As if DST doesn’t have me screwed up enough, I just discovered that time for all my blog entries are inccorect since I started using WordPress. Damn you wordpress! 
Timezones
Off Balance
This was probably the most difficult monday after DST that I can ever remember. Having had a head cold all weekend, and am I a little off balance from that, additionally the hour switch has really got my head spinning. Throughout the day I was reliably and hour “behind” everyone else when talking about times.
Losing Time
I cannot help but thing that everyone, and everything around me is intent on stealling my life away. For example, yesterday I went to get my hair cut. This place does not take appointments, they have “a list.” Anyhow, I call in to see what their current wait is, they say 90 minutes. This is a horrid allotment of time, since you really only have time to get started with a project, then quit. So, I decided to go purchase some stuff while waiting. Anyhow, I wasted 90 minutes of my life, and some of my precious cash. Upon arrival they inform me that it will be another 20 minutes, because they moved a few people ahead of me since I was not there. Did they seriously expect me to come to place and wait for 90 minutes? Forced with no other option I waited in the store. So, I had lost 2 hours of my day, and $40. Wondeful.
Perhaps the most brutal and horrid thing that persists from an archiac time in American history: Day Light Savings time. Sweet, let’s steal an hour of the day. Hell, who needs it? Lets just jump an hour ahead of standard time. It really annoys me to no end, additionally, I have never been able to adjust to it. I just have to do the math in my head of what hour it is “supposed” to be. Thus, my interal clock is only accurate six months out of the year. Given the fact that the US is a service driven society, and no longer agricultural, don’t you think it is time that we put this behind us? Seriously.
Simpson Strike
Recently, I posted this response to the following article on SlashDot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/03/1428248&mode=thread&tid=129&tid=188
Unfortunately, issues like this are what lead to reality television. The simple fact is that writers, actors, and in this case voice actors are pricing themselves out of the business. Sometimes it seems like a big deal to give out the $1 million dollar bounty at the end of reality TV shows, but that is really chump change. The voice actors are currently making $2.75 million per season. That is $2.75 million for talking into a microphone. Is that honestly justified in itself? Now, if they get their raise that would kick them up to $7.92 million per season. To put this in perspective, the president earns a $400,000 annual salary, with a $50,000 expense account, so effectively $450,000. If you figure the difference between the president?s annual salary, and the price of one voice over for the Simpsons, it comes out to $90,000. So, apparently, running the great nation of the United States for a year is only 125% of the difficulty of doing a voice over for one episode of the Simpsons. Think about that.
Furthermore, in all likelihood the money actually exists and it is more than likely going into the pockets of network executives. I am in no way stating that this is a great state of affairs either. My point here is the misappropriation of funds in corporate television. I would much rather see the $5.17 million go into better programming. The networks need to take more risks; in the past shows had more than a few episodes to pull in the ratings, they might not have even been any good in the first season, but they were still renewed and allowed to grow. It seems like now, if you do not bring in the big numbers immediately you are cut and usually not even allowed to finish out your first season. Thus, as the actors want more money–and the executives want to keep their pockets well lined–we are stuck in our current state of affairs with such horrors as Survivor, and whatever other reality TV is still floating around.
This is just one example of the disturbing trend in the growth of corporate power in the United States. It seems that in the past we have thrived with a powerful consumer driven society, where business tried to please the consumer, and decisions made by the consumers had an impact. Well, that is not longer the case. Now corporations are developing into monopolies, and have entirely too much impact on the government. Thus, if a corporate group does not like the policies of consumers, they will change the laws in their favors to punish consumers for undesirable behavior. In the past business would adjust to the consumers? desires.
The disturbing trend appears to stem from the stagnation of our government, and the efficiency of the corporation. If we continue on our current course we will soon abolish government, and be run by corporations in a truly hellish world. In conclusion, I believe that the Simpsons going on strike is a sign of the end of times, so repent, rinse, and repeat.
Updating the World One Site at a Time
Well, today I have lended my skills to Brian, and Wesley in order to help improve their sites. Admittedly, the change made to Wesley’s site is minor in comparision, it is still a change. If you want to check out my working template for Brian check out the following link, it will work as long as my PowerBook doesn’t take a nap:
Also, if you want to check out the changes made to Wesley’s site you can just head directly to his web destination:
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