So I thought to myself: why should i buy an ipod when i dont use any other Apple products? Aside from the fact that i find that the majority of Apple users are rather pretentious, i really dont like the ipod. It's menus aren't great and the circular touch pad is a real pain (you know it sucks when they invent special gloves so you can actually work the thing). Zune, with its nice, clickable pad seemed like a logical choice. I already give so much money to Microsoft why not continue the trend? I think im the only person in a hundred mile radius who has one. Let me correct myself. I was the only person. Now all i have is an 8 gig paperweight. I had it plugged into my friends boom-box (that's right, boom-box) and while he plugged in some other appliance a power surge cooked the insides of my Zune to a cheesy circuit souffle'. Now im faced with a perilous question: could this happen to any mp3 player or does the Zune just suck? Maybe its just that boom-boxes suck. Haha, just kidding, they are the coolest thing from the 90's. Maybe the answer is to forget the mp3 player all together and carry a boom-box around with me everywhere I go. At least i can get rid of the uncomfortable ear buds.
Sunday, February 28
My Zune is fried.
So I thought to myself: why should i buy an ipod when i dont use any other Apple products? Aside from the fact that i find that the majority of Apple users are rather pretentious, i really dont like the ipod. It's menus aren't great and the circular touch pad is a real pain (you know it sucks when they invent special gloves so you can actually work the thing). Zune, with its nice, clickable pad seemed like a logical choice. I already give so much money to Microsoft why not continue the trend? I think im the only person in a hundred mile radius who has one. Let me correct myself. I was the only person. Now all i have is an 8 gig paperweight. I had it plugged into my friends boom-box (that's right, boom-box) and while he plugged in some other appliance a power surge cooked the insides of my Zune to a cheesy circuit souffle'. Now im faced with a perilous question: could this happen to any mp3 player or does the Zune just suck? Maybe its just that boom-boxes suck. Haha, just kidding, they are the coolest thing from the 90's. Maybe the answer is to forget the mp3 player all together and carry a boom-box around with me everywhere I go. At least i can get rid of the uncomfortable ear buds.
Saturday, February 27
Tab news
Associated Press- Germany.Today Scientist Dr. Gerber Von Cornburger announced his discovery of the worlds largest can of tab. This can measures an astounding 65 inches in length and 24 inches in height. When asked if he would open and drink from the can, Dr. Cornburger replied " absolutely not, Tab is just a slew of chemicals. It's been proven to shrink the genital in males."
Who is 'The Citizen'? Part 1
Today blogsout.net invited a super star to contribute.
He is calling himself 'The Citizen'
"Who is the citizen?" a few of my friends asked.
CHUCK BAUER!
That's right!
He has helped many used cars salesmen, hot dog vendors and dollar store owner/operators all across this great land.
He is calling himself 'The Citizen'
"Who is the citizen?" a few of my friends asked.
I am pleased to introduce :
CHUCK BAUER!
That's right!The step brother to every body's favorite crime fighter on the hit TV show "24"
Chuck Bauer is a world renowned sales coach.
He has helped many used cars salesmen, hot dog vendors and dollar store owner/operators all across this great land.Welcome Chuck!
Sucka's be Ready
Yeah! That's right it's time... You thought everything was okay... It's really not though. What's not okay? Well that's where it gets complicated. You may know, but you may not. With that said Sucka's be ready!
Wednesday, February 24
Boycott!
Y'know that symbol that falls amongst "D" and "F", has a trio of arms on it as a capital, along with a straight back? Occasionally you'll find its small form, looking similar to an "o" with its jaws hanging apart, laughing at its compatriot parts of the word it's assisting to form? That smug bastard grabs a ridiculous amount of spotlight away from significant symbols. And a bastard it is. Do you know any man who claims it as a son? I don't. And its dominating our world. Musically, its third ivory up in C Major. Fifth if you drop into A Minor. Look in Math, and it acts as a stand in during Calculus for (1+1/n) to the n, as n will approach infinity, aka the constant 2.71828182845904554... It's flung adoration as a part of the four Cardinal Paths on a map, at a firm 90 to both North and South, and running right along with Big W. In the pursuit of humanity to know our world, it stands for a subatomic building block! No Up or Down Quarks at all- what a snub to protons across the land. And now you can slap the small formation of it in front of any word and it turns into a hip and important word. Add it to "mail". Or "card". "Book", "library", "comic"... this list just grows. Try it out on your own.
My solution? Quit that glory hog cold gallopavo (look it up). From now on, I insist that the blog sign switch to "Blogsyourmomchucksout", Chris cuts his sig down to just Corn and Aiosa simply post with a monogram.
Tuesday, February 23
Tab: Slew of Chemicals? Or Best Drink EVER
Tab is Cokes original diet cola. It is pretty much my favorite soda. I tastes kinda like Diet Coke but with more chemicals. I never will have the chance to try original Tab since it had chemicals that gave cancer to its drinker, but who cares...oh well maybe its for the better.Anyways, Tab is pretty hard to come by nowadays. The only places around here that I know that sell it are New Hampshire, Connecticut, and NYC. Luckily I live in one of those states and can enjoy it from week to week.
