Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Long time no speak

Hey there! It’s been a while, hasn’t it. Yeah. You see, I’m not one of those professional bloggers that has the time to post stuff every day, or every other day. I was trying to pump out a post once a week, and that hasn’t even been happening.

There’s so much going on in the world. The gulf oil leak (it’s a leak, not a spill). The feds are probably going to sue Arizona over their immigration law. The world cup is happening. E3 was a few weeks ago (www.endofnations.com), and I’m making the switch to Direct TV.

Let’s bust these out real fast so I can claim I’ve covered all the bases.

The oil leak:

All Obama needs to do is swim down to where the oil is spewing out and yell “YES WE CAN!” at it, and it’ll stop.

Does anyone remember that the same thing happened in 1979? Exact same thing. People are upset that the federal government isn’t really doing anything. Well, they are…or at least were…they were taking bribes to look the other way and ignore all the safety violations. Way to go, guys. People need to realize that Obama is an impotent president and really can’t do anything about this other than pretend he is doing something. People need to realize that it’s inept government oversight that really caused this.

Arizona:

Yeah yeah, people are still talking about this. So apparently Obama is sending in some people to Arizona to try and work something out. Hillary claimed that they are going to sue Arizona over the immigration bill. Really? Ok. You’ll lose. Arizona isn’t backing down on this. There are rumors that Obama is going to give the nod to ICE to use some sort of executive power to grant amnesty to all the illegals. Now, that’s only supposed to happen on a case by case basis, so we’ll see how that goes. I’m just interested in seeing how far Arizona and the feds are willing to go on this issue.

The World Cup:

Soccer is for wimps. Just look at it. Every time I try and watch there are guys falling all over the field like they are being struck my lightning, or like they are being shot by a sniper. They roll around on the ground and pretend they are hurt…they look to see if anyone is paying attention, and then they get up and continue playing this stupid sport. This is one reason this sport hasn’t caught on in America. Another is the absolutely horrible officiating. This kind of crap wouldn’t fly in the NFL. And then there are those damn vuvuzelas. You know, those horn things that make the stadium sound like a giant beehive. Yeah..bring one of those to a baseball or football game, and we’ll see how long security lets you stay. Rugby. Now that’s a real sport. I had someone tell me that the fans are so into soccer that the seats are like a rugby match. Really? That’s your bragging point? Let me get this right…soccer is cool because the fans are worse than raiders fans and eagles fans put together? No. I’m sorry. That argument is invalid. Soccer is a non-sport.

E3.

Electronics Entertainment Expo. It’s a big video game trade show that happens in L.A. every year. One of the games I’m working on has been nominated for 8 awards at the show. Check it out. www.endofnations.com. I’m doing the sound design for it. Check out the trailers. The story is actually pretty cool, too.

Direct TV:

So, I’m fed up with Cox. That’s the company I have/had digital cable and internet with. These guys are jerks. They raise rates randomly. Their customer service is garbage, and the actual cable and internet service is crap. I called to cancel and the woman was practically begging me to stay, saying all this bad stuff about Direct TV, which ended up being false. I told her that I’m saving over $50 per month by switching to Direct TV, and that if she’d be willing to give me that sort of deal for the next two years, I’d stay with Cox, but she wouldn’t do it. Well, guess what, lady, I’m outta here. Verizon is like this too, only they don’t raise their rates randomly. That’s why I switched to T-Mobile. And no, I don’t have an IPhone. I refuse to use AT&T and I refuse to pay several hundred dollars for a phone that doesn’t do anything more than the awesome phone I got for free from T-Mobile on father’s day weekend (MyTouch 3G slide). Plus, AT&T coverage sucks. Yeah, yeah, I’m sure there are one or two of you out there that haven’t had issues, but their overall coverage is crap, and I’ve been on the phone with many an AT&T customer who had their call dropped.

So, that’s that. Have a good 4th of July weekend.