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Guys Night Out

I went to Aikido again tonight. My shoulder doesn't hurt nearly as much. Yukiko (pictured above) tells me it's because I'm actually rolling correctly. Apparently, last week I wasn't doing such a good job.

After that, I broke a 'date' with a friend to hang out with the boys of 315. I suppose that my actions could be explained by Ladder Theory.

I guess that makes me a crazy. In reality, I've found these computer-geek generated formal models of dating (and non-dating) incredibly helpful. I guess I've become incredibly sexist in the belief that (well, most, anyway) women are nothing more than finite state automata, for very small values of finite. It doesn't take a very complicated program to manipulate their inputs and outputs.

Anyway, Doug and Dave didn't show. Bastards. I'm sure they're still whining about no-smoking laws in New York State. Reality is much more...realistic.

In short, if I ever hear Doug complain about smoking laws again, he's going to end up with a broken nose. The picture above actually features 6 (yes, SIX!) people in the process of smoking (one vaguely masked behind the girl). Yes, this photograph is indoors, at a bar in New York state.

I won't mention the name, as I'd prefer to keep bars and whatnot out of trouble. Still, the disregard for this law reminds me of the no pinball on Sunday law in Ocean City, New Jersey. Nobody seems to care if it's enforced, and I don't even see Tommy complaining about that law, let alone our resident libertarian. So what's the deal with the complaints about smoking?

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Posted by reid at January 30, 2004 03:12 AM | TrackBack