for years i have walked past a place called Accu-Temp. it is a business in a non-descript building under the subway. for as much thought as i gave to that place i had always assumed it was a temporary employment agency of some sort, maybe for accountants or some discipline in which accuracy is essential.

i was amused, then, to discover last week that the place is actually an air conditioner supply and manufacturing company. that makes sense, too, for a company named accu-temp.

a tiny amusement from my tiny life.

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i watched “Walk the Line” last night, the Johnny Cash biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. holy crap they were good in that film, scary good at times. I watched it once before but was happy to see it again at 70″. all those movies i so laboriously downloaded over the years are finally looking like they were worth the effort. although i got a laugh out of a copy of the last Super Bowl that i downloaded yesterday. someone could have bothered to tag the game as being broadcast in German. it was hilarious for a moment to hear and see American football with German voices announcing. it reminded me of a friend who had some major surgery, and while convalescing in the hopital the doctors warned him not to laugh too hard, or it might ruin the stitches (or something). he was out of luck in following doctor’s orders, though, because the TV in his hospital room was showing The Simpsons — in Spanish. he woke up one afternoon to see Bart Simpson blubbering away in Spanish, and at the time it was just the funniest fucking thing he had ever seen. he damn near had to go back into the operating room.

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i do not feel good today. i feel poor. i may have slept far less than i thought, and i may have consumed more gin than i realized last night. these crazy swings in temperature can’t be good for the economy of my metabolism, either. it was nearly 3 degrees real feel monday, it will be 50 tomorrow.

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i wrote a bit regarding a Washington DC payphone owner who managed to scam $4million out of government agencies and private companies by robodialing their toll-free numbers. from his home computer he managed to program his suite of 100 payphones to automatically dial and redial and redial toll free numbers for a whole bunch of places. every toll free call made from a payphone earns the payphone owner about 50 cents. those 50 cent calls added up after a while, but he might have gotten away with it forever if he hadn’t gotten greedy, and if someone at one of the targeted companies had not noticed unusual calling patterns to their toll free number.

i thought it was ironic, then, that this payphone scammer was going to be using a payphone for the next few months: a PRISON payphone. bahahahaaaa. that would be ironic if he actually owned one of the prison payphones.

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someone told me a funny story:

back when 14th Street was a hooker hellhole this guy found himself walking home through that area. a large black women came after him, asking “Want some company?”

he laughed and said “I have a wife I have to get home to.”

she said “I don’t wanna hear dat, I’ll make you forget you got a wife.”

he said “I have a job, I have to get up early.”

she said “i don’t wanna hear dat, I’ll make you forget you got a job.”

so them he says “i don’t have any money.”

and she says “oh, i heard dat!” and they both laughed, and went about their separate ways.

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