It’s all in the wording….

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this writer wasn’t one of the many who believed the rapture was going to take place on May 21st, 2011. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Camping’s PR aide, Tom Evans, told the L.A. Times that the group is “disappointed” that 200 million true believers weren’t lifted up to heaven on Saturday while everyone else suffered and eventually died as a series of earthquakes and famine destroyed the Earth.

I’m sensing some bitterness and sarcasm here.

Maybe it’s just in my head but since I’ve started writing for PhoneDog, I’ve noticed how much words can subtly betray biases. It’s almost subconscious. It’s hard for me to write a straight-up article about Apple since I hate the company. Even when I try, I find that I’ve inadvertently worded things a certain way to make it sound negative.

Anyway, I thought this little example was interesting and kind of funny.

I have a problem…and a desk tour

This is probably the least interesting desk tour you’ve ever seen, but here it is.

How do you like the new look?

Not extremely original, but I like it. I don’t care what you think. Well, actually I do, but I’m gonna act like I don’t so that I feel better about myself. Nah, I just kidding, I care what you think!

Side note: I’m thinking about starting a new site. Not really a blog site, but just a web site. Not sure what I should make the site about. Hmmm…the only thing I really know about it cell phones, computers….aaand that’s pretty much it. Well, I’ll think about it.

Titanic in Two Minutes

This is a little project I’ve been working on for a while now. It took me a while because I’ve been super-busy with work, not because it was a massive undertaking.

I realized that the film Titanic can really be condensed down to about two minutes, so I decided to put my idea into video format. You can see it on my YouTube channel. (Stay tuned after the movie is over for a special segment.)

Titanic in Two Minutes

Tell me what you think or leave a comment in the video. Thanks!

Rubbish

Don’t you just love the word ‘rubbish’? It’s what Brits and such use instead of the word ‘trash’. And I think it sounds great. I mean, it makes trash sound so cool and sophisticated. If you call a wad of paper trash, then it’s just icky stuff that no one wants to touch, but if you call it rubbish, then it all of a sudden it sounds like a piece of art or something. It makes it sound less gross, you know? I mean, I wouldn’t really want to touch anything called trash, but rubbish doesn’t sound so bad. Yeah, I’ll pick that up.

And ‘rubbish bin’ – how cool does that sound? Trash can sounds so…trashy, but rubbish bin, now that’s sophisticated. That’s something I wouldn’t mind having on my chore list. “Empty the rubbish bin.” Doesn’t that just sound so cool?

Yeah, maybe it’s just me, but I definitely think these Brits are some sophisticated people. It’s not everyone that can make a piece of icky stuff sound so cool and artistic. Rubbish. I love it.

I also have a YouTube-ilicious Channel

Yeah, YouTube-ilicious. It’s like YouTube, but…you know, ilicious. Anyway, I don’t have to explain myself to you.

Mostly the videos are put up only when I’m really bored and feel like filming something that really doesn’t matter to anyone else but me but I post them anyway ’cause, like I said, I’m bored. It won’t be that often because, believe it or not, I actually work during the day. I know, it seems strange, but I do. So there won’t be a new video very often and even if there is it’s probably not worth watching, but I post it anyway because there’s something interesting about having videos on YouTube. I don’t know, it’s……..something……oh and also ’cause I’m bored.

I don’t really think a whole lot of that paragraph made sense so I’m going to stop talking now and just post a link. Peace homie-bears.

My YouTube-ilicious Channel – Don’t judge me

2nd update for the day

I added a new page. See if you can find it! Ooh it’s like a scavenger hunt! But not really because all of the pages on the blog are listed at the top in that little menu bar. I know, I ruined it for you. I’m sorry. So, uh, we coo?

YouTube commenters

So I am a cell phone reviewer and I post videos to YouTube. As everyone knows, the commenters on YouTube are….well, what’s the word? Rude? Annoying? How about just dumb. I mean, some of them are rude and annoying, but I think most of them are lacking in some sort of mental-capacital way. (I don’t care what you say, spell-check. Capacital is a word.)

Okay so one of my favorite comments was when a guy told me I needed to get a life. Yeah, he, who comments on YouTube, told me to get a life. I thought about defending myself, but then I realized that if I did so, I really would need to get a life, so I decided not to.

My other favorite comment is more just a general comment I receive on a regular basis. So, like I said, we do cell phone reviews and usually when we first get a cell phone, we do an “unboxing” video where we take the phone out of the box for the first time, see what comes in the  box, try out the phone for the first time, stuff like that. We usually call the videos “Phone name (carrier) Unboxing”. For some reason people don’t understand what this means so they’ll comment, “This was the worst review EVER” or “You’re the worst reviewer I’ve ever seen” or “This review sucks!” And I feel like punching them in the face and saying “Listen you half-witted, waste-of what-little-brains-you-have, YouTube commenter (that’s an insult) it’s not a review, it’s an unboxing. Can’t you read?” Of course, I don’t say that, because, as I stated earlier, replying to comments on YouTube is stupid and a waste of my time.

