Technology vs. Old School
In one of his blogs last week, P talked about the charm of looking up baseball box scores in the morning newspaper. This is a practice which has gotten lost in the midst of today's readily available, live-updating websites like ESPN Gamecast, CBS Sportsline, or best of all, Yahoo StatTracker. But yeah, his opinion is a feeling that I totally share... that even though I've gotten used to having all those Internet services, I kind of miss the good old days of opening up the Tribune at breakfast, going to each box score of every game involving one of my players, and mentally calclating how many fantasy points he got.
I was reminded of this because I have been waiting for a package to arrive via UPS, with my Pocket PC and SD card. Most of us who have ordered stuff online have experienced using a "online tracking number" to see where their package is. Well, here at work I just checked the status of my order on the UPS site, and it tells me that my stuff was shipped out last week from Kentucky, routed through Indiana on Friday afternoon, through Chicago on Friday night, and scanned in at Palatine Saturday morning. It also informs me that as of 7:02 this morning, the package was sent "Out for delivery", which I can only assume means that it should be on my doorstep by the time I get home today.
Well, the point of that story is that even though it's nice to know when your stuff is gonna arrive, it sucks that online tracking robs you of the old school way of doing things. Don't we all remember the times we would race home from school every day, full of excitement to check the mail and see if the stuff we ordered came that day? Even if it didn't, that just made the excitement build that much more for the next day's mail-checking time. The hype would keep building until the joyous occasion when the package finally arrived. Well, with online tracking, all those feelings of excitement are long gone.
Another subject I can think of that technology has changed is music. I have vivid memories of me and my sister patiently waiting by our radios for our favorite song to come on (such as "Achy-breaky Heart"), so we could record it on tape. Seriously, we would just sit there all day, with our fingers hovering over the "Record" button, hoping to catch the song we wanted. Then later we would compare each others' versions to see which one was the best. Now, with mp3's being easy to get, we have no need to do any of that.
The other thing I remember about tapes was all the rewinding/fast forwarding through songs, or how cool the "Auto Reverse" and "High Speed Dubbing" functions were. Sometimes, me and my sis would record the same song over and over on the whole tape (Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is" comes to mind), so we wouldn't have to stop and wait for the rewinding to hear the song again. Well, the rise in popularity of CDs made all that obsolete, with the convenience of forwarding tracks quickly and easily. And now, switching between songs or looping songs is even simpler with a few clicks of the mouse on Winamp. Sure it saves a lot of time, but I can't help but to think back fondly on all the hours we spent fooling with those stupid cassette tapes.
I'm sure there's a lot of other examples, but I can't think of any more right now off the top of my head. Plus I'm too excited to think or type, and I'll probably leave work early today so I can go home and play with my new toy. It better be there, or I'll probably end up writing a scathing blog entry on "Why I Hate UPS Online Tracking".
By the way, just because I talk about missing the old school stuff, doesn't mean I would ever give up the conveniences of modern technology to go back. I guess I just like reminiscing... yes that's me, an aging old man, looking back on the primitive '80s and '90s and scowling about how "kids these days don't know how good they have it". Join me in the elderly community!
Monday, May 12, 2003
Sunday, May 11, 2003
Happy Mother's Day to all my readers who happen to be mothers. I know there's a lot of you moms out there who check my blog frequently, so I'd like to take this chance to say, "Thank you" for being good mothers.
So this morning I woke up early and drove home to deliver a pot of azaleas to my momma. I think she was in a bad mood when I got there, but it never ceases to amaze me what some flowers can do to cheer up a woman. I don't get it, but I do know that her face brightened immediately when she saw the flowers.
At church, there was a special performance by the little kids for the mothers. It doesn't seem like that long ago that I was up there myself, but when I think about it, it's been almost 20 years. It's always funny to watch the kids because you see the girls are so well behaved and paying attention, but the boys are all fooling around and pushing each other.
Anyways, since I said I'd write a followup on the last blog, here it is. A page from the big book on Dudo509 Microeconomic Theory.
Advertising And The Economy
I remember a few years ago, there was an ad campaign about why advertising was good. The argument was that advertising would stimulate economic growth by increasing demand for consumer goods. Well, I do believe that advertising increases demand, which is why it is such a genius concept. And I know that more demand equals more spending equals more growth of the economy. But I also think there is a limit to how much advertising you can have before it becomes harmful, and I believe that this applies to our current economic situation.
