mother in law asked if he wasn’t going to stop and leave his number, he dismissed the idea. So hey, apparently it’s perfectly okay to go causing a couple hundred bucks to someone personally, as long as you don’t fuck a multi-million dollar industry out of a couple bucks while you’re doing it.

Was: Twitter: bump! so norm just hit someone’s car in the parking lot and isn’t gonna leave a number. but yet it’s morally wrong to download movies

Spoke too soon. my truck is sick again. Crawled the last me the way to bluffton at ~10MPH. Boo.

depenguinating a linux machine as i write this.

Well, judging by the fact that twitter-tools picked up two posts for the price of one, maybe it was? Oh and for the record, I was half-asleep and trying to put my ring on my “up yours” finger instead of the “ring finger”, the former of which has a slightly larger knuckle.

Kind of makes me glad I couldn’t get it on, because if I’d managed to, I damn sure wouldn’t have been able to get it off again.

was: “pr00f says twitter is broken, and i can’t get my ring on my finger again after karate. ;[” via Twitter.

pr00f says twitter is broken, and i can’t get my ring on my finger again after karate. ;[

Via Twitter.

I quickly haxed the Twitter-Tools plugin to show the link to the original tweet, because I have a habit of completely editing the posts to elaborate in my trademark long-winded fashion, thereby completely ruining the point of having the tweets on the blog to begin with.

Now it works out kind of neat – I can tweet about something neat while I’m out and about, and if I feel like it I can come home and elaborate on my blog, but still have it linked to the tweet. Nice.

Was: “test update ;D” via Twitter.

My poor truck. It’s really reliable, for being almost as old as I am, but it always seems to have something go wrong when I’m mean to it or neglectful to it. After our karate promotion, I forgot to warm it up so everyone climbed in the truck. It seemed to be running somewhat smooth, so we just went, a two minute trip home and then I shut it off – well if it doesn’t warm up completely, the plugs become fouled and then it won’t fire on those cylinders the next time we start it.

This in itself isn’t a problem in the summer, because I can just let it warm up and eventually those plugs will start firing again and it’ll run smooth before I go to drive it – but in the winter starting and keeping it running during warm-up becomes quite difficult if the plugs are fouled.

So this morning I cleaned the plugs off by hand, but now the battery’s dead from the cold, so it’s on charge right now.

Was: Twitter: My truck’s sick again. Boo. .

About to go try for my yellow belt in shoto-khan. Whee!

I’m redoing my entire audio collection because most of the CDs are ripped in AAC. Yuck.