New Years

I haven't gone anywhere or done anything special for New Years the last few years. If I end up watching the ball drop at home again, I won't be too happy about that. Id better start making plans early to avoid the same fate next year.

I was thinking of commercials recently. This made me wonder if the commercial that I thought was the funniest when I was growing up was on youtube. I found it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5WnqWqkrY

Olympics...

I was going to write some of the songs that are on the playlist that I mentioned in my last blog. I realize that these topics get a bad response sometimes so I decided not to post it. I definitely dont want to hear anything that I don't like, but its definitely not as simple as the best songs or the one's that I liked the most at the time are the one's that I still want to hear. Sometimes I wonder what the quality is that makes me want to hear something for the 10,000th time...

Recently, i was watching the closing ceremonies of the Olympics and was shocked that the Olympics were ending so soon. In hindsight i am not sure why I felt that way: I have never watched anything as much as this year's Olympics and thought that it was ending abruptly. Its like I watched a hundred events so passively that it almost feels like I only watched one event.

Recently i checked the website that posts games like the Crimson Room (which is unrelated to the Crimson Spot). I look for a new version of this games once a year and there is usually a new one posted. IT seems like you need a stronger eye glass prescription to find that last key that you need to get out of the room each year. Fun!

This is my last recommendation for old sitcom shows. I am not sure if this is on Youtube or not but if you can find the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode called "The Case of Mr. Pelham," its pretty interesting...

Seriously...

I wrote a blog about being cynical that could easily be taken the wrong way. I realize that that blog, combined with my writing style and the fact that people who read the blog may not know me exceptionally well (which is extremely likely to be the case...you shouldn't make any assumptions about how well anyone knows me at this point) could lead to some confusion as to how serious what I am saying is. A person could easily not know whether what i am writing as serious or jest. Though I jest in my blogs, i am always serious about the message that i am conveying generally. Stories that I write about in my blogs are usually true. If they are not exactly true they are only slightly tweaked out of proportion/altered (either as an understatement or otherwise)...

Recently, i was looking at some old music. There have been a lot of songs that were outrageously popular. If you turned on a radio, you heard the song. If you visited a friend, they were playing the song, Bars and clubs played the song every time you went out, you had a copy of the song, etc. I am a bit out of the loop as far as what music is popular, but I am sure that there is a song that is popular like that right now. After a while it gets to the point where even if you like the song, you can't stand to hear it anymore because you have heard it so often. Eventually, they stop playing that song. One day, you look around and you haven't heard that song for years. I still can't stand to hear most songs like that no matter how many yeas have passed, but I made a playlist consisting of songs like that that I wanted to hear again after not hearing them for a few years...

Improvements...

Every so often, classic ideas have to be improved because people become desensitized to them or to keep up with the competition. It seems like a lot of ideas are improved by making them more dangerous. I remember watching American Gladiators when I younger. i am not sure if that show is still on television, but apparently the competition has people fighting lions instead of gladiators now. Its like those types of show aren't any good anymore unless they put someone in a tank full of sharks with a harpoon. Its exciting to watch people get shot out of canons into a lake, swim a mile, then run an obstacle course in the middle of the lake that includes bear traps and battering rams made of wood, but it seems like a bit much. Recently I saw new razors that have four razor blades instead of 3. 3 blades was a very close cut, Now there are four blades. Its like your blade isn't any good anymore unless it cuts so close that you are a shade lighter after using it.

Often it is important to talk about traumatic experiences, but sometimes I wonder about people who bring up very old traumatic experiences from years ago for no apparent reason. I mean that "post-traumatic stress" type experience that you obviously dont want to talk about. Its like "You just called me and asked me about that car accident an hour ago..."

Random Thoughts

The problems that I have had with my online accounts have persisted. E-mails have been deleted before I have had a chance to read them among other problems. I am not sure exactly how affective it is to attempt to contact me online. I have done a lot of research to determine how my passwords could be stolen so often and so consistently. I have a pretty good idea about how its happening now. I am not sure that anything can be done about this at the moment. More about this later...

Recently, I saw an escalator that was a few stories tall. I have never seen an escalator that tall and wonder how safe an escalator the size of a roller coaster could possibly be. I also saw a 3-dimensional face drawn on the size of a building that was probably somewhere between 10 and 20 stories high. I found this somewhat unsettling and wonder how it hasn't caused an accident...

Finally, I was thinking of the use of ironic twists as a device in "Scary Movies." I was watching a marathon back in 2002 at around 2 in the morning and this one creeped me out to no end. I wonder how many people would agree that this is a good episode. There are some interesting themes explored in this one. I am not sure whether they are trying to get people consider what people who make outlandish claims have to say or if it is about the perils of freeing hostages. I am not posting this to convey any of those messages... Just an example of a scarily ironic plot twist... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKILEel3hyU&feature=related

Television and Overused Statements...

I don't watch television often, but sometimes I watch television I see something on a program that is thought provoking. Recently, I saw a marathon of a show that I used to watch when I was younger. It was great to see this show, but this marathon didn't show any "Classic" episodes. Marathons that don't show classic episodes are inherently weak: If my first impression of this show was based on watching that "marathon," I would wonder why it was ever popular. I guess I will have to find the episodes that I expected to see during the marathon on Youtube...

I was watching television after midnight one night. At that time of night there are pretty much only infomercials, re-runs of talk shows, COPS, and weird "caught on video" shows. One of the weird "caught on video" shows had a segment about a kid who was raised by a pack of wolves. The kid was a part of the pack and more or less behaved like a wolf. I don't buy that at all and am very skeptical about what sort of weird subliminal they were trying to send underneath the radar...

Recently, I had a conversation with someone. We discovered that we knew people in common or something of that nature and I said "Small World." Usually, this type of remark is said without incident: One person says "Small Word" then the conversation moves on to a different topic. Not this time. This person adamantly disagreed with me and took me to task on the idea. Mind you that I keep a can on Pepper Spray with me just in case a remark like "Small World" devolves into some sort of incident. I listened to the person's argument and he made some valid points. This caused me to think... If its not a "Small World,"what are the implications of that?

You Tube...

Lately I have heard a lot of arguments and ideas that are not based in any logic or standards. It makes me wonder if I should give up on attempting to "make sense" and logic entirely. Needing to "make sense" or be logical is an extreme handicap when no one else is held to the same standard.

Recently, I began using You Tube again. I started using You Tube a few years ago and I assume that most You Tube users started using You Tube a few years ago also. I am using You Tube again because I recently realized that depth of the material that is on You Tube. Every commercial, every movie clip, every TV show, every video, Every sporting Event: You can find it on You Tube. I realized that You tube was extensive before, but there is a huge difference between that and being able EVERYTHING on the website...