It seems to me that the long-term result of all this advertising is that our economy becomes falsely-inflated with demand. For example, you can get people to buy more Vermont Teddy Bears by having Eddie & Jobo endorse them. This grows the GNP in the short term, but can this demand for teddy bears truly sustain the economy? In the prosperity of the late 90's, maybe... and maybe during this time it was the collective sum of demand for these teddy bears, for Playstation 2's, for Cadillac Escalades, Prada bags, etc. that was responsible for the ungodly double-digit growth in the economy.
Consumer demand was exploding, probably due in no small part to the hard work and brilliant ideas of advertisers. In turn, corporate executives saw their profits exploding and heavily invested in more, with the expectation that demand would continue to expand.
But common sense should tell us that this kind of growth is not gonna continue forever, that at some point, the bubble is going to burst. The word I used in the last blog was "saturation", and I think it's a good way to describe the effects of advertising on our nation.
The way I look at it, our economy is like a cup of distilled water. Advertising is like sugar. You add some to the cup, stir, and it smoothly dissolves, leaving no visible trace. The result is that your cup of water is sweeter, and everyone is all the happy for their sweetened water. Add a little more, the cup gets sweeter. Keep adding, and adding, and in no time you'll have quite a tasty economy.
But the thing is, anyone who has ever made Kool-Aid and been a little overzealous in the process can tell you that you can't add too much sugar to your glass of water. Add too much, and the excess sugar floats around or settles to the bottom. It's annoying, it's ugly, and it's not what you want for your cup of sweet water.
In a more accurate analogy, our cup of water would naturally grow as the population gets bigger, people get richer, and demand expands along the way. But my point is that for our given economy (cup of water), we're already beyond saturation with advertising and the artificially-generated demand that advertising creates. You might say we're "super-saturated". tee-hee *nerd alert*
Whether ads on buses or atop urinals count as "too much" is debatable, I don't know exactly where we are to draw the line. All I do know is that on the whole, there's way too much advertising for me. And my experience this morning of flipping through 6 radio stations was merely the spark that set me off on the blog I wrote.
Okay, so that was my economic theory. You probably won't find any textbooks out there comparing our economy to a cup of water, but that was the best I could come up with. Econ wasn't my major, so forgive me if none of that made sense and I sounded like a dumbass. Anyone who might have further thoughts on the subject, please make them known... i'm very interested to hear what people have to say.
So this morning I woke up early and drove home to deliver a pot of azaleas to my momma. I think she was in a bad mood when I got there, but it never ceases to amaze me what some flowers can do to cheer up a woman. I don't get it, but I do know that her face brightened immediately when she saw the flowers.
At church, there was a special performance by the little kids for the mothers. It doesn't seem like that long ago that I was up there myself, but when I think about it, it's been almost 20 years. It's always funny to watch the kids because you see the girls are so well behaved and paying attention, but the boys are all fooling around and pushing each other.
Anyways, since I said I'd write a followup on the last blog, here it is. A page from the big book on Dudo509 Microeconomic Theory.
Advertising And The Economy
I remember a few years ago, there was an ad campaign about why advertising was good. The argument was that advertising would stimulate economic growth by increasing demand for consumer goods. Well, I do believe that advertising increases demand, which is why it is such a genius concept. And I know that more demand equals more spending equals more growth of the economy. But I also think there is a limit to how much advertising you can have before it becomes harmful, and I believe that this applies to our current economic situation.
It seems to me that the long-term result of all this advertising is that our economy becomes falsely-inflated with demand. For example, you can get people to buy more Vermont Teddy Bears by having Eddie & Jobo endorse them. This grows the GNP in the short term, but can this demand for teddy bears truly sustain the economy? In the prosperity of the late 90's, maybe... and maybe during this time it was the collective sum of demand for these teddy bears, for Playstation 2's, for Cadillac Escalades, Prada bags, etc. that was responsible for the ungodly double-digit growth in the economy.
Consumer demand was exploding, probably due in no small part to the hard work and brilliant ideas of advertisers. In turn, corporate executives saw their profits exploding and heavily invested in more, with the expectation that demand would continue to expand.
But common sense should tell us that this kind of growth is not gonna continue forever, that at some point, the bubble is going to burst. The word I used in the last blog was "saturation", and I think it's a good way to describe the effects of advertising on our nation.
