Piracy hits Hollywood in the wallet
OR
Record Profit from Movies
You pick. I doubt that the internet is undercutting the movie industry, the fidelity of the movies you can get online comes no where close to the giant screen that I saw Meet the Fokkers on last Sunday. And if Hollywood was producing outstanding films with regularity maybe people would be going to the movies more often rather than waiting to see them on DVD. Speaking of which, Mark Cuban has a good idea (again) along this line.
A Whole Lotta Nothing: Cialis Disfunction: Can we please stop airing special commercials about fixing various penile issues? I really like to see commercials about erectile disfunction, really, it makes me feel so manly knowing I don’t need it. However, I really, really, really don’t want my two year old seeing things like that. The last thing I need is for her to be sitting at the breakfast table in a restaurant and say something like, “I want pancakes and viagra. Oh, and Milk!”
(via James Robinson III)
I just saw a commercial for some acid reflux pill that made me want to stop and turn off the TV in the front room. It was about how the pill (whose name I don’t know, but I’m sure someone will post it in a comment) will make you better. Their clenching statement was, “Because better is better.” Thanks for nothing pill people.
So we’re getting ready to meet the load arranger to start the (scary as heck) process of buying a house. There are several fears I deal with in all of this:
I like control, I like knowing that I’m doing something the right way, and preferrably the best way. However, in this process I know it’s not going to be the best way, but it will be the way we can do it (I don’t have 20%+ down). However, I don’t understand how the whole process goes, and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to ‘get it’ quickly.
Because I don’t have a complete knowledge of the process and all of the terms involved I feel like I lack control.
Since the housing market is in constant flux I fear that the value of any home I may purchase will suddenly plummet because of any various change that may strike us, our neighborhood or the market in general. For instance, what if our Jerry Springer neighbors that live above us move into our neighborhood and bring the value of the homes down? I can’t imagine that driving by and hearing a young male scream, “You [words I wouldn’t type on my blog]! I’m going to [other words I won’t type] kill you!” I’m pretty sure that will cause some neighbors to want to move, and others to just call the police. Any regularity of either of those will bring the property value down. Also, what if Satan moves into our neighborhood and makes the Jerry Springer neighbors look good? This too is guaranteed to make the prices of the homes in the area go to hell [gosh that one liner amuses me]. And, lastly, what if the housing bubble that some have described us being in pops and I find myself paying the mortgage for a $230,000 house that is actually only worth $150,00 since Microsoft declared bankruptcy, WalMart bought out Target and Bill Clinton won a third term? Think of the catastophes!
So, as usual, I just need to trust God and seek His wisdom while all of this goes down. Pray for us in this as it’s going to be a bumpy ride and I’m going to have to go to the dentist in a week.
Back in the day when the News used to be on really late they’d say, “Film at Eleven.” Now the news is on all the time and they have the guy on the 4:30 news briefly tell you about what the 5:00 anchor person is going to tell you. Of course he or she will innevitably tell you about the 5:30 and 6:00 newscasters will be filling you in on. Apparently their news is unimportant to me now, but will matter in some time.
However, this post is not abou that, it instead is about camera film. This morning my friend Mike gave me an SLR camera. Not only that but it has a telephoto lens, which rocks my world. I’m stoked and can’t wait to use it. My only problem now is that I don’t have film. My only other problem besides that is that I need to re-learn how to use it. My only other only problem is that I can’t fix mistakes on a film camera like I can on a digital camera. This means that I’ve got one other problem: I’m going to spend a lot more money on film, developing and other expenses associated with film cameras. I’m looking forward to it because this could be a whole new side to camera work.
Oh, and the telephoto lens apparently also has some sort of macro focus length, the only problem is that you have to be about 3 feet away or more to get the macro to focus. I guess I’ll have to learn how to use that, too.
It’s a Pentax K1000, in case you care 🙂
This afternoon when I put Abby down for her nap her breath smelled of corn chips that she’d had a little earlier with lunch. I said to her, “Good night, Corn Girl.” After about 30 seconds I heard her yelling through her closed bedroom door, “I’m Guacamole Girl!”
My mistake!
No, that’s not a typo in the title, it’s marketing. Actually, it is a typo, but it was on a commercial that I saw this evening while working out. There was a home theater company offering their services to come in and (apparently) ‘consul’ with you. I suppose that it would be pretty cool if you were their competition. They’d not only look incompetant, but it would also have helped if they had not shown the text twice on the screen as one of only three things they put on the screen as text. Oh, well. I guess that if I ever want to run a spell checker on this site it would return a lot of typos.
This is the white kettle calling the white pot… white.
Welcome to 1611:
Have Ye a Happy New Year.
Welcome to 11111010101! [binary]
Welcome to 7D5 [hexadecimal]
This evening Abby started singing some AC DC. Now, for those of you who are wondering, “How on earth do you fit into your clothes?” I’ll answer that later. For those of you wondering why my two year old was listening to AC DC it is because the skateboard video game I have has it as part of the cycling ‘musictrack.’ The song that AC DC performs is ‘TNT.’ However, Abby, being young and not the most familiar with the alphabet changed it to DAD. So she walked around this aftenoon and evening saying, “DAD, Dynomite!”
Priceless.
From Mark Cuban: Do the Right Thing – Cancel Inauguration Parties. If the innauguration parties are going to cost 4o million dollars (partisanship aside here) lets dump them in favor of other things. In my lifetime I will most likely never see that amount of money, many of my readers likewise will not see that much money. Lets not spend it fivolously on parties for a president that has already had one and will just be continuing on in office. I think there are thousands if not more than a million people all over the globe, including tsunami vicitms who need the resources more than some ritzy folks need a party that they helped fund and create.