Why I’ll never buy and iPhone
“The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all.”
Earth Day and my thoughts
I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t recycle…nor to I intend too, especially at this school. I’ve heard that they mix the recycling right in all the other trash, which may or may not be true but it is enough to keep my away from doing all the hard work of separating stuff.
I’m not anti-green, I just think that this whole thing gets really really hyped.
I don’t know how I feel about global warming. True, not true. Seems pretty normal to me. I’ve heard both sides, that we go through warmer and colder trends, or that we’re going to melt this earth in 10 years. I don’t know.
I still think global warming was a good way for people to remember Al Gore again. He’s made a lot of money off the topic. Now he’s got us by the balls with a theory (yup I said it), and suddenly all the hippies are rising.
But Earth day. Right, earth day?
Everyone is trying to be so green and friendly, we’re still paying 4 bucks a gallon for gas in our 10 MPG Suburbans (God bless America), and if we really wanted cars that were more environmentally friendly then we would have had them long ago. I’m not talking about hybrids, maybe a biofueled car, or even solar (yeah the sun).
Hybrids aren’t for men first of all, and only the rich drive them. They’re a joke, and the hybrid SUVs get less MPGs than my 04 V Dub.
Anyway…
If our government was truly concerned about it they would have “green” cars, but they don’t mind us constantly running to the pump.
I really don’t think people care. Take my school for example. I walked into the fine Newell Dining Hall here at Towson University and was informed that for Earth Day Towson was asking students not use use trays to put your food on, only plates. This bewildered me. So no trays….
Save the earth.
Right…
I guess it saves water for not having to clean them? I don’t know. But part of no trays meant that students ate smaller meals. Which I suppose meant that we were wasting less. We had to scrape our plates into this disgusting tub of food to measure how much we wasted and the school is going to weigh the garbage over a series of weeks.
Sounds great right?
Think about it though. Is this saving the earth, or saving more money for my money grubbing school? You walk in, don’t use a tray, which means Towson doesn’t have to hire someone to clean that tray, we eat less because of the tray meaning that Towson saves money on food, we scrape off the plates, saving Towson more time and money. But after we were done, we had to put our plates on a tray to put them in the dish washing room.
Where is the earth in all this? Probably looking around as confused as I am.
I don’t get it.
I’m not saying stop trying to save the planet, I’m saying stop and look around at how much you’re really doing.
Honestly its the hippies who are concerned about earth. The same people that will go out and spend 5 bucks a pack on cigarettes, which are great for the environment I’m sure. They’re going to make me feel back because I use a tray? Nope.
I think I’ll keep my gas powered car, my dinner tray, and my normal routine. I’m gonna drive around needlessly and maybe burn some plastic here or there. You, let me know when you have a real plan for saving this planet. If it even needs the help to begin with.
4-21 Update
I’ve been up to all sorts of stuff lately. Lots of video work.
Hopefully you have seen my experimental videos, Garage, and Say it ain’t so.
I’ve been working a lot lately, but today the Orioles are finally off.
I just had a tease for the Yankees series on our show at work. I would publish it but I don’t want to be sued by Major League Baseball.
Right now I am in production for a mocumentary about a secret society much like “Skull and Bones“…look them up they’re scary….
I’ve also been looking at stuff for my 04 VW Passat. Pretty much everything you could imagine.
You should expect to see my film in a few weeks, we just started.
You can follow my updates on my twitter, I’ve been keeping that up to date. I have also embedded them into the side bar here at zamwi.
=)
Garage
This is an experimental video I shot on a Panasonic P2 and Canon GL2. You can definitely see the difference between the two cameras. One is the best HD camera on the market and the other is a low end 3 CCD camera. I did my best to match it up. Essentially this project was just to give a location a certain feel. I chose a garage and went with a dark/lonely idea.
Money don’t buy happiness (at least now)
New York Yankees
Payroll: $195,229,045
Record: 3-3
Boston Red Sox
Payroll: $143,123,714
Record: 3-4
New York Mets
Payroll: $116,115,819
Record: 2-3
Detroit Tigers
Payroll: $95,180,369
Record: 0-6
Baltimore Orioles
Payroll: $95,107,808
Record: 4-1
I’m enjoying this way too much. Go O’s
Price Per Gallon
Gas: $3.29
Milk: $3.13
Starbucks brew: $32.00
Kool-Aid: $3.69
Clorox bleach: $2.20
Evian water: $6.40
Windex: $10.21
Hershey’s syrup: $13.23
Red Bull: $30.69
Head and Shoulders shampoo: $37.74
Robitussin DM: $109.76
Liquid paper: $198.40
Quake on iPod touch
I need this on my iPod.
Triple Trouble
I totally forgot about this. Beastie Boys are great.
NBC’s 2008-2009 Schedule
I’ve always been a huge fan of NBC. I think that they have always had the best shows. From Seinfeld to The Office, I just love it.
The writer’s strike really complicated things though , so I was a little skeptical as to what NBC would do next year. However they are back and ready to go. With a few pilots I look forward to checking out, including Knight Rider, and are even doing a spin off of the The Office which premieres after the Super Bowl.
Looking forward to it.
zamwi.com is the weblog of a 20 year old college sophomore. A poor college kid who wants to get into the media business, move into a big city, and is in love with the rain.
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