Inside The Perimeter

Oh, I didn’t lose; just the opposite. I won a few bucks last night. However, I did get home at 12:45am causing me to sleep later than normal, which in turn means that this is being published later than normal…

I Thought Marta Was Da Bomb
Today I took the Doraville train from Five Points to the Lindbergh. Normally, I’d let the Doraville train pass and wait for the North Springs train and ride it all the way to Dunwoody. Since I seemed to be the only one without a jacket (I missed the cold weather memo) I thought I should really be different today.

My experimentation almost really paid off when I saw a guy waiving his arm and the Marta police running toward him. The three men stopped at a cluster of luggage. They looked at the luggage for a minute, the non-police participant walked away, and the police took the luggage. For a second I thought (and maybe so did they) that Marta was having a bomb scare.

“Are” R.I.P
What did the word “are” do to people? Why do people feel that “is” should be used even when the subject is plural? I just don’t understand.

Don’t believe me? Listen to people and you will notice that they say things like “There’s two ways of doing this.”

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - I think that I am depressed
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing The Ravonettes — “My Boyfriend’s Back” (holy crap I hate that song)
Website Of The Day - My English is not perfect, that’s why I cannot live without Dictionary.com.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - nothing

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

The other day sitting in the Vortex in L5P somebody played a lot of Bon Jovi on the jukebox. I knew every song the person played. Yes, I am forty. Yes, I listened (and still own) much of the Bon Jovi catalog. Yes, I still like it.

On A Wing And A Prayer
Don’t ask me why, but last night I was bound and determined to make my first attempt at cooking chicken wings. I think it is because I am tired of paying a lot of money for wings at restaurants. So determined was I that I skipped my usual Monday night activity, team trivia.

Much to my surprise, it is amazingly easy to do (as well as being a lot cheaper)! I may never pay for wings again. Along with the wings I served myself some french fried (fried in a different vessel) seasoned with Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning and some quality bleu cheese dressing.

You betch your ass I’ll be doing this again in the future!

Marta Material
Oh thank you Marta for saving my blogging ass again! You provide me with so much material…

Seen on Marta (again): A woman clipping her nails in the train. Fucking Yuck! Again people, personal hygene such as this should be performed at home.

Seen at the Dunwoody Marta station: Imagine the flow of people getting off a long Marta train on their morning commute. Imagine this flow of people going down stairs which are cut into three section. Now imaging a woman stopping in the middle of the stairwell so that she can answer her cellphone. It boggles my mind how people can be so inconsiderate and/or clueless.

Live On CD!
Tis the season for releasing live cds I guess. If the new Wilco double-set has been released (there was talk that it was to be scrapped), then four out of today’s seven new releases are live, or live-in-studio.

Of the new releases only the Wilco cd or the Bright Eyes cd interest me. However having said that, I am not a real fan of live cds so I will most likely pass on today’s offerings.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - meh
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing The American Analog Set — “The Green Green Grass”
Website Of The Day - Movies made using muffins as actors? Yes, but only at Muffin Films.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - nothing but a short walk on Saturday

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Apparently I don’t have a pen in my car any longer. This became apparent when I went to sign a card that I was going to give my friends on Saturday night. They recieved a blank card; and cash (thankfully I hadn’t planned on writing them a check — a blank check could have cost me a lot).

I’m The Newest Member Of The ‘Steve Spurrier Hate Club’
For years I snickered when people told me that they hated Steve Spurrier. As a fan of the University of Florida (as well as an alumnus) I knew that they hated him because he helped produce a winning team.

After Florida’s loss to South Carolina (Spurrier’s current employer) I too now hate Steve Spurrier.

Weight, Weight, Don’t Tell Me
I didn’t think that I could possibly be getting fatter, but I believe that I am. Rats! That is such a horrible realization to have this close to the holidays.

Packing Heat
Hmm, it looks like that Brett Favre feller still has some game in him. Along with pushing the New York Jets one game closer to the first pick of next year’s draft, the Green Bay Packers somehow managed to come to Atlanta and beat the Falcons (a feat not accomplished by the aforementioned Jets).

