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#4996 – been a while

i had a weird dream last night. it’s been a while since i’ve had a dream to post on here.

i dreamt that dad won the lottery and bought some big mansion, and he also got me a car that was kind of like a full-sized version of this one i got for christmas years ago:

he didn’t get me a VW rabbit, though. it was some really big boat of a car, but it was similar in design.

he also bought a huge mansion with his lottery winnings. for some reason i got two rooms to myself: one room with a giant hot tub (but it might as well have been a shower with all the shower-heads in it) and a private bedroom that was kind of like the rainforest portion of the baltimore aquarium.

anyway, i wanted to use my hot tub to relax in by myself, but people kept wanting to soak in it and i kept getting upset because they wouldn’t leave. somehow a big lizard got into the hot tub and ran about and scared people off, and i had to get someone to capture the lizard.

after that, i went off to my bedroom to go lay down and i saw two skunks walking around. i tried to stay as still as i could but then i had to move for some reason or another and the skunk tried to spray at me… but it wasn’t like how a skunk would usually spray… the skunk stood up and produced a cane out of nowhere and used the cane to spray at me, like a james bond villain might use a trick cane or something. so, had to call the exterminator again and he captured two skunks and some other animals too.

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#4995 – hooray!

hooray! i turned off my laptop and left it sitting next to my window last night and through today, and just for kicks i turned it on and booted it up. hit the eject key, and the damn cd actually came out on the first try! i wonder if being in a cold environment for ~24 hours might have made something shrink just enough to let the cd out. looks like i won’t need to get a new laptop asap then.

watching the hockey game on right now reminds me of something i read once somewhere: being a hockey goalie must be the worst job in the world — you sit there, get hit with pucks and sticks, everybody watches your every move, and as soon as you make a single mistake a big light comes on and a buzzer blares!

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#4994 – seedy cd

good thing i was planning to get a new computer with my bonus. i came across this cd i had made of the album “songs and sounds of the sea” by national geographic, and even though i had the mp3 files on my computer, i wanted to import the songs to the computer in a lossless format. unfortunately, my computer seems to have taken a disliking to this cd (or maybe it really likes it), because even though it didn’t want to read the cd, it refuses to eject the damn thing. my cd slot drive is jammed – i think because the cd itself has warped slightly or it doesn’t like the thin label i made for the cd – and it goes in a perpetual cycle of “hey, i can’t read this cd, i’d better eject it… oh wait, it won’t eject, i may as well read it… hey, i can’t read this cd, better eject it… oh wait, it won’t eject…”

i even tried ejecting the cd while holding the computer so that gravity could do the ejecting, but even that didn’t work.

i mean the computer “works”, but who wants to hear constant cd drive whirring and mechanical noises when you’re trying to use it?

9 days until that bonus is here! now i have to decide if i should maybe skimp on some of the features i want for the desktop so i can get both a mac pro and a macbook to replace my current one?

looks like i’ll be stuck using ye olde imac in the meantime. yaay.

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On Baltimore’s Finest

The legality of skateboarding in the Inner Harbor aside, conduct like that from an officer of the law is reprehensible. So is punching teenagers in the jaw and assaulting passers-by while off-duty. Three incidents. Three news stories about police misconduct, excessive force and assault. In two days!

Remarkably, not even a year ago (May 4, 2007), Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon proclaimed that the Baltimore City Police Department had “a 41 percent drop in excessive force complaints and a 29 percent drop in discourtesy complaints” in the first four months of 2007. It seems hard to believe when confronted with incidents like these.

And of these three events, the only incident resolved thus far resulted in a one-year’s probation for the officer in question. Internal-affairs investigations are all well and good, but still, shouldn’t the police be held to a higher standard?