Back in Vegas

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.