I was jealous of the Packer Nation turnout. I had assumed that I would have the same number of brethren for the Jets game. I was wrong. I decided to hang with my hashing Packer friends and bought in on an expensive ticket/tailgating deal. If you get this opportunity, don’t bother. Oh, my friends were great, but the the “Falcon Experience”? Notsomuch. For my $140 I received a $60 ticket (which is in a section no better than my $35 season ticket), two drink tickets ($12 value), and food (hard to determine the value, but I will assume that it wasn’t worth $68).

Yesterday’s *cough* half-time show *cough* will go down in history as the Worst Half-Time Show EVER. The half-time show consisted of a fifteen minute long commericial for King Kong in the form of the “World’s Largest Lottery Ticket.” Fifteen people picking numbers from a hat, standing on the jumbo scratch off ticket, and then revealing their number to see which one of them won a trip to New York for the premier of King Kong. BORING!!!!

Do You Wahoo?
I finally got around to eating at Wahoo on Sunday morning. For those of you planning a Sunday breakfast, be forewarned that they open at 11am. We found this out when we arrived at 10am. To their credit, they opened the doors a little early to let us come in a sit inside (sometimes it helps having a woman very close to giving birth in your party).

Knowing that I was going to be getting food at the Falcons game I passed on the $15 buffet, and ordered the poached eggs with steak. While the eggs had been cooked a wee little bit too long, (almost to a soft-boiled state), the steak and hollandaise sauce were delicious. Our waitron Lindsay couldn’t have been nicer, nor more attentive. Good service is always welcome when I go out to eat.

Home Is Where The Heart Is
On The Internet Movie Database’s website they encourage you to make their site your homepage

Welcome to the Internet Movie Database, the biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet. Want to make IMDb your home page? Drag this link (ed: removed) onto your Home button.

Could someone explain to me why the fuck I would want to do this? They have a great website, but I doubt seriously that anyone would want to go there first off every time they get on the internet.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - chunky
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Primal Scream — “Loaded”
Website Of The Day - Go plan something in Atlanta! Atlanta PlanIt will help you.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - nothing but a short walk on Saturday

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

High Dee High Dee High Dee Ho
Ok Atlanta, it’s time to give credit where credit is due.

Last night my friend Stacey and I went to one of the High Museum’s Pre-Opening openings. Fantastic!

First, the Wyeth exhibit is worth the price of admission. Rarely do I see a collection of artwork that floors me, especially when it is from the same artist (btw- did you know that Andrew Wyeth is still alive?). It is an impressive display. I’ll even recommend getting the audio tour player because for a few of the paintings it adds a lot of insight (some are lame as well I must caution you).

Second, the new archictectural layout of the High is great. There is enough room to move about, they have a good area in which to hold Friday Jazz nights, and once the hype of the new restaurant Table 1280 dies down I am sure to be seen there for dinner.

I can only hope that the Georgia Aquarium is as impressive.

Who’s Pimpin’ Who?
A funny thing happened on the way to the museum, Stacey and I walked through some Brand Atlanta party. Had we been dressed up a little more we would have tried to crash the party. Eventhough we didn’t get that opportunity to party we were handed Brand Atlanta schwag bags on the way out of Woodruff. I may have knocked their logo and anthem (and will not change my attitude toward either), but I am not above wearing a free t-shirt or baseball cap.

Why I Love Fall. Why Can’t I Take Better Pictures?
Here are two pictures I’ve taken lately.

This picture was taken last Saturday in “Sloppy” Floyd State Park in Summerville.

This picture was taken this morning on my walk from the Dunwoody Marta station to my office. I am completely confused why the bottom half is so dark. Argh! Note to self: learn some photo editing software soon!

Invasion Of The Cheeseheads
The Green Bay Packers come knocking on our door this weekend, and I couldn’t be happier. Am I a Packers fan? No, not really, because I’ve confessed before that I am a Jets fan.

