Sunday, April 24, 2011
Felt like saying hello.
You know sometimes you just feel like getting on to one of your many blogs and saying something. Even after a 3 year hiatus, you get an urge and there you go. Mostly my thoughts are unintelligible, hard to organize into a cohesive post. Today my thoughts are trending in a misanthropic direction. Towards a bitterness that humans get so caught up in the day to day of their lives. But that's probably because it's Sunday.
By tomorrow at 8am I'll be back in the thick of it TCB.
By tomorrow at 8am I'll be back in the thick of it TCB.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
KFC Subliminal Message
While watching TV for the millionth hour today I noticed a small subliminal message in that KFC dollar snacker commercial. Look at the picture above, can you see anything odd? I know the picture quality is bad (thanks iPhone), but it's still visible. See anything? If you look hard enough at the lettuce on the sandwich on the right side you can see a small dollar bill implanted in there. I don't have photoshop installed on this computer but I did the best I could with iPhoto and tried to isolate it.
See it now? It's much easier to see when you watch the actual commercial. Just some TV fun I thought I'd share.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Blog Life Spans and Complete Sentences
So what do you think is the average life span of a blog?
I would guess not very long at all. Maybe 2-3 months. Either people get bored reading it, or the author gets bored writing it, or your school forces you to stop writing it and threatens to take away your degree. Any way you look at it blogs are short lived creatures.
I had a blog in high school, and that one lasted for at least a year. But that blog was with someone else. Joint blogs I would say are much easier to maintain. Especially if the two writers compliment each other in some way. Otherwise blogs are difficult to keep up. Then again not all blogs are just boring personal journals, some are affiliated with a profession or have some sort of niche that the author, or authors are associated with. In that case those blogs can last for a much longer period. I am not really talking about those, I am more just talking about personal blogs through a blogging service such as Blogger or Live Journal. Those I would argue do not have a long life span.
How often do you hear people speak in complete sentences? I don't think it is as common as you think. People do it, they have the ability to, but alot of them seem not to. Especially actors and actresses, if you ever watch or listen to an interview with an actor alot of the time they'll give an answer and fade out and then just start a new thought without ever finishing their previous statement and just go on, it's like everything ends with an ellipsis and their answer is just one huge sentence with 19 ellipsi between every new thought. You'll also see this alot of times when people who don't know what they're trying to say are trying to make a point about something. They'll add a bunch of fillers like "umm" and "so" and "you know" and they'll go on and on and their thoughts get so convoluted that by the end YOUR not really sure what they said and they certainly don't know what they said and then everyone in the room is just left confused and frustrated at the kid in the fifth row who raises his hand every question and spouts off 13 different beginnings to a sentence and then never finishes any of them!
It's not that this kid doesn't make good points from time to time, he does, but the path to get to those points are filled with so much speech clutter and fillers and half thoughts that it's just painful to listen to. It doesn't help that he sits right in front of me so when I raise my hand and the professor points in my direction this boy automatically begins to talk (because he no doubt had his hand raised as well) and we are all forced to listen to him try to get his thoughts together enough to make one cognizant point.
Now no one is perfect, and it is sometimes hard to get your thoughts out there especially when nerves are involved. But would it be too much to ask to just put a little more thought into what you are trying to say before you begin to speak? I don't think it is.
I would guess not very long at all. Maybe 2-3 months. Either people get bored reading it, or the author gets bored writing it, or your school forces you to stop writing it and threatens to take away your degree. Any way you look at it blogs are short lived creatures.
I had a blog in high school, and that one lasted for at least a year. But that blog was with someone else. Joint blogs I would say are much easier to maintain. Especially if the two writers compliment each other in some way. Otherwise blogs are difficult to keep up. Then again not all blogs are just boring personal journals, some are affiliated with a profession or have some sort of niche that the author, or authors are associated with. In that case those blogs can last for a much longer period. I am not really talking about those, I am more just talking about personal blogs through a blogging service such as Blogger or Live Journal. Those I would argue do not have a long life span.
How often do you hear people speak in complete sentences? I don't think it is as common as you think. People do it, they have the ability to, but alot of them seem not to. Especially actors and actresses, if you ever watch or listen to an interview with an actor alot of the time they'll give an answer and fade out and then just start a new thought without ever finishing their previous statement and just go on, it's like everything ends with an ellipsis and their answer is just one huge sentence with 19 ellipsi between every new thought. You'll also see this alot of times when people who don't know what they're trying to say are trying to make a point about something. They'll add a bunch of fillers like "umm" and "so" and "you know" and they'll go on and on and their thoughts get so convoluted that by the end YOUR not really sure what they said and they certainly don't know what they said and then everyone in the room is just left confused and frustrated at the kid in the fifth row who raises his hand every question and spouts off 13 different beginnings to a sentence and then never finishes any of them!
