So during the day I

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So during the day I have been listening to a radio station from southern Florida. They play club dance music. Don’t ask. Anyway, there was a commercial for some sort of club down there. They were announcing “Thong Thursday.” The premise is that “ladies” show up at the bar, and if their thong is showing, the drink for free. That’s right, show us your thong and all your drinks are on us! I wonder how well that would go over here in New Jersey.

An interesting thing happened on

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An interesting thing happened on the Turnpike this morning. I was driving probably around 80 to 85 miles per hour, along with traffic, when I came up to a cluster of cars going a little slower, maybe 70 to 75 miles per hour. I looked up and the driver of the car in front of me was waving his finger by the rear-view mirror, as if it say to me, “Don’t.” I looked at the other cars and around the roadway for a police car, thinking the reason of the slowdown was because of a cop, but didn’t see one. But, I did see a car which looked like it could have been an unmarked cop car, but I wasn’t sure. It didn’t have the bright light hooked up on top of the driver’s side view mirror like most unmarked cars. But I slowed down and decided to play it safe.

Less than a minute later a car came from behind, probably going 85 miles per hour. This driver must not have noticed the other guy waving at him to slow down. As luck would have it, the other car I was looking at pulled behind the speeding car and followed him as he changed lanes, eventually putting lights on and pulling the speeding car over into the shoulder.

I learned two things driving this morning: (1) Unmarked cars are getting harder to identify and (2) there might actually be some drivers willing to help other drivers out there on the road. Weird.

I’m happy to say that

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I’m happy to say that I’ve been sleeping much better the past few months. I’m not sure if it’s on the account of being exhausted all the time or if it has to do with the fact I was able to associate my bedroom with sleep only. I moved my computer out of there and for the most part, only enter the room when it’s time to hit the sack. In one month, my apartment-mate will be moving out, and I’ll be taking the bigger room. I’ll end up moving my computer into the bedroom and spending more time awake in the bedroom. Hopefully I’ll be able to continue where I left off when it comes to sleeping habits. I’d hate to have to re-learn sleeping well.

So people are talking about

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So people are talking about how interactive TV will be Big Brother (and I’m not talking about the elimination television show, I’m talking about the concept from 1984, by George Orwell — or was it Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley? I read them both the same time back in high school.) Anyway, apparently the new television format will monitor your viewing preference and model its stimuli after the viewer’s reactions. In any case, the simplest way to get around this, as I see, is embrace the new TV format, but just click “off” (or unplug, or whatever you have to do) whenever an ad or commercial shows up.