Saturday, March 13, 2004
A Public Service Announcement
Why must people use their AIM messages to express bitterness towards people when they're pissed off?
I, just like everyone else with AOL or AIM, love to flip through away messages and profiles whenever I get the down time. At least once a week or so, I come across an away message and/or profile with content aimed at specific people -- and I don't just mean "school friends."
No - I mean the pissed off boyfriend or girlfriend who is so bitter that he/she has reduced their logic to a point where typing in "FUCK YOU TOO - I DON'T WANT YOU BACK" to their profile seems to relieve every last pressures and pain in the world. Likewise, you'll see "THANKS FOR MAKING MY NIGHT SOMETHING SPECIAL" followed by a crappy, sometimes overly animate winking smiley; thus giving the impression that someone got laid. In either situation, said user targets one specific person while leaving others out to dry, and, at best, asking "what the fuck?" Worse off, such an action suggests that only one person reads that particular individual's profile.
But, contraire! Matter of fact, that "targeted person" (usually the equally pissed off or pleasured mate) is off typing into their own profile why they hated or enjoyed what went on that evening. It can be further believed that the same user will be so preoccupied in writing their own profile/away message that he/she will forget to even check the other person's online information.
...thus eliminating any logical reasoning for leaving love or hate mail in one's AIM profile or away message.
The flip side of this coin, of course, involves the people that continue to communicate in this fashion for an extended period of time -- repeatedly checking each other's profiles and updating them in response to each other. This, as opposed to actually engaging in a meaningful IM conversation.
And the moral of the story is... please: don't abuse technology, it only makes you look ignorant.
Friday, March 12, 2004
It's Break Time
Yes -- Spring Break has officially hit! As one of the last few people to leave my dorm this afternoon, I have to say I've never been so pissed with myself for NOT going anywhere.
Breaks are amusing because most of the time, they become a trade off. Staying home has its perks: getting to relax in the comfort of a familiar area, seeing old friends, and having most of your shit paid for. Then again, it's wonderful to get the hell away from the standard day to day grind, hit the road with some friends and explore some new territory.
Either way, it's practically impossible to come back without being slightly pissed that your break didn't last just a night longer.
Depending who you go with and what you end up doing, there's always that moment on a trip where some people may speak in vain or similar emotion: "Why did I even bother?"
Likewise, there are the people who ask, "Why didn't I bother?"
Irony, isn't it?
You can see today's editorial from the Ball State Daily News here. Although it is the paper's opinion on the whole, it was written by your's truly and deals with the issues that come along with leaving our normal enviroment for a trip into the unkown.
Perhaps a future job for Dave?
We shall see.
[Program note: Blogging will continue throughout break, although we'll be kickin' up our feet to relax a little, as well.]
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Quote of the Day
"I love deadlines - especially the 'wooshing' noise they make as they fly past."
Paris Hilton: At It Again
The Sun Newspaper Online - UK's biggest selling newspaper | Paris Hilton Pops In
[WARNING: Link contains picture which has small fragment of nudity.]
Paris, 23 — who has been seen in an internet video having sex with her ex — was with singer boyfriend Nick Carter, 24, at the party in Miami. She must have won the booby prize.Yes, that's right: Paris Hilton fell out of her dress while sitting on Nick Carter's lap.
The FCC is investigating the image, and is now looking to fine the entire Internet or even "put it in time out."
You What?
Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Madness, death and taxes in B.C.
PENTICTON, B.C. -- A man who ran naked down the street with blood gushing from his severed penis yesterday mutilated himself, said RCMP in this Okanagan city. Police received a report at about 2 p.m. of a man running down the street, screaming "Repent, repent, fornicators."How in the hell is that not "foul play?"
Foul play is not suspected, said RCMP.
Oh no - It's Back
Don't be a Jackass:
- A French teenager was hospitalised with several broken bones after he and three of his friends copied some risky stunts they had just watched on the US television show Jackass, police said on Wednesday.But why in the world were they up there?
The 17-year-old boy fell nearly four metres from the top of a parking garage which he and his friends had climbed in order to take photographs of each others' bare backsides, officers said. He suffered fractures to his wrists, knees and pelvis.Hmm... And they say it was for TV?
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Pepsi Heading to the Edge
Pepsi goes one-up on Coke with new 'midcalorie' cola:
Pepsi has beaten Coca-Cola to the punch in announcing plans to sell a new 'midcalorie' cola. Pepsi Edge, set to appear in late summer, will be touted as having half the sugar, carbohydrates and calories of regular Pepsi, but with a better taste than diet drinks. The goal is to attract consumers who don't like diet sodas but still want to cut calories and carbs....by introducing another form of diet cola.
Coke could introduce a similar product sometime this year, while Dr Pepper/Seven Up is looking at the category as well.Big surprise: a pop offspring.
Hockey Players May Lack Intelligence
ClickOnDetroit.com - News - Hockey Player Charged With Urinating On Boy
A local teen was charged in court Tuesday for allegedly urinating on an 8-year-old boy in a locker room before a hockey game. Justin Rankin, 17, a junior at Lincoln Park High School, was charged with assault and battery for an incident that took place before his team's hockey game in January.He's since been kicked off the team.
