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Fontana is a giant scrap heap of a town

The classic car show I went to with pbd today was fun. Lots of cool old cars maintained by cool old guys with gray ponytails & beards. It was 100,000,000 degrees. I drank three bottles of water at $3 apiece. The kids who work at the In-n-Out burger in hellish Fontana, CA are the best organized people in town and will not be in Fontana in five years.

There were lots of Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers at the car show. Also lots of the scary big tall fat guys with shaved heads and blade sunglasses who have the muscle on the back of the head that constantly flexes.

pbd and I noted a couple as we left. They were both about 19 or 20. He had a shirt that said “PIMPIT”. They had a baby. I guess he pimped it all right. I wanted her to have a shirt that said “YOU BREAK IT YOU BOUGHT IT”. Dave suggested we start a company selling both shirts and call it “Cause ‘n’ Effect”.

I walked a lot. I bet I lost 40-200 lbs.

Something I learned today

This week I have learned some things!

I learned that when people no longer understand the code written at your job it is a bad thing.

I learned that the guy jonpants was talking about is not a myth and does really exist and did eat 3 pounds of sour cream all at once and tell people about his anal leakage and oral herpes and it’s all true, just like they said, and HOLY GOD HOMPH HOMPH

I learned that I shouldn’t pretend that I can deal with someone socially when I can’t; I should just say it isn’t working and even be rude! In person! Instead of just being pleasant and burning up inside.

I learned that an “asterism” is a perceived object in the stars that isn’t one of the true constellations but is named and known, like the Big Dipper.

I learned once again that my negative perceptions of my life are unfortunately almost always correct. But just almost always.

I learned that the cat can pop the screen out when she wants to go kill another cat outside.

irc funnies

<fimmtiu> Oh, great. A new unpublished Heinlen novel unearthed.
<zebulon_y> haha
<fimmtiu> Who wants to bet that the synchronized wanking of Libertarian fanboys as they read will put a new wobble in the Earth’s rotation?
<ignatz> I hope it’s a socialist fable about the virtues of celibacy and high taxation.
<zebulon_y> Lazarus Long Tells You About All-Private Government Services From Under A Pile of Redhead Teenagers

Lyrics du jour

Friends warehouse pain
Attack their own kind
A thousand kids bury their parents
There’s laughing outside
We’re locked outside the public eye

Some smooth chords
On the car radio
No hard chords
On the car radio

We set the trash on fire
And watch outside the door
Men come up the pavement
Under the marquee
There’s laughing inside
We’re locked outside the public eye