Cheap and Trendy Fads

My wife put me on to this thing...like most blog activities it's kinda silly and juvenile...but I kinda like it. Basically, I'm putting my music player on random, and then I'll post one lyric from the first 20 songs that come up in the playlist. See how many artists you can guess!

Take a look at who you are, pretty scary,
Nu Gdye Zhe Vui Devchonki?
They say it's my fault, but I want it so much,
So when I smoke out run into the trees, turn into Sonny Bono,
We can't rewind, we've gone too far.

あ～君に！あ～いったい！　今すぐに超えろ行きたい！
Don't do you know it's 2 in the morning and the party's still jumpin'
I flow better when my colors show,
I might be a little young, but honey, I ain't naive,
Still what we've got's glorious!

Baby! ロックンロール県庁所在地!
Plug me into your block heater,
Do you want to light up the waves?
There proweses potent, and secretly stern,
We all squeezed the stick, we all pulled the trigger.

There wasn't much in this heart of mine,
Sometimes I write addresses too sloppy when I jot 'em,
Maybe half the fault is mine that the sun didn't shine on Barrington Street,
But noone makes a sound, they follow,
あの日の君は。

Giant Robots: Following the Herd since 1976.

I love my neighbourhood!

Now I certainly can't claim to live in a really 'bad' neighbourhood...even by the standards of my fair city up north. It's not really a very GOOD neighbourhood...but it's pretty far away from the 'hood. Call it the 'ighbourhood, if you must.

But still...its got its share of interesting people. Most of them seem to live in the walkups across the street...rather amazingly, they're even lower-rent than ours, and attract an even more intersting kind of client...namely, first-year college students. When you put a bunch of teens on their own for the first time together in a place like that, things get fun!

I imagine the police must actually like getting calls out here. It's not really dangerous, gives them something to do, lets them laugh at stupid kids. It's sure great for my own personal Human Comedy scale.

Giant Robots: bringin' it real from the street, yo.

Brains....delicious brains...

So what happens to people when they pick up a phone, or use the internet, or do anything that doesn't require face-to-face interaction? What causes their brains to turn off?

I'm not talking about the usual loss of any sense of self-restraint or sense of personal decency towards your fellow human that seems to be a given on the internet, or with some particular phone customers...but rather that little bit of common sense that should kick in...perhaps when ordering a pizza?

When you have a coupon for a large, two-topping pizza, you will get just that. A large, TWO-TOPPING pizza. Now, it may come as a shock to many out there, but Supreme is NOT a topping. Meat-Lovers, is NOT a topping. Veggie, is NOT a topping. Why on earth would you think that it is? Oh, thats right. You don't think when you order pizza.

Giant Robots: Now getting time and a half for no good reason! And whose days off are Mondays and Wednesdays again.

RSS Tickers?

So what's the deal with this RSS stuff anyways? Seems like a really cool thing, to get automatic, selected news and website updates...but all of the aggregators I've tried today kinda don't do what I want? They're either browsers (which I've already got two of, working just how I want them already) or tickers. Now a ticker is JUST what I want...but why hasn't anyone made a new one? Or put in such radical features such as date filtering? I don't really want to watch a newscrawl of every article on GrandPrix.com posted in the last YEAR...

Giant Robots are meticulously maintained, and updated to stay with the times. Why aren't news tickers?

Taking a cue from Mr. Horner...

...I've decided to post my off schedule here. And yes, I know how fucking gauche it is to tell people to read my blog to find out about my life, but when I'm not home to answer the phone...

June 20th and 22nd are off, so far everything else is work.

Giant Robots like low-stress jobs. Why don't my supervisors?