Murphy's Law

Let me tell you a little story...

During through the summer, my headphones broke, as headphones often do. I've gone a month or two without working pair of headphones and no use for my mp3 player. This past weekend, I finally splurge and get a nice pair of skull candy headphones. For those of you who aren't familiar with skull candy, you suck. Anyway, I get these nice headphones and I try them out with my mp3 player. They sound absolutely amazing and all is right with the world. The next day, I turn on my mp3 player to find that the screen no longer works, all the controls just lock up, and I can't even turn it off. Its dead. I go 2 months without headphones and a working mp3 player, then the DAY AFTER I spend a good bit of money on a nice pair of headphones, my mp3 player breaks. Murphy can suck it...

Blank DVD's and Their Arbitrary Restrictions

Don't get me wrong, I love blank DVD's. Without them, I wouldn't have my huge collection of movies. What I do hate, however, is the fact that their are 2 different kinds, for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON AT ALL. For those of you who don't know, there are 2 kinds of dvd's and cd's: -r and +r. There is virtually no difference between the two types except for the fact that some dvd burners/players won't work with both, only one or the other. How utterly retarded is that? Are they TRYING to frustrate us? Why in the world did anyone ever think making 2 identical products, then changing some arbitrary feature, causing them to be incompatable. WHY? WHY GOD, WHY?


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Stairs

Stairs are such a ridiculous feature. They are so inefficient! They take up so much space and limit how structures are built, plus they are just slow and tedious to walk up. Seriously, who wants to have to climb stair after stair just to get to another level of a building? You probably think I'm just lazy, but that's not true. Because I am not fat.

You'd think by now we would have some sort of technology that makes stairs unnecessary. Just throwing out some idea's, how about a moving staircase? You step on, it takes you up to the next level, then you get up. Easy as that. Or maybe just a vertical shaft in the building with a little box on cables that you get in, specify which floor you want to go to, then it takes you there. I'm not even an engineer and I have better idea's for the advancement of our technology than the people who do it for their jobs, come on! Here are some blue prints I came up with so my idea's can be effectively used in real life.






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The Word "Webinar"

I've started hearing this word a lot lately. I don't know what it is about it, but the word "webinar" just pisses me off to no end! Maybe I am just being ridiculous. Maybe it's just my personal pet peeve. I highly doubt that, however.

I bet some poor sap was just sitting around and trying desperately to be clever by making a combination of the words "web" and "seminar." Although he succeeded in combining the words after hours of deep thought, no doubt, he failed miserably at injecting even the slightest bit of cleverness in there.

I am now making it my personal mission to become ruler of the entire planet just so I can make this word taboo. Anyone who says it will be hung.

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Sites Who Post Too Infrequently

I follow a number of design blogs on the web (for those of you who don't know, I am a graphic design major in college) and one thing that really pisses me off is when I check back day after day and these sites never update with new content. What??? Now I've just wasted 30 seconds of my life. Thanks a lot, infrequent blog poster. I hate you. You don't get paid to sit around and do nothing, in fact, you don't get paid at all, so GET OFF YOUR LAZY BUTT AND START WRITING THINGS I WANT TO READ ABOUT.

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Guys who think wearing pink is "cool"

We all know the type. They buy their jeans with holes already in them and pay twice as much for them as their non-ripped brethren. They wear shirts that are 2 sizes too small. It is a rare experience to see one without at least 3 polo's over top of each other, all of the collars popped.


We must hunt them down and kill them all. And burn their shirts. It will keep us warm for many winters.


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Text Books

For those of you who don't know, I am a college student. I am also not the child of rich, snobby parents, which means I am paying for college out of my own pocket (with a little help from my parents, definitely not a free ride), working hard for every cent. This obviously means I am poor. So why, why oh why, do professors put an $80 text book on the required materials list for a class and then use the book a TOTAL of 1 (ONE!)time! Are they trying to be disliked by every single student who signed up for their class? And to top it off, they choose a book that has a new edition coming out the same time your trying to sell yours off after you realize you don't need it, making it virtually worthless. To all those professors who do this: You don't want to know where I'm going to shove that expensive text book if I can't find some sucker to buy an outdated book...

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Fender Benders

You know what I hate about fender benders? They're wimps. They don't even have the balls to be a real car crash. It's like some kid who's afraid to jump off the high dive at the swimming pool so he steps off the side of the pool instead. No on is impressed, it doesn't make a scene, but he still get's wet. Grow a pair, fender benders!

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