You know when people have a passion about something and they want to share it with everyone they know? Well Tab is my thing that I share with everyone, and usually they enjoy it. Regardless, if you ever get a chance try Tab, its great and I would drink it everyday.
Brand Name vs Generic Part 2
I am adding to Chris' fantastic post about generic food.
This is what I DON'T mess around with: Ketchup.
I HATE GENERIC KETCHUP.
So here you go Heinz and who ever else makes good ketchup.
Here is your endorsement.
Generic ketchup (or catsup) is awful.
Who the fart is Tate anyway?
Tate, your ketchup taste like acid
Brand Name Vs. Generic
So everyone has been to a grocery store and has seen the different selections of the same product on all the shelves, you know the differnt brands names compared to each other and of course, the generic store brand that is WAY cheaper than all the name brands. So anyways, I was grocery shopping yesterday and had to make the decision of what to get; name brand or store brand.
So here are some store brand products you can trust:
Store Brand Cereal:
Cereal is a pretty good store brand choice. It tastes almost exactly the same, especially if it is a more sugary kind cause that is most of what people are tasting anyways. But other kinds are pretty good too. I tried store brand Raisin Brand Crunch and it was just as good as the Brand name kind. Maybe even better, also it was 60% cheaper than store brand.
Store Brand Soda:
Lets face it....Soda is sugar and thats it. I feel as though store brand soda is pretty good for the price its at. I mean yeah, there will always be preference but when the money is tight it isnt that bad to go with the store brand. Plus, the grocery store around me has some pretty good flavors that the major companies dont, such as strawberry and birch beer.
But like everything, there are things you can't trust either and I have learned these the disappointing way....by trying them:
Store Brand Crackers:
Any kind of crackers that are store brand are just junk. They are tasteless, have no crunch to them, and just plain old suck. I have tried flavored crackers, generic ritz crackers, generic wheat thins and triscits and they are all are disappointing. So when it comes to these things, stick with the brand name so you wont have to live through the disappointment like I did.
Store Brand Paper Products:
It is a pretty common rule, something you dont be cheap on is toilet paper, tissues and paper towels. Sure, most of the time you can get away with cheap tissues and paper towels, but toilet paper is a definite no. I mean who wants thin TP that breaks when youre trying to use it, its not only disgusting, but very annoying too. So yeah, when you go for that one ply stuff because its two bucks cheaper, think of it this way, its 2 times thinner as well. So even if you double it up to make it thicker, youre now using twice the TP causing the roll to end twice as fast. How is that cost efficient? Yeah, thats what I thought.
So here are some store brand products you can trust:
Store Brand Cereal:
Cereal is a pretty good store brand choice. It tastes almost exactly the same, especially if it is a more sugary kind cause that is most of what people are tasting anyways. But other kinds are pretty good too. I tried store brand Raisin Brand Crunch and it was just as good as the Brand name kind. Maybe even better, also it was 60% cheaper than store brand.
Store Brand Soda:
Lets face it....Soda is sugar and thats it. I feel as though store brand soda is pretty good for the price its at. I mean yeah, there will always be preference but when the money is tight it isnt that bad to go with the store brand. Plus, the grocery store around me has some pretty good flavors that the major companies dont, such as strawberry and birch beer.
But like everything, there are things you can't trust either and I have learned these the disappointing way....by trying them:
Store Brand Crackers:
Any kind of crackers that are store brand are just junk. They are tasteless, have no crunch to them, and just plain old suck. I have tried flavored crackers, generic ritz crackers, generic wheat thins and triscits and they are all are disappointing. So when it comes to these things, stick with the brand name so you wont have to live through the disappointment like I did.
Store Brand Paper Products:
It is a pretty common rule, something you dont be cheap on is toilet paper, tissues and paper towels. Sure, most of the time you can get away with cheap tissues and paper towels, but toilet paper is a definite no. I mean who wants thin TP that breaks when youre trying to use it, its not only disgusting, but very annoying too. So yeah, when you go for that one ply stuff because its two bucks cheaper, think of it this way, its 2 times thinner as well. So even if you double it up to make it thicker, youre now using twice the TP causing the roll to end twice as fast. How is that cost efficient? Yeah, thats what I thought.
Monday, February 22
Olympics! Medals! Sexy pics?
File this under "advice of the day"1. If you win an Olympic metal for the U.S.A, do not let a cute drunk girl bite it.
2. Do not put the medal next to your crotch while a cute drunk girl bites the medal.
3. DO NOT put the metal next to your crotch while a cute drunk girl bites the medal AND your dumb buddies take a picture of it. FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE.
If this happens you will have to apologize to a bunch of people and become shamed into leaving the Olympics early.
Take a lesson from Olympic bronze medalist Scotty Lago.
Texas,Teabags and Two Americas
Last week an angry Texan crashed his plane into a federal building killing himself and another person. Apparently he had been battling with the I.R.S for years.
