What to do if you suspect that a co-worker may, in fact, be Mario:

• Roll barrels towards him. Watch if he does the splits jumping over them.
• Send turtles crawling towards him. Watch to see if he stomps on them.
• Give him a flower. Watch what he does with it.
• Ask to hear him say, “Here we go!“
• Scatter coins randomly about the workplace. See if he tries to collect them all.
• Feed him mushrooms. Record any physical reactions.

That was courtesy of Shawn and I as I’ve recently decided the guy with boar teeth looks a bit too much like Mario. We got to work together today so it was a pretty good day. Tomorrow’s his last day and the odds of us working together two days in a row are slim so I guess this was the last “good” day where we got to work together. We talked a lot about cops and comic books. Conversations just continued returning to those topics.

Heh, his bouncer stories are always so cheerfully… violent.

I saw this Jolt cherry cola at 7-11 and knew I had to try it. It’s the same taste as their normal cherry cola, but with 2x the caffeine… and it’s in a ridiculous looking giant can that looks like a fuel cell.