Epiphany #12007

I am not sure i like people enough to live in the city.

Posted by: The Mgt on 7/30/2007 1:31:01 PM , 4 comments

Random While Traveling

Last minute meeting scheduling and weird ass hotel booking issues in the greater Philadelphia area and i have gotten to spend a lot of time in the car and on the train this week (translation - spending every other night in phili this week, since i couldnt get consecutive hotel nights in a hotel near my client meetings on Tues and Thurs).  Woot the glamorous life of a business consultant.  The following is muy importante and true, inasmuch as anything able to reach the forefront of my mind while traveling must be (e.g., itz gotta get past all those other thoughts like "what time is my train?" and "did i pack another pair of clean underwear?"):

• On 33rd between 6th and 7th Aves there is a very funky looking adult arcade (aka "PeepWORLD")... the most disturbing thing is that they have the words "New Booths" flashing in neon in the front window...  i would believe they were new if it wasn't in neon.  I mean neon is expensive and fairly permanent.  Shit it could be (and looks like it is) years old!  New my ass.  Doesn't this bother any of the wankers?
• If Schuylkill Avenue is backed up b/c of an accident (and 50% of the time it is), it really does make sense to go all the way to delaware to get to a clear road.
• People talking loudly on cell phones in public are annoying.  People on cell phones on trains are even more annoying.
• North Phili still has the best graffiti anywhere on the northeastern corridor.
• I have tested and verified that my new 2K USD mattress IS nicer the hotel's.

Posted by: The Mgt on 7/25/2007 8:39:59 PM , 4 comments

Living Dead Data Points

I don't know exactly when, and I don't know exactly how, but i am certain that the mass of zombie facts i have been accumulating will be critical to my survival someday.  Because, whether you admit it or not, you and i both know that the zombie outbreak will happen at some point, and likely in our lifetimes.  And when all those hungry decedents are shuffling through your living room, you'll be damn glad you know the zombie food pyramid:

(ripped from Stacie Ponder)

Unfortunately, as you see above, brains are not the only appetizing aspect you present to a zombie - most of your other organs are also integral to the balanced zombie diet, plus some connective tissue (gristle) so keep your head, hands and feet out of zombie snagging range.  Other key elements of Zombie Biology are merely informative, but interesting none-the-less - such as the fact the zombies can't see or hear for shit, especially after they've been dead a couple weeks, but they can smell a live human from several miles away.  If the ins and outs of zombie sociology/etc aren't as interesting to you as "how do i kill them" or "what should i do (or not do) during a zombie outbreak" then Zombie Philes is a fairly user-friendly source of such information.

Itz really sad that of all the undead, zombies get tagged as the grossest.  Although itz probably true that they are.  I mean they are putrefied.  So i think it is in response to the hyper-sexualization of their vampire cousins that someone started zombie pinups.

Now on an essential level, whether or not you are capable of believing in the existence of zombies pretty much indicates which side you take on the dualism / monism argument.  I just want to clarify that i don't necessarily believe in a soul, so much as the potential of some pretty wikkid matrix-like aggregate neurophysical processes.

Posted by: The Mgt on 7/16/2007 4:47:10 PM , 0 comments

Great Yummy Old Ones

That is not dead which can eternal lie, but with a bit of lemon juice, olive oil, and kalamata olives, even death may die...

Posted by: The Mgt on 7/2/2007 12:44:21 PM , 2 comments