Am I weird?

I hate 90% of what is on TV.  Maybe I don’t hate it, but I don’t want to be bothered with it.  I don’t watch anything current really.  I’ve never seen one episode of Lost, House and I’m sure there are a lot more that I can’t think of.  The only show I’ve actually followed in the past decade was Doctor Who.   Meaning, the only show with an actual plot-line.

Now, I’ve followed documentaries-a-plenty.  I can’t speak for everyone but I’d venture to say not as many people eagerly await the revamped version of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.

Right now there are a handful of shows I like.  Deadliest Catch is one of them.  It’s fascinating to watch these guys do what they do.  The latest show I started watching, last night, was Pitchmen.  Call me a lunatic but I find that industry rather interesting.  If you haven’t heard about it, it’s got Billy Mays (yes, the Oxyclean guy) and Anthony Sullivan in it.   They take a couple of products, pitch them and see what sticks.  I suppose it’s my creative/inventive mind that sort of evaluates the products and so forth.   So I find interest and entertainment value there.  Plus it’s nice to see Billy Mays actually talk and not yell.

And that takes me to my shows of preference.  I like watching how things are made.  I like watching things explode.  Real explosions, not Hollywood ones.  I like watching tornadoes, again, the real ones.  I like watching nearly anything on science.  I draw the line at biology, never really liked biology!  I like watching Time Warp, the show that slows things down to insane slow motion.  I like watching rockets, again with the explosions, but controlled explosions.  Mythbusters is a great show.  How it’s made is a great show.  Dirty Jobs is a great show.   I suppose it’s “real” reality TV that I like.  I don’t really like the pretentiousness of most reality TV.  Pitchmen is semi-reality I guess but it’s tolerable.

I don’t care who gets voted off an island.  I don’t care who can sing, honestly.  I suppose it’s because those things don’t really directly affect me?  Am I a non-tv elitist?  I guess so!  Nah, a non-everyone else watches it-tv elitist!

I’ve always been that way.  I didn’t like Weezer until about five years AFTER their blue album.  I don’t like bandwagons I guess.  I don’t like fads much either.  I stopped liking fads after the whole color changing shirts craze of the 80s.

I prefer timeless things, with a few exceptions of course.  This is just a semi rant because I get tired of being asked if I watched this or that.  Half of the news online seems to be which Idol got bumped off or who left what show.  The other half is depressing as all hell.  Doesn’t leave much for good stuff, to me.  So I make my own!

But wait, there’s more!

Actually, not really.  That’s it my rant on TV is done.  Now, my next rant: Facebook and other online perils.

MySpace will RUE the day

A couple of months ago I wanted to cancel my MySpace account.  I thought it’d be a simple painless process.  It wasn’t and it still isn’t.

Attempt #1

Emailed support to inform them that my old email address was kaput.  It doesn’t not exist anymore.

Results: Nothing

Attempt #2

Emailed support again, reminding them I needed to change my email address.  THE OLD ONE IS DEAD.

Results: Nothing

A couple of months go by.  I got too busy with the holidays and other things to care.   I stripped my profile down to the basic look.  I check it every other day.  Then it started getting to me again.  So I started searching again.  I needed a way to rid myself of this vile piece of cyberland.

I found it!

Attempt #3

All I had to do was take an extremely dorky stupid picture of myself holding a stupid sign with my stupid profile number on it.

Results: Guess what?  That was DAYS AGO and I have yet to hear from the hats-o-ass.

So that’s it.  I’ve declared cyberwar… or something on them.  Ok, not cyberwar but I’m going to get my profile deleted.  Women, children, look away!  Something must be done!

I threatened with unclothed women and such but I dunno, that might be too easy.  I mean, come on!  Make my profile public, posted nudes all over and then put links to the profile all over the WoW forums… BRILLIANT!

It would get the job done.  Anyone else want to suggest something?  I’m all ears… er, eyes!

Global Warming: My Plan

Let me give this a little preface.  There is a show on the science channel called Project Earth or something.  The ideas are radical approaches to solving “global warming”.  Radical is an understatement.  Some of these things remind me of those old timey films of people trying impractical, doomed to fail, flying machines.  One of which was launching tiny sun shields to deflect a percentage of sunlight away from earth.  With CURRENT technology it’d require launching a spacecraft every 20 minutes for 6 years to put enough of these tiny shields in place.  Rough math on that is about 157,680 launches.  That’s a space nuts wet dream, but it’s astronomically impractical.  PUN ALERT.

Well here’s MY idea.

Everyday at 8am GMT (that’s 3am EST for us on the East coast of the US) everyone in the world that is able to, will face west, and run really, really hard for as long as possible for up to 5 minutes.  This should in turn create a slight increase in Earth’s rotation.  Over a period of 50 years we might even be able to make the day a few minutes shorter.  Less day = less sunlight on surface at any given time.  Less sunlight = less heating!!!!

I AM A GENIUS!

WHERE IS MY NOBEL PRIZE BITCHES?

Better start running now!