The Medium gets national attention

The Medium has been caught in a national scandal. Looks like they took their poop jokes a little too far.

Last American Virgin, Part II

Tonight I decided to watch the second half of the last american virgin, which i started watching last night. There was loads more gratuitous nudity and even driving with an open container--amazing! But why I have taken this short break from the movie to blog is this: the lead female love interest has an abortion (in one of those white bread conservative anti abortion ways); this procedure is paid for by our hero, though he is not the father. He confesses his love for her in a tear jerking scene explaining he has loved since he first saw her (she was the new girl at school, its been what, a month?); finally after a single kiss, our hero eagerly shells out 80 dollars for a locket he says is for his girlfriend. Girlfriend? They kissed once, two days after she aborted the child of our hero's best friend. Bah! Of course, everything about this is ok when I think she is now forty something. Ha!

Free Speech undermined by big business.

A recent episode of the West Wing, the Press Secretary grappled with the issue of the FCC allowing television station operators to hold increasingly large shares of media markets.

In This article, it appears her character's fears are real; executives of a conglomerate that owns 7 ABC affiliate stations have given almost 10,000 to Bush-Cheney. They have then odered their affiliate stations to boycott an ABC network special that honors the over 500 soldiers killed in Iraq claiming they don't wish to politicize the war and "undermine" the efforts being made there. Or more accurately, undermine the President's foreign policy.

Isn't it time we realize there is no such thing as a liberal media?

The Last American Virgin

I watched the first half of The Last American Virgin (1982) last night. Its like American Pie, but in the 1980's and with a lot more gratuitous nudity. It was amazing. And you absolutely cannot overlook the horrible 80's clothing. amazing.

5 pm. My head is stuff with mucus. I still have lots of fun times left in the office. Damn all of you who will enjoy another 5 years of academic life. I want to drink at 3 in the afternoon too.

Russians finally get it right.

After years of being technologically awkward (I love the Russians I know, but let's face it, the mother country is a few years behind the rest of the globe). Anyway, they have finally come up with a solution to Music Downloads.


Essentially, users download songs based on a per megabyte usage fee (roughly 7 cents a song), and then the files are prepared in any format the user asks for it. That is to say, I could still get it in MP3 if I wanted, or AAC if I was using an iPod. Under the restriction on copyrights, it supposedly is up to the user not to use the service if prohibited locally by your local government-- which is not, according to This Article because there are not laws against importing music. of course, the whole site could be a front for the russian mob, which means, bye bye credit rating.

But in either case, it really is the future of music downloads: cheap prices and any format.

Erik and Clayton can eat our shorts.

Apparently Poets Die younger than than novelists and other writers. Ha.

Flowers

I planted some potted flowers on my front porch in boxes. I hope they do not fall off the rotting wood, but if they must, let them fall on the little children who run around the neighborhood. Since when does being poor necessitate that your children be allowed to roam freely at all hours of the night?

I completely forgot about this...

I can remember many hours our of my life spent curising HOT or NOT.com when I suppose to be studying. It is equally enjoyable when you are suppsoed to be working.

Wendy's Vs. McDonalds.

I've had a few cheeseburgers in recent weeks, despite my un-interest in Beef. Maybe its the change in whether, maybe not. In either case, since there are no McDonald's near Lyndhurst (McDonald's expects a higher level customer then can be found in Lynhurst), I had Wendy's today. Jesus it cannot even come close to McD's. Besides being dry, the flavor is just less wholesome. Every time I bite into a 89 cent McDonald's cheeseburger, I get the same rush sammuel L Jackson gets in pulp fiction while eating a big Kahuna Burger just before shooting 10 rounds into a whtie dude named Brad. Awesome. In either case, the wendy's 99 cent cheeseburger deluxe basicly sucedes in reminding how terribly bland working in an office is.

Attack of the Television Sets

VEIL Technologies

This is perhaps one of the coolest ideas for old technology that Ive ever heard of. At the same time, rather scary. I can only imagine a VEIL encoded robot recieving invisible instructions to assasinate me.
Jesus, thats a scary thought.

grade inflation:

Princeton recently ruled that their undergraduate classes cannot receive more than 35% A's (+,- included). This might be a great step in reducing grade inflation, but overlooks several important factors; first, small seminars of 5 or 7 people-- would it really be that only one of those people deserve an A? Or what about an introductory level class, like a survey course of european history-- would only 35% of students be legitimately eligiable for A's when most of the material covered in such a course is left over from high school?

Its a nice effort on princeton's part to try and curb their students' sense of entitlement and ever high GPA's, but i dont think mandatory ratios of A's and B's is the solution. I can only imagine the implimentation of such a policy at Rutgers-- suddenly alot more people would be getting an A.

Cleaning

I cleaned my room yesterday and washed five loads of laundry. the kicker is I still have another two or three loads to do, and now that I have clean clothes, I have no place to put them.