The Many Happenings

Occasionally I like to go to the local Barnes & Noble bookstore to read, write, and just relax in the coffee shop within the store. It is usually the same deal - browse the magazines, browse the books, select some temporary reading, buy a coffee, open the laptop, and then sit and enjoy myself. However, last weekend, as I exited the store, I was greeted by a tall young man dressed in a suit.

His name was John and he was holding a manila folder. He had a worried look on his eye, so when he signaled my attention I decided to listen to what he had to say.

“Hello, my name is John and I need to ask you for a favor.”

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My new Dark Night (featuring the Joker, of course) just came in and I posted it on the wall in front of me. I feel a little more complete inside knowning that the words “Why So Serious?” are hovering above my head. I’m not sure why, but I do, and I love it. Check it out:

Technorati Tags: Dark Knight, Joker, Batman, Heath Ledger, Why So Serious

Today Kevin Bryant, a Republican senator from South Carolina, posted a very offensive and immature image on his blog that contained Senator Obama alongside Bin Laden. Bryant has just recently taken down the image for unknown reasons, but you can still see it here:

Despite my personal beliefs of the image, Bryant had full freedom to post the image. Shortly after, many news sites reported about his controversial post, and that is exactly what he wanted. I found about this through this Digg post, and decided to add my comment amongst the other’s on Bryant’s blog.

According to Alexa, KevinBryant.com is currently ranked 2,156,617 - that is horrible. His blog gets absolutely no traffic, so the senator obviously posted the image to get some free publicity. I decided to post this:

Idiots like Bryant post this stuff on their blogs for attention. If you noticed, this site is ranked in the millions on Alexa.com, which basically means that it gets NO traffic. Posting something stupid and thus annoying at this point in politics is just a cheap way to get some extra visitors to his site.

Besides my claim of him being an “idiot”, something that is commonly used nowadays to describe a Republican in office, my comment portrayed absolutely no harm. Most of his readers probably don’t even know what Alexa is, and for the ones that do, then they will have something to agree with when reading the 30+ comments that his post generated.

Senator Kevin Bryant had full right to post the image that he did, and in return, I had full right to post the comment that I did. But shortly after I submitted it, the “pending” turned to “deleted” and it vanished from existence. Where’s my free speech?

Technorati Tags: Kevin Bryant, Senator, Republican, Politics, South Carolina, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Bush

Though there are many competing companies out there, I seem to love comparing Google’s services to Yahoo!’s the most. They both have many compelling areas and feature-ridden portions of their sites, especially with advertising, but there is one that stands out amongst the rest when you launch up your browser for the first thing in the morning; the personalized hompage. A place that instantly gives you all of the internet in one singly tiny dos, thanks to the power of RSS feeds and other XML based widgets. Both Yahoo! and Google offer a personalized homepage, so let’s dig in and see the differences and which one is ultimately better.

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When I first saw the trailer for Pixar’s latest creation, Wall-E, I thought to myself, “Is the world ready for another E.T?” They portrayed the tiny and cute robot in such a way so that kids will automatically fall in love with the squeaky box, but has Pixar forgotten about the rest of us?

The reason E.T is the masterpiece that it is is because the cute alien character was mixed with a very political and thought provoking story. Not just a cute alien character doing immature acts for cheap laughs from kids. As the trailer made it out to be, Wall-E was a robot that looks into a bra and screams and rolls around for 90 minutes, and that just didn’t catch my attention.

But it’s Pixar right? Pixar wouldn’t take all their time, money, and talent, and create something along the lines of Shrek 2 or 3, Shark Tale, or even Over the Hedge. Those films are created by other studios and predominatly made for kids, and pixar has always risen above them. Up to this point, Pixar has added that extra quality that allows everyone, children and adults, to love their films. Because of the respect I have of Pixar, and I had nothing else to do, I decided to go pay the overly expensive ticket and sit down amongst many screaming infants to watch America’s favorite new robot, Wall-E.

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