Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Be the definite article

Staying at my friend's house for some reason means spending far too much time in front of the massively large high definition TV they have there.  Why?  I have no idea.  I don't even like TV, and I curmudgeonly bitch about whatever is on.  Still, it beats YouTube.
But I've been subject to a particularly irritating commercial for the new (failure of a) Batman game.
The commercial itself is fine - a rather ordinary commercial as far as these things go.  At best I have a problem with two lines, one spoken and the other written.
I can't find the video online, although I'm not trying terribly hard.
Anyway, the lines are 'This is how the Batman dies' and 'Be the Batman', and the problem distills to the two words repeated in each line; 'The Batman'.  This pisses me off, about as much as people who refer to 'the Ukraine', except that example is both politically and grammatically wrong.  Equally egregious are the people who refer to 'the reddit'.
I don't understand how people can fuck up the articles so much.  Its pretty simple; you use the definite article for all count nouns - that is nouns for things that you can count.  Proper nouns, such as Batman, Ukraine, and Reddit, are not a subset of count nouns. Part of the qualification to be a proper noun is that it is unique, and thus uncountable.  There is no point in counting what there is only one of.  
But what does that have to do with articles?  We sue articles do distinguish common things from each other.  We say things like "The man who kicked the ball" to distinguish 'the man' in question from all the other, non ball-kicking men.  Similarly 'A man kicked the ball'  tells us that one man did the action, though it isn't important which man it was.
Which brings us back to Batman.  There is no need to distinguish him from any of the other Batmen out there, because there is only one Batman.  If there were a multitude of other Batmen in the same place, then maybe we would have a reason to use articles; "The batman to the left is taller than than one on the right"
I take these things to seriously.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

A friend has me house/dog sitting while she and her boyfriend vacation it up in Turkey.  Tho dog in question is a beautiful and friendly Black Lab named Molly, whose standard expression is one that even looks like a smile.  And this was one of my friend's selling points when I took the job; Molly, I was told, was a chick magnet.  This seemed pretty obviously true.  And from the way Molly celebrated and carried-on when ever I came to the house, I just assumed she would be that friendly and happy to see just about anyone.
For the most part I was right.  You should see the greeting the door-person gets when Molly sees her.  Her tail wags violently, she leaps up and down for joy, she licks the air, she pulls like a linebacker on her leash. It is something to behold.
So of course I looked forward to little more than exploiting this for my own gain.  I have been walking her up and down street-lined 14th st for more than a week, and due to timing and circumstances I haven't encountered to many people.  But last night, being a Friday, I decided to walk her late, with the express purpose of seeing how well my magnet worked.  Well, nothing came of it at first, until waiting outside an over-priced pizzeria I saw a very attractive young woman, who saw Molly coming a block off.  By the time I was in spitting distance the young woman was already squatting down, hand extended out palm upward, and happily shouting 'Hi puppy!'
And Molly walked right by her, like she wasn't even there.
The fuck.
I stopped for a moment, felt the need to apologize, thought better about it, and walked off.
Sigh.

Thursday, June 18, 2015



I was at a pharmacy earlier today looking for something to kill the itch inside the shoes I've been wearing for far too long (rough week, don't ask). In the aisle with me is this really, really old man and his daughter, who looked as if she may have been younger than me (not terribly younger, early to mid twenties I would guess, though considering this happened in KoreaTown, she could have been my elder by a decade). Anyway, they are looking for shampoo together when the old man says "Just grab the Blah Blah Blah that I always use," to which the daughter replies "No! You can't use Blah Blah because they test on animals! Start smelling shampoos and pick one!"
I had by that point made the mistake of getting far too close to the both of them, a distance which can only be called "Well, obviously you did overhear us".
The old man took a hard look at me with that 'Death can only be a kindness' look on his face.
I didn't know what to say.
The daughter repeated her command regarding what products would and would not be purchased a good three times before I cleared out of their.

