Saturday.

It's either a day for play, or a day to pay for the previous weeks playing. Today is the latter.

Monopoly. Fun in games, not in life.

Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, and watch gas prices cause you to do something to put you in jail. I don't know what you have heard recently, but as far as I know a monopoly is still illegal. I think it must be the definition that's throwing the government off. Instead of one individual controlling all the market, it's a community of businesses that raise the price of gas together. For one reason or another something or someone is causing the price of fuel to do anything but go down. The problem is that fossil fuels are so incorporated into our lives that the price can go up and we still have to pay it. The demand and the supply is there, but why supply something at a reasonable price when you can sell it for three times its price. I'm about tired of this game, and seriously doubt if I will ever play monopoly again.

The death of Hollywood

I remember hearing an article about why Hollywood movies aren't doing as well as they used to. Hollywood has had a couple ideas on what was the cause of the lost revenue. There bright ideas were that people were pirating movies, or that seeing a movie in a theater cost to much. Then someone bold and daring in the back of the room made a remark to the effect of, "Maybe the movies just suck". When it was all said and done they realized that the movies did suck, and the movies that didn't suck were the ones that did well.

What reminded me of this article was a movie review I heard while getting dressed this morning. The man giving the review was rating all the movies with two stars or less. The movies of today, he reviewed, aren't even hitting the half way point. They don't have interesting plots, lack a much needed character development, and produces have the funny idea that CGI can make up for everything the story lacks. Unless Hollywood realizes how stupid some of these movies are, we are going to have straight to video movies in no time.

The price of a soul

The price of a soul used to cost quite a bit. It used to be that you would only sell your soul for something great. Something great as in a country, power, or riches. Well if your in the market today you can get a deal. Prices are always falling, and if you're lucky you can get one for as little as a buck.

At work yesterday I was talking to a customer about current specials we had. I told him that there was no installation fee, that the price was good for a year, and overall it would be a good deal for him. What he wanted to do was cancel his current offer because it didn't have a special and get the new special. I connected him to a special dept that dealt with disconnects. After I transfered the customer the representative on the line went and told the customer opposite of what I had just explained. She told him there was an activation fee, that there wasn't a special he could get for the year, and that he would be better off keeping what he currently had. Everything she told him was a lie. She had sold her soul, and for what, an extra buck on her check.

It disappoints me that people will trade their integrity, honestly, and trust for a quick fix. Has it come to the point where a soul and the substance it is made of is worth nothing more that a few bucks and some change. I hope not.

LOL

Is it human nature to be generally lazy, or are we trying to improve upon what we have and make our life easier. What are some ways we make life easier? One funny but never the less interest is the amount of acronym's/abbreviations we use as humans. There are many different types and forms of them.

We have the feeling describing ones: lol, lmao, su. There are the congratulations and comments: nt, ty, y. Finally you have situational descriptions: brb, ttyl, cu, ok, sol, sos.

Is language only as important as the meaning we convey, or are we to lazy to care if we show the entire picture as long as the meaning is understood. I don't know. It depends on what we believe is appropriate at the time. Is it generally laziness, or just practicality.

College is a school for con-artist

Do what I say and not what I do. This is the message that I get from college. Not from the teachers that teach science, english, and math. This message is broadcast from the top. It is a message of we want you to do what we tell you to do, but hope that you never do what we do or at least not while you're at school. What do they do? What they do is continually raise the cost of textbooks, school fee's, and parking passes. They make sure that you have to purchase certain elements to come to the school, but they try to do it so slowly that everyone believes its the standard and not just a cost increase. I hostly can't believe that the cost of a text book for learning is going to cost 200 dollars, or that student fees continually go up for improvements. It's funny that if they even buy the book back they might give you a generous 25 dollars. What appears to me to be happening is a bigger spending limit of individual wallets passed on to us. I'm just glad I can help support their life styles (Yeah, right).

Events of Saturday

1. In film studies tried to figure out how silent films ever became popular. (Seeing a moving image of someone must have been really entertaining one hundred years ago.)
2. Wondered why highway patrol officers can speed on the highway and if I try and follow their example get a ticket.
3. Asked my parents 'which' side of the bed was the wrong side to get out of.
4. Realized I didn't like authentic foreign food.
5. Ate the best tasting fudge I have ever had.
6. Asked my brother if he let me pull him behind my car if I tied a rope onto a sled and pulled it behind me with him in it going thirty.
7. Why is it that little brothers always bother you first, then try to get you in trouble.
8. Said I had to use the bathroom when dinner was over so I didn't have to clean up.
9. Soaked my shoes in fa breeze so that they no longer stunk, but smelled of peaches.
10. Got asked twice if I was wearing peach perfume.