:: The dead see scrolls ::

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Back in college my roommates and I lived above a restaurant on a busy local street (the big web news of the day is Google's addition of satellite views to their mapping service, so here I'm demonstrating my status as "plugged in" and "cutting edge" by slyly including a link thereto [and then further signaling my ability to be "wry" and "self-deprecating" by pointing it out {which I also pointed out and have therefore subsequently undermined, but it was worth it to use curly brackets}]), and decided that our collective voice should be visible to the pedestrian and automotive traffic down below. The best (read: geekiest) way to do this was with a scrolling LED sign bringing pearls of wisdom like "take the money and run" and "it rubs the lotion on its skin; it does this whenever it's told" to passers-by on the street level.

I would already find the idea of a LED belt buckle almost orgasmically irresistible, but with the added justification of purchasing it as an act of sentimentality...

Posted by morland @ 04:43 PM

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Your punning has crossed the line.
We were the vanguards of sharing one's thoughts with strangers via an LED sign, and I take offense to your calling "dead" an action which will be considered commonplace by our children's children.

My favorites were:
"Go like a ninja!!"
"Death is a snake; death is seven miles long."
"Stop making out in the alley across from our apartment." (not quite sure about the exact wording on this last one, but surely you must remember how we peeped on those young lovers)

Posted by: grenergy on April 6, 2005 12:06 AM

Mmm....belt buckles.
I believe you also took to standing out there and harassing innocent people walking down the sidewalk. For shame.

Posted by: choistein on April 6, 2005 01:51 AM

in that satellite picture, you can clearly make out the courtyard between our apartments that used to serve as the elephant pen for the St. Louis Zoo. Right, barrett?

Posted by: dr. glasses on April 8, 2005 02:48 PM

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