My job is so fucking unbelievable. I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:
First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.
The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.
But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day.
Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.
8/28/2009
Remember Who You Wanted To Be
I generally don't pay much attention to bumper stickers.
They're usually kinda stupid.
A few days ago while sitting on the off-ramp on the way to work my eyes rested on the car in front of me and I noticed a bumper sticker that I actually liked.
It read:
Remember Who You Wanted To Be
I found that to be very thought provoking, and an important message for everyone to think about.
Pretty surprising for a bumper sticker.
They're usually kinda stupid.
A few days ago while sitting on the off-ramp on the way to work my eyes rested on the car in front of me and I noticed a bumper sticker that I actually liked.
It read:
Remember Who You Wanted To Be
I found that to be very thought provoking, and an important message for everyone to think about.
Pretty surprising for a bumper sticker.
Do you remember the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
how praying works - by Emo Philips
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole
one and prayed for forgiveness.
- Emo Philips
Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole
one and prayed for forgiveness.
- Emo Philips
the internet is making everyone smarter (even accidentally)
Conventional wisdom is that technology is responsible for the dumbing down of culture. Text messaging and social networking are teaching kids to not worry about spelling or grammar etc. etc.
Andrea Lunsford isn't so sure. Lunsford is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, where she has organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples—everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. Her conclusions are stirring.
"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as Lunsford calls it. Those Twitter updates and lists of 25 things about yourself add up.
It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again.
read more here:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
Andrea Lunsford isn't so sure. Lunsford is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, where she has organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples—everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. Her conclusions are stirring.
"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as Lunsford calls it. Those Twitter updates and lists of 25 things about yourself add up.
It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again.
read more here:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
8/13/2009
John Hughes > Michael Jackson
John Hughes died last week.
This was mentioned in the media for maybe 20 hours, while Michael Jackson got 24 hour news coverage for almost 20 days after he died.
Michael Jackson released 2 great albums: Off The Wall, and Thriller. Which amounts to 19 songs worth listening to. The rest of his discography was pretty much crap.
John Hughes wrote and directed Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Buehler's Day Off, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck etc.
He also wrote Pretty In Pink, National Lampoon's Vacation, National Lampoon's European Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Home Alone etc.
John Hughes was a more prolific artist, a more important 80s icon, made a larger cultural impact, and was more important in every way.
He deserves more attention than a dancer with a missing nose.
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