Monday, June 15, 2015

I need to sober up

Still can't sleep

Just think it out

I think I am just going to have to stay awake and muscle my way through

Like this Rachel Dolezal nonsense.
The fuck do I care for?  The fuck does anyone care about it?
The internet has blurred the personal and the political.
I cant fall asleep without a screen in front of me,
I'm gonna be that guy.  I am going to complain about the internet.  Not some specific part.  The internet as a whole.  I have a problem with it.  It's too interesting.
The problem is that the whole damn thing is sucking me in.  
It feels like I am being torn off the internet

Channel I will miss the most.  Coldfution 
Im already itching for my phone.  I used Stayfocused to block it on my pc.  Reaching for my tablet.  But I unsubscribed everything before i kicked it.  Take that, idiot.  

I am going to go cold turkey off my YoutTube addiction.

I am going to go cold turkey off my YoutTube addiction. 

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Blah blah blah, Techraptor
In fact, two
https://techraptor.net/content/leading-cyber-security-firm-hacked

and

https://techraptor.net/content/spacex-plans-to-provide-worldwide-internet

But who cares about all that.  Something much more important is a foot.
I have traveled to an alternate universe, and am now stuck here.  If you are reading this know that I am not of this world.  I am from an alternate place, a place where Jurassic World was an awful movie.  I recall, back in my universe, watching the trailers with friends, and all of us agreeing that this movie was going to be complete shit.  I mean, Chris Pratt riding with velociraptor?  No, there is no way they are going to pull that off.  And it seemed like everyone I knew was on board with the consensus that this shit would indeed suck.
So I paid for my ticket and sat down to watch the thing.  Well, it turned out to be something of a disappointment, but in a strange direction.  The movie was for the most part just really dull.  It was also poorly written and had a cast of characters I could not come to empathize with.  Even Chris Pratt's raptor-whispering didn't turn out to be the comedy gold I was expecting.  And many scenes made no sense to me; what the hell was I supposed to feel at the scene where the brontosaurus was dying?
It didn't really do much for me.
As the one scene where its established that the two parents of the kids were getting divorced.  Thank you for that drop of plot, entirely unimportant character.

Close to the beginning the movie makes some pretty bold claims, launching into that meta direction everyone seems to love these days ( thanks to Danny Pudi's character from Communtiy).  The film declares two things; that sponsorship has run amok, and that people are no longer satisfied with dinosaurs.   Oddly enough those would be a good description of Jurassic World itself.  For me, this would be endearing if the movie was not so frustrating in itself.

Eventually the movie got close to its close, but only after a completly predictable twist regarding the nature of the GMDino they created to haul the plot forward.  Just when I thought nothing would redeem the colossal sense of bad movie blue balls this show was giving me, the movie decided to end with what has to be the most colossally stupid end fight scene I have ever seen.  I almost cried from the laughter I was in.  I truly cannot recall the last time I had seen anything so stupid.  It was possibly worth the price of admission for that alone.

And lastly,
MEANWHILE, IN RUSSIA

Monday, June 8, 2015

I wrote a thing for TechRaptor
http://techraptor.net/content/warner-brothers-charging-pirates-20-per-episodes-of-friends

And I have to admit, I am much happier with the banner image I used created than I am with the writing itself.  But hey, a story is a story, right?  And this certainly was something newsworthy.


Thursday, June 4, 2015

Well holy shit.
Where ever you may stand on the absolute non-issue that is Caitlin Jenner, we all owe the nice lady a huge debt of gratitude.  Her being a public figure and daring to live a life as she pleased is about to bring us a boat load of grade A entertainment.
Thank you Caitlin, thank you.
The crazy today is so thick I am not even sure where to begin.  The Illuminati, who control the Zionist entertainment industry, leave clues about things that are going to happen.  Why?  I don't know.  My best guess is that they put clues in to taunt us, and show their power.  Or, I don;t know, it's a bunch if misinterpretations and lucky coincidences at best.  But you really need to see the crazy to get how fucking thick it is.
Check the links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3l3wHi4hCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X289sq1pLk