Earlier today, I got behind a car in traffic, and I knew – without a doubt in my mind – that I would be driving behind a slooooooow moving vehicle. That got me to think about distinct visual cues that show you that you should just abandon hope, hit the brakes and get ready to poke around town. (more…)
Archive for May, 2009
Top 10 signs for "slow driver ahead"
May 27, 2009Things I don't have time for
May 21, 2009(Editor’s note: Yeah, I know… I ended the title with a preposition. So what… you wanna fight about it?)
The annual hoopla about American Idol – and my friends’ near-universal ranting and raving about who won and who didn’t – has gotten me on my annual rant. That’s right! My regularly-scheduled grumpy column. I’ve taken a pretty wicked swipe at AI before. Got a lot of hate comments after that one (some I couldn’t post).
Proust meets Montell Jordan
May 5, 2009This might be the weirdest blog post ever. Even for me. But, I was having a conversation with a loyal SMP reader who argued with me that “This is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan can’t be on a list of worst songs ever. He then went on to say that my Proust questionnaire made him laugh. So… we’re talking about Montell Jordan… and the Proust questionnaire… which led to the obvious question. What if you answered the survey using just the lines from “This is How We Do It.” (more…)
