oh joyous day

after 5+ years of using an old hand-me-down piece of shit that my dad gave me when i moved to harrisburg, i am spending my hard yet well-earned casheesh on a new trimmer.

okay, so it's not really my own money. i cashed in some reward points to get sears gift cards. and although i do occasionally use my AMEX for things like comics, starbucks and the like to keep the woman off my back, the resounding bulk of the items used to wrack up points are my travel expenses. at the shitty rate of dollars-to-points, i figure that this just about equals a shoot in LA (quick trip so no crazy dinners in malibu, but at least a nice one in santa monica), several trips to sandusky, ohio which means we're eating at the bay harbor for about 750 a pop....

sorry for the interruption, but i've been in the bay harbor probably about 25 times over the past 2 seasons and that is the first time i have ever seen an african american couple there. i don't know if this is either 1) an attempt to say they're culture friendly for a restaurant that is nestled snuggly near a marina that houses massive power and sailing boats on lake erie, or 2) a picture taken in a holy shit moment as evidence that other races do, in fact, exist.

back to the laundry list of travel expenses. or not. after my sidebar, it's better to just stop. i think i'm indicting my clients.

it's gates' world, we just rent space

has anyone seen this shit yet? it is the new crazy digital surface from microsoft. it's fairly cool. but to us geeks that grew up watching star trek, this is nothing new. god that show was amazing.

i saw this two days ago and yet i'm still not that excited about it. especially today on iphone day. its funny how apple teased this new dohicky for 6 months, building demand for a product that most likely will take a few years to get the kinks out and then grabbed onto by the masses. yet, gates and his crew, who own marketshare simply by having strong agreements with computer manufacturers, feels no need to market this yet. sure, its' expensive as shit and not really able to be used in the household right now, but it sure is cool to think about the possibilities.

long live and prosper.

what a fucking nerd

i just checked and i have 28.1 gigs of pirated comic books (think original napster, just with a different subject matter). i'm such a goddamn collector that i just grab shit for the sake of saying i have it. i've read maybe a fifth of that amount (one issue amounts to about 16MB of data). and saying i have it? what the hell is that? what is it about a person that is compelled to save things? i have 4 boxes of baseball cards downstairs. my g.i.joes from when i was a kid. i know somewhere around the house, i have samples of every business card i've had over the past 10 years. shit...i once even had multiple cd's of downloaded porn floating around*. about 5 boxes of paper comix sit downstairs, each issue nicely sealed in their little plastic condoms so the air doesn't get to them. what the fuck is that all about? i'm never going to sell them....why the hell do i need to preserve them? and half the comix i buy i'd never go back and read...hence the pirated downloading thing. i cleaned out a desk drawer at the office today to find every fucking review i've ever had. why the hell would i bring that shit with me from job to job? i seem to remember at the time thinking i should keep a review around so i could go back to it later and see if i'm progressing like some shitstain of a boss in 1999 thought i should. (funny, i actually did that today, i guess).

anyway, i was having issues with my computer being uncharacterisitically slow so i was poking around at potential problems. i noticed the sheer amount of comix i have. almost half my fucking hard drive is full of comix and with all the work programs and files and shit i have less that a gig of harddrive space. jesus. no wonder it takes me longer to download a 6M .mov file of a commercial than it did just 3 months ago.

i think the biggest conclusions that should be drawn from this are:

1) pittsburgh has beaten any signs of a real life out of me.
(note....this point was much more compelling before i edited out a section at having no friends)

2) my political minded friends from flotsam & jetsam should be scared that i'm an active voter.



*who the fuck am i kidding...i still have all that porn. it's just compiled on dvd-r's now.

giving up

at what point in one's life do you look at your wardrobe and choose to put on a blouse with puppy dogs on it?

yesterday, i had the pleasure of taking an elevator ride with a middle aged woman in such a shirt. i'm absolutely amazed by it. is she still getting dressed by her mother?

it may be hard to believe, but that was not the highlight of my week.

that came in the form of a trade proposal for Kings Dominion we were pitched by 92Q in baltimore. that station is a little urban, by the way. they came to us with a great idea of having a call and win promo. pretty typical and standard right? they even cited an excellent opportunity in the marketplace that works perfect for kings dominion....50 Cent recently dropped new song out Amusement Park.

not a 50 fan? not familiar with his new single? i submit the following video for your viewing pleasure. in case you don't feel like checking it out, here is the first few lines of the hook:

"Shawty you don't have to take your pantys off. Just move 'em to the side.
If you wanna ride on the roller coaster, baby come on and ride."

My clients were thrilled with the notion. how often do you get to connect your product with an A-list artist?

i'm back, bitches

although i have literally nothing to say, i am back. not with abandon just yet. but at least i figured out what the hell i did a few months ago with that whole google account transfer junk. what bs. is google the new MS? do i have to hate them now?

father's day was alright. my mom-in-law created a silly ass tie for me to wear. oh wait....it was from keira. to show my disdain for it by wearing it all day. somehow, that backfired and it came off as geniune appreciation. fuck.

the wife was cute and bought me a comic book. i didn't have the heart to tell her that i'd already read the collection. she does get major points for trying so i couldn't bust her chops with it. just the mental image of seeing her stare at a wall of crap she utterly hates trying to figure out which one to get is pretty funny to me.

i still kind of feel on the fence about the US Open.....

- i feel like an asshole because i grabbed tix from Ezahn and then didn't use them.
- i still owe him the cash so i feel even worse.
- as i watched the final holes play out, i felt like even more of an ass because i should've been there in person. oh well, there's always next year! fuck.

parting thought for the day.....my daughter called a neighbor kid a dickhead. in the correct context. beautiful.