Weekend Notes
Damn, it sure was nice having a 3 day weekend. Although the 3 day weekend didn't seem a whole lot longer than the standard 2 day weekend. One of the things I really miss about my old position at Road Runner is having a 3 day weekend every weekend. A lot of the time I would work an extra day just for the overtime which is always nice, and when I was feeling burned out I would take all 3 days off. Also made it convenient when making trips up to NY.
So the new TV arrived on Thursday. Of course the delivery guys show up about 10 minutes after I leave for work. Luckily Rachel had the day off and her brother stopped by so they were home to accept the delivery. I was busting all day at work to get home and test out the new TV. Thursday had to be one of the slowest moving days I can remember. For those of you who plan on getting a rear projection TV in the future, do not freak out when you first turn on the TV. The picture will look really grainy and pixelated. It takes about an hour for the light guns in the back of the TV to get fully charged. Noone had told me that, so I was a little freaked out at first.
Rachel and I joined Netflix a few weeks back, so this weekend we spent a lot of quality time with the new TV in the warmth of the house since it's ridiculously cold. We watched the documentary Bowling for Columbine yesterday. A lot of people think Michael Moore is a buffoon, and that's partially his fault. We've been programmed to think that only people who wear suites and have a snappy hair cut know what they are talking about. Michael Moore is easily 50 pounds overweight, he has a sloppy, shaggy hairdo, he's unshaven and he wears jeans and a baseball cap. So it's hard to take a guy like that seriously, but he makes some REALLY great points about violence in America. There's a section of the documentary where they have about a 30 year timeline of conflicting actions that the Unite States has taken. Like giving weapons to Sadaam Hussein to fight Iran, while Ollie North was secretly helping the Iranians by giving them weapons. So we basically stoking the fire between Iran and Iraq. And believe it or not, these actions were done by Democrats and Republicans alike.
One of the most startling statistics mentioned was that in most major countries such as Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Japan etc they average about 100-200 gun deaths each year. In the US we average around 10,000 gun deaths a year. Michael Moore interviewed several people and noone seemed to have an explanation as to why there is so much more violence in the US. The one thing that sort of made sense was that the media in the US uses scare tactics to make everyone all freaked out and think that they need a gun for protection.
I agree with that 100%. During the whole anthrax in the mail "scare" we had 2 years ago, the media had everyone so scared that people were wearing masks when opening mail, afraid to lick stamps, afraid to open a letter from grandma. In reality way more people have died this year from the flu then they did from anthrax in the mail. The same can be said for the whole SARS "epidemic". They had people so scared, and initially reported that it was an airborne virus. Later on they concluded that it wasn't airborne at all, and they theorized that SARS was passed around by coming in contact with contaminated fecal material. So all those dopes who ran out and bough surgical masks were doing it all for nothing. Well anyway, I highly recommend Bowling for Columbine for those who haven't seen it.
So last night we head over to Rachel's parents house for dinner. Rachel's mom uses to work with a teacher who's husband is in the Marines. They moved from Virginia 3 years ago when her husband got stationed in Argentina. So his 3 years are up and they are moving back to northern VA to work at the Pentagon. When they left Argentina it was 98 degrees and they were swimming in their pool on Christmas day. How horrible must it feel to go from 98 degree weather and then a few days later have temperatures around 0 and wind chills well below zero. Crazy!!! Winter and cold weather suck, no changing my mind on that one.
So the new TV arrived on Thursday. Of course the delivery guys show up about 10 minutes after I leave for work. Luckily Rachel had the day off and her brother stopped by so they were home to accept the delivery. I was busting all day at work to get home and test out the new TV. Thursday had to be one of the slowest moving days I can remember. For those of you who plan on getting a rear projection TV in the future, do not freak out when you first turn on the TV. The picture will look really grainy and pixelated. It takes about an hour for the light guns in the back of the TV to get fully charged. Noone had told me that, so I was a little freaked out at first.
Rachel and I joined Netflix a few weeks back, so this weekend we spent a lot of quality time with the new TV in the warmth of the house since it's ridiculously cold. We watched the documentary Bowling for Columbine yesterday. A lot of people think Michael Moore is a buffoon, and that's partially his fault. We've been programmed to think that only people who wear suites and have a snappy hair cut know what they are talking about. Michael Moore is easily 50 pounds overweight, he has a sloppy, shaggy hairdo, he's unshaven and he wears jeans and a baseball cap. So it's hard to take a guy like that seriously, but he makes some REALLY great points about violence in America. There's a section of the documentary where they have about a 30 year timeline of conflicting actions that the Unite States has taken. Like giving weapons to Sadaam Hussein to fight Iran, while Ollie North was secretly helping the Iranians by giving them weapons. So we basically stoking the fire between Iran and Iraq. And believe it or not, these actions were done by Democrats and Republicans alike.
One of the most startling statistics mentioned was that in most major countries such as Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Japan etc they average about 100-200 gun deaths each year. In the US we average around 10,000 gun deaths a year. Michael Moore interviewed several people and noone seemed to have an explanation as to why there is so much more violence in the US. The one thing that sort of made sense was that the media in the US uses scare tactics to make everyone all freaked out and think that they need a gun for protection.
I agree with that 100%. During the whole anthrax in the mail "scare" we had 2 years ago, the media had everyone so scared that people were wearing masks when opening mail, afraid to lick stamps, afraid to open a letter from grandma. In reality way more people have died this year from the flu then they did from anthrax in the mail. The same can be said for the whole SARS "epidemic". They had people so scared, and initially reported that it was an airborne virus. Later on they concluded that it wasn't airborne at all, and they theorized that SARS was passed around by coming in contact with contaminated fecal material. So all those dopes who ran out and bough surgical masks were doing it all for nothing. Well anyway, I highly recommend Bowling for Columbine for those who haven't seen it.
So last night we head over to Rachel's parents house for dinner. Rachel's mom uses to work with a teacher who's husband is in the Marines. They moved from Virginia 3 years ago when her husband got stationed in Argentina. So his 3 years are up and they are moving back to northern VA to work at the Pentagon. When they left Argentina it was 98 degrees and they were swimming in their pool on Christmas day. How horrible must it feel to go from 98 degree weather and then a few days later have temperatures around 0 and wind chills well below zero. Crazy!!! Winter and cold weather suck, no changing my mind on that one.
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