A seatbelt that has no earthly business being there 5/28/07

Well, it happened. 9 years, 10 months, and 22 days after I received my license from the Coffee County Driver License Station despite appearing younger than thirteen and failing to look before changing lanes on the highway, I've finally gotten a ticket. I noticed the cop coming after me on the way home from a run. The only things I imagined might be cause for concern were that my tags are from Tennessee, I wasn't wearing a shirt, and I didn't have my seatbelt on. I quickly put my seatbelt on, since that was the only thing I could correct in a few seconds. Little did I know that I've been wearing my seatbelt wrong for almost a decade. Thank you, Officer V. Larson. Apparently it's illegal to wear the strap under and not over your right arm. Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm at Tiny House and you think I should. I look back on the way I was this morning, a young, stupid kid that committed that terrible crime. I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are, but I can't. That kid's long gone, and this several hours older man is all that's left. I gotta live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and fill out your citation form Officer V. Larson, and stop wasting my time, because to tell you the truth, I'm hungry, and you're making me late for my golf game.

Venture capital is not for me 5/23/07

A venture capital guy gave a guest lecture in my drug development class this morning. He had some interesting info to present. Here are some tidbits:

"You have to know people and arrange golf games."
- on how to obtain scientific info that never gets published

"Always marry up.....that's what I did."
- on how to afford the high cost of living in the bay area

"I prefer to make money."
- 0n how he decides what kinds of companies to invest in

And one final piece of info: "NOBODY knows what causes lower back pain." This is the part where I threw up. (So I don't know what causes lower back pain either, but I can say from my experience it's definitely not caused by money, marrying up, or networking on the golf course.)

Ground Rules 5/12/07

1. No moping, ever, no matter what.
2. No secret passwords. I like keeping doors unlocked.
3. No intentional Bill Simmons talk or guy-that-wants-to-get-in-his-mailbag talk. I've tried both, and both will probably resurface at some point.
4. At least one wierd reference per day, sort of like a Hold Steady song.
5. One paragraph per day. That is all.
6. One topic per day. That is all.

I don't really care about ground rules (except the first one). I just wanted to set them so that if I decide to revise them, I can then call them ground rule doubles and, if I change them again, ground rule triples. On that note, I'm not sure when the last MLB ground rule triple occured, but I feel like it will happen at least once before Manny Ramirez retires.