Generation “i” observations number 1

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I received a forwarded, and although I usually just ignore emails with “FWD:” in the subject line, I decided to open it.  And I’m glad I did.  I will be posting a few at a time – but trust me, if you were born between 1975 and 1985; you can probably relate.  And don’t worry – even if you weren’t, there is still some funny in here for you too.  Enjoy (and thanks Ashley and Adi!)

-I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.

-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

-I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?

-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

-That’s enough, Nickelback.

-I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

-Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know” feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?

-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out.  Today’s kids are soft.

-There is a great need for sarcasm font.

Stay tuned for more tomorrow.

NYC Blackout

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It was 6 years ago today that the entire Northeast and parts of the mid-atlantic, and southern Canada were plunged into a blackout.

Where were you during the blackout of August 14th 2003?  I was in College Park, MD – sweating it out on one of those disgustingly hot DC nights….

Here’s a great quote about what went down in NYC:

…we proceeded to meet and drink with the entire neighborhood before retiring to the roof of our building to finish the wine, the beer, and, oh hell why not, the whisky, too. New York City had thrown a rager while the folks were out of town.

via The Morning News

They Burned The F***ing House Down

If you haven’t already heard, there has been quite a dustup going on between John Stewart of the Daily Show and Jim Cramer from CNBC‘s Mad Money over the past week. It culminated in Cramer going over to The Daily Show on Thursday March 12th. And I have to say – I was doubly impressed. Stewart was serious, and Cramer was amazingly humble about it all. But I can’t help but think that all this is a result of a bit of scapegoat-ism in that Cramer is just a TV personality. (I do agree with Stewart about the snake oil as vitamin tonic thing going on at CNBC though). However – Cramer never claimed to be the spokesperson for CNBC (although he is probably their best-known personality). Regardless – it is well worth watching.

Here is the most lucid comment from their exchange:

Stewart: “They burned the fucking house down with our money and walked away rich as hell and you guys knew that that was going on.”