So I got a package delivery slip in my tiny apartment mailbox letting me know that the post office had delivered an unusually large package to the office of my apartment building. I thought I was getting something cool, lik eone of those free flash drives i signed up for actually came or something similar. Twice in the past two weeks this has happened and twice in the past two weeks I was dissapointed when I went to pick up my enormous package and was handed a friggin AOL cd that was in a dvd type case accept I think it could be run over by a car. Even my dvd’s which cost actual money and aren’t magically given to me in the mail aren’t protected by as much hard plastic as these things. Maybe I should just turn the cds into art. I remember when AOL offered 10 free hours of “trial” service…now they are having trouble giving away multiple lifetimes of trial service apparently…why else would they send me two in two weeks? I couldn’t possibly have used up my 9,000,000 free hours up that fast.

I heard a discussion on a radio show yesterday about if gas was really that expensive. Apparently there is an article comparing the prices of gas versus other liquids. Some of these are pretty interesting: $2,701.52/gallon of printer ink (based on an average size cartridge at $30 a pop) and $38,858,507.46 a gallon for scorpian venom, and you and I both know most people can’t live without this luxury. Their gas price ($1.39/gallon) is a bit low compared to this area (~$1.88/gallon last time I filled up)…but even at this level the only liquids on the list cheaper than gas are tap water, folgers coffee, and kool-aid.

The thing is, most of the liquids on the list are used in far less quantites than gasoline. I don’t need to buy 15 gallons of chocolate syrup to get to work every week. I think a better comparison would be the average amount a person spends on gas per year vs. the rest of these liquids. I guarantee I spend more on gas every year than soy sauce, shampoo, or patchouli oil (although i’ve been to a few concerts were some of the people could have gone the other way on that last one).

Anyways, the point to all of this is that in todays economy with respect to inflation and the current unemployment rate, keynesian economics cleary show that the price of Jamba Juice and scorpian venom is way to high and need to drop at least 37 cents a barrel.

I was on the washington area craigslist looking for a winter basketball league to play in when I stumbled upon this post which led me to www.tall.org. Apparently there is a club for tall people…and they get together to bask in there tallness…weird. I’m not quite tall enough to join (the rules say a man must be at least 6′2″ and woman 5′10″). Maybe I’ll start a club for average height people…then again someone probably already did.