1)400,000 Playstation 3′s, Millions of people wanting, and loads of landlords not getting their dough. {Written on 11.18.06}
Today was the official release of the Playstation 3. You know, I thought that Black Friday was bad, but I seriously didn’t know that this is tenfold worse. You see, there were only 400,000 of the $600 suckers. Each store didn’t have more than 100-150. So basically the odds of getting one was 1 to 700. That means that 400,000 people are happily playing with their PS3′s, while the rest are…well…for lack of better term, fucked up the ass with no vaseline. People were camped out for 5 days. 5 days. 5 days without washing your ass. 5 days of (possibly) pissing yourself so you don’t have to go out the line. We had rain in torrents last night, and people spent $10 on freaking ponchos. Not to mention that several people got hurt trying to get the coveted console (and I use “coveted” very loosely). WTF?!
You know, there is one thing I don’t understand. $600. Do these people not have bills to pay? Come on. I don’t understand the reasoning behind it. Yes, I know you want a new game. But seriously, don’t you think that you should get your priorities straight? The console isn’t going anywhere; I mean, Sony has to make more eventually, do they not? So why the big rush? Besides, you get it. What now? Where are you going to play it? You’re screwed because your landlord hasn’t seen the rent money for 90 days, so he left a nice eviction notice on your house. All because of one $600 game console, you are now confined to your mother’s basement. It’s not really worth it. And if you are already in your mother’s basement, and have been for 36 years, I think you can take that $600 and put it towards your own place.
Me? I don’t know. It just so happens that I am a small-time gamer, and I would love to get the Nintendo Wii, but unless I hit the big jackpot, it’s not happening this year. But in case I did have $600, I would spend $250 on the Nintendo Wii (what is wrong with this picture?), and the other $350 would go towards…loads of shopping. I do need more clothes. Furthermore, the holidays are coming up. I’m not blowing that much money on one thing. I don’t even see $600 in one year. As a matter of fact, I don’t remember seeing $200 since last November, let alone…$600. Humans are such nuts.
2)December and…flip flops?{Written on 12.3.06}
WTF? A few days ago, I’m standing at the bus stop, and this woman comes and stands next to me. I’m checking her out (for some odd reason), and she has on a winter coat, jeans, and…flip flops? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the woman was wearing flip flops. In December. At night. Now I’m understanding at the fact that it has been unseasonably warm in New York (up until today anyway), but normal people do not wear flip-flops in December. Not outside anyways. I just found that a bit strange. But that’s just me.
3)Apparently bots are getting smarter.{Written on 12.11.06}
Just when you think you can get away from spam bots, they find a way around it. I have Akismet installed (and if you have WordPress, this is highly recommended), and it has caught 399 spam messages. 399! Thank goodness for Akismet, or I would have so many comments, and 90% of them would be about drugs. Now, they’re not too blatant that they’re trying to sell drugs. Oh, no…they’re actually trying to write real comments. The best one is “your blog is on point” or some shit like that. But you see, they aren’t too smart; if they were more advanced, they’d try to use a regular site URL, and make it redirect…and now I’m not absolutely sure why I’m giving these bot makers ideas, but it’s just a thought.
I got email spam a few weeks ago, and the subject was “Summer is almost here”…Now, understandable if the bot was Australia-based, but I don’t remember if it was. In any event, us folk on the northern side of the great place we call Earth are going to be freezing our asses off…or at least a third of the northern side of the great place we call Earth. Summer isn’t for another…6 months. Dammit.
4)Fashion Faux Pas{Written on 12.20.07}
I’m on my way to my program last week, and I’m ready to get off the bus at my stop. The door opens, and the first person I see ready to get on…big ass rollers. You know the sponge ones? Yeah, those. Maybe it’s just me, but the last time I checked, you just don’t go out in public (in rush hour nonetheless) wearing rollers. That’s like wearing flip-flops in December; you just don’t do it. I know you want to keep your bangs in check, but really. No. Just…no. I saw it and immediately said in my head, “WTF?!” Hm. Only in the ghetto, I tell you. Only. In. The. Ghetto.
5)Attention Whorism{Written on 12.26.07}
We went to Manhattan to see the Rockefeller Center tree and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and [attention whore at my program] got really nasty to some of the people who came with us, namely the smokers. She is aware that there are people who are going to smoke, and even if it wasn’t in our group, someone else will probably light up. She was like “I feel sick now” and “My chest hurts” and all this. Please keep in mind that we’re outdoors. Now I don’t condone smoking; I don’t smoke myself. But I’m not bitching and moaning about the cigarette smoke when it’s outdoors. What sense does that make? They were asked not to smoke, and they agreed, but I find that just to be…WTF? Really. What. The. Fuck.
She just has a knack for offending people. I have a knack for offending people, but this is tenfold worse.
