So you're smoking the best f*cking cigar you have ever smoked, there's enough money in the bank, there's a half dressed woman nearby, breakfast is on its way, you have nowhere to be for 24 hours and you are staring out the nearest window looking at.....
I don't have any idea what the hell this thread is supposed to be about, but, well, since we're sharing: this is the view from my home office, where I happen to smoke many of my cigars! This was taking last summer during the monsoon. Looking south from capitol hill, downtown is behind me.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
I have a nice view of a parking garage in my dorm and we are not allowed to smoke in the dorms (obviously). When I'm back home, it's the backyard porch, I get a nice view of a pond and the golf course that we live on. Idealy though, there's nothing better than a hotel I stayed at vacationing in China. A nice classic style balcony, sea food and other delicious things grilling off to the side, a nice view of a huge swimming pool under the balcony, palm trees, and ocean a little further off with a sweet ocean breeze. Too bad when I was there I wasn't into cigars.
"Is that a Churchill cigar in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
My best friend attended Uni. New Mexico years back, and in his dorm room the only window, which was small, was almost completely blocked by a three foot, neglected looking dish/antenna. We were heavily into SETI and synthetic minimalist sound (music) and click-hop, so he sent me pictures of it and we named it "the beacon". He tried so hard to find out what it was for, but nobody could tell him. It wasn't TV related, it wasn't MUZAK, it appeared to be a transmitter based on the hardware and it was completely unmarked, showing years of age, except for a bright yellow, clean, RF cable attached to it that trailed off under an awning and disappeared. It had been there for a long time judging from the rusted mount and bolts. So one day, frustrated by the mystery of the beacon that he was forced to stare at day in and day out, my friend opened his window and managed to rotate it enough to misalign it, slammed his window shut and waited. Sure enough about a week later a man appeared outside his window in the afternoon and readjusted it, and then disappeared. My friend raced down to the parking lot to look for some kind of truck to see what it might be related to, but nothing…
To this day we wonder about the beacon, and I'm sure it sits there to this day, pumping its strange and mysterious signals out into the NM desert.
I hope the beacon is doing well.
-aphexafx
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
I wish I could dream about something other than what's outside of my office window, which right now is a chemical toilet and, occasionally, some derilects from the neighborhood, all of whom subscribe to the theory that being well-dressed necessitates wearing everything ten sizes too large with at least four inches of underpants showing.
My interpretation of Naranga's post, is that if you had everything you wanted (e.g. food, money and nakedness) what would the view out your window be.
With that in mind, my window would be a porthole, looking out at the "One Particular Harbor" Jimmy Buffet sings about.
We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. -M. Acklam
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Originally posted by dstokely: I have a nice view of a parking garage in my dorm and we are not allowed to smoke in the dorms (obviously). When I'm back home, it's the backyard porch, I get a nice view of a pond and the golf course that we live on. Idealy though, there's nothing better than a hotel I stayed at vacationing in China. A nice classic style balcony, sea food and other delicious things grilling off to the side, a nice view of a huge swimming pool under the balcony, palm trees, and ocean a little further off with a sweet ocean breeze. Too bad when I was there I wasn't into cigars.
When I went to college I was allowed to smoke cigarettes OR cigars in my dorm room. Of course that was 1964 or about and cigar smoke was healthy then.
Doc ***** Tobacco is a filthy weed, I like it...
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