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    Con Fare (You don’t get what you pay for)

    When life gets too busy or I have nothing to complain about, I just reach back and find something I wrote earlier but never posted (usually because it was uninteresting or poorly written…or maybe even both). This is one of those stories.

    I don’t mean to be a troublemaker–things just sorta happen to me. I think the reason why is because I’m a fighter–I simply don’t lay down when unjust situations arise. I don’t wanna inflate my own ego here, but I believe strongly in my convictions and I’m never going to back down. Some might call it stubborn, but I prefer ‘determined’–it puts a positive spin on things.

    The Girlfriend and I went to Jack in the Box because she was craving one of their fruit smoothies. “Should I buy the small one for $2.69 or the large for 3.39,” she asked after studying the menu.

    “Go with the small,” I told her. She rarely finished drinks like that and it didn’t make sense to spend the extra 70 cents on something she wasn’t going to drink. We went through the drive-thru and ordered the smoothie. The cashier didn’t tell us a total–only to pull up to the window.

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    September 21st, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Business Beefs, Complaints, iRANT | Comments are closed

    Rebooting isn’t just for computer geeks (Mo’ Money II)

    Now there’s gonna be a new “Ghostbusters”?!?!?!? When will this stop? Just once–once!–I’d like to see the studios come up with a fresh idea for a movie. But that would require a time machine and a trip back to 1955. Hey, that’s an idea–why not a “Back To the Future” sequel?

    Or should I say ‘reboot?’

    That’s the latest buzzword in Hollywood. Studios are no longer making sequels–they’re ‘rebooting’ franchises. After the critical and commercial success of “Casino Royale” and “Batman Begins,” Hollywood is looking to reboot any franchise that had a successful run. Marvel felt compelled to reboot the Hulk a mere three years after the first one was considered a bust (proof that there’s justice in the world: the 2008 edition made just as much money as the 2005 version).

    Hollywood thinks moviegoers are suckers. The suits believe if they attach the world ‘reboot’ to a franchise, they’ll get people to flock to a tired franchise no one cares about. But it takes more than calling a film a reboot to make a franchise relevant again. The reason “Batman Begins” was successful was because it was a good movie. I say this being a well-known Batman basher (I . . . . .

     

    September 11th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Complaints, Films, Hollywood, iRANT | Comments are closed

    It’s only cheating if you get caught (I be learned real good)

    I graduated from college in 2003 and my last two or three years were pretty easy. Once I decided to major in English, the only homework I ever had to do was read. The only questions I had to answer were in essay form. This might sound like a nightmare to some people but not me. I love to read and saw nothing wrong with spending my evening perusing the greatest works of American literature (even though the majority of it sucked). As for essays, I loved essays. I’m a bullshitter–I could easily squeeze four or five hundred words out of nothing (which any of my readers could testify to). Hell, I’m much rather answer one question in essay form than take a 100-question, multiple-choice test. With a multiple-choice test, I have a one-in-four chance of getting it right–that’s a 75 percent failure rate. Multiply that by a hundred questions and it’s a no-brainer: I’ll take my chances on conning someone into believe I knew what I was talking about with an essay question.

    That being said, I haven’t had to answer many fill-in-the-blank homework assignments since probably around the year 2000. Like I said–English majors only dealt with essay . . . . .

     

    September 7th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: iRANT, Opinions, Reflections, School | Comments are closed

    Juicy gossip and the tightwads behind them

    I don’t like to tell stories other people told me because it’s gossip and I generally don’t like being involved in such innuendo. One the important things to remember when telling someone else’s story is that you never know how truthful it is. That’s not to say people lie (some do). But when you’re telling someone else’s story you’re only hearing one side of it. Different things can be interpreted different ways. And if there’s anything I’ve learned in life, it’s there’s always two sides to every story. That being said, I hafta share a story someone told me today. I heard this from a coworker.

    A while back, my employer purchased a bunch of computers from a small, privately-owned computer store. We bought eight computers at around $500 each. The store was very eager to work with us in hopes of having more business with the station in the future. Even though the little store was in a different county, the owner offered to drop the computers off at our offices just to show how eager he was.

    That is a fact ’cause I saw it firsthand when the computers arrived. But the next part of this tale is . . . . .

     

    September 3rd, 2008 | Tags: | Category: iRANT, The TV Station, Work Tales | Comments are closed