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Monthly Archives: April 2007
What would Ms. Lewis think?
I was visiting Devinistan and found something interesting:
- Go to abc.com
- View the 4/2/07 episode of The Bachelor
- Skip ahead to 28:00
- Someone who competed for valedictorian (not my year, a younger class…even so, I was only ranked number 11 or something…yay non-honors band!) and has spoken in front of Congress and the World Bank is there
- She is singing the national anthem
- Well played, Tina Wu, well played. You made the super-patriotic doctor/sailor/tri-athlete cry tears of national pride (without resorting to somersaults, no less!)
Welcome to the universe of Sanjaya!
I seriously was not going to write anything…I think it’s becoming too predictable that the boy’s nuts.
“Let’s try a different approach…Incredible!”
- A sarcastic Simon Cowell
From ponyhawk to Smooth Criminal, Sanjaya Malakar shows up in a white suit with slick hair.
“Welcome to the universe of Sanjaya!”
- Sanjaya
Yeah, he said it. On Tony Bennett night, even. These are my songs that they’re mutilating.
At least the Transformers trailer was funny….was it supposed to be funny?
Why am I not watching Dancing with the Stars? It has Jedi Joey and a Fortuna.
Well, like my good friend John McClane used to say…”Live free or die hard.”
He would usually say this after screaming “yipee kayay ay” and jumping from an exploding building.
(Too funny. The Mac guy/GalaxyQuest nerd is helpful in fighting terrorists. “Mom! This is a most inopportune time!” “Command Center? It’s a basement!”)
Yes, he killed a helicopter with a car. From the guys that brought you blowing up a skyscraper with a computer tied to a swivel chair.
In AD 2101 War Was Beginning
Issue 4 is up
Fulfilling a Life-long Dream
You are joining me on a momentous day that I have been tossing around since I was 8.
Yep, I applied at Nintendo of America.
No, this not a petty attempt to get a Wii.
Killer McCain
You shouldn’t make McCain angry. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
Either the Arizona Republic has a funky editor or the Associated Press has a little bit of bias. I cut it out of this morning’s paper (provided by my school…I don’t subscribe to the Arizona Republic).
(McCain says we lack a full picture. I find it ironic that I accidentally cut that off.)
Meet the Robinsons
My small group from church went to go see Meet the Robinsons yesterday. (We opted out of 300 because of the kids)(just kidding).
Meet the Robsinsons is actually a pretty fun movie, especially if you are a fan of animation history and inventions. We saw it in 3D and it actually enhanced the movie instead of taking away from it. My favorite parts were the fades. Different depths transitioned at different times. Beautiful.
The jokes are actually pretty funny. In a 5-minute stretch of film we are bombarded with a dog whose insurance doesn’t cover contacts, a life-size toy train, an uncle who shoots himself and meatballs out of a cannon, a 400 pound couch potato who “works out”, a 3D rendered Tom Selleck, potted plants that compete for which side’s doorbell will get rung by the visitor, and a mom who is the bandleader for genetically altered frogs that sing like Frank Sinatra (a villain later in the film gets escorted by two suit-wearing frogs to the trunk of a car to “sleep with the fishes”). It’s a whirlwind of craziness/randomness without resorting to crude humor.
Also of note is the classic Chip and Dale/Donald Duck cartoon that has been made 3D (still cell drawings but now there are layers). Well worth the ticket price.
From Sol to Davida
If you wanted to see a comparison of largest to smallest of things in our solar system, check this out.
Wal-Mart Wii Woes
I went to Wal-Mart at 11:30 last night looking for their new shipment of Wiis. Their printed advertisement indicated that there would be 7 in stock. My wife talked to a store worker earlier and they said that they had some in the back that they would put out at midnight. I figured that 11:30 would beat the rush.
I show up and the two that they had were already sold to two other people. Now, usually I wouldn’t write or complain about this. Oh well, it’s sold out. I was one of the ones at the front of the line that got to see Episode II with Alice Cooper and Dan Harkins (and hear rumors of a re-opening of the CineCapri firsthand two years in advance). People at the back of the line didn’t share that same experience.
I understand queue dynamics.
The issue that I found, though, was when the store manager called a nearby branch. That Wal-Mart had already sold their Sunday copies on Tuesday of last week. The store manager tried to turn off the speaker phone quickly and said, “Really? You’re not supposed to do that. I’d heard a lot of our stores had done that. Yeah, I’d bet you have a line of angry customers. Have fun with that.” It sounded kinda fishy.
The reason I write is because Wal-Mart is not following company policy with distribution of product. Instead of the meager 7 consoles they get 2, and instead of waiting for Saturday/Sunday they sell the following week’s supply a week early. I think that Wal-Mart can do whatever they want to because they are Wal-Mart. What can I do to change it?
Wal-Mart has a GNP that is higher than around 150 other countries. They could buy Denmark if they wanted to. Here’s something that I find funny. I first noticed Wal-Mart’s practices after reading Mustard Seed vs. McWorld. Here is a link to where you can buy the book…from Wal-Mart! At least they’re not blocking the sale of a book that is so critical of them.
I leave you with this:
Mr. David Glass, President & CEO
Wal-Mart
702 SW 8th Street
Bentonville, AR 72716
phone: (501) 273-4000
fax: (501) 273-4894
email: letters@wal-mart.com