Movies that suck. That is what irks you... you watch the preview... think its going to be a pretty good movie, right? So you fork over the 14 bucks. I mean of course you drag your date right? Then it starts. You watch 15 minutes of previews... and blah. The movie stinks. Sure it has a few parts that are cool and all. But overall, it was a complete waste of time! A year from now sure you can say you saw it. But yet I bet you will barely remember any part of it right? Which leads into the second thing that irked me today. Wasting time. Here we are in the age of information where people are "mostly" civilized, and we are in a service oriented economy. But I had to cut the grass today. Waste of time. I had to drive to the theater. Waste of time. I had to wait in line for one over priced soft drink. And then I had to waste 2 hours of perfectly good time watching a movie I thought stunk. At least I got to spend it with my hunny though right? Ciao. posted by Bryan at 11/03/2001 06:42:00 PM
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
I depend on technology for basically all of my existance. I mean my job is doing it, I do it for fun, and well its pretty much integrated into every facet of my life. Of course when say RGE wants to cut my power for a couple hours, that really impacts it. How about when I have to get a new laptop? I have to basically move my whole being from one machine to another... Does anyone know some good backup software? posted by Bryan at 10/30/2001 11:31:00 AM
Monday, October 29, 2001
Communication is the effective exchange of information resulting in mutual understanding... which is fairly hard for even some of the smartest people on the planet sometimes... KPAX was a pretty darn good film. posted by Bryan at 10/29/2001 08:50:00 PM
Food... it is such a necessity of life right? So everyone knows I love Nick Tahous... the smell the taste of an awesome garbage plate (for those of you that don't know what one is, think of a side of french fries, a side of macaroni salad, with two cheeseburgers piled on top, all smothered in hot sauce, mustard, and ketchup.) calls my name all day long. Yet when Zig and I show up to eat one, its a constant fury to eat. We blink and our plates are clean. Amazing. Now why don't we take our time and enjoy this food that we crave so much. Was I brought up knowing mostly a fast food lifestyle. Anyway... don't really know where I'm going... just wanted to make sure the first rant was up here, and I just had an awesome garbage plate. :P Laters. posted by Bryan at 10/29/2001 08:35:00 PM
Lets talk about a news article I recently read someplace, sorry can't remember where, I think it was maybe even an opinion section in the Democrate and Chronicle... I was reguarding fat discrimination. In todays age we are well at least I am very accepting of everyone, basically your good until proven evil right? I mean I don't discriminate against people I dont think, maybe against people that are computer illiterate, but its not my intent. I agreed 100% with the article in the paper, women are liberated, african americans are treated as equals. The next hurdle for society is how to deal with the obese. Correct? I mean I honestly can say I have in the past said "look at that person" in and I think all of us have more or less done the same. Even those people that are one of them, probably have seen others worse off than themselves right?
So I think there are two fronts here, I mean no one should be discriminated against for anything really, the world should just be a huge sterile box, and everyone must be happy and smile. But of course we know that won't happen. So how do we deal with say obese people on an airplane, they are so big that they really take up two seats. Should we force them to purchase two seats, no thats discrimination. But the airline can't sell the middle seat right? Cause no one would fit. Its a catch 22, and I think the airline just has to take a hit in that case right?
So where am I going with this... I'm not sure. :) sorry. It was on my mind, and I just wanted to rant about it. Send me some email, I'm curious on what your thoughts are...
There are two groups on the internet related to this topic, them and tons more information can be found on this section of yahoo's website. Enjoy.
So... the rant for this evening... Thanksgiving. A day to give thanks? So the pilgrims way back when had their thanksgiving, the first year they were here, they had a really tough winter right? Then that summer they had a great harvest, and invited the Indians to come and share in their prosperity. So from then on sometime from Sept-Dec a thanksgiving was celebrated, and finally in November 1941 President Roosevelt made it officially the fourth Thursday in November. Of course I wasn't born until 1977, and I've always known it to be that Thursday. Weird? So how from 1623 to today did we get to celebrate that as a national holiday. What secret holidays do we celebrate right now that maybe in 400 years will be official days off?
I think with the ever growing commercialization of society, that we can't afford to have more national holidays huh. We get too many already right? So this past week we celebrated a day of giving thanks where we travel home, to see friends and family. And we eat, watch the parade and football. Then we fall asleep early so we can all flock to the malls to be the first in line to buy presents to give to each other on the next day of our holiday season right?
I liked having the time off work to sit around and do nothing, I heard my cousin's band on wed, slept all day, then went and ate till I couldn't move. Then I went and saw Unbreakable, which isnt a movie you should see with Tryptophan slowly making you drift off to sleep.