The way I look at it, our economy is like a cup of distilled water. Advertising is like sugar. You add some to the cup, stir, and it smoothly dissolves, leaving no visible trace. The result is that your cup of water is sweeter, and everyone is all the happy for their sweetened water. Add a little more, the cup gets sweeter. Keep adding, and adding, and in no time you'll have quite a tasty economy.
But the thing is, anyone who has ever made Kool-Aid and been a little overzealous in the process can tell you that you can't add too much sugar to your glass of water. Add too much, and the excess sugar floats around or settles to the bottom. It's annoying, it's ugly, and it's not what you want for your cup of sweet water.
In a more accurate analogy, our cup of water would naturally grow as the population gets bigger, people get richer, and demand expands along the way. But my point is that for our given economy (cup of water), we're already beyond saturation with advertising and the artificially-generated demand that advertising creates. You might say we're "super-saturated". tee-hee *nerd alert*
Whether ads on buses or atop urinals count as "too much" is debatable, I don't know exactly where we are to draw the line. All I do know is that on the whole, there's way too much advertising for me. And my experience this morning of flipping through 6 radio stations was merely the spark that set me off on the blog I wrote.
Okay, so that was my economic theory. You probably won't find any textbooks out there comparing our economy to a cup of water, but that was the best I could come up with. Econ wasn't my major, so forgive me if none of that made sense and I sounded like a dumbass. Anyone who might have further thoughts on the subject, please make them known... i'm very interested to hear what people have to say.
Friday, May 09, 2003
Too Many Commercials
I hate when I go through my list of 6 radio stations in the morning, and all 6 are playing commercials. For a second I stopped on the Mix because Eric and Kathy were talking, but then I realized that they were pushing Vermont Teddy Bears for Mother's Day.
I'm convinced that the most evil people in this country are not the lawyers, but those in the advertising industry*. They are probably also the smartest people in this country too, but there's nothing to celebrate about evil genius. These fockers find every way imaginable to increase the amount of ads they can surround us with, and every way imaginable to increase the effectiveness of these ads. Worst of all, they don't care about anything other than maximizing their profits.
Everywhere you look or listen, these people have found a way to fill it with advertising. It's not just billboards, magazine ads, or commercial breaks on TV/radio. It's the sides of buses, banner ads on websites, and even on top of urinals so you can read them while you pee. It's the short commercials like the Coca-Cola Refreshing Moviemakers Award or Celine Dion driving a Chrysler that they show before movie previews, which are actually commercials themselves. Think about that, ads that precede more ads, it's ridiculous.
Not only this, but they continue to find new ways to make their advertising sneakier and more intrusive into our lives. They're not just harmless "click here" banner ads anymore, they are pop-up windows and Flash animations that fly in your face and cover up the article you are trying to read, forcing you to pay attention. You're not free from advertising once the TV show or movie starts, either. There's product placement all over the place, from that Men's Health magazine being read by the dad on Everybody Loves Raymond, to the Mazda RX-8 in X2.
I know that without advertising, many of the things we know in life would not exist. There wouldn't be free TV or free internet sites like ESPN.com and Yahoo. And I have to admit that a lot of ads are pretty well done and entertaining in themselves, not just annoying. Most of the Superbowl commercials end up being pretty clever, and I definitely thought the Aston Martin in Tomorrow Never Dies was cool.
But as they teach you in the first days of economics class, "there is no such thing as a free lunch". Sure, you don't directly pay to watch TV or play Fantasy Baseball on Yahoo. But it should be obvious that somewhere, somehow, they are making money off of you. If it weren't profitable, they would've all been long gone by now. A 30-second spot during the Superbowl wouldn't be worth millions if it didn't somehow cause us to spend more by watching it. For that matter, nobody would pay millions of dollars to Michael Jordan for wearing their shoes, if it weren't bringing back millions more in return.
I'm personally at a point of saturation when it comes to advertising. It would be one thing if the only way it affected me was the annoyance of having to delete all the spam emails or sit through commercial breaks between innings of the Sox game. I'd even be able to accept it, to a certain degree, if the ads subconsciously or consciously made me want to buy more stuff. But I really think it goes much deeper than that. There's way too much advertising, and it is costing us more than the money we spend or the time we waste. It is seriously hurting and draining our society.
