GODDAMNIT.
i have cable again, what a mindfuck. I HATE IT. and i hate the fact that i have a frickin' tv in my room for the first time in my life, too. actually i am kind of glad for that 'cause vicente, my 40 year old mexican house mate, watches tv just about anytime he's home unless he's sleeping. and let's just say we don't have the same tastes :) very cool guy, though, don't get me wrong. totally doesn't mind me tearing up the house and building shit which is fun for me anyway!
but yeah, i usually end up watching the discovery channel, the learning channel, animal planet, history channel...god i'm i dork. i have so much useless information stored in my head right now...almost as much as i've forgotten watching these 'cause as soon as one program's over i'm on to new, amazingly cool, USELESS fucking information.
for example (recent), i was watching a doc on "the big dig" in boston. for those of you not familiar with it, they're digging under boston to put in underground highways to essentially bypass the retarded downtown boston...the only place i think more dangerous to drive in than new york city (well...in the US...europe is just...lost). NONE OF THE ROADS ARE RIGHT ANGLES! WTF!? either way...what was supposed to go on for like 5 years and 2.6 billion...lobsters has now gone almost a decade and approaching $14 billion. ironically a third of that cost was spent on "mitigation" and changing the lans based on those mitigations. basically pissed of neighbors tired of living in a construction site for a decade.
oh, and the cool useless fact (that was all gibberish)...they had to tunnel under some ridiculous and archaic rail system that transported 150 THOUSAND people a day...without disrupting it. a mere 15 FEET below the rails. and even funnier? it's not even real land...it's landfill made of "blue clay", dirt, wood, and brick. they showed maps of the boston harbor like, 5 years at a time across 50 years or something and basically it just keeps extending into the harbor...so much that 70% of boston is landfill. either way, back to my point...in order to do this, they decided to FREEZE THE GROUND. HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT!?!? they ran hundreds of U-pipes into the ground, each a few feet apart, all over the train yard and ran chilled salt water through them until the ground was literally frozen. THEN, they dig through the frozen earth. as they drill, they shove this gigantic cement...HOUSE, for lack of a better word, open on front and back for them to work...and this whole thing is pushed by an array of gargantuan hydraulic presses. how fast? 3ft. in an 8 hour shift. that's how slow they dug. it took them 15 months to get under these train tracks.
i don't think they're even done yet...but i didn't see the end of the show 'cause i flipped to the discovery channel where they were rebuilding a roadrunner GTX. um...hot.
and now VH1 ACTUALLY DECIDES TO SHOW REAL MUSIC. wtf. i'm gonna die in front of my tv. good stuff, too. audioslave now...red hot chilli peppers a little while ago...some song called "hate me" by blue something i like but can't remember the name of...i'm amped for some reason. i think i need to drink more.
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