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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Now I've linked to RadioLab before, I'm sure I have, and really, this link doesn't belong here.
It's completely irrelevant.
Or is it? Maybe give it a listen - RadioLab on our sense of direction: Lost & Found
Early, Early
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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It's the sun, or the long overdue spring, or maybe it's the zinc vitamins I bought (rumoured to halt greying hair), or possibly the assortment of mixed nuts (walnuts, pumpkin seeds, almonds), but I'm up at 6:00 AM and unable to go back to sleep.
There's lots to do - before work, but I find myself listening to Andrew Bird over and over again. Today's big pre-shift errands include a trip to the hardware store to search for some curtain rods and perhaps the thrift shop, simply to see what's new, doubtless the thrift shop will get done and the hardware store will get pushed aside until tomorrow.
It's too early, I have no contingency plan for waking this early, a free two hours just added to my day...
It's a beautiful day outside already, and I should be writing but I'm awake and ineffectual, listening to Andrew Bird over and over again....tomorrow, if I'm awake so early again...
Best College Sex Ed Class ever cancelled
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I never had a class this interesting in University. If they instead of cancelling it made it a regular feature I'm pretty sure enrollment would skyrocket. But that's just me.
Link: Boing Boing on Best college sex ed class ever canceled after sex toy demonstration with naked lady
Mother's Day - 2011
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Countless phone calls the week prior, checking to see if we'll be open. We're not open, we're never open on Sunday, he tried it once, just for Mother's day and it wasn't worth the headache.
Still there are hundred's of calls.
On Friday night the owner takes the book home, takes every reservation that calls, he knows them all and they plead, Saturday night in lieu of Sunday will be a nightmare.
And it is. We have far more reservations than we do tables, far, far more, he's warned the hostess in his typical shriek that she should take every reservations that calls...She passes the phone to staff who turn them away. It's necessary.
By 6:30 there's an hour long line up at the door, irate customers wondering as to what the point of their reservation was, people are - justifiably - furious. Some refuse to wait, or grow tired of waiting, regular customers, and walk out.
Just another night in hell.
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