JB’s Blog

Okay so I viewed that controversial commercial (you can see it on http://www.ifilm.com ).  Honestly, our country needs to stop being such tight-asses.  I mean how many of you have seen those HBO Shock Video specials where they show you commercials and programming from around the world.  This kind of stuff is a yawn-fest compared to that. 

So a skimpily dressed Hilton is washing a car and eating a burger.  The groups that are making a big deal of this call this soft core pornography.  After carefully reviewing, nothing came flying out…no nudity.  Yet somehow no ones seems to have problems with these commercials for penis pills.  They are making all these allegories…I mean the guy can’t throw a football through the tire until he takes the pill and suddenly tight spirals are going through the hole.  Well these are about sex, so I guess we should ban these too.  We’ll probably have to ban all health and beauty product commercials too since many times people are in just a towel.  Holy crap everyone, there’s soft-core porn everywhere!  Look out!

Look what I really want to know is where were these people when they were really needed?  Why couldn’t they save us from seeing Dennis Franz’s ass on NYPD Blue?

Okay, so have any of you seen those Morgan Stanley commercials on tv?  The news ones show some person either talking like the kid is his or her daughter at a graduation, or is cheering really hard for a kid in a soccer game.  Someone else makes a comment, are you his father, and then someone else says nope he’s their Morgan Stanley guy.  They claim these folks are unusually devoted to their customers.

Now when I am seeking financial advice, I don’t think I need the stalker special.  I do not need someone to become obsessed with me and my family.  I don’t want to be in bed with someone and she screams someone is looking in through the window, and I respond oh that’s okay, it’s my Morgan Stanley guy.

So my power to my laptop has been temperamental.  It keeps shifting from battery to AC power despite the fact that it is constantly plugged in.  I haver to play with the wire alot.  Pushing it in or out doesn’t seem to help.  Do you know what a new AC adapter costs for a laptop?  Like $70.  Cuz I’m sure that’s even close to what it costs to produce an AC adapter.  Non-laptop ones sell for like $10.  It’s part of the whole lets make every replacement part so expensive they have to buy a new one…well I’ll show them…I’m gonna put up with this shit for as long as humanly possible…that’ll show em…  :\

I’m not really sure what is up with my blog design.  I still have the same old template selected, yet the background and format do not appear at all when you load my blog.  So I am at a loss for why it is appearing the way it is, and hope it goes back to old format.

To update you why my posts have been so far apart lately, I was in the midst of taking finals, and I have been going on interviews for summer jobs.  There’s too many law students really.  Still working on that, but at least my second year is done…just one to go.

Anyway, this site was real popular via emails a few months ago, but always makes me smile:  http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/numanuma.html

As a frequenter of networking sites, I come across profiles where women will claim to have a "J-Lo booty."  I feel the need to do a public service announcement and help them, for they are confusing this with a Jello Booty.  If you have a big fat ass, this is jello, not J-Lo.  I do not think you could get a multimillion dollar insurance policy taken out for a fat ass.  Now if you are in shape, and it happens to be round, but not flabby, that is more along the J-Lo lines. 

This has been a public service announcement.

Did anyone wonder what the grand plan was for allergies?  Earth is made, earth has pollen, ragweed, molds, spores, etc.  Humans come into being.  Half the humans are allergic to these things, causing histamines to go crazy making their eyes itchy and watery, sneeze uncontrollably, have an itch in your throat which you cannot scratch.

Now what is the point of all these.  For three months a year some people have to be in agony as they are allergic to the earth.  Not like you can really escape it, unless you’re in a desert.  I’ve racked my brain trying to come up with the developmental design of it.  If you’re a creationist then there is only one response you can have…nice work buddy.  From the evolutionary standpoint when will being able to survive depend on who has allergies and who does not.  Is there a war due in a highly pollenous region of the world? 

Clearly the most logical answer after considering this, is that humans came here via spaceship.  Makes sense really.  Douglas Adams, your books had it right.

Since going to Cornell and now living by Union Square, I’ve had many interactions with squirrels.  The first is when a squirrel knocked on my door room door my sophomore year to ask me to come out and play.  I heard a light tapping at my door, and I look over and see nothing.  Then I look down and there is a squirrel standing up staring at me.  Somehow it got into the building, and then through my suite door.  I looked over and said hi.  Fifteen seconds went by and it was still there.  I then said I was busy, and the squirrel scampered away.

Something I also noticed was that squirrels seem to play hide and seek with each other, or tag.  I dunno, maybe it’s just me (I had lots of time to kill between classes at points).

Finally the squirrels in Union Square are almost domesticated.  I remember during the blackout sitting in Union Square, and some of the squirrels felt comfortable jumping on your shoulder and sitting there.  They’d see you eating and run up next to you waiting for food.

And with that…back to studying for finals (10 more days!)

Has anyone ever noticed the phenomenon of when New Yorkers get out of train or subway cars, they all head for one staircase to get out.  Everyone will be bunching to try and get through on that one staircase, when 20 feet down there is another staircase that nobody is using.  This will usual prompt my friends and I to shrug and move on down to that staircase. 

*Last week I was out of staples.  I actually went to Staples solely to get staples.  Out of a two-store floor with many rows, they are in the middle of one row taking up a tiny shelf.

*I took the train home this past weekend for my dad’s 50th birthday.  Out of my window I saw that a building was called "Austin Towers."

*I saw the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy over the weekend.  Twenty minutes before it started, my brother and I decided to go to that show.  It was rainy, the weekend, opening weekend for that film, and Long Island.  I was sure it would be sold out.  I Fandango’d the tickets, paying the extra fee (buying in advance online).  Our theater was half-empty.  It was the number one film this past weekend.  I wasted money on the fee.  But I did get to fill out a survey.