Author Archives: Randy Peterman

We Missed the Apprentice Season Premier

And boy are we sad.  We were really hoping to catch the sappy intro wherein the Hair Flair Scare gets greeted by his super-model wife and child who has more hair than him and then he tells us about how the apprentice is going to finally be selected from a group of cannibals who have no qualms eating their opponents for breakfast, lunch and dinner [and if Taco Bell sponsors it again, “fourth meal”].  Can you believe we missed that?

I would have loved to have seen the opponents get briefly introed as successful business people, brilliant students and quadrillionaires.  Which leads me to my next point: why doesn’t Donald Trumpt do an ‘Apprentless’ show where people compete to work in the mail room.  Normal people.  People like you and I?  What?  You don’t want to filter through Donald Trump’s email?  Me neither, but it would be a good candidate for the Discover channel’s Dirty Jobs show 🙂

Prepare for the Deluge

I’m going to be rather busy for the next several months.  This is common for this time of the year and about 2 years ago I worked insane hours for three months – last year I worked insane hours for about a month.  Usually I think I will blog less, but I find that I probably blog the same or more.  This means that you will probably not notice anything different or care about the change in things posted here, but I like to communicate with you the readers.  It makes me feel like a good personal blogger.

I also have some extra complications because I have several development jobs going at once so I’m going to be even busier than normal plus more busy which can be equated to busy, busy.  Or, in mathematical formala-like expressions:

Busy1 + Busy2 = Insanity3.

I find blogging to be a solace.  Not quite like the Scott Joplin song, but it still helps me to relaxe.  Music does, too, but blogging is faster to complete (thus the typos and the bad grammar).

New Years Resolution

So this year’s resolution is to write, record and produce an album by the time I’m thirty.  Sure, that gives me one quarter of the year to do nothing, but since my birthday is at the end of September (the 25th for those who have to know the exact date) that actually moves the deadline up.  I’m working on creating a website for my musical outlet (it is make believe at present) but you can keep your eyes out and (plug your) ears at music.randypeterman.com.  As I record things I will post them there, then, when all of the songs are recorded I will have to figure out what else to do with my pseudonym, “Scream Apparatus.”  I don’t see touring in my future.

Good-Bye CNN

I used to subscribe to the CNN RSS feed.  That was until this morning.  But since their news tactic is to report very little useful in the headline, but sensationalize it to get reader attention, I’m done.  For example take the twenty-eight inches they reported in Denver.  And by Denver they don’t mean Denver, they mean up in the foothills.  Because in Denver proper it was much less snow than that.  After subscribing to the feed for some time now I’m determined to find another news source, temporarily I’ve subscribed to the BBC’s feed.  Are there other alternative news sources online worth keeping up with?  I don’t trust the local Denver Post because they’re just in-line with CNN with their business and reporting practices.