Ever notice how hurricane reporters always stand in the rain when making reports? Sometimes with the ocean in the background. Total waste a time. Yes your in the middle of a hurricane some where in the rain - we believe you - its written a the bottom of the screen "LIVE FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE RAIN". There is no need for you to stand in wind and rain for an hour with a mic in your hand holding on to a pole, shouting like a madman. Find a store an loot it. Unless of course you get hit by flying debris. Now that would be unfortunate but entertaining nonetheless.
All the hi-end technology becomes evident when the reporters in the rain start speaking to other reporters in the rain. Picture-in-Picture® style. Oftentimes asking each other questions. Obvious questions like "why is it raining" and going over useless facts, over and over. Sometimes the reporters would move to a location where they can show some stuff that has been blown away or transformers are popping or is on fire. When it gets really bad you cannot even hear the reporter talking, but they do not know this which is funny.
The people back at headquarters are always emphasizing how dangerous it is for the reporters. In harms way. If it was really dangerous reporters would be dead already. We won't believe you until we see at least one reporter get hit by a flying Ford F150 - stop hyping the news. Intensively, often exaggerating its importance or benefits. The most entertaining things to watch on television today is american news, discovery channel, travel channel and reality shows. All of which are one and the same. I am only happy when it rains.
AngryDog commented: You know, I have to agree with you on this post Owen...why the hell these weather reports figure they need to be standing out in the middle of a hurricane to give you the news! We already know there's a hurricane jackass! ... read 7 more
I wasn't really planning on making anymore entries to the log but I want to keep my position in the top 5 jamaican websites. So lets see, the murder rate in the country is on the increase but I don't watch the news so I don't worry about it too much. Now the news stations instead of jumping right into the latest murders they wait 10 minutes so as to trick you into thinking its been a murder free day. Despite the fact absolutely no tourists have been harmed. news about far away locations is more entertaining; people keep blaming the whole New Orleans thing on hurricane Katrina but the hurricane is not to blame - its the water. Blame the water, hurricanes are cool.
Nowadays reality shows in america are so bad that you don't even have to have a reality show anymore. All you need is the tapes of the people who sign up for the reality show. Americans will do anything to be on television. Being on television in america is akin to being a fetus in the womb of Brittany spears. The easiest way to sell a million music-cds is to get yourself a reality show about your over privileged life. You can't be on a reality show if your average. You've got to have issues real issues like a teeth fetish or a love for midget porn.
You might take a flight and on this unfortunate day you get a window seat beside a cannibal. Under usuall situations you would know exactly what to do. But on this occasion you left your beef sandwiches at home for fear of being stopped at the metal detector. The flight is obviously packed to the max and there is absolutely no way you will be able to get a new seat. The flight attendants annoyingly check the bathrooms so you could not hide there forever.
On a average day. A day in which it either rains in the morning or its extremely hot. I might pull out my white ibook laptop and I'll carefully slide a CD or DVD into the slot loaded drive. I would leave it for a while - venture off to do something else. I might make sandwich or I would watch television. Often times I would go back and check if it has fallen asleep, at which point I would wake it up again. Wake it up to make sure that the lithium ion rechargeable batteries have not yet overheated, posing a fire hazard. because I am too lazy to send them back to the dealer.
Sometime I would return to it, wake it up and proceed to repeated press the F9, F10, and F11. Watching the windows zoom in and out of the screen. Sometimes I would purposely open multiple windows so that I can make the animation more random. Pretty. Other times I would bring up the RSS screen saver and watch the text fly around the screen but that doesn't work unless the power cord is plugged in.
I listen to music as well currently I am listening to Kanye West's Album: Drive Slow. But the hard drive tends to get pretty hot after playing music and I wonder it is going to melt through the plastic. One of my greatest personal fears is that at so point when I return to remove the CD or DVD. That, at that dreaded moment in time, the CD or DVD would become permanently stuck inside the drive. Forever sending it into eternal damnation. But today is not that day.
After failing my driving exam last wednesday I fell in to a state of total despondency (a state of low spirits caused by loss of hope or courage ). I failed the "hill start", then passed the "reverse through the lane" and parallel parking. I blame the god forsaken car - 1000cc simply isn't good for anything especially starting on an incline. Plus it also needs some major servicing. I can now see why people choose to bypass "the man" and buy their drivers license under the table.
Thats not the worst part either. The fact that I have to wait until August 30th in order to retake the test again is torture enough unto it self. Why have you forsaken me? WHYYYYYYY? Even before the yard test I was worried that I may have failed the written exam - I get paranoid. I think I got 3 out of the 25 questions wrong. In fact I am pretty damn sure of it. But I wasn't worried about any of that as much I was worried about the hand signals that had to use in the road test which NEVER HAPPENED. Luckily I won't have to do the stuff I passed over again.
I have already run over budget on the driving lessons. Not only do I have to pay $20 USD to do the test again. But I have to pay the driving tutor $67 USD so that I can use his shitty car to do the test. Can I say mofo? I know that guy must be smiling right now because the his other 2 students failed as well (notedly much worst than I did). But the August 30th thing hurts me most of all.
alex commented: @tristan it takes about 3-4 hours to drive the full length of jamaica. Over that distance is alot of bush and unscrupulous characters. Walk it at our own peril.
@micheal as owen described there is alot of corruption within the driving authority itself that is why the "bought" liscenses come out real. :) ... read 13 more
Two years since the sites being up and it comes the time once again for us once again to pull out a clean sheet of paper and write down all we have achieved, all we have seen and all we have heard. Count our losses. In the pass year I have failed calculus and Organizational Behaviour at a rate of one per semester. What can I say? When people run in circles its a very very mad world. Some of these subjects are designed specifically to mess with people i.e. people like me. Other than that it has been a pretty normal year. Thanx for your comments guys and girls ( faith, michelle ). Peace out.
My driving test is on wednesday. I can get out of work but there is still much to be done. Its going to be a hectic week.
I have subscribed to 2 "Podcasts" in my laptop's music player. Quite an interesting combination. One is "Open Source Sex by Violet Blue" and the other is "Space Music by TC". In the first one, from what I have heard so far, Violet mostly reads erotica which she reads it quite well. She has a sexy voice like Dido. The latter is, as the name suggests a compilation of "space music" which I didn't know was a music genre. But is quite a relaxing to listen especially while programming. I think those two podcasts are enough.
Yamfoot commented: it's very easy to fail Calculus. Hope you passed it the second time around!
I've just listened to one Podcast that Georgia Popplewell, a Trinidadian does. She's at Caribbean Free Radio ... read 4 more