Life's a pisser.
WTF
local6.com - Sports - Indianapolis Ice Signs Tonya Harding
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Ice hockey team announced Monday that it had reached an agreement with former figure skating champion Tonya Harding.Well - at least she'll be good at fighting.
Cable Now That Much Cooler
Dish Network battles Viacom / Satellite TV service drops popular channels in pricing dispute
EchoStar Communications, the corporate parent of Dish Network's satellite television service, blacked out several popular TV networks owned by Viacom on Tuesday -- including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon -- after the companies failed to hammer out a new contract.Oh, c'mon: those sat. owning pricks had it coming!
Comment of the Week
Yes - Bitch & Win continues right here @ BS.com with our fourth winner this week.
As a side note, Bitch & Win will STILL continue next week despite the spring break -- so keep them coming.
This week's winning comment stems from a widely circulated story about a few senior citizens who got into a physical argument at their nursing home earlier last week.
As always, click to see the comment:
Super size this factoid
CNN.com - McDonald's salad fattier than burger
Global hamburger giant McDonald's latest line in healthy looking salads may contain more fat than its hamburgers, according to the company's Web site.This, of course, assuming they are actually serving up some form of beef.
He's Cut Off
CNN.com - Transcripts
What follows is an excerpt from Tuesday night's Larry King Live on CNN. King was interviewing Jayson Blair, a former New York Times reporter who resigned from the paper after being caught fabricating almost every article he had ever written.
KING: You'll never write for a newspaper again?Hasn't he done enough of this?
BLAIR: No, I don't have the right to write for a newspaper.
KING: Are you going to write for books, fiction?
BLAIR: I'm going to try to write books. I'm thinking about fiction.
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Ashcroft Now 2% Less Man
KYTV | Doctors remove Ashcroft's gall bladder:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Doctors say the surgery to remove Attorney General John Ashcroft's gall bladder was a success. They say they were able to perform the operation without making a large incision.Thus lowering our nation's spare organ alert level down to its second lowest level: quasi-worthless.
News Alert: Muncie Police Looking For Third Suspect
The Ball State Daily News - Third suspect still at large
Muncie Police released the name of the third suspect wanted in this weekend's shooting death of Ball State sophomore Karl Harford.Additionally, at the press conference today MPD officials announced that this incident has provoked a crack down on local parties effective immediately. More information will be available tomorrow.
Nebraska: Hicks, but with More Agriculture
Yahoo! News - Nebraska Mayor Implements Shaving `ban'
Lexington Mayor John Fagot has implemented a "ban" on shaving for every man in town older than 21. Those caught clean-shaven without a shaving permit could face being dunked in a horse tank or other benign punishment. The mayor implemented the lighthearted ban to get the town in the spirit of this summer's Plum Creek Days, a festival bearing the town's former name. One of the festival's traditional highlights is a beard-growing contest.Wow, mark another state off the list I wish I never visited...
News Alert: Bastard to Pay the Ultimate Price
Yahoo! News - Sniper Killer Muhammad Sentenced to Death
MANASSAS, Va. - A judge rejected John Allen Muhammad's insistence of innocence and sentenced him to death Tuesday, saying his actions in the Washington-area sniper shootings that left 10 people dead were "so vile that they were almost beyond comprehension."See - the justice system does work!
Top Ten Things I Don't Want to Read in a Lead
First period Family can support this important rite of passage:
MUNCIE - When Alejandra Fernandez started her first menstrual period last year, she was a little scared.Oh, and take this one out of context:
Her mother, Cecilia Peralta, likes to keep a close relationship with her daughter.
"It's a tradition that every month we share a gift," Peralta explained, referring to a pair of figurines. "It might be two doves, two bears, two dolphins. I take one and give her one, reminding her that, 'Whenever you need me, I am here. You are never alone.' "
Monday, March 08, 2004
Because Makeup Doesn't Matter When You're The Bitch
USATODAY.com - Martha Stewart resigns from Revlon board:
Fallout from Martha Stewart's guilty verdict continued Monday as shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) dropped for a second consecutive day and Revlon said the domestic living entrepreneur is resigning from the cosmetics company's board.In other words: they saw this coming a mile away.
Martha Stewart Living on Friday said it was saddened by Stewart's conviction and that its board of directors would meet promptly. The company has said it had prepared contingency plans regardless of the trial's outcome.
News Alert: Ball State student was shot to death
Ball State student was shot to death
A Ball State University student from Carmel was killed by a gunshot to the head, the Delaware County coroner's office ruled today.
Sunday, March 07, 2004
News Alert: Ball State Student Found Dead
BALL STATE DAILY NEWS: Ball State student killed
Muncie Police have launched a homicide investigation into the death of Ball State student Karl Harford, 20.If you're sick enough, insert your own UPD joke here.
Harford was found dead in the backseat of his car Sunday afternoon in the east side of Muncie. He had been at a house party the night before.
Harford, a sophomore, graduated from Carmel High School.
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