new news, news day, noose day

I am turning twenty four this day. I have almost reached a quarter century, I mourn for the death of the pay phone and the InBev purchase of anhiZer bush. In the past few month I have been holding at bay my need to sunscreen the top of my head with rogaine, it has been slightly successful. balding feels like an adult version of standing against the wall and with a pencil marking the growth. Here it is growth of my forehead, I wonder what sort of increments it slowly develops at and if possibly I could measure each monthly increment and create an abstract electronic song based upon algorithms of numbers connected to the loss of hair. Rogaine is much cheaper then I would have imagine at 38 dollars for a 3 month supply that I bought in march and am only 2/3 done with.
I have started a second serving job during the daytime, it fills up my weekend hours nicely but hampers my connection to those people who live on a weekday schedule. One night I couldn't fall asleep and discussed internally what it is about this new establishment that I feel is lacking. This is my manifesto of restaurants as I have experienced it. The kitchen is the brain of the restaurant, it's layout is extremely important it needs flow and pathways and stations set up to complement and encourage each other. My new job has a kitchen that feel clustered and tumor ridden, no flow and cramped like an atomic wedgie. This brain is in need of a little reconstruction, but I dare not say anything, it is new and will possibly seizure itself into normality. The money is nice, but has a strange effect. I have started thinking past my parental debt of college tuition into hobbies and travel. Or on the more long term side of stocks as I am secretly fascinated by the sotck market and it's gimmicky flash bang graphics. I have followed FPL since I took my first environmental science class at SCSU an became hooked on the promise of wind energy, if I had invested then I could have just slightly more then I do now, if I worried about having more though I might end up giving a mouse a cookie. But I push on... funny how seizure of the brain is spelled the same as seizure of property. I would like to hear at a eulogy that God foreclosed on his soul, a hostile takeover with a lowballing bid.
bikes and travel, I have been dreaming as of late of argentina and a disc break commuter with panniers, I salivate at the thought of both.

Ode to Passenger Pigeons

This is a rap song I wrote about the passenger pigeons

This is not a joke (quick break into next verse almost starting immediately after joke)
Standard 4/4 rythem intro
Suckers we murdered all of them they
thought they could live in our world but we took it away

lyrics will come later, this is the hook just for show.


chorus
cincinati ohio this is how the story goes
overheard by the earth shot a bird
for the meat it's worth then was served
to the slaves and the protien it gave
probably saved keep out of graves
up to five billion gone
and this is whyyy
I sing this song

Driving to the poor house

Driving isn't cheap anymore, but something might make it cheaper. Most notably your driving habits, including but not limited to your millage, acceleration and deceleration habits, time of day that you drive your car, and other scary information that can be taken by the magical black box stored in your vehicle. Big Brother is probably hoping you buy it.

Personally I'm in, I think people who drive with a lead foot accelerating and breaking need a swift kick in the butt, not only because they decrease the MPG but also cause it is dangerous for those on the street no driving I.E biking. Well here in the state of Minnesota, Progressive Insurance is offering a trial Pay as you drive system. Now the comments on the blog I hyper linked show the paranoia that many have with these new technologies. I on the other hand think it is great.

Having recently chatted about the plausibility of living car free for the duration of my stay here on earth. For long distances, for people transporting children, it isn't a fun life to live car free. But if you can pay very little for gas with high efficiency cars, or very little for insurance because of the extremely low distance you drive or how little you speed when driving. The rest of the time you can bike and still not get charged the same price as your regular drivers for insurance, then heck I'm all for it. I will give up the freedom of where and when I travel in the insured car to the insurance company. It's npt suprizing that abroad is getting the jump on this, as the U.S. is fairly car centric and highly resistant to changes like this. But hear my cry now, those who fail to the the benefit will rue the day.

City Mouse, Dead Mouse

How dangerous is your neighborhood, a shoe stoer near my place now reads Rob Shoes, yes much more subtle then steal shoes but you get the picture. I live near a shining tower of white people called the Midtown exchange, yet Central is one of the most crime ridden neighborhoods. See what yours is like
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/about/maps/neighborhoods.pdf
to see the neighborhoods

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/police/crime-statistics/codefor/
to see crime reports, funny how police lay out thier ranks the same way crime bosses would, have the chief served by his captains,
strange.