The comic Captain America features an evil doppelganger of Cap. He is described as "crazy and brain washed", yet displays his angry at empty factories, lines of unemployment and failed promises of this great nation. It also shows citizens in Idaho protesting against America's turn towards socialism.
You know, teabags and liberals.
Ed Brubaker is using a villain that is bad, yet shares the frustrations that most of us have. This isn't Doctor Doom trying to take over the world. This is an apple pie eating Captain America wanna be that wants America glorious. But he is breaking laws and busting the heads of cops if they get in his way.
This is a smart "super hero" comic that I hope you check out
Cornbread's Favorite and Least Favorite Comics of the Week - 2/17
Hey everyone!
Had a large week this week, therefore it was hard to pick my favorite and least favorite comic, but low and behold I was able to do it anyways. So here is the verdict:
Favorite Comic: Power Girl #9
*Warning Spoiler Alert*
Ever since I decided to pick up Power Girl as one of my monthly comics, it has never let me down. First of all, I enjoy Amanda Connor's art immensely (as well as her face) and the writing is pretty witty. The comic starts off referring to someone knowing Power Girls secret identity which has been the underlying plot for a few issues now. It segways into a scene where Power Girl is left naked due to her towel falling and is inconspicuously covered up by some very well placed groceries, which Jared found to be annoying, but I think it adds some good humor. The story continues on with the city being attacked by some pretty sweet looking animal solidiers (elephants and rhinos to be exact) and Power Girl comes and beats them up. Then you finally learn that Satanna is here to enact her revenge for what Power Girl did in issue two with super Humanite. I like that the writer is tying together the issues and going with a continuing story line. I thought that it was going to keep being little two issue arcs over and over again, which can get boring quick. So to see that they are going to focus on a larger picture it is pretty cool. Also, the ending of the book was pretty cool with a surprise savior for Power Girl.
8.5 out of 10
Least Favorite Comic: Blackest Night Flash #3
*Warning Spoiler Alert*
So first off, I would just like to say that I expected this to be a disappointment. The problem with this Blackest Night mini is that they tried to do too much story line in this small three issue series. The whole thing with both the Flash trying to save Bart, and then you have Mr. Cold or whatever his name is trying to deal with a bunch of other Black Lanterns. When reading this mini I just felt lost most of the time and I feel like it really didnt add really anything to the Blackest Night story line at all. Which is a real disappointment because I really enjoy the Flash and was pretty excited for this tie in. I think this has once again proven that I should just stop reading these mini's and just read the main story line. Out of all of the Blackest Night minis the only good ones have been Wonder Woman and Superman. The others have added little to nothing to the story line or have just been junk all around. Anyways, back to the Flash. Heres the ending so you dont have to read it yourself, it ends up that him and the other Flash save Bart and Cold defeats the Black Lanterns just like Batman did with a cold gun. No surprise there. Great Job!
3 out of 10
Had a large week this week, therefore it was hard to pick my favorite and least favorite comic, but low and behold I was able to do it anyways. So here is the verdict:
Favorite Comic: Power Girl #9
*Warning Spoiler Alert*
Ever since I decided to pick up Power Girl as one of my monthly comics, it has never let me down. First of all, I enjoy Amanda Connor's art immensely (as well as her face) and the writing is pretty witty. The comic starts off referring to someone knowing Power Girls secret identity which has been the underlying plot for a few issues now. It segways into a scene where Power Girl is left naked due to her towel falling and is inconspicuously covered up by some very well placed groceries, which Jared found to be annoying, but I think it adds some good humor. The story continues on with the city being attacked by some pretty sweet looking animal solidiers (elephants and rhinos to be exact) and Power Girl comes and beats them up. Then you finally learn that Satanna is here to enact her revenge for what Power Girl did in issue two with super Humanite. I like that the writer is tying together the issues and going with a continuing story line. I thought that it was going to keep being little two issue arcs over and over again, which can get boring quick. So to see that they are going to focus on a larger picture it is pretty cool. Also, the ending of the book was pretty cool with a surprise savior for Power Girl.
8.5 out of 10
Least Favorite Comic: Blackest Night Flash #3
*Warning Spoiler Alert*
So first off, I would just like to say that I expected this to be a disappointment. The problem with this Blackest Night mini is that they tried to do too much story line in this small three issue series. The whole thing with both the Flash trying to save Bart, and then you have Mr. Cold or whatever his name is trying to deal with a bunch of other Black Lanterns. When reading this mini I just felt lost most of the time and I feel like it really didnt add really anything to the Blackest Night story line at all. Which is a real disappointment because I really enjoy the Flash and was pretty excited for this tie in. I think this has once again proven that I should just stop reading these mini's and just read the main story line. Out of all of the Blackest Night minis the only good ones have been Wonder Woman and Superman. The others have added little to nothing to the story line or have just been junk all around. Anyways, back to the Flash. Heres the ending so you dont have to read it yourself, it ends up that him and the other Flash save Bart and Cold defeats the Black Lanterns just like Batman did with a cold gun. No surprise there. Great Job!
3 out of 10
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