Is it just me or are the Microsoft ads shouting that they are the computer for simple children? I’m getting inundated with six-year-olds telling me they are a PC. Now I’m getting people telling me they want it simple, over and over and over… It’s a computer folks, it’s supposed to do what you tell it to do. Simple and childlike means you are a slave to the machine. These ads make PC users look like simpletons. And the fact that their OS still ships with those annoying “trials” for AOL isn’t really helping their cause…
Not every death is a catastrophic event. There is no need for drama when an old man dies of natural causes. You can’t say he “was silenced”. If he was a great orator you may say his voice “fell silent” but unless he was murdered, he wasn’t silenced. Let the old person die in peace without you interjecting some god-damn drama into the rather uneventful event. Everyone dies man, we don’t need to make it sound special…
I watched the opening for the World Series last night. I don’t really know why… I want to like baseball out of some kind of misguided loyalty to my childhood but honestly, I’ve got better shit to do than sit and watch other people play a game on TV. Even though I still try to consider myself a very passive fan of the Yankees, I only recognized the names of half the players introduced. I can give you the names, numbers and field positions of the 1977 and 1978 Yankees lineup but who the fuck is CC Sabathia or Mark Teixeira? I give up on sports…
I also watched the opening pitch and the National Anthem. I was cringing, waiting for them to screw it up. Most people feel the need to embellish the song, add a few notes here and there, rise three and then drop four octaves on a single syllable (ghetto yodeling)… And the guy comes out to sing it and does a fairly decent job. He added a flourish toward the end but it’s then that I realize that I have a scaled tolerance for people who sing the National Anthem. It goes in order from least to most expectant to screw it up: Anyone in military uniform, choir without soloist, anyone wearing a cowboy hat, choir with soloist, bearded man wearing cowboy hat and sunglasses, skanky half naked chick, skanky half naked chick wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat.
On the chance of possibly getting tasteless or offensive, I have an honest question… Who the FUCK lets their seven-year-old kid walk to school by their selves?! Becca is thirteen and we still get worried when she has to walk a block and a half to the bus stop. We make her call us when she walks across the street to the pool. I know this is treading on some raw emotions and we don’t even know the whole story yet… so leave the current news story out of it. Do you let your seven-year-old kid run wild? I saw a news report tonight about a street being blocked off due to police activity. No one was allowed to return to their homes and one mother was upset because her nine-year-old was home alone and she couldn’t get to her. What the fuck man? Who are these people and how can we be surprised when something bad happens to these kids?
The Jeff Dunham show? Really? Why are we rewarding this guy for playing with dolls? Is anyone over the age of five actually entertained by this guy? I enjoyed Super Grover and Cookie Monster but I was six years old! At least Henson and crew had the sense to keep their mouths out of the frame. This Dunham guy doesn’t even look like he’s freaking trying to do ventriloquism and that’s his freaking job title! If he moves his mouth while making the dummy talk, then he’s just a guy playing with dolls. And you guys gave him a TV show for that!?
I have not now, nor have I ever had a 1946 Ford for sale. I can understand someone typing in the wrong phone number in their advertisement but why am I getting calls for three straight months? Is this guy blindly reposting the same ad with my phone number on it? And why hasn’t he wondered why he hasn’t gotten a single phone call on this yet? The people that call are nice enough when I tell them it must be a typo but then they call back as if they just hit the redial. Wrong number is a wrong number folks! So maybe you try it again thinking you fat-fingered it but why would you try it again a week later? I need to seek out this ad so I can call the guy and tell him…
October 30th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
The new Mac and PC ads are funny as hell, but I’m biased.
Baseball…. I have to agree…. Sigh, and my grandfather was a huge Reds fan. But that’s Baseball…. Don’t screw with my Football, dude…
I don’t know enough about the child who was killed… I think “It’s Too Early” but I agree that maybe the one silver lining is that parents will think about what risks their kids are in. On the other hand, I can see how you might make the mistake of false security too – the neighborhood is nice, she was supposed to be with all her friends, and when we were growing up, we both were off galavanting for hours without our parents knowing precisely where we were, hell, staying under my parents observation was a punishment, when I was growing up.
Jeff Dunham… I like his stand up, and as ventriloquists go, he’s pretty good, the equal to Edgar Burgan in his art. But a Show? I’ve seen two episodes…. I can assure you there will not be a second season.
How much were you asking for the ford? can you forward pictures?
October 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
When did you get a ’46 Ford? You didn’t tell me about it… and why are you selling it now? I AM SOOOOO CONFUSED!