The most disturbing thing to me is that advertising controls almost everything we see and hear, which in turn shapes the way we think. This is going too far. We've all heard about the girls who develop eating disorders because they want to be like the impossibly-thin models in the magazine ads, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. With nearly everything in the media being ratings-driven, everything we see and hear is somehow tailored to maximize the exposure and effects of advertising. Sadly, not even the news we watch is immune to its influence. Because CNN has to worry about ratings and profits, we're seeing less and less objective, responsible news reporting, and more and more signs of tabloid journalism, which plays up emotions and stirs up controversy in hopes of attracting more viewers.
The world of advertising is the epitome of capitalism at its best and worst. While it brings us many positive things, in excess it brings plenty of negative results as well. Without further exploding the length of this blog, all I want to say is that we can't only look at the benefits of commercialization without realizing the danger of over-commercialization. And yes, I do consider it a real danger, not just a matter of mere annoyance.
* The evilness of the advertising industry I'm talking about does not include the lovely people whose job is to buy advertising time from the networks for the ad agencies
I hate when I go through my list of 6 radio stations in the morning, and all 6 are playing commercials. For a second I stopped on the Mix because Eric and Kathy were talking, but then I realized that they were pushing Vermont Teddy Bears for Mother's Day.
I'm convinced that the most evil people in this country are not the lawyers, but those in the advertising industry*. They are probably also the smartest people in this country too, but there's nothing to celebrate about evil genius. These fockers find every way imaginable to increase the amount of ads they can surround us with, and every way imaginable to increase the effectiveness of these ads. Worst of all, they don't care about anything other than maximizing their profits.
Everywhere you look or listen, these people have found a way to fill it with advertising. It's not just billboards, magazine ads, or commercial breaks on TV/radio. It's the sides of buses, banner ads on websites, and even on top of urinals so you can read them while you pee. It's the short commercials like the Coca-Cola Refreshing Moviemakers Award or Celine Dion driving a Chrysler that they show before movie previews, which are actually commercials themselves. Think about that, ads that precede more ads, it's ridiculous.
Not only this, but they continue to find new ways to make their advertising sneakier and more intrusive into our lives. They're not just harmless "click here" banner ads anymore, they are pop-up windows and Flash animations that fly in your face and cover up the article you are trying to read, forcing you to pay attention. You're not free from advertising once the TV show or movie starts, either. There's product placement all over the place, from that Men's Health magazine being read by the dad on Everybody Loves Raymond, to the Mazda RX-8 in X2.
I know that without advertising, many of the things we know in life would not exist. There wouldn't be free TV or free internet sites like ESPN.com and Yahoo. And I have to admit that a lot of ads are pretty well done and entertaining in themselves, not just annoying. Most of the Superbowl commercials end up being pretty clever, and I definitely thought the Aston Martin in Tomorrow Never Dies was cool.
But as they teach you in the first days of economics class, "there is no such thing as a free lunch". Sure, you don't directly pay to watch TV or play Fantasy Baseball on Yahoo. But it should be obvious that somewhere, somehow, they are making money off of you. If it weren't profitable, they would've all been long gone by now. A 30-second spot during the Superbowl wouldn't be worth millions if it didn't somehow cause us to spend more by watching it. For that matter, nobody would pay millions of dollars to Michael Jordan for wearing their shoes, if it weren't bringing back millions more in return.
I'm personally at a point of saturation when it comes to advertising. It would be one thing if the only way it affected me was the annoyance of having to delete all the spam emails or sit through commercial breaks between innings of the Sox game. I'd even be able to accept it, to a certain degree, if the ads subconsciously or consciously made me want to buy more stuff. But I really think it goes much deeper than that. There's way too much advertising, and it is costing us more than the money we spend or the time we waste. It is seriously hurting and draining our society.
The most disturbing thing to me is that advertising controls almost everything we see and hear, which in turn shapes the way we think. This is going too far. We've all heard about the girls who develop eating disorders because they want to be like the impossibly-thin models in the magazine ads, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. With nearly everything in the media being ratings-driven, everything we see and hear is somehow tailored to maximize the exposure and effects of advertising. Sadly, not even the news we watch is immune to its influence. Because CNN has to worry about ratings and profits, we're seeing less and less objective, responsible news reporting, and more and more signs of tabloid journalism, which plays up emotions and stirs up controversy in hopes of attracting more viewers.
