132lb

Lack of food in the house is also one way to drop some pounds.

I miss my Wonderful Roommate Cook & her Cat with the Jacked Up Tail!

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Wil Wheaton did a post on his blog a few months back about this and as i was reading it I nodding my head in agreement seeing where that was going.

wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2011/01/technology-makes-you-stupid.html


In a similar vein before internet, chat, text, twitter, facebook, and even cell phones if there was something you didn't understand you would at least attempt to figure it out before easily giving up and pulling out some sort of gadget to look it up. Now granted the convenience of being able to get information at our fingertips is awesome but it sadly (in my opinion) is making a stupider generation (or this current one dumber). Instead of at least working the brain cells to try and figure out a problem people automatically go to the easy solution. So I believe that the ability to work through problems and use simple logic is being lost.

Example is a call I received today (and it's not the first nor will it be the last like it)

Me: This is Customer Service, Rabbit speaking, How may I help you?

Customer: Hi, I'm calling from a store and I'm looking at your product on the shelves.

Me *oh boy*: Yes, how may I help you?

Customer: Well you have these two products, one is in a purple box and one in a blue box, what's the difference?

Me: You mean one of the boxes says 'pads' and another says 'wipes".

Customer: Oh. Yeah. It does say that. Okay, supposedly you can use with with a swiffer dry and one with the wet jet. Which one do you use with which one?

Me: Well the one that says you can use it with with the swifter wet jet you can use it with the wet jet. The one that says you can use it with the swiffer dry, you can use it with the dry one.

Customer: Oh, yeah.... it does say that on the front.

Me: Anything else sir?

Customer: No, thank you.

Me: You're welcome. You have a good day sir.

Customer: You too.

Me: *hangs up* Idiot.

See, that's what kills me. I get calls similar to this all the time. Instead of asking someone who works there or heaven forbid - READING THE PACKAGE - the first instinct is just to whip out the cell and have someone else solve that oh so difficult problem for you. I mean he went through the trouble of looking for our number on the back of the package you would think that maybe he could have spent some time actually reading the front of it.

We, as a race, are getting so much dumber. And it saddens me so.

Simple logic is just going over some people's heads.

You don't know how many I just want to say to people when they ask a question "ok, think it through.... you can do it. Follow the logic train and you can get from point "A" to point "C" on your own... come on. Point "B" is not that difficult to figure out."

From the first time I saw the trailer for this movie I said to myself "I have no idea what this is about and it will probably be crap but I want to watch it! And maybe Roommate will go with me!!!"

Roommate agreed she would go with me except for that pesky fact that she would no longer be my Roommate and since it was because she was moving far away and not because I was kicking her ass out it would be more than slightly difficult.

Xander however summed it up quite well "This movie looks visually awesome but will probably suck." Followed by his desire to see it as well.

And yes, I had been hearing the reviews were not good. In fact EX-Roommate sent me a link reviewing how bad it was. However that has never stopped me from seeing something. I prefer word of mouth from someone's tastes I know.

So this past Sunday Xander & I went to see this flick - we would not be deterred by bad reviews and with low expectations we set about to enjoy ourselves.

And we did! I can't accurately describe what this movie is about - sure there is a deeper layer meaning if you want to get all crazy about it and that's fine too. And it's not like I don't like my movies to have 'meaning' but not to the point where someone can suck all the fun out of it and I say "Really? Well I thought this and I liked it!"

I'm sure every movie has someone who picked it apart on some higher level whether that was the author/director's true intention or not. 

As 'deeper meaning" is subjective to personal opinion I will go with my belief that you can't go wrong with an action movie that has females in hot outfits (your taste of hot is subjective from skimpy to awesome leather getups) using guns & swords & giant Mecha with a rabbit (RABBIT!!) painted on it to kill/destroy Steampunk german zombie soldiers, Zeppelins (ZEPPELINS!!!) robots, samurais with gattling guns, orcs, catapulting goblins, dragons, robots and a great train robbery!

When you see it, you will understand - whether you think that makes sense is up to you.

But we both had a great time and came out of the movie enjoying for exactly what it was - a crazy pure mess of awesomeness that to my whacked out mind worked.

Then again I enjoy Westerns for what they are too where as some people will bash them - dude, horses, gunfights, cowboys, hats, and dusters, and bank and/or train robberies - what else do you need in your Western!?!?

Anyway, I enjoyed Sucker Punch. Whether you might is up to you and what you know about my tastes in movies. But either way lots of the reviews I read (after the fact) had some details wrong so I'm not sure just how much of the movie they were paying attention to.

Oh, how about this, in terms some of you can understand better (especially for some who might want to say 'oh chicks in skimpy outfits?") it's like 300 but with a lot less nudity (instead of almost naked dudes you have more fully dressed women) while still having plenty of action and death.

Take from that what you will.

PS: And for those that may ask "girls in hot outfits" does not mean I'm suddenly "into Girls", if you know me it's that I'd like to be that Girl in the hot outfit killing people with guns and/or swords.  Maybe even with a Bunny sidekick. Angel understands this.

PSS:  In your dreams Xander.

 

Damn you Hallwayman and you twisted vengeance!

Earlier this week I was slightly paranoid that the Hallwayman was out to get to me - but nothing happened.

On Wednesday the paranoia picked up enough for me to scan outside my home before coming and as I didn't see the Hallwayman's trusty steed I assumed I was safe and thought nothing of it.

I entered my home while making a cell phone call, i turned in my hallway to an odd sound - perhaps the wee-demons where bouncing off the walls or something?

I was mistaken, for as i turned full around I saw a figure in shadow throwing things at me (he was poor shot considering I was in a gauntlet of doom) but he finally scored his mark and then ran off into my kitchen.

The fear was palpable! But I picked up the objects that had been thrown at me and proceeded to chase him down.

I heart a shout of "Help, help! The Highwayman has held me hostage forcing me to let him into your home!"

Hmmm, that sounded like Xander - as I ran into the kitchen I may have 'unfortunately' hit Xander in my haste to attack the Hallwayman.

But alas he had jumped out the window (and closed and locked it behind him) and run off into the night.

The Hallwayman is a fickle sort.

And kind of a dick. :)

Been hearing about this game for a while and saw that Steam had demo to download that will let you play for a hour.

I downloaded it end of last week but didn't have time to play it. I didn't want to waste my hour.

Played last night.

Hour went by fast...

I bought the game.

Two hours later I figured I should log off and go to bed.

30 minutes after that I finally did.

I do not have a problem!

All day my mind has been imagining Zombies coming at me in rows while I gather Sun and plant Peashooters (and other assorted plant life).

This game?

Easy to learn, keeps your mind occupied with busy work, and sucks the hours away.

Very Crack-like.

I change my mind... this could be problem.