Random Amusings (past blog, but this one's from June 2007)

random amusings
Surgeon General's warning- reading this blog has not been scientifically proven to reduce male-pattern baldness in male and female subjects, but it hasn't been proven NOT TO either. Don't read this blog at your own follicles' risk!I saw an article talking about lots of people scheduling their wedding for 7/7/07. That's cool. Then I read that even Wal-Mart is getting in on the $fun$: "Wal-Mart will marry seven couples in the lawn and garden section of seven of its stores as part of its "Lucky in Love Wedding Search." I guess this is in follow-up to their poorly received "Roll Back the Wedding Vows Divorce Search"...Next up- Blockbuster has decided to drop HD DVD's completely from their line-up, since the SLIGHT majority of people renting high-definition discs are renting Blu-Ray. For the uninitiated, Blu-Ray and HD DVD are the two formats competing to take the place of DVDs. Their benefit is that they have much higher resolution video and audio, even better than HD TV and DVD-audio. This is BAD NEWS for the consumer. Why? Because the company behind the Blu-Ray format is Sony. You may remember them as the company that introduced the Walkman back in 80-something, or the company behind the Playstation. They're also the company that DOES NOT CARE about consumer rights. If Sony wins the DVD-replacement war, expect them to clamp down very tightly on all Blu-Ray players, virtually eliminating consumer digital freedom. For more on Sony's attack on consumer rights, just go to eff.org (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and type in Sony in the search box.I went to my younger brother's graduation Saturday night (and my cousin too). It was nice seeing them graduate (congrats, Dave!!! congrats, Zach!!!) It was not nice hearing him graduate. It's one thing to not show respect for your fellow man. It's quite another to take said respect, bite it off with your gold teeth, shove it under your gold chains, down your way-too-small shirt, past the rolls of gratuitous fat, down your itsy-bitsy skirt and piss all over it- while screaming and yelling at the top of your lungs because you're so proud of the 30 or 40 high school Seniors who somehow managed to graduate despite knowing you. I do believe the zoo would be too civilized for the group of people a few rows above me, and I would like to apologize to any animals who were offended by even being in this comparison. Oh, and the graduating students were all very well-behaved, and did a great job. I sure hope that David and Zach have as much fun in college as I did. As opposed to my wife, who has a sticker that says "School prepares you for the real world. Which also sucks". I like that one. And I hope there were at least a FEW highlights for her in college :). Well, I think I've gone on well past long enough, and entered into the "really, really bored people are the only ones still reading this" zone. So, buh-bye!