Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Random Thoughts II

Let's start today with a new segment called "Songs I Am Listening To Over And Over":

- "What is Life?" by George Harrison
- "You Never Give My Your Money" by The Beatles
- "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" by The Beatles
- "I Me Mine" by the Beatles
- "Prelude/Angry Young Man" by Billy Joel
- "Allentown" by Billy Joel
- "Crush" by Dave Matthews Band
- "Africa" by Toto

- About a month ago I discovered the power of Pandora radio. I feel like I may be way behind on learning about this. If you don't know what it is, Pandora is an internet radio service where the user enters a song or band that they like, and it responds by creating personalized "radio stations" that play songs and bands that are musically similar to the one the user entered. I primarily use Pandora to listen to Beatles stuff, myself. One thing that bothered me at first was that Pandora only allowed you to use six "skips" per hour, meaning that if you didn't like a song that it played, you could skip it, but only 6 times, limiting the amount of free music you could access, which makes sense. However, I found a simple way around it. What I did was create a bunch of new stations off of certain Beatles songs that I like, and whenever a song I want to skip comes on, I switch to another station and get a new song. Child's play, my friends.

- Yesterday, my family and I watched Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (which I surprisingly did not enjoy) and my mom mentioned that she missed the days when everyone wore suits and nice hats everywhere. Well, after further thought, I agree! I wish everyone wore hats everywhere. I love hats.

- Whenever I get the exciting job of "sampler" at work, I get to interact with the people of Pheasant Lane's exceptional, high class dining facility, and the amount of people who simply take a free sample without saying thank you astounds me. It's unbelievable. And it got me thinking: When did our society decide that a lack of manners and courtesy was acceptable? Whenever someone grabs a nugget out of my hand and just keeps on silently walking, I want to run after them and snatch it back. You don't deserve it, come back when you learn how to treat people. I know it's something really small and it's not a big deal, but it should be. Am I overthinking this? I don't know. It bugs me.

- The Sox have lost 4 in a row, and are currently losing tonight in Texas, and the Yankees have won 6 in a row and currently hold a 1 & 1/2 game lead in the AL East. Do I have any thoughts on this. No. I don't wanna talk about it.

- The Sox passed up on a trade that would send Clay Buccholz to Cleveland in exchange for Victor Martinez. This news makes me want to wander into traffic.

- Our fridge is not magnetic on the front, but it is on the side. I just thought of this for some reason, and it bothers me. Why make a fridge that's not magenetized? What's wrong with you?

1 comment:

Steph said...

Umm you should run after people who don't say thank-you. That's exactly why people sigh over the down fall of civilization- people like that. That's incredibly rude and that makes me angry too.