It's not that this kid doesn't make good points from time to time, he does, but the path to get to those points are filled with so much speech clutter and fillers and half thoughts that it's just painful to listen to. It doesn't help that he sits right in front of me so when I raise my hand and the professor points in my direction this boy automatically begins to talk (because he no doubt had his hand raised as well) and we are all forced to listen to him try to get his thoughts together enough to make one cognizant point.
Now no one is perfect, and it is sometimes hard to get your thoughts out there especially when nerves are involved. But would it be too much to ask to just put a little more thought into what you are trying to say before you begin to speak? I don't think it is.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Recinding
Alllllllllllright. So I made a huge post about how I was never going to drink alcohol again real early this morning. And then all day I was just thinking about how that would actually be and you know what? It wasn't fun. I would just feel weird all the time and people would ask me "oh really why not?" and then I wouldn't really have a good answer aside from all those cookie cutter reasons I listed before and that would just make me look stupid. And as I re-read that original post I couldn't help but get kinda creeped out. It didn't sound like me...it was almost like christian. I don't know it was real weird and I did not like the feeling I got when I read it and when I thought about its implications. I think I over reacted a little bit after coming home from a weekend of excess which I think spurred on this whole thought process starting last night continuing on into this morning and I think I was my body was so depressed from all of the alcohol from the weekend that it clouded my mind and lead me to write that very odd post. Kind of like when Jenna was so upset over her lost iPhone she rationalized buying a $300 razr.
So am I still not going to drink? For the most part yes. But I am not going to absolutely abstain because after 8 hours of thought I have come to the conclusion that it would cause more problems than it would solve and all I really have to do is not spend so much money.
So sorry for whoever read that last post. It was very odd.
So am I still not going to drink? For the most part yes. But I am not going to absolutely abstain because after 8 hours of thought I have come to the conclusion that it would cause more problems than it would solve and all I really have to do is not spend so much money.
So sorry for whoever read that last post. It was very odd.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
A Treatise on Squirrels
Hello again. I read this article a while back and meant to write something about it, but then I got all wrapped up in other things like Portal and IDM music and forgot to ever post it. But anyway here it is, "Scientists prove Squirrels are Sneaky". It's not a long article but it's basically about how squirrels are so paranoid that they actually make a whole bunch of fake hiding places for their food and if you see one making a hole, there is actually about a 20% chance that it is fake. Furthermore squirrels are more likely to make a "fake" hole when they know that other squirrels are watching! Sneaky indeed. But can you blame them? There are so many squirrels frolicking about all competing for the same food source, of course they're going to be sneaky about it! I would be too.
The only thing I don't like about the article is that the writer actually doesn't like squirrels! I like squirrels. I've always said that squirrels are like the extreme athletes of the animal world. They're always darting out in front of cars, swinging across wee little branches just begging to break, risking their lives attempting to steal from bird feeders. I was walking to class once and saw a squirrel fall at least 4 stories from the top of a building. He hit the ground, looked at me and just shook it off and continued about his day. Squirrels are really just adrenaline junkies with fur.
In other news I got into the MPA program at UWM! Which means I am halfway there! I still have to get into the Urban Planning Program in order to do the dual degree, which sucks because I don't think I will hear from them until March! You'd think that they would have a little better coordination with these dual degree programs, it's like the departments have no idea what the other is doing and make no effort whatsoever to find out. Oh well. In time I'll find out.
"There will be Blood" is finally here too, which I am going to see in a few hours. I don't think I have been this excited for a movie since Gangs of New York (when I thought it was a musical, oh what a pleasant surprise that was). I think Daniel Day Lewis is a good example of one of those "quality over quantity" actors. He's been only a handful of movies (25 according to IMDB), and they're all pretty good. Unlike like Samuel L. Jackson, who has been in over 100 different films and has made 150+ appearances as himself, some good some absolute shit. Which is fine I'm not knocking actors who have alot of roles. Maybe Daniel Day Lewis doesn't get approached for that many roles or maybe he is just really, really picky. Who knows!
Im out!
(lots of exclamation points this post)
The only thing I don't like about the article is that the writer actually doesn't like squirrels! I like squirrels. I've always said that squirrels are like the extreme athletes of the animal world. They're always darting out in front of cars, swinging across wee little branches just begging to break, risking their lives attempting to steal from bird feeders. I was walking to class once and saw a squirrel fall at least 4 stories from the top of a building. He hit the ground, looked at me and just shook it off and continued about his day. Squirrels are really just adrenaline junkies with fur.
In other news I got into the MPA program at UWM! Which means I am halfway there! I still have to get into the Urban Planning Program in order to do the dual degree, which sucks because I don't think I will hear from them until March! You'd think that they would have a little better coordination with these dual degree programs, it's like the departments have no idea what the other is doing and make no effort whatsoever to find out. Oh well. In time I'll find out.