For more information on the origin's of Thanksgiving... visit here:
http://americanhistory.about.com/homework/americanhistory/library/weekly/aa112497a.htm posted by Bryan at 10/29/2001 08:33:00 PM
First off, I'd like to say happy new year... and to check out the pics... I think the party was a pretty good success. And whom ever the smokers were that got my car... well I'm gunna kick their butts ok? So now that we are in this new millenium... 2001. What do you think we will get too see technology wise in the next few years before say I die... www.deathclock.com says I have approximately 1,591,516,200 seconds left to live... which puts me at around June 10, 2051. My grandparents got to go from horse and buggy to space stations circling the planet. The article in the paper says that most things in the 2001 space odessy have come true, and we are even starting to mimic star trek in ways right? Communicators = cell phones... and phasers... well stun guns and other non-lethal weapons right? We have plenty of food that magically makes itself in that little microwave oven right? Teleporters I think would be the coolest thing, but highly impractical huh, even if they had to be base to base. It would revolutionize the planet too much at once. Hovercars maybe? Like the jetsons? Or maybe we are going to take a turn for the worse here and end up like mad max? So why should I try so hard to save for retirement if the only thing that will be important in 20 years is how much gas you have stored in your basement, and where to get clean water right? Which all comes back to that theory, what is the meaning of life... posted by Bryan at 10/29/2001 08:31:00 PM
Amusement parks. So we wake up early usually drive at least an hour to them, so we can stand in line for an hour. Then we get hopefully around 2 minutes of thrilling exilerating fun. Disney world is now letting you sign up, and then you come back and wait in line for a few minutes. Hmmm... sounds better. Anywho I went to cedar point with Magical Marla, it was my first time there, although I think some of the lines are extremely long, I think overall those were some of the best roller coasters I've been on. But I also think it had something to do with who I was riding with. An amusement park is suppose to amuse right? But if you spend 4-5 hours in line for a total of 15 minutes of fun, were we amused? If you have good company the 4-5 hours go quick. I'm tired. Ciao. posted by Bryan at 10/29/2001 08:30:00 PM
Sticking with my rant on amusement park lines, I've been doing a tad bit of flying in the past year or so and well, the lines at the airport are far too long too. A person arrives at the airport, and their goal is to take their big back and to check it in, so that they can go and sit someplace to wait to board the plane. The DMV around our area has tickets, you walk in... tell the clerk what your here to do, and they give you a ticket, like at the meat counter for your cold cuts right. So you sit down and chill. If its something super quick, then you get a fast ticket and jump right to the front for your 2 minutes, if its a commercial vehicle transaction, you get that kind of ticket. Either way, you get your little ticket, and sit down and relax. Read your book, try to get comfy, stare into space. At the airport? No way... you walk in, and if your smart, you have an e-ticket, and can procede to your gate. But wait! You have to check in that huge bag ya brought huh? So you look at the long line. Its probably going to take at least 30 minutes for everyone to get through that line. The airports are big enough, waiting in line is the norm, why cant we have a little area with some more chairs, and we get little tickets like the DMV does. It just makes more sense, waiting in line just plain stinks standing up, and every two minutes moving your bags 3 more feet. A better system is needed. Its the new millenia, lets start using this technology to our advantage! posted by Bryan at 10/29/2001 08:30:00 PM
ANTHRAX... is an ancient disease known from pre-biblical days. Everyone can probably go into their backyards and find it in the ground. Its quite a simple killing machine, in that a spore enters your body through inhalation and within a week there is a 80-90 percent chance you'll be dead. I mean at first it will seem like you have a small cold, but when you are having trouble breathing, and your to weak to stand, its too late.
So how about the vaccine, of course there is one, its quite simple three shots two weeks apart each, then booster shots at six, twelve, and eighteen months, and yearly thereafter. The only problem is that they are outrageously expensive so therefore only military personnel, veterinarians, farm workers, and other personnel that deal with animals or fur really get a chance to have the shot.
So the rant right? Anthrax cases are very common outside the United States, sure maybe 5 people a year contract it here and died, so we make a big deal of it in the news. I just don't get it, I guess I might be worried if I was in a big city and walked to work every day, but I'm not... I work from home, so unless I see that suspicious crop duster flying over head. I know I'm safe. Of course there is always Erie digging up my backyard so who knows if she'll find some and give it to us.
Bottom line no need to worry. But if you have a few hundred dollars laying around and like shots, by all means go for it. Or I guess you could sign up for a few years and help defend the country, then you'd get one for free. :-) Peace. posted by Bryan at 10/29/2001 08:28:00 PM
This is friggin cool... everytime I want to say something now all I have to do is load up aim and write till my hearts content... I can go on hear and rant about anything and it will just get posted to my website! Its amazing... god I love technology posted by Bryan at 10/29/2001 05:54:00 PM