The reason I am happy is that with the Packers in town the Atlanta hash will be celebrating Cheddarhead style with hashing and bowling on Saturday. W00t! Hopefully there will also be some playing of music from the best polka band around, Brave Combo.

Sunday will be tailgating and football!

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - Fridayriffic!
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Grandaddy — “Pull The Curtains”
Website Of The Day - 25 Above Water has a cool gallery of (expensive) posters for sale. The purpose of this sale is to raise money for Katrina and Rita victims (Wilma sufferers be damned!).

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - nuttin’

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Sony Is A Royal Pain In The Ass
I really want to buy a Playstation Portable, but why should I reward a company that wilfully invades my computer with spyware? Recently Sony was found to be putting hidden software onto computers when some of their CDs were inserted into a Windows PCs. The Electronic Frontier Foundation had an article which describes the nightmare, along with a (partial) list of culprit Sony CDs.

Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
Horace Silver Quintet, Silver’s Blue (Epic Legacy)
Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia) (labeled as XCP, but, oddly, our disc had no protection)

Fuck! The only one on the list that I have purchased was The Dead 60s cd. It was a really good cd, but I don’t think it was that good.

Marta, Stumbling Toward Ecstasy
Marta has the slogan “If you had taken Marta, you’d be there by now.” I call bullshit! Yesterday’s commute from work to George’s Bar for my run took one hour, thirty five minutes! Twenty-five of those minutes were spent waiting for a southbound train to arrive at the Dunwoody Marta station.

My Growing Belly Has Killed My Drinking Legs
I cannot drink the way I used to at the end of a Wednesday night run. The constant reminder of stubborn belly fat (as one commercial put it) has made me conscious of my drinking habit. Even with a lovely pitcher of Sierra Nevada in front of me I only had two glasses of beer (oh and a burger and fries). I felt so much guilt that I went home early. The thought of attempting more exercise when I returned to the house was quickly banished by my sleepiness, so I watched a little telly and I was off to night-night land.

I’m Sure My Dentist Loves Me
Today is my semi-annual dental checkup. My teeth are bad, and in years past my attention to dental hygene detail was also bad. I pay (both literally and figuratively) for both of these these days. I am sure that something is not right with one of my old fillings and today’s checkup will only confirm this and produce the need for another visit. Damn, more money out the window…

High Times
Tonight I’ll be attending an opening gala for the High Museum. If you think about it, November is a big month for us in Atlanta. Not only will the expansion for the High open this month, but I think that the Georgia Aquarium is also scheduled to open.

For Those Of You Who Have Veteran’s Day Off
Fugoff! I of course to not have the day off, so there will be a regularly scheduled blog entry tomorrow. I’m sure that Marta will give me something to bitch about.

I dare say that I would march in a Veteran’s Day parade (like I did as a kid back in the old days) for the opportunity to take the day off from work.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - concerned
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Elbow — “Station Approach”
Website Of The Day - Go check out even more museums at the Museum of Online Museums.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - running, approximately 4.5 miles

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Yesterday was a boring day in the life of Paulie. I went to work, had to work until 8pm, had an hour-plus commute on Marta because it was in non-peak hours, ate a stick of cheese and drank a Cheerwine for dinner while I watched the World Series of Poker. Living like a rock star, baby!

Do One Thing And Do It Well
The other day I found out about a cool Firefox Extension that follows this motto well; it’s called Tab X. The one thing that “Tab X” does is add a Close button to each of the tabs in your Firefox screen. Brilliant!

I had to “unlearn” my technique of quickly bringing a tab to the forefront and pressing the close button to the far right, but I think that putting a close button on each tab is incredibly intuitive.

Commercial Confusion, Part 2
A while ago I blogged about that State Farm commercial, now I have questions about a McDonalds commercial.

