Old vs. new?

I feel like the CB radio could come back as a replacement for text messaging. Look at the similarities
“Where R u?” – Texting
“What’s your 20?” – CB
“OMW” – Texting
“Copy that see you in 10″ – CB

I hate it when I call someone on the phone and they actually answer the call. I would rather leave a message then talk to them. There are people that I know that WILL answer when I call – and so I won’t call them. Or I’ll wait till I know they won’t answer, like at 4AM.

Digital cameras, although awesome, have taken out the exclusivity of photographs. It used to cost money to buy film and develop pictures so you were careful and picked your photo’s carefully…Now I’ll take 40 pictures of my family to get one good one and then delete all of them except the one.

How did the word avatar ever come about? I’m afraid of that word, and tweeting. Tweeting is not a bird call any longer, that was an embarrassing discovery.

I remember my mom moving me away from people walking down the street talking to themselves and hand motioning in a crazy fashion – they were normally the clinically insane or really high. Today I just assume that someone is talking on a phone with some sort of wireless device. One day that’s going to be a very bad mistake for me when someone I think is talking on the phone tries to eat my face because I look like a mushroom….yes I sometimes think I look like a delicious mushroom.

Things that are odd to me…

People say the word unbelievable a lot and when it doesn’t apply. When I try to ask them “really” it just doesn’t translate the appropriate amount of sarcasm and then I am continued with the why and how it’s unbelievable. i.e. That bike is unbelievably fast – Really I believe you when you say its fast so how is it unbelievably fast? A million miles an hour is unbelievable, 134 mph…completely believable.

I think the reason that people love TV so much as opposed to the reality that’s going on in front of them is that it’s sort of like a time machine. One second your in a hospital ward making funny jokes, turn the channel and suddenly your running for a touch down. It’s that instantaneous “I’m somewhere other then here” sort of feeling. When I’m at a bar and the TV is on, I’ll watch TV. Its a bar interesting characters, lots of movement, good conversation, beer, and I’m watching TV because its somewhere where I can’t be. Maybe a teletransporter is a better description.

. . . w o r d (s) . . .

More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?

Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

OK. That’s enough, Nickelback.

I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase “Regards” again.

Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know” feature on facebook people that I do know, but i deliberately choose not to be friends with?

Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or faq’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.

There is a great need for sarcasm font.

Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it.

I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.

The other night I hit a new low at an open bar. I had already hopped on highway blackout when, inevitably I had to find a bathroom. Eventually I decided it was probably on the other side of the bar so I tried to walk over there, but ran into a guy coming the other way. We played that, Both go left, Both go right game to no avail, so I finally put out my hand to guide myself past and that is when I realized, yup, that’s a mirror I just tried to walk through. And the guy on the other side is me. Even cats can recognize their own image.

How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

Was learning cursive really necessary?

Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say

I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.

Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.

How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?

I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

Everytime I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm…Goonies”

What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

Bad decisions make good stories.

Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I do!

Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?

If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….

You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.

There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

The best thing about sex is that part where I have it.

I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

“Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.

I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It’s only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?’

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?

I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my itunes.

Why is a school zone 15 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles…

As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.

Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what do to with it.

The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.

Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time…

My 4 year old son asked me in the car the other day “Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?” How the hell do I respond to that?

It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

I think the freezer deserves a light as well

How do you connect Bruce Lee with Elvis Presley

This one was a challenge.

I actually had to use imdb.com to help me with this one. But as it turns out it’s a short few jumps

Elvis Presley was in Blue Hawaii with none other then Angela Lansbury, who was in Murder She Wrote for about a hundred years. Adam West did one of the Murder She Wrote episodes and was Batman in the original Caped Crusader TV shows. Who else was a show stopper on Batman none other then the Green Lantern AKA Bruce Lee.

So now, how do we get Kevin Bacon into the mix?

Elvis was in Speedway with Nancy Sinatra who was in Wild Angels with Peter Fonda. Peter Fonda was in Easy Rider with Dennis Hopper who was in Apocalypse Now with Martin Sheen who was in Wall Street with Charlie Sheen. Brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez did Men At Work (some of there best stuff). Emilio Estevez was in St. Elmos Fire with Demin Moore who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.

Bruce Lee fought Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon. Bruce Lee and David Caradine worked together in Lone Wolf McQuade. David Caradine who now lies 6′ feet under was in Kill Bill with Uma Thurman who was in Pulp Fiction with Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis worked with Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys (who can forget that) and of course Brad was in the Mexican, Oceans 11, 12, and 13 with Julia Roberts who was in Flatliners with none other then Kevin Bacon.

Feel free to mix an match as you like. See a better jump from Bruce Lee to Elvis Presley with Kevin Bacon in the mix. Send it to me.

Patrick Swayze Pants & Luke Skywalker Shirts

Can you believe that the Itunes/App Store for Iphone doesn’t have a game called 6-Degree’s of Kevin Bacon, or for that matter, 6 Degrees to anyone. Do you know how often I’ll be at home and think, what do Patrick Swayze and Luke Skywalker have in common amongst films and actors and have to go through the infinite playlist in my head of characters and actors and find a common thread. As it turns out with the “Outsiders”, “A few good men” and “Young Guns” you can accomplish most links.

Believe me Mark Hamil to Patrick Swayze took me a while. Here’s a few directions that I took this (with some help).

