Jul
02
2008
The days of waiting for the mail man to come and bring good tidings to my door are long gone. What with email being the way for most folks to keep in touch any more, getting some sort of note, card or letter from anyone can only be expected these days around your birthday and the Christmas season.
My daily mail delivery usually consists of mainly of assorted junk mail and bills. So imagine my surprise and delight to find only one single piece of mail, all by it’s lonesome, sitting in my box this afternoon and this one piece just so happened to be my tax rebate check from our stimulus planning, soon to be our ex, President George W. Bush.
Now that I know the amount of the check, I will need to do some serious thought on what is the best way to use this precious bounty that has been bestowed upon me.
Jun
29
2008
A couple of friends and I stepped out last night for a bite to eat and afterwards we went to see the recently released movie WALL-E at the mall. Since we went to the last showing of the evening, we all were pretty much still full from our late dinner, so no one went crazy with the popcorn and candies, or their $5 sodas, which helped keep the cost to a minimum. These days none of us can afford to splurge much on extras like that anyway.
The film turned out to be animated and mainly geared towards children. This film possessed a not so subtle theoretical prophecy of the future in hysterically exaggerated terms, with an underlying sub-plot of a sort of the “lone survivor”, “wrong side of the tracks working stiff”, falls for the “top-of-the-line” classy, highly advanced, come to save mankind and got no time for silliness, fembot! A kind of love affair between robots. That in itself is a hoot! None the less it was quite unlike any animated film I had ever seen before. You just have to chill out and laugh. So, in my book, ’twas well worth the time and money to be seen on the big screen. Pay attention to minor details all through the movie, and you’ll not only laugh your ass off, but may find yourself giving some thought to things you’d previously paid little attention to.
Jun
24
2008
First of all, I generally don’t listen to the Don Imus show. I think he’s a jackass and I don’t waste my time listening to the kind of stuff he talks about.
But I was amused when he caught the media spotlight off his “nappy haired ho’s” remark. He needed to be reeled in, and to be honest, I was surprised that he got back on the air so quickly.
But now he’s put his foot in his mouth again. I wonder how much the station management will put up with before they require him to see a shrink or just retire?
He was discussing the Pacman Jones debacle with his producer, who is black, and he mentioned all the arrests and trouble that Pacman brought upon himself while he was supposed to be playing for the Titans. Imus says, “What color is he?” (which was his first mistake) and his producer answered, “He’s African-American.” Then Imus was stupid enough to say, “Well, there you go.”
The station management needs to show Imus the back door that dumps out into the alley with the rest of the trash and say to him as they boot his ass out, “Well, there you go!
Jun
13
2008
There’s a grocery store in Europe that makes our little ’self-checkout’ lines look obsolete already. In Germany, there’s a grocery store that you take your cell phone, scan the items with it that you put in your shopping cart and then when you get to the check out, your cell phone will display a bar code for everything you scanned total, the check out person scans that and you pay and out you go.
So it looks like we’re not only looking at advances in grocery shopping but also in cell phones. At the check out, once you scan the payment bar code, you can pay by cash, credit card, debit card or fingerprint (after you have signed up for fingerprint shopping). And the politicians wonder why we are falling behind the rest of the world where technology is concerned.
May
22
2008
Today I actually got a second mocha with whipped creame, I do love those so, but getting this second one put my espresso intake at about 5 shots within just a few hours, so I decided to get a bottle of water to help ease the stress on the kidneys. I was quite impressed with the cool shape of the water bottle I received from Starbucks, and then found it even cooler after reading the label.
Ethos water, helping children get clean water it says. That’s all I need to know to enjoy buying this water, and drinking it made me feel good emotionally, and physically too. It tastes good, and it helps some needy kids, why can’t all things that taste good do that for the world?