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Seen on the way home from work: a bright-yellow pickup truck with a huge Steelers decal on the rear window and "The Terrible Truck" painted on the back panel. Makes me wonder what the owner does in years when they aren't doing well. :-) (I also wonder whether those window decals are translucent. If not, it obscured at least a quarter of the rear view, which sounds like a bad idea to me.)

We have the capacity for fresh-baked doughnuts at work. Neat! And they're pretty good, too -- cake-style, which is the kind I prefer, and they're tasty when they're hot out of the ~~oven~~ counter-top cooking gadget. (A coworker found the appliance at Goodwill and brought it in; another coworker then brought in basic ingredients. Next time we make some we need to take a piping-hot doughnut to the person who orders our supplies, along with a request for flour, sugar, eggs... :-) )

I wonder why my cell phone, which I've had for almost a year, has, in the last day, begun displaing the text "Verizon wireless" continuously. (Or, at least, it's there every time I've looked.) I'd never seen it before yesterday, and I haven't changed anything with the phone or the plan. Dani (same plan, same phone) has been seeing it for a while. Weird.

This business with the floaters in my eye is allowed to stop now. Really. Sheesh. I'm glad my boss is understanding, but I'd be happier if he didn't have to demonstrate that on this particular point.

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As memory serves, the truck was painted the same, even when the Steelers weren't doing well. Actually, the 1995/96 season should be considered one of those years for the most part. We barely made the playoffs as a wild-card team. The win of the Super-Bowl is amazing.

BTW: Have you been following Slates "Blogging the Bible?"

Did you mean 2005/06? I don't really follow sports ('cept when it's unavoidable), but I have the impression that the Steelers weren't anywhere near the Superbowl 10 years ago.

BTW: Have you been following Slates "Blogging the Bible?"

No -- tell me more please?

Yeah, I meant 2005/2006. Oopsie.

As for the Slate series, the most recent entry is here. I forget whether URLS in comments work, so here's a second copy of the URL:

http://www.slate.com/id/2143176/entry/2144080/?nav=tap3

Thanks! Looks like an interesting series.

Actually, the Steelers were in the 1995-96 season Super Bowl. They lost to the Dallas Cowboys 27-17.

Around here the decals are usually of the American flag with an eagle superimposed on it, and I always wonder how the people see through the window, too.

I hope the floaters leave you very soon.

I know this probably doesn't help much because it sounds like your floaters are worse but I have had at least one and possibly up to three floaters for like 15-20 years. I remember watching them move with my eyes when I was a kid. Most of the time I don't see them and they only really become annoying when I'm trying to sleep and my eyes get fixated on watching them. At that point making sure that the room is dark or putting something over my face to block the light removes the contrast so I don't see them. I guess my point is that I sympathize with you.

Next time you see one of these decals on someone's rear window, or on the side of a transit bus, take a close look. The vinyl is opaque white, which is printed, then perforated. On the other side it is a solid color and is just a little more difficult to see thru than a screen door.

Thanks for cluing me in. I was assuming they were translucent and hadn't considered the perforation option. I figured there had to be some way for people to see through them, or placement like I saw would be ticket-bait. It would certainly have been unsafe if it had been truly opaque.

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I work for a sign company, so I'm really getting a kick out of most of these replies.

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