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Entries from May 2005

David Banach, Eat Your Heart Out; Just Don’t Eat Pizza Hut

May 27th, 2005 · 32 Comments

Towards the end of January, INeedAttention.com carried an article about Pizza Hut and how ridiculously overpriced they were. I hadn’t been back since, until last night – though you may curious as to why I decided to return, first, I’d rather discuss the circumstances around another incident that happened in January.
David Banach, 38, lived […]

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Tags: Scary Stuff

The Pathetic Fallacy is My Normalcy

May 25th, 2005 · No Comments

English critic John Ruskin coined the term ‘pathetic fallacy’ to describe the way in which nature reflected the events in a piece of writing. For example, dark clouds are overbearing and bring bad fortune with them. Today was no exception to this rule.
Work was fine, although I apparently left my lights on in […]

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Tags: Scary Stuff

Doing It & Doing It & Doing It & So On

May 25th, 2005 · No Comments

After yesterday, I was surprised at how good I felt today. I got to sleep in by an extra half hour, which I realized, is neither a burden nor a boon. I’m still on the fence as to whether traffic is lighter when commuting for an 8:30 AM or 9 AM shift. […]

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Tags: My Thoughts

Determination and Immunoassay Quantization

May 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

When I arrived home from school last week, I was determined to do two things. The first was to be able to completely run around Rockland Lake (a three mile loop) by the end of May. The next was to pass my pre-employment drug screening.
At first, the former seemed like a loftier goal […]

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Tags: My Thoughts · Police, Law, & Justice

Can’t We All Just Get Along? A Treatise on Cooperation on our Roadways

May 22nd, 2005 · No Comments

I haven’t posted on Fark, or my own website for that matter, in quite a while. I figured that since threads about driving and highway design are some of my favorite that I’d throw in what I know.
In states where there is no explicit “keep right” law, it boils down to common courtesy, as […]

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Tags: My Thoughts