The world of advertising is the epitome of capitalism at its best and worst. While it brings us many positive things, in excess it brings plenty of negative results as well. Without further exploding the length of this blog, all I want to say is that we can't only look at the benefits of commercialization without realizing the danger of over-commercialization. And yes, I do consider it a real danger, not just a matter of mere annoyance.
* The evilness of the advertising industry I'm talking about does not include the lovely people whose job is to buy advertising time from the networks for the ad agencies
Thursday, May 08, 2003
Ramblings
Yesterday I ate dinner at a buffet for the first time in a long time. Buffets are awesome, but only once in a while because you are guaranteed to leave the place feeling bloated and cursing yourself for being greedy. By the way, if anyone knows whether or not there was an Old Country Buffet (OCB) down in Champaign please let me know so I can settle an argument.
This was followed by a trip to Barnes & Noble in Deer Park. The area there was one of the nicer places I've seen, surrounded by a outdoor mall which reminded me of Danada in the Wheaton area. Besides picking up a cookbook on the "Asian Kitchen", I also did some leisurely reading for an hour or two.
One book I picked up was on war planes throughout history. It had some good background on how bombers and fighters evolved between the various wars of the past 100 years. I especially enjoyed the material on the Northrop B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber and the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. A lot of the stuff on Russian MiGs and French Dassault fighters was interesting too. The bad thing was that they didn't even mention Taiwan's Ching-Kuo I.D.F. It's supposed to stand for "Indigenous Defense Fighter", but according to my dad, it's actually short for "I Don't Fly". Maybe that's why it wasn't included in the book.
Interesting note: In his younger days, the legendary airplane designer Jack Northrop worked in a place run by the Loughead brothers. Later on, he would create the company that became the giant which is Northrop Grumman today. Meanwhile, the Loughead brothers eventually changed the spelling of their name to better fit its pronunciation, and they went on to found the company that has become NG's top competitor in the defense industry, "Lockheed" Martin. Okay, maybe that fact is only cool to me, and a select few others. Moving on...
Another interesting note: Besides humans, the only animal in the world to have a fingerprint that is different for every individual is not the chimpanzee, not any sort of monkey, but the koala. Not only this, but if you took a fingerprint from a koala and compared it to a human fingerprint, they would be indistinguishable. I learned this from Mancow's Morning Madhouse.
Other than the book on war planes, I checked out this book that had the first 10 editions of the original X-men comic book from the 1960's. Man, were these awful or what. The concept was always cool, but the writing in these episodes was so bad it had me laughing out loud. I couldn't make it past the second issue because it was so terrible. Good thing the quality of X-men has increased throughout the years.
Anyways, these are exciting times in the life of Joseph Y. Chen. I now have a cookbook sitting on my desk, a e755 PPC on its way, and this morning before leaving for work I noticed that the Orion Telescope catalog arrived in the mail yesterday. I'm proud of myself for setting goals, and now slowly but steadily executing them.
Yesterday I ate dinner at a buffet for the first time in a long time. Buffets are awesome, but only once in a while because you are guaranteed to leave the place feeling bloated and cursing yourself for being greedy. By the way, if anyone knows whether or not there was an Old Country Buffet (OCB) down in Champaign please let me know so I can settle an argument.
This was followed by a trip to Barnes & Noble in Deer Park. The area there was one of the nicer places I've seen, surrounded by a outdoor mall which reminded me of Danada in the Wheaton area. Besides picking up a cookbook on the "Asian Kitchen", I also did some leisurely reading for an hour or two.
One book I picked up was on war planes throughout history. It had some good background on how bombers and fighters evolved between the various wars of the past 100 years. I especially enjoyed the material on the Northrop B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber and the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. A lot of the stuff on Russian MiGs and French Dassault fighters was interesting too. The bad thing was that they didn't even mention Taiwan's Ching-Kuo I.D.F. It's supposed to stand for "Indigenous Defense Fighter", but according to my dad, it's actually short for "I Don't Fly". Maybe that's why it wasn't included in the book.
Interesting note: In his younger days, the legendary airplane designer Jack Northrop worked in a place run by the Loughead brothers. Later on, he would create the company that became the giant which is Northrop Grumman today. Meanwhile, the Loughead brothers eventually changed the spelling of their name to better fit its pronunciation, and they went on to found the company that has become NG's top competitor in the defense industry, "Lockheed" Martin. Okay, maybe that fact is only cool to me, and a select few others. Moving on...
