Archive for November, 2005

Arrested Development locked up for good?

Friday, November 11th, 2005

The morons at Fox have done it again. The network has cancelled Arrested Development for what they call low ratings. Winning Emmy awards aparently doesn’t mean anything these days. Being the funniest show on television aparently doesn’t mean anything, either!

Perhaps the idiots that cancelled this show should walk down the hall and terminate their marketing and scheduling departments. They didn’t do this show justice and failed to find an effective way to market it.

Bastards.

Boycott Fox. :)

Entertainment for Me. A Waste of Time for You.

Monday, November 7th, 2005

I love telemarketers.

I especially love when they call me at work.

Not only am I getting paid to listen to their crappy speech, but the telemarketer is loosing out on commissions the longer I keep them on the phone. It’s a fun game to ask for more information, have them explain stuff, only to say “take me off your list and thanks for wasting your time”.

Don’t like playing games with telemarketers? Sign up for the National Do Not Call Registry.

The T. Soon to be iTrain.

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

I had to take the T into Boston last week for the conference I attended on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The total commute time was about 2 hours – I’d leave the house around 6:45am and get to the conference around 8:45am. I don’t know how people can do that every day! They’re crazy! While it was nice to use the down time for relaxing, listening to music, and doing Sudoku puzzles… I don’t think I could spend 4 hours of my day just getting to and from work. Don’t get me wrong, it is much less stressful than driving, but it just takes to darn long.

Anyway, I’d hop on the commuter line in North Billerica and take it to North Station / The New Boston Garden. Then I’d walk over to the Green Line and take a nice 15 minute ride into the city. The commuters were fun to watch. Most of them either had an iPod or they were reading a book. Those with neither were sleeping or playing with their cell phones.

Packed in a subway car like sardines just to get to a crummy job that probably has you packed in a cube like a sardine. If these people love being crammed in so much, you’d think they would just live in the city! :)