Have you noticed that haha just doesn’t cut it anymore? When instant messaging someone do you feel that a “haha” response to a joke or funny comment seems trite? I have lately and noticed others compensating too.

• hahaha
• Some people go hahaha – adding the extra ha. Although I admit to having done this on occasion, I think it is too over the top. It is like saying outloud, “HA HA HA. I THINK THE HUMEROUS COMMENT YOU MADE WAS AMUSING. HA HA HA.”
• hahahahaha
• This is just screaming, “What you said was kinda funny. Like a chuckled, but now I just don’t know how to articulate that through a keyboard. HAHAHAHAHAHA. There, ok. Phew…”
• haha + 🙂
• Oh boy, these people seem really off track. They completely abandoned words all together and have gone to the smiley face. It is a new invention for some people. But who can hate smileys?
• hahah
• My personal favorite, right in between hahaha and hahahahaha. It says, I chuckled, your words are clever and cause my mouth and facial expression to change. Thank you dear friend.

See how simple that is? Now I wonder what this post says about me? 😯

A friend of mine posted this up on Myspace and I had to post it for your benefit. Although a bit of a local story for many of us, those of you overseas should read on too. It is disgusting.

T wo Fairfax County (Virginia, USA) officers lay mortally wounded in the parking lot of their Sully District police station. At the height of the crisis, anxious police cordoned off streets, closing down some businesses. The Texas Roadhouse restaurant just down the road had to shut its doors for a few hours that day in May and again on the next two Saturdays, when large crowds came out to honor the funeral processions for Detective Vicki Armel and Officer Michael Garbarino.

So what did the restaurant do in the police department’s time of loss? Offer to cater the funerals? Set up a food donation schedule for the bereaved families? Nah. The Texas Roadhouse in Chantilly counted up the pennies it had lost — a total of about $9,000, the manager computed — and turned to the police department with a formal request for compensation.

You can read the rest of the story here. And although Texas Roadhouse doesn’t make it’s email address very easily found, I found it. Along with a phone number, both listed below. Again, for you benefit. Feel free to complain…

• [email protected]
• 1 (800) 839-7623

Someone turned a warehouse in to a skatepark and decdied to throw a party in the middle of Washington DC. I took some “underground” photos, you can check them out here.

10 bucks to get in for skating, live bands, BBQ chicken, and all you can drink beer.