2006-03-14

On one of the invitations to a dinner I'm going to this week, it said that valet parking was available at this hotel for $35. The only reason I can think that you would charge $35 for valet parking is you want to stop offering valet parking service, because the valet guys are threatening to form a union or something. Suppose that your parking space is 100 square feet (it would fit a minivan tightly) and you get it for 24 hours. That means it rents for $10.65 per square foot per month. For 500 square feet - about the size of your average zero-bedroom apartment - that's $5,326 per month (no water, no bathroom, no electricity, no heat, no walls...). If you discount it at 6% per year and assume the cost does not rise, the 100 square foot parking space (with valet service) is worth $177,000. Per square foot, it could be the most expensive place you can rent in Seattle. I kind of wonder if you are expected to tip a valet guy after you've already given him $35 to park a car.

Fact about The Office: the car Dwight drives (at the start of The Injury and toward the end of The Secret, and toward the middle of The Fire when he's listening to "Everybody Hurts") is a late 80s or early 90s Pontiac Firebird. It is a very Dwight car.

(In the pilot he also referred to a '78 280Z - so one can assume that collecting cars is a hobby among successful paper salesmen/beet farmers)

Oklahoma: NOT "OK" with The Gay (RTF) (I hope they are "OK" with puns!). These guys get it. They've seen through the bullshit - being gay isn't a choice, it's really a disease or some kind of mind control that you catch from reading too many dang books! Jig is up, guys. Oklahoma Legislature figured out your scam. The Gay Illuminati will have to stop controlling the population with secret messages in literature with homosexual content (they were turning this country into a bunch of gay zombies - mindlessly wandering around, looking for their next book of gay prose or poetry to feast on.

But this is a battle that needs to be fought on 2 fronts! It is not enough to restrict the supply - we need to consider demand, too. If we can just keep our kids illiterate, then they won't even try reading those gay-causing books. And Oklahoma knows this - that's why they rank so low in spending per student (cite your sources).

If you are concerned that the Gay Illuminati could be controlling the Federal government - you should look at the dollar bill. There's some weird, gay stuff going on there. Like George Washington's wig - kind of like a drag queen, maybe? Yes, very much a drag queen. The eagle? That's looks like it could be gay. So is the eye-pyramid thing. And who else but the Gay Illuminati would ever put a Federal Reserve Bank in SAN FRANCISCO? Well, you draw your own conclusions, but remember: if it looks like a gay duck, walks like a gay duck and quacks like a gay duck - the Gay Illuminati probably forced that duck to read a bunch of books and that's why the duck is gay.

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