I got home a little while ago and noticed that my neighbor (the Steelers fan) had taped the bottom of his apartment door with masking tape as seen in the picture below:

Door bottom
Door bottom with tape

This is the second time that I’ve seen his door taped in this fashion, and I have no idea why.

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Cactus before
June 20, 2010
After
July 9, 2011
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I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning and that’s the best they are going to feel all day.

— Frank Sinatra
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

— John Steinbeck
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

— Oscar Wilde
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Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify. Because the players are always changing — the team can move to another city — you’re actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it. You know what I mean? You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt — they hate him now. Boo! Different shirt!! Boo!

— Jerry Seinfeld

In early February, I found myself in the position of having a good friend of mine crash on my couch for a month. She told me that she was a heavy sleeper, to which I responded, “That may be, but you haven’t heard my coffee maker!”

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Time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

— John Lennon
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Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

— Chinese proverb
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

— Jackie Robinson

I guess this is what I have to look forward to seeing every time I open my door for the next two weeks:

Good thing I’m not a Jets fan.

If the Steelers win the Super Bowl, do you think he’ll leave it up for a while afterwards?

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My old apartment had an old style peephole which allowed me an undistorted view through my door. Combine that with the fact that I had an end apartment which had a view of the entire hallway of my floor, and the voyeur in me couldn’t help but take a peek at my neighbors whenever I heard them in the hallway.

After noticing that my Coolpix 990 fit perfectly over the peephole and could take pictures silently, I decided to try to take a photo whenever I heard something going on in the hallway.

The following twelve photos were taken between late 2001 and early 2003.

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Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy marshmallows, which are kinda the same thing

— Anonymous
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Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours

— Yogi Berra
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True friends stab you in the front.

— Oscar Wilde