"You can't possibly believe that! I consider something that acts like sandpaper on every circuit in the brain to be non-trivial."
--One man to another at Peet's Coffee

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Uh... whoa. Lot of hits from yesterday and the day before. Hello to everyone from msn.com

(Msn must have not read the whole site before they linked it; I swear I've gone off on a Linux-loving anti-M$ rant at least once. Oh well. Hi everybody.)

"A four year old is a very robust system... children rarely blue-screen."
--A man in Soda Hall

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Ah, when computer scientists become parents.

"...Yeah, 'cause chicks dig guys who need therapy."
--A guy in Tryst, (which was quite possibly the coolest cafe I've ever been to.)

"I realized this is how I'm paying for my kid's college education."
--Scott Weiland, of the Stone Temple Pilots, after a particularly energetic rendition of the song "Down"

"Some of you sure paid a lot of money to come out to a fairground and throw mud with music in the background."
--Aaron Lewis of Staind, commenting on the mudfight that had broken out at the back of the crowd

"That's the problem with West Coast girls, they're not violent enough. A girl from Ft Lauderdale, she'll wrestle with ya."
--A man in the hotel lobby in Monroeville, PA

"I walked all the way past the metal detectors and I still couldn't get Mentos anywhere, not even the mint ones, not even in the vending machines. This heathen airport doesn't sell Mentos!"
"Well, it is Oakland."
--A girl and a guy in Oakland International Airport

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I'm back, with almost a full week of quotes, but first I need to run around all frantic catching up on work and stuff that I missed while I was gone. Hope you all had a nice weekend too. More later.

"And knowing is half the battle. *pause* The other half, is having a gun."
--A guy at Yali's cafe

"No, the contrast between black socks and my skin is far more scary than the contrast of the rainbow socks and the black shoes."
--A guy holding up the pants leg of his suit to reveal his socks, in the lobby of the War Memorial Opera House

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There are more Webby quotes where that came from. Expect them in about 12 hours, once my project is turned in.

"Oh, that totally sucks, you've got a mouse in your tire. See there, that bulge? It's going to explode, no slow leak there... I ride my bike all the time, I hate getting a mouse in my tire."
"Really." *totally disinterested*
"Last week I was in Santa Monica, out on the pier. The slats are pretty far apart there, and there was this guy, riding a ten-speed across it, and he had a mouse in his tire I could see a mile away, and sure enough he turned and it slipped between the slats and he totally tacoed his wheel..."
--A guy talking to an elderly man holding a bike with a bulging tire, on Center st