Then I have people who ask “why are you reviewing this phone? This phone sucks!” And I’m like ‘if it sucks then why are you watching this video? If you aren’t interested in the phone then don’t click on the freakin’ link.’

I don’t know, I don’t understand these people. I have learned to laugh at the mean comments I read though. Like the one where the person said ‘your dumb’ and I’m thinking wow ‘your dumb’? ‘YOUR dumb?’ I think we know who has issues here. (It’s actually probably me since I’m the one who wrote an entire blog post about it.)

Notes Left Behind

NOTE: This is a post I wrote several months ago. Just thought I let you know that. Okay, continue.

I heard about a book today called Notes Left Behind. This is the description: “The book Notes Left Behind is the true story of a six-year-old girl named Elena and her battle against pediatric brain cancer.” My first reaction is: What?! Why would you want to read that? Do just want to be depressed? You’d have to be thinking, ‘You know, my life is just going too way too good. I think I’m gonna go find the most depressing book ever and read it.’ Or do you just enjoy reading about little kids dying of cancer? What exactly is the benefit of this book?

Who knows? I’ve always wondered why people read seriously depressing books. Like, books that are so depressing, even Marilyn Manson would be like “Whoa! Step back! No one’s that dark.”

However, just to shed some “light” on the subject (get it? ‘Cause it’s dark. I know, I know.) I’ve decided to compile a list of reasons why a person would read such a horribly depressing book. I call it my

List of Reasons Why a Person Would Read a Horribly Depressing Book (I’m so good with these titles, I know)

1. You are weird. (Not to be underestimated as a legitimate reason.)
2. You may have just discovered your tear ducts and you want to test if they work or not. (Chances are they probably work, which makes this a stupid idea.)
3. You just realized that your life sucks and you find solace in reading about other people whose lives are worse than yours. Okay that makes sense. Sick, but sensible.
4. The evening news has numbed you so much that you don’t even really feel emotions anymore.
5. You are a devoted “Oprah’s Book Club” reader and feel that by reading every book on her list, it brings you closer to her. (See reason #1.)
6. Perhaps you are a guy and are trying to show a girl your “sensitive” side. If so, I applaud you; however, if this is your strategy, you’re going to be reading a lot of depressing books. If you really want her that bad, just TELL HER. (Genius, I know. Totally out of left field, but still genius nonetheless.)
7. You are involved in a womens’ book club and you all get together and talk about how this book affected you. This would make sense except we all know those book clubs are just an excuse to get together and talk about your marriage and how your husband isn’t ‘sensitive enough’. Just cut the crap and get to the real point of the meeting. Also, how about instead of spending all this time reading about a fictional child, you spend some time with the real children that need you – your kids. (Yeah, that was deep. I know. I go there sometimes. Not often, but I am definitely not afraid to swim in the deep end of my feelings.)
8. You feel that by reading emotional books it keeps you in touch with your emotions. First of all, what does that even mean, to be ‘in touch with your emotions’? How could you ever be out of touch with your emotions? Would you feel emotions but not really feel them because you’re not ‘in touch’ with them? If you were in touch does that mean you feel it twice as much? Being ‘in touch with your emotions’ is just a phrase someone came up with as a marketing ploy to get people to buy their depressing books. Second of all, well I didn’t really have a second of all, but I had to say ‘second of all’ because I said ‘first of all’.
9. You know what, if you made it this far and you still need another reason to stop reading those depressing books, then you need therapy. There, #9 is you need therapy.

As you can see, there’s no really good reason to read a depressing book, at least not one that I can find.

Peace out, homies.

Yes, I did come back after 8 months with a post like this. What are you going to do about it?

I read an article today that said that a recent study showed that gays and lesbians are more avid blog readers than heterosexuals.

Does that make you question your sexuality?

Quote from article:

When it comes to the types of blogs popular with Americans, the survey found 36% of gay and lesbian adults read news blogs, compared to 25% of heterosexual adults. A quarter (25%) of gay and lesbian adults also read entertainment and pop culture blogs, compared to merely 16% of heterosexuals.

Kinda interesting, huh? I mean, who knew that gays and lesbians were more interested in world affairs than straight people?

Well, anyway, that’s all.

Also, I realize I haven’t posted in a while. I actually have a few posts saved in my Drafts folder because I started them, but could never finish them. Maybe I’ll post them tomorrow.