OK, I know it’s old

April 14, 2003

OK, I know it’s old news by now, and I’m not a smoker anyway, but dammit, the “2002 New York City Smoke-Free Air Act” is pissing me off. It’s a public health hazard to allow people to smoke in bars? Why not get rid of all the alcohol in bars too? Studies have shown that alcohol use is linked to delinquency, unprotected sex, boorish behavior, and public urination and/or vomiting, after all. It’s not as if removing cigarette smoke from NYC’s air will even make it worth breathing; what with all the trash, cars, sewers, buses, subways, hippies, and other sources of noxious fumes, there are days when the smog is so bad you can’t see the Chrysler building from Hoboken.

“Career bartenders” and other such people allegedly complained heavily, and for years, about the allegedly ungodly work environments they had to put up with. I hate to say it, but that’s an occupational hazard that comes with the territory, guys. Nobody held a gun to your head and forced you to serve drinks in a bar, for Christ’s sake. Don’t run to the fucking government crying about a risk inherent in your career path; if a bar owner wants to make his bar smoke-free that’s one thing, but instituting quality-of-life legislation so that smokers can’t smoke near you is unreasonable.

There are plenty of jobs in NYC that are free of cigarette smoke. Bartending is now apparently one of them. There are also plenty of jobs where you get no tips from customers. Bartending is now one of those as well, since when smokers are made to feel unwelcome in bars they end up staying home and drinking and smoking freely in their apartments, wondering where the hell the strip clubs in Times Square went. Well, bartenders, you got your smoke-free workplaces by managing to greatly reduce demand for the services you provide. Funny how that works.

UPDATE — I apologize for not thinking about how this law would affect bouncers, especially since those effects are fatal. It looks like smokers who decide to go to bars anyway, and can’t smoke, become very very irritable. I’d have never guessed…

Saturday night with nerds, pizza,

April 13, 2003

Saturday night with nerds, pizza, and D&D: does life get any better? It certainly does, when you spiff the hell out of your blog comment mode. Yess… the style of this blog is steadily improving. Mexcellent!

Ah, life is good. I’m

April 12, 2003

Ah, life is good. I’m finally out of the stone age; I gots me a cell. Not only that, but I gots me a cell with the Ghostbusters theme as a ringtone… Alright!

Well, it appears that tonight

April 11, 2003

Well, it appears that tonight will be spent chez Paul, with a motley crue of friends and acquaintances (including such notables as Asshole, the drinking game). Hooray for science!

Also hooray for progress, like the progress of this shitty blog which now has comments enabled. I’ll have something meaningful on here eventually, I promise…

Note to self: Ten beers

April 11, 2003

Note to self: Ten beers on Wednesday night = sleep through Grossman on Thursday.

Herr Kurrik was in town today, and we discovered that the bar in the Eesti Maja isn’t open at 4 PM for some reason.

I started playing FF Tactics again, this time with the restriction that all my characters are thieves and will remain so for the entirety of the game. Plus they can only use thief abilities. It’s pretty fun (and looks gorgeous thanks to the magic of ePSXe) and plays quite differently from a regular game.

Tomorrow I’ll be sending in résumés and cover letters for a bunch of NYC internships; hopefully one or more application will be successful so I can be making a cool 3 Benjamins a week this summer.

Ugh, writing résumé cover letters

April 8, 2003

Ugh, writing résumé cover letters is such a damn pain in the ass. So is handing in labs when the prelim for the lab is in the apartment of some of your Korean partners, and you have no choice but to hand in a faulty final report. ::sigh::

Well, I spent more time than I should have redoing the layout of this crappy blog; it’s not near done yet but at least now it’s slightly niftier. Bits of it are still pissing me off, but at least I can get a nice chuckle from the random FFTactics messages that are presented in all their incoherent glory.

Stuff that happened today (yesterday?)…

April 8, 2003

Stuff that happened today (yesterday?)…

Heat Transfer exam, for which I studied not at all. Got it graded that same period, since our hippie professor doesn’t like giving exams and, instead, has the most insane system ever. Before an exam, the class is split randomly into a few groups, each of which writes an exam and hands it in. Then when the exam period rolls around, each group is given copies of another group’s exam, which they then proceed to take. Groups grade the exams they wrote, most everybody gets an awesome grade, and everybody’s happy, if slightly bewildered.

Since I have no credit history and don’t want to pay a $400 security deposit, no cellphone for me for the moment. Will rectify somehow.

Saw school’s play: Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin. Funnier than I anticipated, plus simply a better play than I anticipated. Not to mention better acting, A/V, and stage than I anticipated… All in all, worth the price of admission ($0). A bargain at twice the price!

Trigger Happy TV is the funniest show ever. I’ve seen a lot of shitty hidden-camera TV shows in my day, and I’m happy to say that this hidden-camera TV show isn’t shitty in the least. The stuff they do is genuinely funny (often hysterical), occasionally thought-provoking, and always well-executed. Plus there’s no downtime, it’s just one gag after another; it’s the comedy equivalent of an all-cumshot porno.

So there you have it; A-B-C-D-P-G-C.

Well, here I have it:

April 7, 2003

Well, here I have it: the useless beginning to a craptacular blog. Today it really doesn’t feel like spring, considering the thick blanket of snow on the ground and the fact that more is falling as we speak (metaphorically).

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