Happy Day of National Freedom!

07.04.2003

Yes, July 4th. With any luck everybody is at home and not seeing this until Monday.

To celebrate our freedom from the British, I ask why are British headlines so hard to understand? The headline reads "WHY NODDY FAN STEVEN HAS BEEN ORDERED TO BURN HIS OUTFIT AND SCRAP PARP-PARP." Noddy? Parp-Parp?

Thanks to Jerry, I took a 100 question 80's quiz last night. I knew 84 of the questions. Granted, I guessed on a couple and managed to get them right, but what kind of an excuse is that? I managed to get a few of them right thanks to 80's recap shows on VH1. But still, 84. At least I didn't know who shot JR.

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Still Don't Ever Call!

07.03.2003

Just for fun yesterday, I signed up on the national Do Not Call Registry, even though I said I wasn't. It was amazingly simple. All of 2 steps.

Soon afterwards, I found this story of a man what called his telemarketer 100 times because they just kept on calling. That's the quirky kind of thing you hear that makes people sitting around in a bar cheer. Hear hear!

On a more serious note, a man accused of scamming people on eBay had been accused of scamming people on eBay to pay his fine for scamming people on eBay. It's recursive criminality at its finest. More than that, it makes me anxious to see if the used Mac iBook I just bought on eBay is going to make it here next week.

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Do Not Call. Ever. Ever Ever Ever.

07.02.2003

With the passing of the Do Not Call Registry to prevent telemarketers from calling you, over 10 million people have registered so far. That's a lot of people to not call. People generally think of telemarketers as annoying, pushy people. I tend to think of them as a chance to have fun.

I'm usually not mean, I just like to see if I can get them off their script and then see what happens. Whether it's asking if they have an annoying automatic dialer (like I did a couple of weeks ago), just saying "no" no matter how long they keep asking, or coming up with something off the wall (like Elaine telling the long distance telemarketer she had no phone, while talking to him on the phone!).

Maybe I'm just a glutton, but think of all the out of work telemarketers that are going to be a burden on our society when they don't even have a chance to call and offer us a great deal on a vacation.

Or magazine subscription.

Or septic tank cleaner (I actually had that one once).

Or family pictures.

Ok, maybe a lack of telemarketers isn't such a bad thing after all.

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Camtoonless Tuesday

07.01.2003

I haven't been the best camtoon maker lately, so I'm skipping a day. I tried making one for today, but it just wasn't funny (and if you've read some of the ones I've made, you can only imagine how not funny it's got to be for me to not put it up).

In it's place, I give you a little something we were playing around with in the offic last week. The introduction of JerHulk!

I've got some good ideas for the camtoons, it's just a little more involved than usual and not something I can whip up in half an hour. If you really want something funny, I've gotten hooked onthe Strong Bad Emails at Homestar Runner. You have to read a couple and get familiar with some of the characters, but I've had belly laughs over some of their flash animations.

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Return of the Gallactica, Part 2

06.30.2003

While looking around at the new Battlestar Gallactica site last week, I noticed the teaser trailer for the miniseries were out. Most of them seem to be about 10 seconds, and in some of them you wouldn't know it was a Gallactica trailer if it didn't show the logo at the end.

In looking at the style of everything, they seem to have taken some of the classic Gallactica, and mixed in a little of Space: Above and Beyond (which was always thought of as a Gallactica meets Aliens rip-off anyway) with a pinch of the Wing Commander movie (even though I think everyone that played the game thought of it as an unofficial Gallactica game).

While I'm trying not to think whether that's good or bad, I just hope I can watch the series without constantly comparing it to those other series/movies, because it'll be hard enough to watch it without constant comparisons to the original Gallactica.

I can still remember the night I watched the premiere of Battlestar Gallactica. I was living in Florence in the trailer park. My best friend and his little brother came over. We all sat on the couch with our eyes glued to the (then) massive 25" tv. Maybe 25 years later I can sit at my house in the boonies with my best friend , glue my eyes on the (now) massive 53" tv, and do it all over again.

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