Another interesting note: Besides humans, the only animal in the world to have a fingerprint that is different for every individual is not the chimpanzee, not any sort of monkey, but the koala. Not only this, but if you took a fingerprint from a koala and compared it to a human fingerprint, they would be indistinguishable. I learned this from Mancow's Morning Madhouse.
Other than the book on war planes, I checked out this book that had the first 10 editions of the original X-men comic book from the 1960's. Man, were these awful or what. The concept was always cool, but the writing in these episodes was so bad it had me laughing out loud. I couldn't make it past the second issue because it was so terrible. Good thing the quality of X-men has increased throughout the years.
Anyways, these are exciting times in the life of Joseph Y. Chen. I now have a cookbook sitting on my desk, a e755 PPC on its way, and this morning before leaving for work I noticed that the Orion Telescope catalog arrived in the mail yesterday. I'm proud of myself for setting goals, and now slowly but steadily executing them.
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
I achieved a huge accomplishment earlier this evening. With a walkoff HR by Jason Kendall, I finally defeated Piya in World Series Baseball 2K3. This ended weeks of frustration. Maybe the next step for me is to beat him when he doesn't handicap his own batting cursor. One step at a time though....
A Toshiba e755 Pocket PC and a 256 MB Secure Digital memory card should now be in the mail, addressed to me. I'm excited, but not for the $600 charge coming on my bill next month. Basically, I expect this thing to be my notepad, mp3 player, phone number/birthday/email organizer, and maybe more functions to be explored. Updates to come soon.
I hate when places close at 9. Lately I have noticed that a lot of places do, such as the library, Best Buy, and the mall. Even though my bedtime is about 10 or 11 anyways, I still believe that every place should be like Meijer, Powerhouse, and Your Mom - always open. tahaaaaa.....
When I hear those annoying announcements like "We will be closing in 15 minutes. Please bring your items to checkout" it reminds me of the old days studying late at Grainger. They would threaten us like "Grainger Engineering Library is now closed. Exit the building immediately. If anyone is found on the premises, they will be reported to Campus Police". As if we were criminals for studying past 1am. Nerds, maybe, but what's the big deal? I've always wondered what would happen if we refused to leave. Would they arrest us on charges of "felony reading"?
More proof that I am becoming too in touch with my feelings: I just saw a Cheerios commercial when a little girl brings a box of Cheerios to her mom and dad in bed and sings "Happy Mothers Day To You" to the tune of "Happy Birthday". Instead of my first reaction being "wow, what a gay commercial", I was like "awww... that's cute." This is not the direction I want to be heading in. To resolve this issue, I will try to watch more episodes of Jackass.
Currently playing on my Winamp: Coldplay - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
(I haven't done this in a while because I have been writing more at work and I don't have Winamp at work)
A Toshiba e755 Pocket PC and a 256 MB Secure Digital memory card should now be in the mail, addressed to me. I'm excited, but not for the $600 charge coming on my bill next month. Basically, I expect this thing to be my notepad, mp3 player, phone number/birthday/email organizer, and maybe more functions to be explored. Updates to come soon.
I hate when places close at 9. Lately I have noticed that a lot of places do, such as the library, Best Buy, and the mall. Even though my bedtime is about 10 or 11 anyways, I still believe that every place should be like Meijer, Powerhouse, and Your Mom - always open. tahaaaaa.....
When I hear those annoying announcements like "We will be closing in 15 minutes. Please bring your items to checkout" it reminds me of the old days studying late at Grainger. They would threaten us like "Grainger Engineering Library is now closed. Exit the building immediately. If anyone is found on the premises, they will be reported to Campus Police". As if we were criminals for studying past 1am. Nerds, maybe, but what's the big deal? I've always wondered what would happen if we refused to leave. Would they arrest us on charges of "felony reading"?
More proof that I am becoming too in touch with my feelings: I just saw a Cheerios commercial when a little girl brings a box of Cheerios to her mom and dad in bed and sings "Happy Mothers Day To You" to the tune of "Happy Birthday". Instead of my first reaction being "wow, what a gay commercial", I was like "awww... that's cute." This is not the direction I want to be heading in. To resolve this issue, I will try to watch more episodes of Jackass.
Currently playing on my Winamp: Coldplay - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
(I haven't done this in a while because I have been writing more at work and I don't have Winamp at work)
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