I feel like I'm taking Crazy Pills

10 nominations for best picture? Really? and listen, I saw Avatar twice, really enjoyed the movie - great effects, 3d was awesome. But does anyone really think it's the best picture of the year? A scientist who loves the earth, a businessman who just cares about money, a general who just wants to fight, "indians" who really love their land and don't want to be kicked off it, a guy who goes to the indians and learns to appreciate their culture, and a resource call "un-obtainium??" Even Blind Side was a better movie in my opinion (which is also nominated for Best Picture?).

And, in my opinion, it's a slap in the face to Pixar who gets nominated only when they expand it to 10 movies. Up was a fantastic movie, but so was The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WallE, etc. and they're only recognized once we dilute the category?

Let Cameron have his billions in profit - that's fine, he deserves it because it's a well-made and revolutionary movie, but the oscars aren't the people's choice awards. We don't nominate a Twilight, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Spiderman, etc. just because a million people saw it. Heck, why not nominate a hilarious comedy like The Hangover?

Ok. I'm done. lol.

I created the piano key necktie!

If I Can Dream About 'If I Can Dream'

If I Can Dream - Hulu

You know what would be even MORE interesting? A show about trying out for a show about people trying out for shows.

Perspective

While America does a lot of stuff wrong internationally - we're far from saints and have caused many problems - let's also remember that some rulers sure like to take this anti-american vibe to crazy heights.

YouTube
- Chavez: US weapon test caused Haiti earthquake

I actually think Venezuela caused the earthquake to blame it on America.

I Blogged Blog This!

and then I blogged about blogging blog this!

Google Chrome Extensions: Blog This! (by Google)

Security Notice Fail

Study Smart?

Yes, I know you are "loading," but the point of a "loading bar" is to let me know how far along we are in the process of "loading." Evenly spaced green lines moving from left to right don't tell me any more than "loading."



This is even worse than those "loading bars" that appear to "load" and then - whoa! - we have another process to load.

That is even worse than the multiple loading bars, or "this could take a really really long time or a really really short time depending on a bunch of factors, and we don't feel like creating a system that will accurately predict how fast this loading/installing process will actually take so we thought we'd just post you a little unhelpful message to ease your concerns in case you thought your computer was crashing"

Explaining the "Other" Thing

Sometimes people go into way too much detail about why they can't make something.  This would work fine:

 

"Sorry, I won't be able to make lunch.  I have an important meeting that came up last minute."

 

Being nice, you might add:

 

"Sorry, I won't be able to make lunch.  I have an important meeting that came up last minute.  I really wanted to make it – I'd skip this meeting if I didn't have to make it.  I'll make it up to you…"

 

Something along those lines – letting the other person know that lunch was important to you and that you aren't just snubbing them – seems well called for.  But sometimes you get:

 

"Sorry, I won't be able to make lunch.  I have an important meeting that came up last minute.  I really wanted to make it – I'd skip this meeting if I didn't have to make it.  We're weren't supposed to have it – the whole deal was off the table but then Jim got a call from the guys over at More Important Than Lunch, Inc. and they suddenly want to discuss it again.  So Jim calls me and is like, 'Chris, we're talking to them in 15 minutes.' And Jim's really concerned because More Important Than Lunch could like bring in so much revenue and . . ."

 

And what was an apologetic explanation turns into a detailed description of just how important/interesting the "Other" thing is.  It's another way the fact that people like talking about themselves trickles into typical situations.  We've probably all done it.