latest globalization disaster/fiesta, or hoax?

The Slave Ship of San Diego

I'm a gonna rent some old garbage scow, gild it up, and fill it with Thai hookers and strong weed. Welcome to the Hotel Substitute, pleasure seekers!

This has to be either a hoax or a mistake. How can it be cheaper to run a software sweatshop on a boat than in Tijuana? I don't get it.

Cake.

Via Mimi Smartypants:

BAD CAKE.

Also they make me look like Comic Book Guy and this is bad for my body image issues.

This is going to sound like a dumb Observational Comedian Rant, but here we go. What the hell is going on with t-shirt sizes? The devaluation of sizing is weird. I'm 5'11" and 240 lbs and in most other types of clothing I wear either an L or an XL. In t-shirts, an XL now looks like something one of my smaller female friends might comfortably wear without tucking it in. After washing, it's suitable for a chihuahua. In order to wear a shirt I must order at least XXL, and if it's going to be washed I should get XXXL. Of course the typical t-shirt vendor has S, M, L, XL, and that's it. I have had quite a few good shirts that I wore maybe twice before they became rags or gifts to tiny friends.

Is this a piece of sharp business to get us all to buy unwearable handkerchiefs for $20? Can they really make that much more money by selling undersized shirts to everyone? Do they think we're all Laotian? Why does no one buck the trend and sell t-shirts that are the Real World Size and US $1 more?

I have shirts I bought ten years ago that are XXL and still hang way below my belt line and feel a bit baggy around the shoulders. It wasn't always like this.

Small dishonesties like this bug me way out of proportion: the Starbucks small being "tall", ultra-colossal olives, etc.

I blame Excel.

I wonder what happened to Mitchell Harding?

He was one of the original hosts of the Hour 25 sf radio program I listened to growing up, and did news on KPFK also. Later he was on KCRW for years and years. He had a deep comforting voice, and seemed really smart and nice, and all knowing. Apparently he did a health radio show for a while with Dr. Gershon Lesser, until 2000 or so. I wonder if he's still alive? LARadio.com doesn't know where he is, and they know where everyone in radio went.

I hope he didn't die without recognition. I searched in vain for an obit.

shrink shrank shrunk

Interesting discussion with the psychologist today. One thing I've recently noticed is that I have difficulty seeing the impact I have on others. It goes beyond thinking that I am an unimportant person or that I am not valued; that's just self-dislike. In my case I literally can't perceive that things I say or do are important to others.

Tragicomic scenarios result: Surprise when others are hurt or offended by my behavior, someone explains that a thoughtless remark of mine had some huge impact, etc.

The weirdest bit is that am intensely — unpleasantly — empathic. I'm acutely aware of other people's emotional state, to the extent that I can't be around arguments and I avoid a lot of plays or movies. Something that connects the empathy to my own actions is just...missing.

Lots of discussion ensued about the squishy brain parts that are responsible for these connections, and what to do about it using her 21st Century Mesmeric Hypnomancy.

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