UK newspapers are very interesting. For example on the gaurdian.co.uk page: today they have a video where a woman is going to give us tips on how to live after the apocalypse. Apparently the post-apocalypse is upon us and I’m a fool for not knowing that. And while the woman in the video has no electricity, running water, or “biscuits,” she apparently has an endless supply of cigarettes. The same page proclaims: “Children Should Not Drink Alcohol.” Ummm… what? And, uh… duh!? No really: “Government’s chief medical officer says children under 15 should not drink any alcohol.” And beneath that, they link to a page where readers can discuss this outrageous finding if they completely disagree and feel that children should be hammered constantly. It’s a strange world out there.
There’s a little kid in the hall here where I work bellowing the chorus from Who Let the Dogs Out! Damn funny stuff.
Crap… I hate Helvetica, but if the “Which Font Are You” quiz at:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/helvetica/quiz.html
says I’m Helvetica, it must be true. Right?
After working at my job for 6 years, and being in the same office for more than 5 of those 6 years, people keep saying to me: “Hey! They finally gave you your own office.”
Because I own shares in Campbell Soup I thought this Colbert Report was particularly funny:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/210676/november-17-2008/soup-war
How many of these CSI shows are there? Are they all this bad? I think that one of the main things that people who write for television are missing is that matters of life and death aren’t really that interesting. Life and death are binary and inevitable propositions. Everyone is, was, or will be both alive and dead. Things that happen to everyone and can’t be changed, like taxes, are NOT INTERESTING. Once you realize this, television shows like CSI can hold no interest for you. I don’t care why these people ended up dead. What I do care about is realism and I realize that crime labs which have budgets ten times those of Fermilab don’t actually exist and this blows the whole show for me. Luckily I change the channel before I notice that the dialog must have been written by lobotomized Colugos, and lobotomizing animals is never funny. Of course on the other channel is Grey’s Anatomy which is trying to interest me with big words, predictable interpersonal conflicts, and the ubiquitous heart-tugging matters of life and death. Throw in some ethnicity and humor for us Latinos and there you have it, *M*A*S*H*. Along the same lines is House. In every episode, Dr. House is cruel but charming, predictable but pablum, and a junkie but brilliant. While I was at first drawn in by the complete and obvious rip off of Sherlock Holmes (House is Holmes, and his friend James Wilson is John Watson), each episode has become more predictable than the last. Of course it centers around matters of life and death. House, seems to be the most misguided of the television doctors as 95% of his diagnoses turn out to be wrong while he alternately tries to kill to cure his patients, insults their intelligence, and invades their privacy. He also treats the other inmates of the hospital in boringly outrageous ways against the backdrop of days-of-our-lives-style soap opera drivel. Why does it take him an entire episode to get a single diagnosis right? Can’t they just have one episode where he gets it right on the first try and then they put the baseball game on like a reverse rain delay? Meanwhile, PBS has the Antiques Roadshow on. I get it I get it. Many people have lots of old crap that may or may not be worth something! Oh God! I hate when the Office is a rerun!
Me: Schlogging through the slush across campus carrying a 19 inch LCD monitor.
Dr. Steinberg: Couldn’t they just get you a Blackberry?
Just doing some basic math the $50 billion dollars that Bernard L. Madoff vaporized in his giant Wall street scam (which mind you, is only his estimate of how much money is gone) is the equivalent of the disappearance of 20 times today’s value of General Motors. TWENTY TIMES!
The Azteca restaurant in the Top’s plaza has reopened under new ownership.
Why exactly is it that the people that you would love to talk to, you never get a chance to while the a**holes who have NO reason to talk you, accost you at every chance and talk your bloody ear off?
