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The Vista Experience

    I suddenly had this 'vision' of a fish swimming through the Ocean when he suddenly sees this bright, shiny lure in front of him. The fish thinks "WOW" ... gotta get me that ... and grabs it.

    In an instance, he's hooked, and being dragged through the water ... unable to stop, unable to get himself off the hook.

    His world is now a blur. Everything he knew and loved is being left behind, as he is yanked up out of the ocean. Choking. Can't breath ... all the while wondering why the heck he didn't just stay away from the lure to begin with ...

    Then, without warning, he is beheaded ... disemboweled ... and his lifeless body is then cast to the ground with millions of other fish that made the same mistake.

    THAT, is the real "Vista" Experience.

Douglas Troy @ The Code Project

No More Fish For You!

We were out at MacGregor's Ale House, in Cary, last Friday night (Good Friday), drinkin beers, swearin, whatever. The topic of being cut off by bartenders came up, and I recalled that the only time I'd ever been cut off was on Good Friday, 1994, at a bar also called MacGregor's - but this one was 677 miles north, in Rochester NY. My girlfriend and I both had the day off from work, so we spent our day barhopping. We were cut off at MacGregor's before the sun went down. I'm smarter now - wiser, at least - so, there weren't any incidents, this time. Nobody got cut off - they brought us as many Blue Moons as we could handle: 0 for me, about 400 for the rest of the group.

While we were there, I ordered a "grouper sandwich". It was delicious, but it weren't no grouper. A grouper is a big fish - the fillets are nearly always an inch thick, or more. And it's like $19/lb at the store up the road from the bar. No, this fish was a skinny little thing that looked more like sole or some anonymous Asian catfish. Oh well, no biggie. Like I said, it was delicious. But, after reading this article, I wonder if I should have had the chicken wings instead... ?