In this commercial two employees, a guy and a girl are sitting at a table. The guy is distressed because some girl dumped him the night before. The girl seems pleased by this and tries to explain that girls are like McGriddles (yuck!). After eating his entire McGriddle she asks “What is your next move”, to which he replies “Get another McGriddle?” She seemed flummoxed with his response and tries to explain using his coffee.

What is the point? What was he supposed to answer? Was she hitting on him? And if so, would she be pleased by his answer about the McGriddle (to get another)?

Seriously, every day I live it becomes abundantly clear that I don’t understand women…

Here’s A Great Way To Save $20
Avoid the Playstation 2 game World Poker Tour like it’s the Avian Flu. Okay, perhaps that’s a bit harsh. If you enjoy watching your computer opponents play without any logic and checking all the time, then I say that this game is for you. I bought it with the hopes that I could improve my game; I was wrong.

Here is the best thing about this game

Shana Hiatt is on the cover.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - meh
Current Music - Engadget Podcast #49
Website Of The Day - In this age of “High Security” it’s hard for me that you can get so much information about flights in progress. Go to FlightAware to try it out for yourself and see what I mean.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - nothing

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Down
Up
Down
Up
That’s how it seemed to go yesterday…

J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets!
I know, they suck. However, I think I know two people who were especially sad with the outcome of Sunday’s Chargers v. Jets game, and I am not talking about the score. With one more whack to his head long-time, undersized, blue-collar Jets receiver Wayne Chrebet suffered another concussion, this one is likely to end his career.

I am one of the people saddened at this turn of events. For those of you who saw me at the Jets v. Falcons Monday night game a few weeks ago know that I proudly wore my replica Chrebet Jets jersey to the game to show support for my team. The other (I will assume) was the young lady at Twains who showed her Jets support by wearing her Chrebet Jets jersey to the bar on Sunday.

I Object!
Actually, I didn’t object at all. Yesterday was a fantastic day in the Courthouse on the square of Decatur for me. I sat in a large room with 300+ of my closest friends until around noon when the woman in charge said “The rest of you are dismissed and can go home.” That’s right, I never even made it to Round Two of juror selection. This may mean that my name can reappear on the list sooner, but maybe not. Who knows?

I only wish that I could have the same success when dealing with my dentist later this week. Sadly, I already know that I won’t.

How To Spoil A Perfect Day
I knew I didn’t want to run. However, I skipped Sunday, so I needed to run. The weather was perfect, so there was no reason not to run. So I attempted a run.

What a mistake.

One of the problems of living where I do is that there are few flat roads around me. Whether the elevation changes be gradual or steep, natural or artificially created, they are there and they make my running that much poorer. I think that I might also have to come to the realization that I will never run like I used to. Advancing age is probably the reason, but I cannot give up because once I do I might as well quit.

But There Can Be A Silver Lining
Completely dejected I returned home and decided to check email to see if there was any interest in going to see Pigeon John and Matisyahu at The Roxy last night.

While there was no email regarding the concert, there was one that lifted my spirits. It was from one of my long-time friends Suzanna with whom I have done a poor job of staying in touch and haven’t seen in far too long.

Multipurpose Marta Doors
Holy shit, sharpen those things up and they would make great guillotines! This morning I tried to go to one car past the bottom of the stairwell and of course there were people crowding the doors while the middle of the car was wide open. When I got halfway into the car the doors shut, slamming into my right shoulder (the left 2/3rds of my body was already in the car). I had to literally kick the door with my right foot to get the doors to reopen.

Another Dismal CD Tuesday
Yikes! Here is the list of people/bands that are releasing CDs today

• Bell Orchestre
• Kate Bush
• Kenny Chesney
• Comet Gain
• Neil Diamond
• Menomena

Hey RIAA at least you don’t have to worry about me stealing any of this crap, it’s not worth the hassle for me.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - behind
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Matt Pond PA — “Halloween” (hasn’t that already passed?)
Website Of The Day - Check out the Tiki Bar Vidcast. It’s weird, it’s funny, it’s worth checking out. I am sure it would look sweet on an iPod with video. If someone would like to buy me a 60GB model so I could try it out, I wouldn’t object.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - approximately 6.4 miles of running with too much walking

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Friday’s weather was perfect, so perfect in fact that I spent one of my precious paid days off from work and played hookey.

