2010.02.21 Welcome to effing Vancouver
2010.02.02 Evolution of a New iPhone User
2010.01.30 Who is Who?
2010.01.26 Fast . . . food
2009.12.13 Iceland
2009.10.25 Eye of the Tiger
2009.10.24 Contemplating the Orb
2009.10.08 Canary IQ Test
2009.06.01 Flickr Fubar
2009.05.31 Five Years Later
2009.05.21 The Nacho Incident
2009.04.10 Tax Time
2009.03.25 Hey asshole!
2009.03.15 Egg a la Mode
2009.03.05 The things you think about
2009.02.25 The Whole Enchilada
2009.02.15 Canadian Enough
2009.02.14 An Essay by Matt
2009.01.18 Why the religious persecution, S.C.?
2009.01.17 Poked with pointy things!
2009.01.15 Musical Citizenship
2009.01.12 Baron von Bejeweled
2008.12.19 Age of Steam
2008.12.14 Must work on the French
2008.12.13 Border Crossing
[before]
[earliest]

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[rss feed]
Hey asshole!
Batshit Crazy Homeless Guy: [grabs Matt's shoulder] Hey asshole! I'm talking to you!
Matt: [leaps into the air, and had bowels and bladder not been empty, probably would have emptied them into pants]
Batshit Crazy Homeless Guy: Look into my eyes when I talk to you!
Matt: [avoids eye contact and tries to walk away swiftly]
Batshit Crazy Homeless Guy: Hey! The diagnostic gun can't work if I can't see your face! [shoves unidentifiable object into Matt's face]
Matt: [flinches, shields eyes, and then realizes with relief that the object is a LED flashlight keychain — walks even more rapidly]
Batshit Crazy Homeless Guy: [gives up chase] Dammit, have it your way. [squeezes button on light, with no effect] You broke the damn thing anyway. [throws flashlight into a nearby trashcan, walks back across street towards a shopping cart full of blankets and recyclables, and walks off the other direction]
Matt: [to self] And I thought my day was surreal already. Jesus.

The rest of the score so far:
  • Bought some yogurt and a coffee for breakfast. Got all the way to my desk before realizing I'd forgetten to grab a spoon to eat it with. Checked desk drawer in the off case of having left a spare spoon in there. No luck. Returned to elevator which mysteriously stopped on every single floor on way down to lobby, despite no buttons having been pushed and no one waiting to get on from the outside. "Door Close" button seemed mysteriously to have stopped working as well, turning a 30 second ride into a 2-3 minute trip.

  • When walking back to the cafeteria, spotted the chalk outline of a murder victim on the carpet of a conference room. Realized, probably a little too slowly to admit, that it was probably a visual aid for some kind of workshop.

  • Experienced intermittent ringing of a single fire alarm bell at the other end of the floor. Rrrrrring. Rrrring. [wait 30 seconds] Rrring. [wait 1 minute] Rrrring.

  • All I need is a flickering neon light and a woman in a blue dress, and bam! — instant David Lynch movie.