Month: February 2012

Why I don’t watch previews anymore

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In short, frankly, I don’t want to have anything spoiled for me anymore.  In short, it appears that nobody knows how to put together a preview for anything anymore, without giving something crucial away.

Case in point, prior to watching the season 2.5 premiere of The Walking Dead, there was a brief preview montage of what to expect in the next 6-7 episodes.  In this montage of visuals, there was a clip of a gold sedan getting flipped over – this is obviously big, considering the pool of characters in which are capable of driving a motor vehicle is pretty limited to the core cast, meaning someone’s going to be getting seriously hurt.  Obviously, it’s absurd to think that nobody’s going to get hurt in a show about annihilation and survival, but knowing in advance that someone is going to get into a car wreck is something I’d rather not be told ahead of time.

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Five packets of raw sugar into 12 ounces of coffee

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As I poured half and half and one Splenda into my own 12 ounces of coffee, my first thought was that eventually, this man was going to rudely reach across and grab for the half and half when I am done.  Like the social troll I can sometimes be, I took my sweet time pouring the usual excess coffee out for all my dead homies, and prepping it the way I like it before relinquishing the oft-demanded half and half.

This man didn’t at all seem the least bit concerned about the half and half because I realized that he was in the midst of ripping open his third packet of raw sugar, and pouring it into his coffee.  He repeated this action twice more while I stirred and re-lidded my own drink before heading back to the office.

I know the raw sugar isn’t as sweet as processed sugar, but essentially what it does to your body is about the same.  Five packets of sugar?  Into a small coffee?  That can’t be normal.

On another note, I just realized that this is my 500th brog post.  What better way to ring in a substantial number than talking about retards?

Conspiracy Theory: Jeremy Lin, the NBA’s Prodigal Son

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Don’t get me wrong, seeing Jeremy Lin tearing up the NBA right now is a pretty cool thing going on right now.  In spite of all the controversy behind race, upbringing, race, education and race, Jeremy Lin is making a league vastly composed of everyone not Asian, look like his personal playground.

I’ll enjoy the Jeremy Lin highlights as he continues to make them happen, and I’ll laugh mockingly at all the horrible Jeremy Lin puns that are sprouting and spreading like AIDS in Thailand, but I have to excuse myself and be one of those guys, at trying to contain some excitement.  Forgive me, for I come from a baseball-first fandom in which nothing is sustainable, everything has an end, numbers rule all, and I’m only allowed to suspend disbelief for those within the Atlanta Braves organization.

That being said, my latest crazy conspiracy theory goes along the lines of this:

Jeremy Lin is being allowed to run amok and dominate the shit out of the NBA, because the NBA needs it.

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Holy hell

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Has it grown with age?  I mean, everyone knew that Triple H always had a big schnozz, but in comparison to Shawn Michaels’ diminutive-sized in comparison sniffer, it’s like comparing watermelons to grapes.

Seriously, not really the best camera angle to use at all, if Mr. Levesque is at all conscientious about the size of his nose.

Why slack today when you can also slack tomorrow?

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I don’t really mean to vent so much about my job so much lately, but lately, there really hasn’t been that much going on otherwise in my life, other than eating, LoL-ing or going to the gym.  Routine is good, sometimes.

But today, I don’t really have much else to do.  Long story short, I have a project that’s been going on since November, which is a prime example of what happens when a project manager lets the client walk all over them, and subsequently the creative departments that actually makes the tangible shit happen.  If this were a real creative agency or company, the project would be complete by now because in those types of business models, revisions cost money.  The more revisions, the more money.  The more money involved, the less the client wants to spend, meaning more efficiency on their end, and less tedious work on our end.

I guess it’s not really a shortened story, but to cut to the chase, I’m efficient, and ready for this project to be out the door, and I have literally done all of my part in order to put this project on the doorstep of the printing process.  Literally, this project is all but done aside from the printing.  But the project manager feels that there has been a disconnect in the process, which there was, which I rectified the issues that came up as a result of it, and wants to have a discussion with all the cooks in the kitchen.  But one of the cooks isn’t in the office today, so this discussion is scheduled for when this cook returns.  I explain that there really isn’t a need for any discussion, and I’m essentially dismissively told that yes, there is.  O-kay.

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