I’ve Got Mail
Whilst killing time on Friday I received a great email. The email was from an author from Bloomberg who alerted me that she had used my quote about the new Atlanta Theme song in an article. Here is an excerpt…

The song has a chorus of “I love the A-T-L, I love the A-
T-L,” and declares: “I love the A-T-L more than any other
place I’ve been around the world.”

The Atlanta-based blog site www.insidetheperimeter.com, run
by an Atlantan who goes by the name Paulie, chimed in with its
critique: “A is for awful, T is for terrible and L is for lousy.”

Oh, I couldn’t be more thrilled!

Tarrrghget
I like Target. As far as the Big Boxes go I find them to be pretty decent. However, on Friday they got me more than a bit pissed. A few months back I purchased an item which awarded me a $5 Target Gift card. Well, wouldn’t you know, that when I tried to use it on Friday it didn’t work. I explained to the cashiers that it should have $5 on it but I got a complete “nope, the system doesn’t recognize it, you lose” speech. I should have told them to go fuck themselves and credit back everything that I had just purchased, but didn’t. C’mon, if I was going to rip Target off, would I do it $5 at a time? I miss the days of hand-written gift cards.

One of the items in my cart was this.

Yes, it’s Jones Soda’s Limited Edition Holiday Pack for 2005, including the flavors Turkey & Gravy, Wild Herb Stuffing, Brussels Sprout, Cranberry and Pumpkin Pie. Yum!

Summerville In The Fall Is Still Summerlike
A friend of mine invited a bunch of people up to Summerville Georgia for a bonfire on Saturday night. It was so warm that a fire was unnecessary, but sitting around a fire drinking and eating is always welcome.

Before heading to his property I spent a little time relaxing in James H (Sloppy) Floyd State Park. For the most part it was quite peaceful, with the exception of one person who saw fit to drive through the park with their windows down blasting “Centerfold”, yes the J. Geils Band’s “Centerfold.”

Oy, That’s A Good Sandwich
Making it back to Atlanta too late to meet up with the Sunday running group I had to concentrate on one thing — corned beef.

On the first Sunday of the month Twains in Decatur hosts the New York Corned Beef Society of Atlanta. Like a salivating dog I sat in Twains watching the Falcons game on tv while the people prepared the corned beef and pastrami. While I may not have been the best corned beed sandwich I’ve ever eaten, it was well worth the money and will have me returning in the future. Their next meeting will be December 5th, and as their sign said, “come and put some JEW in your holiday season.” I concur.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - litigious
Current Music - none, I’m sitting in a courtroom
Website Of The Day - Jones Soda, their site contains a lot of funny stuff.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - approximately 5.8 miles of running on Friday; missed my run on Sunday

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Why Do You People Commute This Way?
Oh my God traffic in this town bites! I had to drive to work yesterday because of a mid-morning doctor’s appointment. It’s hard enough to find a doctor that accepts my insurance, nevermind finding one that’s near a Marta line. The commute home (or as near as home as I was heading) was excruciating. It could drive someone to drink.

Who Are The Chattooga County All Stars?
Why they are the trivia team I played with last night (I am such a trivia whore). The All Stars are my friend Bill’s team, who were gathered at Raging Burrito last night. Need I tell you that we kicked ass? No, I didn’t think I had to.

I Want Free Parking!

I pay enough to drive my car, why should I have to pay to park it as well?

Yesterday I had to pay to park at the doctor’s office. Look, I’m shelling out $25 for a co-pay, I’ll never know how much you’ll make for the ten minutes that it took to examine me, why won’t you validate my parking? This is ridiculous.

And then there is Decatur. I don’t think that I have ever found a space in Decatur’s two small metered lots. Every time I drive to Decatur I feel as if there should be ample (free) street parking, but there never is. I should have Marta’d to Decatur, but chose not to.