"There will be Blood" is finally here too, which I am going to see in a few hours. I don't think I have been this excited for a movie since Gangs of New York (when I thought it was a musical, oh what a pleasant surprise that was). I think Daniel Day Lewis is a good example of one of those "quality over quantity" actors. He's been only a handful of movies (25 according to IMDB), and they're all pretty good. Unlike like Samuel L. Jackson, who has been in over 100 different films and has made 150+ appearances as himself, some good some absolute shit. Which is fine I'm not knocking actors who have alot of roles. Maybe Daniel Day Lewis doesn't get approached for that many roles or maybe he is just really, really picky. Who knows!
Im out!
(lots of exclamation points this post)
Monday, January 21, 2008
Oil!
I don't really know what I have been doing these last few days.
This weekend was fun, there was alot of drinking and what not going on. John and Gallagher came down which was a nice change of pace. It was good to see them.
I almost died in the epic and infamous fire in Presidential Tower which was really the first time I have ever been in a place where there actually was a fire. It was kind of surreal to have all of those lights flashing and alarms going off still in a drunken, half asleep daze. Running down 11 flights of stairs hearing that woman's mechanized voice repeat "this is a real emergency, do not use the elevators" brought flashes of 9/11 to my mind. Except this time I was in the WTC and not watching it in my living room. And wading in the hallways with an inch of water from the sprinklers coupled with the smell of smoke just made me think of Titanic. I have pictures of all of this but they don't really do justice to the feel of the whole escapade.
Now was there a real, life threatening fire? No. I think someone lit some trash on fire with a cigarette, but when it's 4 am, you smell smoke, and all of the alarms are going off you have little choice but to treat it as a real true life emergency.
And now I have a cold. Well it's not really a cold my nose is just all stuffed up and I clear my throat about every 2 seconds. I'm sure it annoys all of the people around but most of the time I don't even know I am doing it. So sorry people around me, I don't mean to be annoying.
I'm also STILL waiting to hear back from grad schools. I literally got my applications in September. How long does it take to look at a application? Sometimes I seriously question the organization of some of these places. Although the process is somewhat overly complicated. I mean you have to first apply to the graduate school itself, then the actual program, and if you're doing a joint degree double that. So that's 2 separate applications with three offices looking at your application, essays (which are different for each program), 3 letters of recommendation from all over the country, plus your GRE scores which are sent by an entirely different entity in itself and transcripts (I almost forgot about those). But still how hard is it to run all that shit through the "admission council"? I put it in quotes because I really don't know what constitutes the "admission council" it may a computer for all I know. But I have hope that I'll hear soon. Then it's on to craigs list to find an apartment in Milwaukee (that's the hope anyway). We'll see. Anyone know anyone in Milwaukee? I only know a few people and I don't even know if they live there anymore...
And now its 7 o'clock.. where did this day go? See what I mean? I don't know what I've been doing.
This weekend was fun, there was alot of drinking and what not going on. John and Gallagher came down which was a nice change of pace. It was good to see them.
I almost died in the epic and infamous fire in Presidential Tower which was really the first time I have ever been in a place where there actually was a fire. It was kind of surreal to have all of those lights flashing and alarms going off still in a drunken, half asleep daze. Running down 11 flights of stairs hearing that woman's mechanized voice repeat "this is a real emergency, do not use the elevators" brought flashes of 9/11 to my mind. Except this time I was in the WTC and not watching it in my living room. And wading in the hallways with an inch of water from the sprinklers coupled with the smell of smoke just made me think of Titanic. I have pictures of all of this but they don't really do justice to the feel of the whole escapade.
Now was there a real, life threatening fire? No. I think someone lit some trash on fire with a cigarette, but when it's 4 am, you smell smoke, and all of the alarms are going off you have little choice but to treat it as a real true life emergency.
And now I have a cold. Well it's not really a cold my nose is just all stuffed up and I clear my throat about every 2 seconds. I'm sure it annoys all of the people around but most of the time I don't even know I am doing it. So sorry people around me, I don't mean to be annoying.
I'm also STILL waiting to hear back from grad schools. I literally got my applications in September. How long does it take to look at a application? Sometimes I seriously question the organization of some of these places. Although the process is somewhat overly complicated. I mean you have to first apply to the graduate school itself, then the actual program, and if you're doing a joint degree double that. So that's 2 separate applications with three offices looking at your application, essays (which are different for each program), 3 letters of recommendation from all over the country, plus your GRE scores which are sent by an entirely different entity in itself and transcripts (I almost forgot about those). But still how hard is it to run all that shit through the "admission council"? I put it in quotes because I really don't know what constitutes the "admission council" it may a computer for all I know. But I have hope that I'll hear soon. Then it's on to craigs list to find an apartment in Milwaukee (that's the hope anyway). We'll see. Anyone know anyone in Milwaukee? I only know a few people and I don't even know if they live there anymore...
And now its 7 o'clock.. where did this day go? See what I mean? I don't know what I've been doing.
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