It's been a couple years since I've been in Vegas. The last
time I was here manning a booth for LeadsPedia at a trade.
Vegas still makes me think of Stargate Atlantis though. The
alternate universe where Shepherd is a failing cop in Vegas is
shot entirely as a cop drama rather than I sci-fi piece. At
one point he's even driving off into the desert to the tune of
Johnny Cash. Television gold. Right now I'm on the plane from
Atlanta after about 3 hours sleep at my parents. 6th and final
plane of the weekend. Phew! The crazy things I do.
On the plane I finally dove into HBO's Silicon Valley
series and was surprisingly undisappointed. But I figured out
why: Mike Judge made it. His magnum opus Office Space so well
captured the jobs I had in the 90's (writing software in a
cubicle and waiting tables) that I didn't think I'd ever see
something like it again. I was wrong. I survived a few iterations
of the startup thing, too. I'm a little mad that the curly
haired fat guy is a potsmoking blowhard though. I didn't mind
when people said I looked like Will Ferrell, and I don't mind
when people today say I look like Seth Rogen, but I don't want
to be compared to this guy. Ugh.
Having quickly exhausted Delta's available episodes I'm now
listening to jazz while I write and study norsk. Jeg ønsker
at jeg hadde noen å snakke med. C'est la vive. It's
funny how many loan words norsk takes from français and
then spells phonetically. Sign of a young and insecure language
I suppose, worried about getting washed away by foreign
influence like dansk once did to norsk. And, I suppose, English
is doing now. Everyone, literally everyone, speaks English.
English loan words and phrases are added mostly as is to the
norsk lexicon unlike those taken from the lingua franca of the
19th century a few hundred years ago.
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