The Mall Is No Place For A Lonely Soul
While eating the most dismal Chinese food to ever pass my lips I realized that I should not hang out in malls. For me it’s like fishing in a pond where you can see the fish you want to catch just swimming around your hook, but they never seem to bite. It could drive someone to drink.

Has Anyone Ever Gotten Off TicketBastard’s Email List?
Over the years I have purchased tickets from them using three different email accounts. No matter how many times I “opt-out” from their email list, I still get their crap. Fuckers.

And There Is Still More Driving In My Future
My weekend is already packed solid. It’s packed so solid that I’ve convinced myself to take the day off from work today.

Saturday night I’ll be up near Summerville Georgia hanging with some friends. It should be a good time since the weather will be gorgeous and hopefully some of the color-changing leaves will be present. Do I have to tell you that drinking will be involved? No, I didn’t think I had to.

I plan to get back to Atlanta in time for a good long run Sunday morning followed by football watching and CORNED BEEF eating. Yes, I will finally be attending the New York Corned Beed Society of Atlanta meetup at Twain’s in Decatur. Yippee!!!!

Oh, And If You Don’t Hear From Me On Monday…
It’s either because

1. I’ve electricuted myself replacing a light socket
2. I’ve burned the house down by mis-wiring the light socket
3. I’ve been selected for a jury (I’ll be Marta’ing to Decatur)
4. I’ve been driven to drink

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - who’s taking the day off from work? I AM!
Current Music - Listening to a KEXP podcast (while I type this from bed)
Website Of The Day - I don’t think that big-assed corned beef sandwiches are on the Hacker’s Diet, but I could be wrong.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - day off

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Here’s A Tip For You Business Majors
If you are going to open a restaurant in an area that is densely populated with office buildings, open the fucking thing for lunch!

I am talking to you Outback Steakhouse. I am not even a big fan of yours, but if you opened at noon instead of 3pm you would have had a customer the other day. I’m just sayin’. Oh, and all those potential customers in cars around 5pm, they are trying to get home, not to your restaurant.

Tybee, A No Go For Moi
I had entertained thoughts of running next year’s Tybee Island Half Marathon. Those thoughts were quickly nixed when I realized that they have once again scheduled their race for the same weekend as the Super Bowl. C’mon folks, the Super Bowl date is published well in advance, couldn’t you find another weekend?

What Do You Mean That There’s A New Ratchet Game In Stores?
I’ve bought and finished “Ratchet and Clank”, “Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando” and “Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal”, you would think that I would have gotten the memo about the new release of “Ratchet: Deadlocked.” C’mon Insomniac Games, inform your public! Even in this financially stressful month I think that I can scrape together fifty for one of your games.

Hey Williams Street, Video To The iPod?
I surmise that on average every Atlantan knows 2.7 people who work for Turner. Since I am not one of them (their interactive division turned me down in 1996, but I’m not bitter), I’ll have to throw this suggestion out from afar.

You know what scales well to smaller screens and doesn’t require high bitrates for quality video? Cartoons. The last time I checked, Turner had a whole network of them things stored up in a division called Cartoon Network (those clever rapscallions).

I know, it must be a real hassle dealing with Apple, but if ABC (who is owned by Disney) can do it, I think you can too.

Perhaps I Could Call It My arrghPod?
This must be meant for the “dress your pet in costume crowd.” Yesterday I stumbled upon a website that sells costumes for your iPod! I shit you not, they can be found at iAttire. Here is a sample of their work

(note, this image is from their website; it is not a photo of my iPod)

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - fair
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Dungen — “Panda”
Website Of The Day - I can’t support the MPAA or the RIAA but I can support the work of these animation blogs ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive Blog and Cartoon Modern.

If you ever want a quick glance of the sites I’ve picked for my Websites Of The Day, you can check them out on del.icio.us, my user name is InsideThePerimeter (go figure), and they are all tagged as “blogged.”

Exercise (b)Log - approximately 5.5 miles of running

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]