Archive for April, 2007
Why do the Pussycat Dolls get to headline an arena tour?
As far as I can tell, the Pussycat Dolls have released just the one album. Sure it’s generated numerous Top 10 singles (and accompanying videos), but still it’s just the one album worth of music. So how come they get to headline an arena tour?
I mean, they’re coming to Freedom Hall this week […]
Blazing fast tax refund
Whenever I tell friends or relatives that I’m living in Louisville, they often ask about the hillbillies or make some tangential reference to “Deliverance” (Ned Beatty was born in Louisville). And maybe that shit has some relevance to the Appalachia region that runs thru Kentucky. But when it comes to taxes, this state is all 21st […]
Has the Imus controversy actually helped Rutgers?
The thing about this whole Don Imus mess is that he has inadvertantly made media stars out of the Rutgers women’s basketball team. I bet if you ask 100 people on the street who won this year’s NCAA women’s basketball championship, maybe two could tell you it was Tennessee. But the majority of them could […]
American Idol is so cruel
So I finally did something last night I swore I’d never do–I watched an episode of “American Idol”. Actually not the entire episode, I came in about half-way thru the show. I had just finally wanted to see what all this craziness is about Sanjaya. They keep talking about him on the […]
Katie Couric doesn’t write her own stuff
A producer for CBS News was fired for plagiarism when somebody noticed that a recent episode of Katie Couric’s Notebook was cribbed almost word-for-word from a Wall Street Journal piece. The part that surprised me most was not the plagiarism, that shit happens all the time. What got me is that Katie Couric doesn’t write the […]
Only got an 89 on the midterm
We finally got our midterm back, took him almost three weeks to grade the darned thing. I only got an 89, though he says that’s actually the high score in the class. Which isn’t saying much since there’s only five of us in the class.
What really annoys me though is that despite having all this […]
A tenth of a billion iPods sold
Apple has sold their 100 millionth iPod. Two of those 100 million were sold to me–an old 3G iPod that is my primary music player, and an iPod Nano that I use when I’m mowing the lawn or sometimes when I go jogging.
I’ve also bought a number of songs from the iTunes Music Store, but […]
The latest I’ve ever filed my taxes
I transmitted my taxes last night via TaxCut. I was actually pleased with the refund, only a couple hundred dollars each from the federal and Kentucky. Last year I had a big refund, several thousand dollars. Basically that means I gave the government an interest-free loan of that money during the year. I swore not to […]
Vista without Aero is way disappointing
So I haven’t upgraded yet to Vista. And I don’t plan on upgrading, eventually I’ll have to replace either my laptop or the wheezing old desktop PC I use to run iTunes at home. Whatever new computer I buy at that time is bound to have Vista, and by then there might actually […]
Wonder how the new cafeteria will impact surrounding restaurants
Even before I started working here last year, my employer has been slowly restoring a set of old buildings adjacent to the headquarters. I’m almost certain they could have got something built a lot faster by just tearing down the dilapidated old buildings and starting from scratch, but they wanted to maintain at least the facade […]