Adamism

02 Apr, 2008

The Wire

Posted by: adam In: Uncategorized

Lindsey and I have been watching HBO’s The Wire. We started at Season 1 and have been trying to watch a few episodes a week.

Season 1 really made the Baltimore Police Department look rough. No funding. Officers that are drunk, or lazy, or both. I thought to myself “wow, I really hope they’re doing this so that it makes for good TV.”

Early on you see detectives writing reports using… typewriters. Now, the show came out in 2002. Type-writers? Are they really that out-of-touch with technology? Not possible.

A week later, as I’m driving to work, I see a billboard for the Baltimore PD. They’re hiring!
$What\'s that website again?$

Uhm, what’s that website again? baltimorepolice.orgaa ?
Maybe The Wire is more accurate than I’d like to believe.

3 Responses to "The Wire"

1 | Jason Lancaster

April 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm

That is so awesome that you blogged about that billboard! I’ve seen it a few times and every time I’ve made a mental note to look and see if .orgaa is an actual domain suffix. If I hadn’t already made two blog posts today, I’d trackback this post. Maybe another day.

Oh, and HOW THE HECK could someone screw up the domain THAT BAD!?! I mean, I could see a slip of a character or something. But aa? What? As in, alcoholics anonymous?

2 | The one and only Ed

April 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Nice… If they are behind in Tech. Image what there training is like….

3 | Christopher M.

April 7th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Could it be that the typesetter was using some Baltimorese?

Comment Form

Lindsey: Hopefully lots of my stuff will fit in the GTI when I move!
Christopher M.: Twitter and chumby http://blog.twitter.com/2008/0 8/twitterchumby.html
Ed: He did make that movie great and that’s one bad ass poster!
Jason Lancaster: HAHAHAHHA! Flatulence concerns!? Chris M is the BOMB!
Christopher M.: It looks like a calf on the way to local vet in Slovenia capital. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...