Mark Hamil was in “Star Wars” with Harrison Ford (the only one to have an active career afterwards) was in “Apocalypse Now” with Martin Sheen who was in “Wall Street” with Charlie Sheen who was in “Red Dawn” with Patrick Swayze.

If you want Demi Moore in the mix, you need to go from Charlie Sheen who was in “men at work” with Emilio Estevez who was in “St Elmo’s Fire” with Demi Moore who was in “ghost” with Patrick Swayze.

Richard Dreyfus and Demi Moore: Harrison Ford was in “american grafitti” with Richard Dreyfus who was in “stand by me” with Keifer Sutherland who was in “a few good men” with Demi Moore who was in “ghost” with Swayze.

Harrison Ford was in Mosquito Coast and Indiana Jones with River Phoenix
River Phoenix was in My Own Private Idaho with Keanu Reaves
Keanu Reaves was in Point Break with Patrick Swayze

The Vuvuzela

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It’s a local South African plastic trumpet played by fans of the FIFA Soccer Tournament taking place in S.Africa. But it sounds like an angry swarm of bees. It’s really annoying. I want to watch the USA & Brazil (playing on Sunday at 1PM CST on ESPN and Telemundo) but this sound is just gratting.

So I have it on mute. Its a good game, being a half Brasilian house hold we had your traditional Beer and Chips and watched the game.

Brazil just scored it’s no 2-1 (USA, Brazil).

Please FIFA Pres. ban the Vuvuzela, so I can watch and listen.

MJ, Farah, Ed McMahon,

At one point you could ask, what do all three have in common and you would be hard pressed to find a common theme (except maybe the 6 degrees to Kevin Bacon). Now they all share the 3rd week of June as their death date.

Meanwhile, the news has been weak in its coverage of the protests in Iran. The sex scandal of the Governor of South Carolina or the fact that I fixed my air conditioning on my own (that one hasn’t made the press yet). Local news could also spend some time on the fact that this week Summerfest started, and this weekend was Strawberry festival.

Also of interest, my daughter turned 6 months old, I mowed the lawn in record time today, and I came to a conclusion on something daunting…how it is that airlines can possibly charge a “fat tax” for passengers spilling over the 18″ wide seats.

Resume your day.

Twitter, Home Depot, Lowes and Coffee

Twitter – I’m so annoyed and I don’t even know what the hell it is. I just know that its really stupid and I really want to punch anyone who say’s anything “twit-esque.”

A few weeks back I needed a new garage door opener. I went to Lowe’s -there it was in its beautiful shining glory. For $175 it would be mine. But wait, due to technology they had the same thing at Home Depot. So I asked the cashier lady if I could have a discount instead of going to Home Depot I would buy it for 10% less at Lowe’s. She called the Mill Department who said no.

I left and went to the Home Depot, same exact garage door opener – same price. I went up to the cashier, and asked him…Can I have 10% off since Lowe’s has the same thing. He said yes, rang it up and I left the store happier then I’ve been with a big box chain in a very long time.

Well Home Depot, congratulations, you are my one and only home improvement center. Not only did the cashier not have to call anyone and make me stand around waiting, but they gave me 10% off for asking.

Now I buy everything I can from Home Depot and Ace Hardware (I still love the feeling of an Ace Hardware).

Coffee – You can buy Pike’s Place for $9.99 a pound, or African Sawali blend for $16.99 at Starbucks, but I didn’t see any free-trade coffee. Alterra on the other hand, has Free Trade, Shade Grown Guatemalan for $11.00 a pound. New coffee provider = Alterra.

And that’s that.

Swine flu & the media hype

CNN.com compared The Spanish Flu of 1918 to the recent “outbreak” of Swine Flue and how the Spanish Flu of 1918 (I can’t emphasize that enough) killed 40 to 50 million people, in 1918.

In 1918 is it possible we may not have had anti-virus fighting drugs like we do today? In 1918 we didn’t have modern ideas of health and hygiene (showering daily was not on the list of most people). I’m pretty sure in we didn’t have modern medical research, but by all means we should compare the Spanish Flu of 1918 to the 2009 (yes, that’s a 91 year delta of time).

Swine flu “epidemic” or “pandemic” apparently means less than 2,000 people world wide, and less then 300 dead. More people have died from the regular Flu then this. Juarez Mexico has seen more violence and deaths then the Swine Flu in the last 3 months.

We have more people with AID’s (that definitely will kill you) then the Swine flu and where is that in the news?

Darfur just went through a 400,000 person genocide but swine flu we need to get on that.

Oh did we talk about the ten’s of thousands of US soldiers that have been sent to Afghanistan and Iraq that have died in the last 8 years from bullets or did we miss that when the media was busy capturing images of people in highly densely populated area’s wearing fun and interesting face masks? Just curious – I mean I don’t want to rant or anything but come on.

200 people died of the flu, 2 Million people died in 2007 from AIDs, 270,000 of them were children (that’s 740 children per day).

I haven’t even started on Cancer Research or Stem Cell research which could definitely use some well needed press and support.

The Milwaukee Mayor went on our local TV station and said he had called the governor and requested a state of emergency. For 7 cases of suspected swine flu (which by the way it turns out wasn’t swine flu). How about focusing a little more attention on something that needs fixing in our community. Drug addiction, domestic abuse, child neglect, a failing education system…why can’t we declare a state of emergency on being a dumb ass…because that’s what it is, a serious case of media dumb ass.

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