Archive for January, 2010

This made me laugh hard enough that I choked on the water I was drinking. Maybe it isn’t that funny, but I feel jovial today so don’t judge me!

In related news, an actor is not an expert on world affairs.

comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

I’m not impressed Apple. Not in the least bit.

You have grand announcements  about your new products, and I just expect more.

The iPad is a larger iPhone. That’s it. It is aesthetically nothing more than that. It is functionally nothing more than that. Is that a bad thing? No, not at all. The iPhone was a revolutionary device, the iPad is not.

That’s why I’m disappointed. Apple builds a lot of their brand on being ‘revolutionary’ and ‘on the cutting edge’, as a side note Dennis Rodman also marketed himself with these traits, and when new products don’t change our ideas of what can be done, it’s a failure to their own marketing strategy.

Do I think it’s an amazing device? sure. Do I think Apple could have done better? absolutely. Either they need to fall in line with HP and DELL and everyone else in their announcing products via press release, or they need to step up their game.

Sorry for the lack of humor today, it’s a pressing issue.

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Do you people like movies? What’s so great about them? They make improbable probable, and thus for a short while after the movie is over, you think that just maybe you can do something like that.

If you folks don’t, I certainly do. I watched “Funny People” the other day and decided that I could have a career as a stand up comedian. Then, shortly thereafter, I watched “UP!” and purchased 15,000 helium balloons.

So how many janitors figure out nuclear fusion based on leftover work in the offices/classrooms they clean? None. How many janitors clean said offices/classrooms? I don’t have a number, but I would guess more than a few.

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There are more numbers to deal with today in the news media than ever before. This comic pretty much sums up my whole thought process on it, so enjoy!

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I didn’t know about the earthquake in Haiti until more than 24 hours later. I was perfectly happy. I didn’t have to deal with concerned celebrities near as long as people who learned about it just after it happened.

People asked, “Wow have you not been watching the news?” No, I hadn’t been.

As in the comic, people are growing concerned with the massive amounts of catastrophic disasters that we are seeing so “frequently” across the globe. It is the end of times!!! God is punishing us for Pacts with Satan/Queer Eye for the Straight Guy/Hanging out with Palestinians/Feminists (Thanks Pat Robertson). Global cooling. I mean warming! No cooling! Magnetic poles shifting. Arrghhh! How can you be so calm?

I do blame it all on watching the news. We have too much news. Multiple stations with 24 hours newscasts, on top of about 4-5 hours of “news” on the network channels each night. We have near instant (to verify, I just pinged a server in Australia.. 253ms. Close enough to instant for me) communication with the entire world. A whale gets beached in remote Indonesia and we get a fifteen minute special on how submarine sonar destroys wildlife. Katrina killed anywhere from 1-2 thousand people! I will edit out the blasphemous statement I made here. Yes, it is tragic that these people died. In 1976 an earthquake in China killed half a million people. A flood in 1931 killed over a million. And of course, since we know the world is ending now thanks to The 700 Club, with all the plagues and famine we have spreading across the world. SARS, swine flue, avian flu. Heck, one might forget about the fact that in the mid-1300′s about 75 million (about 50%) of the population of Europe was destroyed by the plague.

I’m just saying, maybe we have so many people on anxiety or depression medication because they watch the news.

comic from Nicky510