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it’s online

Posted by  on 8 April 2009, 9:20 pm
a few weeks ago i commented on cutting down waste by cutting down printing newspapers. well, someone down south seems to agree with me on this one. pleasantly surprised (and yes i know this is older, but i only found out about it today) it seems that in seattle some newspapers have moved completely online (wish vancouver would follow). that’s right, no more printing, no more waste (regardless if the paper gets recycled). the paper is online…and you still get it.

so, overall consumption of this move. well for one, less transportation of the product. second, less trees cut and less pollution created by making the newspaper. and so many more…

how does it help them…well for one, their range of readers will probably increase. they can still charge and guess what…they can offer more information. easier to read (from my perspective at least) given you can search and pick what you read…so, old dogs…better learn new tricks as technology is slowly moving in…even if the reason for this was still probably economical.

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reality shows

Posted by  on 13 November 2008, 10:30 am

i guess following yesterday’s small rant i should follow up with ‘love’ i have for reality shows. the first show i recall came about 2000 and it was ‘survivor’. first of its kind, something new, a tv show that had, more or less, amateurs behaving ‘normally’ and not based on a script. success wise, well today’s tv programing is full of reality shows. at any hour you would have to try hard not to find at least one channel that is televising one type of reality show. it’s gonne from bad to worst quickly. today’s tv is full of any sort of reality show that you can probably imagine. it ranges from american idol in it’s ‘nth’ season to whether tila tequila can find ‘love’ (funny part is, and don’t ask why i know this, that her last pick decided to dump her as soon as the show was over, guess women can be just as cold as men in the end). the shows continue to degrade, as a prime example see below. then again, i guess i really do need to know the flavour of the ‘chicken of the sea‘ that jessica simpson consumed a few years back. eventually any conceivable situation has been turned into a reality show. canadians decided to showcast their talents for the worst driver, worst handyman and of course who could forget their version of idol.

anyhow, at least the driver show is funny yet extremely scary. imagine these people on the roads. then again i had to imagine given i’ve seen it yesterday on my way home. tv has degraded significantly since the addition of such shows. if you really must watch tv, shouldn’t you at least watch something that requires some sort of brain activity? i admit, i did watch some reality shows, then again hearing ramsey swearing is a huge part of why i watched his shows. i guess the next type of reality show to be aired will be about how to watch tv, or better yet watching tv.

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motorcycles

Posted by  on 30 September 2008, 9:24 am

and yet another pet ‘peeve’, loud motorcycles and their owners. i’m sure you’ve all heard them, usually at the early hours of the morning or late hours of the evening. the motorcyclist that seems to think that reeving up his bike will prove his worth. the only thing it does prove is his iq level, the iq level of a potato. nothing beats being woken up in the morning by the sound of a harley reeved up for about a couple of minutes.

i had the pleasure of witnessing such a take off this morning while i was trying to enjoy my coffee, and as i write this now there’s another bike proving once again that giving toys to boys is ill-advised. perhaps i shouldn’t be surprised, as boys will use any ‘penis extension’ they can find to hopefully help them to the follow their mating call.

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