Jasonisms

So, I've been seeing all these headlines about the 'sexually charged' show Adam Lambert put on at the AMAs recently. Heck, I don't even know when the AMAs were, so I have to say "recently." First, I had to look up who Adam Lambert was (thank you Google) and then I had to search over Hell and high water to find said offensive material. Apparently, ABC and Dick Clark Productions have had the video removed from all over the internet and where it wasn't removed from, my ISP has designated the site: illegal for my region, or some such. But, thankfully, I was able to see the show thanks to the private persons who put the video out there on their own servers. I won't mention where I saw it to save those people the drama that ensues when someone has a "copyright" on broadcasted media. Okay, so my take: not as bad as they're making it out to be. Was the show sexually charged? Sure. Not as much as you used to be able to see on MTV's vid...

Seriously, what the hell? I remember cool cartoons as a kid: Transformers, GI: Joe, Thundercats, Voltron and Robotech. What happened? Now we have all these cartoons with no "edge." Too many squeaky childrens voices, too many feel good scenarios with less than desirable animation. Granted, when you go back and watch the older cartoons, the animation isn't that great, but now it's horrible.. Anywho, someone had to say it.

Google Chrome OS -- http://foxyurl.com/LSh Sarah Palin on Huffington -- http://foxyurl.com/LSi "Going Rogue" inconsistencies -- http://foxyurl.com/LSk

One - instead of trying something new, realizing it isn't the old, and swearing it of forever, give it a chance. For example, a friend of mine, a self proclaimed Photoshop wiz, recently tried GIMP on her new Apple computer. She grew frustrated because the menus weren't exactly what she was used to with Photoshop and she began criticize GIMP for not being what she was used to working with. First, it's not the program's fault you don't know how to work it. Second, if you don't want to pay for Photoshop, then learn to work it. She blamed the program for being slow, but it really wasn't designed to work on Mac, even though Mac OS might be written in Linux (which GIMP was designed for). Also, she was running 8 different programs in the background which could have been slowing GIMP down a bit (another complaint of hers). I told her to check with GIMP help for information, but she decided she'd rather scream and yell at GIMP (and by this point, me) ins...

Seriously, if you're going to go on some sort of documentary show and put yourself out there as an expert in your field, don't wear a bolo. I don't care if you're a college professor, a writer who has studied a subject or "Wacko Bob" who was brought in to show the extreme opinions, bolos just make you look stupid.

...but for some reason I never quite do it, which is odd, because I have an opinion about just about everything. I can't tell you how many times I think "this is a bloggable thought" while driving, walking or reading something. Anywho, I was goofing around the interwebz and found this: http://foxyurl.com/4wC . Who knew there were that many communities for social networking? This doesn't include the gazillions of forums and message boards out there that allow networking within their "community."

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