the unconditional finger

Two days in a row now, I've passed a car in a parking lot near my apartment that has a sticker on the back window of a frog giving you the big middle finger. To everyone!!! It doesn't matter who you are when you walk by that car. The frog doesn't discriminate, he just gives you the finger.

writing isn't as expressive as talking

The human voice has the power to bring words to life, and different voices can even bring the same words to life in different ways. The problem with writing is that the reader brings his/her own voice to table instead of that of the writer. With that in mind, how can I be sure that what you are hearing in your head while you read this is anything even close to what I intended it to sound like?

Anyway, school starts back up in two days, and I have to move into my new apartment today. um... wish me luck.

Oh, and one of these days, I'm seriously going to go on a long rant about Apple's Mac campaign "It just works" is a total crock. I'll have to find something about Microsoft and Google to complain about to make things fair.

what I did this summer...

I finished up my internship today. I think it went well.

at any rate, you still have 6 more weeks

I like how the scientists at CERN are planning unprecedented experiments with their Large Hadron Collider that just might introduce theoretical phenomena that might destroy our entire planet and no one even knows that it's coming up, let alone being worried.

I mean, who can blame everyone? It's not like I have fricking time to worry about this kinda stuff either. I've gotta pack my bags. I've got a plane to catch. I don't have time to worry about whether or not our planet will still exist after October 21.

But either way, we still have like 6 more weeks.

But seriously, I wasn't really that worried at all until I saw how huge it is. Seriously, I think I would be a lot more worried if I was living right on top of it like that. a 27km circumference!?!? That's pretty big.

why do they have to...

Why do they have to go around naming hurricanes things like 'Ike' and 'Gustav' and 'Katrina'!?!? All it does is give all the real Katrinas and Gustavs and Ikes an undeserved bad name. If my name was Katrina 3 years ago I would have wanted to change it, just for fear of association. I wouldn't have wanted to meet anyone for fear of having to introduce myself. That's not fair. That's why there should be laws against naming hurricanes after people. It's just not fair to all the good people it hurts, as if hurricanes didn't hurt enough people already.

Seriously, meteorologists are such jerks.

This really happened to me last week

I'm sure this happens to everyone once in a while.

are we all in agreement here?!?

Apple claims that Mac OS X Leopard is the "world's most advanced operating system." Are we all in agreement about that?!? I mean... I know it's unquantifiable and therefore unprovable (and therefore also impossible to prove that it's false), but still!!! Does that mean that we're allowed to just go around making bold and unfounded claims about our products just because no one can prove that we're not wrong?

I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm writing this blog from my Leopard boot on my macbook, and I have nothing against Apple (or Microsoft for that matter), but I really don't think the "Innocent until proven guilty" methodology is a good idea for regulating advertising. I think a more important freedom than the freedom of speech is the freedom from false information, and information about a product should not be advertised if it is obviously meant to lead people astray from forming rational opinions about products.

In short, I think most marketing schemes infringe on the inalienable human right of thought free from the bombardment of fallacies.