The term 420, four-twenty, started cropping up on mailing lists, blogs and in classroom discussions with regularity a few days ago. Much as every year in recent memory.
Paul Goyette reminded me of this annual discussion. For those of you who are afraid to ask (some time ago it took me a few years to figure it out) Snopes has the story though perhaps one of those San Rafael kids had read some Lovecraft while enjoying a bit of Acapulco Gold.
Here’s the deal:
Dress properly, act dignified, be polite, smile. And spend a little extra for good service� it will pay you back in droves.
Yep, with the right bribe you will find yourself eating at a select table in that exclusive restaurant that has a 2 hour wait if you can get in at all.
Via Marginal Revolution.
Scheherazade has some excellent advice for folks who use parking garages and Mike extends it to another venue and also tells us what to do after after parking.
First, via Hit & Run I learn that the american taliban bushies are not only running a ridiculous deficit but that they are also wasting millions of the dollars that they don’t have chasing down willing folks selling product to willing buyers. Come on feds, if there are assaults, rapes, fraud, extortion, etc., go after’m otherwise leave the people you are supposed to serve alone.
And, then I learn via Boing Boing that the guy who may or may not be the world’s richest man makes a portion of his billions selling furniture to the folks willingly buying product from the folks the feds are harrassing.
Ahhhh, the webs of commerce.
Never mind other folks’ mote. Get your own beam.
Via Gizmodo.