Nothing, Infinity and You

As I'm eating my banana pudding (with cookie crumbles (yum)) I realize that I'm eating too much. I'm starting to look like the Michelin Man. Then I got to thinkin', there is a Michelin Dog; is there a Michelin Wife? And if there is a Michelin Wife, why aren't there Michelin Kids? Is it because the Michelin Man (aka, Bibendum or "Bib the Michelin Man") uses rubbers (tee hee)? [pondering] Hmm, a mystery.

No, this is not a reference to the new soundtrack from television series "Lost". It's funny how companies like Microsoft can take an average term or word® and make it their own trademark. ABC did the same thing when they created the show "Lost". Anyway, this is about my car being broken into last night before midnight. My iPod® was stolen. Luckily, that was the only thing that was in my car. I usually keep my $1000 digital SLR camera in the glove compartment (are you taking notes, you miserable bastards?) as well as my $1500 flute, my $2200 Mac®Book® Pro® and my wallet (ok, that last item really has no value).

Even thought this atrocious incident happened, I was able to stop at my local Starbucks®, on my way to work, and get myself a $1.90 cup of coffee and accept my barista's command of "Have a nice day"®. Well, it's 8:15AM EST. Let's see what this "nice day" has to offer.

Back in the '80s (1980's for those of you who time travel and can't tell which century I'm talking about), there was a game called "Burger Time" where you were a little chef creating "perfect" burgers by walking across the humongous burger layers (top bun, meat patty (or "meatwad", but that's allusion to something else), lettuce, cheese, etc.). To thwart your creations, Mr. Hot Dog, Mr. Egg and Mr. Pickle chased you around. You were armed with a pepper shaker whereas you would shake pepper (black pepper, I presume) that would render your "enemies" useless for a few seconds while you continue your delectable creations. (More)

This post is coming to you from my BlackBerry. My blog has reached the 21st century! Now I can blog on-demand. Whenever I'm bored in a waiting room or when I see something interesting while in the car! THIS opens up possibilities1 Back to work.

I love the movie Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and I am aware that they are not the most artistic pieces of work, but they allow me to escape the hum drum of my life and for the approximate 2.5 hours that each run, I'm in a world where I would not mind being. This article is by a gentleman who's avoided watching Star Wars for 30 years! Finally he watches it and he has some interesting comments on it. I totally agree with his assessment of the movie and the impact it had/has to our society. It makes me sad to see the truth of the situation. It makes me sadder to see that true art, very creative art can go by unoticed and unappreciated by our society in lieu of shallowness. Perhaps people nowadays don't want to "think" and just want a drug effect and their addiction is shown in the form of obssessiveness over the story line, characters and their "lives", trivia, etc. Is this the demise of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, DaVinci, et al, to name a few?  Is the pop culture the new classical era? Something to think about.

Just bought a Wii (damn marketing!) and with it, I got Super Paper Mario. The premise of the game is basically to stop The Nothing (they call it The Void; same thing). The game takes FOREVER to start because it forces you to read the dialogue. If anybody knows how to by-pass the useless dialog, let me know.

Wow! I just read this article on Mary Tyler Moore and thought to myself how did this guy get all this insight on the show? I never saw the show like that! What made me read an article on MTM? Well, I'm writing this post from Minneapolis. 'Nuf said.

Well, the act of reading about MTM and the fact that the Internet is the ultimate source of referencial topics, I was able to link to the following articles as well.

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I need to revisit these episodes. TV Guide seems to regard them as an absolute must see! I'm sure I've seen them. I may have seen them as a kid which is probably why I did not get the meaning of MTM. The last time I watched MTM was in college: I was drunk and hobbled to my former roommate's dorm room around midnight. I woke him up and walked in the room only to take a chair and sit in from of the TV and watch MTM reruns for 6 hours.

Gawd those were the good ol' days! 

Ok. Now that I got your attention, just wanted to let you know that I've disabled the "Send" button on the comments form. Some a**h*** is spamming my blog via the comments page. I need to put a graphic verification thingy on that page. Does anybody know how to do that?My blog is written in PHP. Thanks.

This past week I was in New York City on business. Mind you, I am not foreign to NYC (as the locals call it), but I keep getting a wake up call every single time I visit the place. New Yorkers or "Yorkies", as the locals call themselves...wait...actually I was referring to dogs. Never mind. Anyway, New Yorkers (as I was saying), are eight million plus people with their proprietary mode of behaviour (notice how I used the British version of "behavior"; it's just so cool). You WILL NOT find that kind of behaviour (hehe) anywhere else. (More)

It was my turn to cook today. I took hot a package of spicy Italian sausages from the freezer and put them in the sink to thaw. I turned on the faucet only to see the water trickle out of existence. "Hmm..." I thought to myself, "...I *just* washed my hands two minutes ago and there was water. Unless...NO!!!!!!!" I ran to the living room window. I saw a man from the county shutting off my water. (More)

Football carries a connotation of brutes chasing a ball that isn't even round and fans making complete fools of themselves. The stadium fans of tonight's Super Bowl took this idiosity to a new low: when calling the Chicago Bears line-up, the crowd boo-ed when the announcer called out Muhsin Muhammad's name. I'm not a football fan so I may not be privy to certain information about this person, but this is a blatant display of racial hatred. Just because a person (an American, no less) has an Islamic name doesn't make him the enemy. People should get their heads out of their asses. 

My family went on a cruise without me. I thought I could get many things done, but it seems that I am useless without them. Or perhaps, I'm doing the same things I do every day, but because they are not around, I am more aware of my uselessness. Something to think about.

[Please read my previous post first] 

This morning, my cat was sooooooo happy to see me. He kinda acts like my dog. My dog, when she sees me, gets on her back so that I can scratch her tummy (because I'm the alpha dog, of course). My cat, instead, thrashes on the floor, but since cats are so self-asorbed (at least mine is), they stop in the middle of honoring you to groom themselves. Once they finish THEIR task, they continue on with the task for you. Geez!

Ok. After yesterday's post I've decided to blog just to blog (BJTB), but since there are people out there who think like me, I will shield them from the mundane blog posts by adding "BJTB" on the subject line. That way, if they RSS my site, they can skip that day's post. Fair?

I've hesitated creating a blog because I felt that I would be pressured to post entries every day. I then decided that I would only post when I have "something" to say. I don't like those bloggers and bloggettes (I know: every bloggette is a blogger (damn femenists!)) who blog "just to blog". They would post something like "Today I was lonely so I went to the mall" [End of Post]

To all you lame bloggers! Post something worth posting!

PS

This is a lame post.