The World of Work

Well, I've started working agian. I took some time off because of SAT prep class on the weekends, but now that I took the SAT, my Saturdays are open. I'm still working for RightClick (RClick.com), but we changed locations. We have taken over part of the offices at Harvey's.

Harvey's is kind of a strange company. They make bags out of seatbelts. I know, it is kind of wierd, but they have made a lot of money doing it. The seatbelt bag factory is actually on the other side of one of the walls in the office. Anyway, the new office is on Dyer, which is right off of the 55. This is a huge step up from the tiny office on Red Hill we were in before.

I'm not quite sure where I am going with this, so to make reading this worthwhile, here are some songs you chould definatly listen to:

Dangerdoom- Old School
Basement Jax- Lucky Star
O.A.R.- Crazy Game of Poker
Spoon- My Mathmatical Mind
TV on the Radio- Staring at the sun
The Ponys- Sad eyes
The Libertines- Time for Heros

Our Japanese Friends...

Those Japanese crazies strike agian! Watch the insanity here.

Google Mars

If you haven't seen it already, Google has a really cool map of Mars that shows 3 different views (Elevation, Visible, and Infared). Check it out here.

"¡Ask a Mexican!"

I usually don't read the local periodicals, but I happened upon an issue of OC Weekly on an ill fated trip to Starbucks. I happened to stop by a local Starbucks where a rack featuring the OC Weekly was being presented, obviously beckoning me to grab a copy. I did. I started to flip through it, seeing as I was a little bored, and stopped instantly on a column titled "¡Ask a Mexican!". I have to say, I was a little bewildered by the title, seeing as most publications tend to be politically correct, and this is most definatly not. Well, the "Mexican" being asked is a Mr. Gustavo Arellano, who is a 27 year old, forth generation Mexican. Before I go on about the content of the column, I would like to point out that this is the only colomn worth reading in the OC Weekly.

Anyways, the questions asked of Mr. Arellano range from rediculous to thought provoking...sorta. Oh, and because it is his own colomn, Gustavo answers the questions in his own little way. Here is a great example of a typical question:

Dear Mexican,What's with the Mexican need to display the Virgin of Guadalupe everywhere? I've seen her in the oddest places, from a sweatshirt to a windshield sticker. As a Mexican, I find it a little offensive and tacky to display this religious symbol everywhere.

Dear Pocha,…I've seen her painted on murals, woven into fabulous silk shirts worn by Stetson-sporting hombres and — one holy night — in my bowl of guacamole. But while I share your disdain for the hypocrites who cross themselves in Her presence before they sin…. I don't find public displays of the Empress of the Americas offensive at all.

Mexican Catholicism is sublime precisely because it doesn't draw a distinction between the sacred and the profane. We can display our saints as comfortably in a cathedral as we do on hubcaps.

In my opinion, this colomn is a breath of fresh air. I'm amazed it is such a controversy, but I'm glad the OC Weekly has the juevos to print this colomn. If you want to read more, go here. And if you ever see one of those little wire racks with the OC Weekly logo hanging from it, make sure to pick up a copy and read Gustavo's colomn; I know I will.

Microsoft Designed Ipod Packaging

I have nothing agianst Microsoft, but it is true they have horrible product packaging design. Watch and be merry.

Fuel cell cars could be a possibility now...

It seems that a certain mutant algae, being developed at UC Berkeley, could produce tons of hydrogen. This would solve the major problem with fuel cell cars, which run on hydrogen, because the manufacturing of hydrogen was so expensive it pretty much ruled out the idea of an infastructure for fuel cell cars to run on. Now it seems as though hydrogen powered cars could become a viable solution to the world's energy crisis and dependnecy on petroleum based fuels. I for one am pretty excited, not because I'm a tree hugger, but that we won't have to deal with those middle eastern princes that are running a monopoly on oil.

Speaking of that, Canada is going to be hitting it big in the oil department because of the oil sands that should have more oil than the entire middle east. If you want to make a killing in the stock market, buy a ton of Suncor (which is the compoany responsible for the lionshare of Canada's oil sand development) shares. I did and it is paying off so far. Check out the 6 month graph below. It can only go up from here. Trust me on this one.

Winter-Flavored Olympics

Unless you are living under a rock, you know that the Winter Olympics are on. Now, I particularly enjoy events sich as alpine skiing, skeleton, speed skating (short track), ski jumping, hockey, and even curling. There are, however, a few events that should not be allowed in the Olympics...or at least televised. Here is a list I put together of events, not in any order, that should not be allowed to be on TV.

1. Cross Country Skiing: Probably one of the most boring things I have ever watched in my life. They should replace CCS (which is my cool abreviation for cross country skiing) with a watch-paint-dry event. I'll admit, you gotta be a beast to be good at that godforsaken event, but please, don't televise it.

2. Figure Skating: Not as boring as the CCS, but still pretty close to one of the most boring and drawn out events in the games. Not to mention the judging is rediculous.

3. Ice Dancing: I didn't remember how rediculous ice dancing was until last night. Nothing else worthwhile was on, so I decided to check out ice dancing. It took me about 15 minutes to realize that all the "teams" skate to the exact same song and do the exact same dance almost exactly the same the whole time. Let's just say you will be looking around for a knife to stab yourself with after a little while. In case you were wondering, the program I turned on instead of watching ice dancing was Kunoichi: Lady Ninja. Don't bother watching this movie unless you are really high or extremely innebriated. It is about a bunch of tiny ninja girls, called Hori women (try to say that with a straight face), that are trying to get revenge on some transvestite dude. The plot is very strange and confusing...plus it is in Japanese. Anyways, these Hori women discover they have "special powers" after much duress. These "special powers" consist of one girl shooting lightning out of her nipples and another girl who can absorb stuff in her...well I will let you figure that one out for yourself. I was expecting to see a traditional sort of hack'em up Japanese flick. Needless to say, I was utterly bewildered.

Anyways, Back to the Olympics. There is one event that gets its own little category: the two man luge. Now, give me one guess as to what is wrong with two guys spooning on a sled obviously made for one.
What is more competative then two guys on one sled in such an orientation? I would think two guys on seperate sleds going down the same track would be. How cool would that be? Two sleds going 80+ mph down an ice tube. A whole new strategy would be involed, consisting of passing and blocking. Shoot, we could introduce some racing terminolgy like "trading paint". I don't even have to mention the most exciting part of racing: crashes. Please, save yourself the humilation of the two man luge (if not for you, then for us).