Some of the stuff in "Bananas" was really good. Lots of those jokes are borrowed by other movies and TV shows. "Love and Death" was probably my favorite. "Scenes from a mall", and "The Purple Rose of Cairo" are also good watches.
That is one gripe that I have about Wal-Mart (as well as a few other stores). Those "price check scanners" are too few and far between. One actual Wal-Mart gripe is those one-sided cart corrals. At each of the three Wal-Marts nearest my house, they have these one-sided cart corrals. (One per row.) It is a SERIOUS disincentive for people to put their carts where they belong after unloading them. They need to invest in double-sided cart corrals. I'd bet that the rationale
Because these guys actually live in a tent?
Last night I went to my local K-mart to buy a game for my students to play at school. I brought the game into work, and put it on my desk. On the box, I noticed that there is a price tag. I was struck at how rarely one sees an actual price tag these days. With the advent of bar codes and scanners, price tags have become increasingly rare. (Strangely, as a marketing strategy, the tags on items at stores like KOHLs don't even reflect the actual price of
This morning one of my co-workers asked me whether I had gotten a job at Target. It took me a second, but then I realized that I am wearing the familiar red-tan combo that Target employees wear at work. I am ready for Target. ******************************************************* In more disappointing n
Stuff that appeals to kids appeals to kids for a reason.
I was just reading a newspaper article about an anti-loitering device, developed by a Welshman named Howard Stapleton. Read about it here. What this machine (named the "mosquito") does -when placed in front of businesses- is emit a high-pitched sound which is apparently audible (and very irritating) only to people under thirty years-old. (Actually, most people lose the ability to hear this s
This morning as I was getting ready for work, I heard an interesting thing on the radio. The station that I was listening to played an interview clip of former Cowboys' Wide Receiver Michael Irvin, commenting on his recent drug-related arrest. The radio mentioned that he was found to be in possession of a crack pipe when pulled over for speeding. (However FOXSports referrs to it being a "marijuana pipe".)&
Thanksgiving dinner is over. We had a nice meal. Everyone is relaxing at my house now. I am taking this time to post a few photos that I pulled off of my camera. Yesterday's "Dilbert" comic strip was really funny. This particular strip got a big laugh out of me. If you haven't seen it, here it is: Baby Aki and me, o
That knucklehead killed my fantasy team with his antics. Did he actually play for a real team too?
In today's Minneapolis StarTribune, there is an article with the following headline: "Teachers who plug in told to pay up." The Saint Paul School District has launched a plan to require teachers with personal appliances in their classroom to pay a $25 annual fee per appliance. The summary text on the article reads: "Fearing high energy costs, the St. Paul schools want to charge workers with personal appliances $25 a year. The idea is fueling some opposition." It is understa
Good job StevenDeDalus. I appreciate what you bring to the forums. Still, I am surprised that you even bother making the articles that you do, knowing what sort of audience you're writing to. There is a reason that I only write about "issues" on extremely rare occasions. I haven't added a link to another JU Blog in over a year. Maybe I'll add yours.
Go figure...
During the week, my wife and I have three "appointments" with the television. We always make sure to catch first-run episodes of "Boston Legal", "ER", and "Desperate Housewives." Since we have a DVR device, we don't necessarily watch each of the above shows on the date of broadcast, but we do keep relatively current on those shows. The exception to that (among the three) is Housewives , which we make sure to watch before retiring on a Sunday night. The "A-s
I was a bit surprised at how "not menacing" Voldemort was, but I assume that he'll get more powerful as the series progresses. Hell, he just came back to life. Moody looked almost like I pictured him, except a bit younger-looking. Very enjoyable.
Having read the entire "Harry Potter" series to this point, I was really excited to see the fourth installment in the "Harry Potter" series of movies. I have -in fact- just returned from the movie theater. I must say that I was really, really impressed with this movie. It was visually stunning, the special effects were fantastic, and the story ran along smoothly. (I was a bit worried when reading the story, that it would -due to its length- translate poorly into a two-and-a-half-h
Here's the second part of my analysis of America's favorite game show hosts. Bob Eubanks: Once his television game show career was over, Bob went on to host a series of travelling "Price is Right Shows." Promoting the show, I have heard some very insightful interviews from Bob. Between those appearances and the odd TV commercial, Bob is sort of the Jimmy Carter of game show hosts. He is a fantastic elder-statesman representative of the genre.</
Jim Perry does Card Sharks, but he was eventually replaced by a guy from "Real People". I forgot his name.
Each day when I visit my health club, I watch game shows on GSN. For all of my life I have been a reasonably big fan of the game show format. I decided to write about some of the various game show hosts that come to mind, with a little comment about each of them. I am borrowing the format from a website that I really like called The Book of Ratings . What this guy does is pick a category of something, write something about it, and
Yesterday I wrote about a series of bad things that have been going on with me. One more was added. Yesterday while at work, I became increasingly ill as the day went on. I must have picked up some sort of stomach virus. The past 24 hours have been pretty ugly for me. Fortunately, I seem to be pulling out of it now. Baby pictures: Aki is yawning. <IMG style="WIDTH: 472px; HEIGHT: 392px" height=578 alt="" hspace=0 src="http://www.geocities.
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Baby is okay now. A few hours under the artificial light cleared him right up! We also got a really cute picture of baby with the eye covers on. He looks like Spiderman.
Lately it has been one thing after the other... The day before yesterday my wife and I had to bring our newborn baby into the hospital to help him recover from jaundice. A day under the lights cleared that all up, but it took a long time for the discharge doctor to show up, and my wife spent most of yesterday in the hospital. The pilot light in our heater kept going out. Apparently there is a leak in the gas line that feeds the pilot light. We had to have tha
Although hundreds of people have read my article, nobody really actually got my point. My point was: I suppose that younger drinkers and grizzled bar veterans enjoy going out to bars to drink and to socialize, and to smoke if they want. This may be an opportunity for some disgruntled bar patrons to take up drinking at home. Drinking at home offers: cheaper drinks, no smoking ban, far less risk of getting ca
An argument for banning smoking in bars is that fewer people -who might call themselves "social smokers"- would feel pressured to take up the habit, with the possibility of eventually becoming addicted. Smoking is a bad thing, and it would be good if people were less often placed in situations where there is pressure to smoke in order to conform to the group norm.
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