The Invasion

I don’t know what’s worse.

All of the undergraduates who are returning to Boulder, obliviously wandering around campus with ears covered by headphones and eyes glued to their most recent text message …

Or their parents, who can’t drive, don’t know what a bike lane is and make a trip to Target feel like a run-in with an errant mob.

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Starbucks guitar man

Chilling (well, actually working my buns off) over at Starbucks today, and this dude is totally rocking out on his guitar. It’s pretty awesome.

Not sure if this is what his guitar looks like or not ... Awesome pic by cogdogblog on Flickr.

Makes me think that more people should practice their instruments in public places.

Well, as long as they’re good.

And not asking for money.

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Pride is bad

I was really proud of myself for not driving my car for four straight days.

Pic by Emily Rachel Hildebrand.

I wasn’t quite as proud when I finally got into my car again and realized that I’d left my sunroof open for those four days.

Oops.

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Off-brand oddities

I’m going to let this post serve as a warning to all of you unsuspecting souls looking to purchase the generic, Safeway brand of fruit-flavored oatmeal. It’s a very sneaky system.

Pic from StarsApart on Flickr.

See, the strawberry and cream packets (two of them) come in the red package. Makes sense.

The banana and cream packets come in the black package. Makes less sense because bananas are yellow, but it’s a forgivable alternative because yellow would be tough to read, and bananas do in fact turn black when they get really gross and old.

Peaches and cream, however, breaks this mold of sensibility. A blue-colored package was bequeathed unto this orange fruit, which might be because peaches and cream is a delicious flavor and blue is a great color, but its understandability ceases to be understandable when that forces the blueberries and cream variety to adopt purple packaging.

Don’t worry, I have a solution: two in fact..

The most obvious of course, would be to put the peach oatmeal into an orange package. Alternative two: put the peach oatmeal into the purple package and save the blue packaging for the blueberries.

Come on people.

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Name game

I’m sure choosing a company name is difficult. I haven’t ever done this, so I don’t know for sure, but I can commiserate with the folks out there thinking these things up.

Still, I wouldn’t have chosen to brandish the letters “ABMC” across the side of my van (though someone else in Boulder did), even if those were an acronym for my enterprise.

It’s just that those particular letters can be easily misread as “A BM, see!” And no, I don’t want to “see.”

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