The elimination of Autumn.

This has been happening for years.  Commercial interests have been destroying the very idea of Thanksgiving ever since the idea of Black Friday and Cyber Monday caught on with the mainstream public.  But this year has just been absolutely outrageous.  Wal*Mart already has their Holiday commercials playing, and T-Mobile made a big boo-boo with their "4G Wonderland" (say that 3 times fast and you'll see what I mean).  But do you want to know who I blame? Justin Bieber and Michael Bublé.  They both released Christmas albums far too early this year.  I'm just as guilt by listening to Bublé's album.  It also doesn't help that I have never been in cold weather before, so now whenever it gets chilly here at WKU, I get in the Christmas mood.  But hey, if Amazon wants to have Electronics deals all the way up 'til Black Friday, I say go ahead.  I'm all for savings.  But let's not forget what comes between Halloween and Christmas.

How I can't watch 90s TV shows online.

So today I was feeling nostalgic.  For some reason, The Amanda Show popped into my head (probably since I watched 'She's the Man' the other day), and I wanted to watch some re-runs.  First I check Hulu, and it forwarded me to Nick.com.  "Sweet!", I thought.  But no, it was one segment of Moody's Point.  So next I went to YouTube.  I found an account that had uploaded the entire first season, with each episode split into 3 parts.  Success....right?  Nope, Viacom (the company that owns Nickelodeon, CBS, etc...) requested that YouTube remove the first part of every episode.  Not the 2nd and 3rd parts, just the 1st.  Pardon my French, but that was a bitch move.  If they're never going to air the episodes again, why not allow them to be posted online somewhere?


P.S.- If anyone knows where I can watch them online, TELL ME.
P.P.S- Has anyone heard from Amanda Bynes lately?

Getting to a countdown crosswalk with less than 5 seconds left.

I absolutely hate when I walk up to an intersection, and I see that the way I want to cross has 3 seconds left on it.  I can't tell if I want to run to make it, or wait what can sometimes be forever for it to change again.  It's like when an elevator physically has room for one more person, but it would be uncomfortable, and you would have to be facing someone the whole way up/down.  It's just annoying and awkward sometimes.

Also, in the right hand column, I have added a new logo/promo.  If you want to include it in your social networks/blogs, go ahead.  I would love some publicity.  Also, in the top left of the page, you can share this page to twitter or Facebook.  Thanks!

P.S.- I hit 3500 views today! Thanks for reading!

Scheduling classes.

So today I finished organizing my classes for next semester.  It took me 3 hours, 2 pieces of scratch paper, 2 computers with 2 browsers, and a lot of patience.  Somehow I am ending up with less credits than this semester, but more classes.  I don't know why there isn't a system where you just choose the classes you need, and it just fits them all together.  The worst part?  One of my classes has literally 1 spot remaining, and it's the only time I can take it.  Did I mention that I have the second-to-last registration date based on last name and year-standing?  Not to mention that 1 of my classes has to be a bi-term.  Ugh.  This all makes me sick.

Fine Friday XI: Open-book Quizzes.

So usually when a teacher says that a quiz or test is going to be open-book, most people feel relieved.  I however, feel that in much smaller amounts.  Most teachers try to keep their exams at least a bit challenging.  For example:  Once a week in my World Geography class, we have an open-book and open-note quiz.  Problem is, most questions are from the in-class discussions.  Almost never can you find the answers in the book or the notes you took (sadly, I take terrible notes).  But usually you'll find a couple questions where you find it's worth it to lug the overweight textbook up the hill to class.

How you guys don't comment anymore.

I know you still read it, because the pageviews go up, but sadly, no one comments anymore.  I really don't care what they say.  I enjoy reading them.

People who don't know how to use a toilet. (Update)

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Self-explanatory. End of story.  I made the poster on the left, and posted it in my floor's bathroom.  I think it was a good use of my time.

The right is the updated poster.

When TV shows get covered by something else.

You know what sucks?  I set my DVR to record Fringe last Friday right?  Well, apparently, Fox seems to think that the World Series is more important than my entertainment.  Not to sound rude, but they were wrong. What's even worse is when the local affiliate thinks that some message of theirs is more important than the scheduled show.  The local NBC station here has been putting a non-transparent ticker across the bottom of the screen about their upcoming deal with Dish Network for over a week now.  It stays on the screen for almost 3 minutes, and never during commercials.  Another example: a few years back, ABC had the finale for the show 'American Inventor' scheduled for a Wednesday night.  KEYT (the local ABC affiliate) decided that Fiesta dancing was more important, even though anyone that lives in SB could just go downtown to watch it for free.  This was back before they put their shows online, so to this day, I haven't seen the finale to that show.