Posted in The Meditations on May 25th, 2007 5 Comments »
So, I’m at the gym, and there are two older people working out near me. One says, “Well, hell, I used to leave the windows open all the time, but it was the 70’s — it wasn’t dangerous like today.”
“Morons,” I said, immediately up in their grills, “in the early 70s there were less [...]
Posted in The Meditations on May 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
I learned an important lesson about happiness from a despotic leader who was considering having me gunned down in the warm African night.
See, most people who visit Africa (And I mean the real Africa, not the tour that picks you up at the airport in Nairobi and whisks you out to see the lions.) go [...]
Posted in The Meditations on May 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
A few times each year, I go to a casino to gamble for my dinner. Here’s how it works: I wander past the All-You-Care-To-Eat Balinese buffet and note the price. Then I go to the cash machine and get 20 times that amount. Let’s assume for the moment that a meal costs [...]
Posted in The Meditations on May 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
Imagine that as you as you exit the subway, there is an unshaven man with dice on a cardboard box.
“Arrr, put down a dollar, pick a number and roll a die,” he says. (Did I mention that he is a pirate?) “If you roll the number you picked, you get your dollar [...]