This week was the season premiere of the new Jon and Kate plus 8, season 5.
To be honest, I don't watch this show religiously or anything (mainly because I don't watch TV programming on the TV unless it's live sports) but if I catch Jon and Kate, I'd watch it. Funny thing is, I hate children. Not all children, but enough to comfortably make a broad statement like that.
So anyways, the big draw this season is of course the chance to witness what will inevitably be the public implosion of this marriage as a result of the many rumors and scandals involving Jon and Kate's infidelity. It's one thing to all gather and swoon over a litter of cute little mixed babies, but dammit, nothing brings humanity together like watching our favorite TV idols slowly descend into the fiery abyss. We all knew it was going to end though, didn't we? I remember tuning into a few episodes, watching Jon and Kate give their couch testimonials and plainly seeing the distress and grief in their eyes. Granted, I didn't think it was going to end with college coeds and bodygaurds. It seemed more to be going the route of becoming homicidal/suicidal.
I haven't posted in a while and I don't really have a point to this post. I suppose there could be some moral questions to be extracted from a situation like this. Like could you endure a loveless marriage? Is divorce ever an option? Should parents stay together "for the kids"? Can infidelity be forgiven?
I'll answer those in a more organized thought process another time...haha. I guess for now you can leave me a comment!
Friday, May 29, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Mac Is Me.
Super slow on this post but I have to say it simply because it amuses me so.
Ever since the rise of iPods, the world has been divided. All of a sudden we are now either Mac or we are PC. As ridiculous as it might be to distill your personality into an OS, somehow people buy into it. What's more, it seems the people who claim to have personality buy Apple, which to me is odd because all Apples come one way out of the box. Pretty damn unoriginal. The most amazing thing of all, is the Apple business model.
iphone owners have enjoyed their free 3.0 firmware update since March but itouch owners got served with a $10 fee. But if paying for the firmware update when others are getting it for free isn't funny enough, listen to what it does. For an extra $10, you can unlock the ability to use bluetooth on your itouch! Yes, that's right. You'll need to pay to use hardware that was already prepackaged into the product you own. That is pretty much akin to me serving you steak in a restaurant but intentionally not informing you that it comes in a glass case and then proceeding to sell you a hammer afterwards so you can eat it. Except in this scenario, you don't even have a hammer or glass shards to show for it. You have nothing except the rich, engrossing, pulsating soreness of your newly torn anus. Although most, I'm sure, will chalk it up as the price of "cool". Apple's "cool" marketing is ingenius. Everybody knows "cool" costs money. So the more money you spend, the more "cool" you are, right? That is the Apple business model in a nut shell. Apple doesn't sell products, they sell "cool" memberships. All you need to do is keep sending them cash or else they'll make you so obsolete, you'll be last year's itouch/ipod/iphone when you should be this year's iwhatever. What's the difference between last year's model and this year's model? Functionally speaking, nothing - but it will be aesthethically different, that way it will be easier to point out the obsolete losers from the "cool" kids.
Nintendo has not been watching on the sidelines. They've been taking pages out of Apple's playbook since the Wii and DS lite came to market. Those little sleek white boxes all seem to scream "look at me! I'm cool and have personality!", Like Apple, Nintendo has no qualms about selling you shit they could get right the first time but don't just so they can sell it to you again but in multiple iterations. What do you want? A DS? DS lite? DSi? They're both the same and different at the same time!
My dear friends, we are amidst a new era of tech. This is tech for the tech-illiterate. The perfect amalgamation of electronic wizardry and fashion. There's no money in catering to the utilitarian, or for spec lists and product descriptions. Numbers aren't cool, they're for geeks. Technology has gone the way of pop music and pop culture, looking the part ishalf all the battle. Why pay scientists for R+D costs when you can just candy-coat another line-up of ipods?
*sidenote* It looks like my source of "Today's Tracks" has decided to only allow 30secs of embedded music. So no track today until I find an alternative source. Imeem, you can suck it.
Ever since the rise of iPods, the world has been divided. All of a sudden we are now either Mac or we are PC. As ridiculous as it might be to distill your personality into an OS, somehow people buy into it. What's more, it seems the people who claim to have personality buy Apple, which to me is odd because all Apples come one way out of the box. Pretty damn unoriginal. The most amazing thing of all, is the Apple business model.
iphone owners have enjoyed their free 3.0 firmware update since March but itouch owners got served with a $10 fee. But if paying for the firmware update when others are getting it for free isn't funny enough, listen to what it does. For an extra $10, you can unlock the ability to use bluetooth on your itouch! Yes, that's right. You'll need to pay to use hardware that was already prepackaged into the product you own. That is pretty much akin to me serving you steak in a restaurant but intentionally not informing you that it comes in a glass case and then proceeding to sell you a hammer afterwards so you can eat it. Except in this scenario, you don't even have a hammer or glass shards to show for it. You have nothing except the rich, engrossing, pulsating soreness of your newly torn anus. Although most, I'm sure, will chalk it up as the price of "cool". Apple's "cool" marketing is ingenius. Everybody knows "cool" costs money. So the more money you spend, the more "cool" you are, right? That is the Apple business model in a nut shell. Apple doesn't sell products, they sell "cool" memberships. All you need to do is keep sending them cash or else they'll make you so obsolete, you'll be last year's itouch/ipod/iphone when you should be this year's iwhatever. What's the difference between last year's model and this year's model? Functionally speaking, nothing - but it will be aesthethically different, that way it will be easier to point out the obsolete losers from the "cool" kids.
Nintendo has not been watching on the sidelines. They've been taking pages out of Apple's playbook since the Wii and DS lite came to market. Those little sleek white boxes all seem to scream "look at me! I'm cool and have personality!", Like Apple, Nintendo has no qualms about selling you shit they could get right the first time but don't just so they can sell it to you again but in multiple iterations. What do you want? A DS? DS lite? DSi? They're both the same and different at the same time!
My dear friends, we are amidst a new era of tech. This is tech for the tech-illiterate. The perfect amalgamation of electronic wizardry and fashion. There's no money in catering to the utilitarian, or for spec lists and product descriptions. Numbers aren't cool, they're for geeks. Technology has gone the way of pop music and pop culture, looking the part is
*sidenote* It looks like my source of "Today's Tracks" has decided to only allow 30secs of embedded music. So no track today until I find an alternative source. Imeem, you can suck it.
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