Filler post

Alright, for some reason it appears that at the beginning of July, when blogger.com decided to revamp everything, lots of stuff got messed up. Not only was the commenting broken, but I just also found out that the XML hasn't been piping out. I think I have this fixed, which I'll be testing right now, but that means that the people reading this over on Livejournal are probably going to get blasted with about 20 of my posts at once. Oops.

Just to make this not completely boring, I'll relate a story that happened to me a few days ago that amused me greatly. I was at La Victoria, the best Mexican food in all of San Jose, waiting for my food. Two black businessmen, very professional, middle aged, wealthy looking, were sitting at a table, talking very loudly. I didn't really pay attention until I started hearing words that piqued my interest, like "conspiracy". Here is what I overheard: "There's a group of men, super-industrialists, who own Burger King, the LA Times, Citibank, Jack in the Box, and Snapple (I shit you not, they said snapple), who have been quietly organizing and conspiring for years. Their STATED GOAL is RACIAL PURITY." At this point, my food arrived, and I couldn't just stand there and stare at the crazies, but I really wanted to ask the guy what his sources were.

That's one of my favorite things about conspiracy theories. They're always incredibly SPECIFIC, because that makes them more believable. It's kind of like the conspiracy people who use scientific words that they don't understand very well, like the guy on Art Bell the other night who was convinced that we were all doomed because Mars was coming so close to the earth that it was going to pull us into an "elliptical orbit". OH NO! Not an ELIPTICAL ORBIT! We're DOOOOMED!