So I was on my way home from work today. I got on the bus and set my jacket and bag down on a seat while reaching into my pocket to get some change to pay the fare. While getting the necessary dollar and quarter, I look at the seat next to my bag, and what should I see, but a bus transfer. For today. Good until 8pm. If I just took it, and pretended I had just pulled it out of my bag or something, I wouldn’t have to pay and would get a free ride!
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New Section!!!
April 9, 2006That’s right. On this Palm Sunday, the Fortress has opened up yet another wing for the enjoyment of, well, whoever is just that bored. I have called it Lore Galore!. This fifth open section right now has only one thing: The Story of Easter, originally told last year on the NYRA forums and now reproduced here. Wondering what we’ll be celebrating next Sunday? Go read. Now! :doitnow:
There’s also a Story of Christmas that I wrote a few months ago as well. When will it be up? Christmastime, duh! So wait another seven or eight months. Or just go find where I originally posted it on the NYRA forums. Whatever.
Replying to Dean
April 8, 2006As time goes by, old entries fall out of date. They fall out of the main page and wind up stuck in some archives. They’re still there for you folks to enjoy, and comments are still open for old posts. Why not? I’ll see new comments no matter how old the original entry might be. Some stuff is so good it outlasts time and deserves some comments later on. Trouble is, no one would really see it. Shame. Could get some good comments, even if from someone who doesn’t entirely agree. Like this one! From a guy named Dean, responding to my old Teen Driving Fallacies entry from January. I think Dean merits not only a rather nice response but a separate new entry for it even. Enjoy!
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Youth Shouldn’t Be Equal?
April 6, 2006I’m probably grossly taking this guy’s comment the wrong way, but either way, I’m tired, so it got me going. On a message board I frequent, this guy talked about stuff that annoys him at the movie theatre. Light hearted enough, as his posts usually are. Among his complaints, however, was a remark about how parents let their kids run wild in public and don’t discipline them for it or, get this, how they mistakenly believe this “psychobabble” that children have as many rights as anyone else. That was all I needed to hear.
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Bandits!
April 2, 2006Oh, my! The Fortress was a bit overrun with bandits or something for the past day or so. Why, they flipped the whole place upside down! What a mess to clean up. Those rascals.
Well, except for the Cross on the main page.
Gross, Dude!
March 27, 2006I don’t do drugs. Let me just mention that right off the bat. I don’t need to do drugs. I’m quite loopy on my own under the influence of, well, nothing. However, I’m not about to condemn people who do. Well, the harmless ones like marijuana anyway. People who shoot up heroin and snort cocaine or whatever are just plain stupid.
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Or, as I call it, Exploitation Theatre
March 25, 2006And now, yet another intrusive, chuckles-at-others’-expense round of…
YOU SUCK!!!!
I grant this to the abomination that has plagued television screens for a long time now, and seeing as television screens bear a lot of abominations as it is, this is saying something. This one in particular bears an ironic name. It is called… America’s Funniest Videos.
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What’s the Point?
March 24, 2006Why do so many blogs have “Recent Posts” on their sidebars? It’s redundant. In like every case, every one of the posts in that list is right there on the blog mainpage still. Just uses up sidebar space that could be better used for something else. Want to know recent posts? Oh, I don’t know. Scroll down perhaps? 🙄
What? That’s it. If you wanted a longer rant, tough shit, dumbass.
Catastrophe!
March 23, 2006A couple of days ago, we were sort of expecting snow. Cool. Go read my Snow Rules rant to know more about how I feel about that.
Anyway, I should perhaps have reread the rant myself, as every year I am actually surprised at how the media react to even the remote possibility of snow. Even if the situation is like it was in this case. We had just gotten out of a week of 80 degree weather. On the day in question, the temperature was not supposed to drop below 35. Yet, the news had this to say.
“People are rushing out to the stores to get milk, bread, and toilet paper!”
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Taxing Tax Thought
March 19, 2006People don’t like taxes. Taxes are necessary, though. Sure, there’s a lot of stuff various people will tell you our tax dollars should not be spent on. Whatever. Locally, we need taxes to fund police, fire department, roads, schools, hospitals, libraries, and a whole myriad of other stuff we’re quite glad to have and wouldn’t want to do without.
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