Evils of myspace

Myspace is an evil entity and thanks to a recent intervention from a longtime friend I’ve been freed.  I will tell you what evils it entails.

1. First its how a lot of people “hook up”


2. People become comment “whores”


3. People try to add as many friends as possible no matter if they know them or not


4. People getting bummed out for not being in your “top 8”


5. Too much illegal music and video hosting


6. Lack of individuality unless you want more ads swamped all over it


7. Minors getting into trouble meeting pedophiles


8. Unreliable service


9. Owned by News Corp.  (ie FOX) ‘nuff said.


10. Annoying instant pestering pop-ups even if you turned that feature off


11. Smart-alecky bands annoying you begging for attention


12. Bulletins written when they should be blogs (ie surveys)


13. Tom defaulting being your friend


14. Too much information shared


15. Random people wanting you to instant pester them


16. Too many rumors about it closing down


17. Peer pressure to sign up


18. Too many people pretending to be celebrities or fictional characters


19. People having multiple accounts


20. People incessantly checking for messages or comments

And that’s just a nugget of my experience from this evil entitiy.  If that doesn’t convince you, nothing will.

Ciao ‘Corpsters

Hear no evil… or good

I am detecting a phenomenon in elder females.  It’s the fact that they don’t listen to what you say.  In actual fact, they listen to the part they want to hear.  Such an occurrence occurred at work yesterday.  There was the typical hausfrau, and wondered if Paul remembered her.  Of course he didn’t but being the slick talker he said he did.  I started telling a story about how I never remember people’s names.

The lady then said if I was going to insult her, tell it to her face.  I simply told her what I said and she said to not bother.

Well later on I found out she forgot her money and said she’d come back right away to get her groceries.  Which she never did.

So the moral of the story kiddies, is don’t assume the worst in people.  If you do your money will disappear into a void between space and time and will never return.  Making you look quite the fool.  An April fool if you will.

Ciao ‘Corpsters

So... You Like Taking My Nickel, Ehhhhhhhhhhhh!

Why do people tip?
Answer: To show your service person that the service that they did for you was exceptional.

When NOT to tip:
Answer: When YOU have to do the work, as in a cafeteria buffet or stopping for a cup of coffee in the morning.

What do you do when the "female cashier" who should be immediately handing you your change from $2.00 for your $1.95 cup of coffee hesitates handing you your nickel? Worse, you look away for a second so that "female cashier" finally throws your nickel in the Tip Cube?

You never go to that location again.
They lose your business, which amounted to $9.75 a week (this is a lot of loot when you figure coffee once was a dime a cup with free refills).

Sure, this may be petty, but getting my nickel change only 39 times would basically get me a free cup of coffee!

What have I been doing for my morning coffee since I was ripped off for a nickel?

Coffee at the company is pee weak and bitter, so I am having a second coffee service come in. This way I will choose the coffee I like better. If that are both just as bad, I will keep the cheaper company.

I have gone out of my way to go to other locations of that Nickel Usurper, in fact one that is a penny cheaper!

So to all businesses BE ON NOTICE: If you wonder why you are losing customers, could it be that your cashiers gave incorrect change or over priced or threw your nickel in the Tip Cube?

Gamer Advertisments

I don’t know about you but there’s a new line of annoying ads that are all competition ones to “win” a “ring tone”.  They all have bad story  lines like “out lift Arnold”, “Punch all the Ninja”, or even the “knock down all the mailboxes.”  My favorite of all these is the, and I’m seriously not making it up, “Out-knit Sadaam.”

Where am I going with this I ask?  Sure its great when a website makes money (dang that’s what I gotta do) but sometimes its like they won’t prescreen these things.  Yet another problem is kids seeing ads that are “inappropriate” and I’m saying that the best I can.  You know the one’s I’m talking about.  Those countless dating sights with a  random revealing picture of some attractive female with the tag line including some version of “its nice to be naughty”.  I don’t know about you but I guess that is truth in advertising for the majority of my gender, with obvious exceptions with those that think with their brain instead of their… ummm… I’ll not mention its name.  Gotta keep this blog PG rated.

So yeah in other news I got my driver’s license renewed and it doesn’t say “21 until Smarch 45th, 2628.  That that non legal drinking people.  I’ll go into how I don’t drink, but that’s a lecture for another time.  Its time for me to catch up on sleep.

Ciao ‘Corpsters

WARNING PROCRASTINATERS!

Taxes are due in 11 some hours. Yeah I know, by the time anyone reads this it'll be weeks from now but its here mostly for my benefit. I'm done with taxes and will eventually attach the forms I need and write out envelopes.

You'll be proud to know I owe the state of Illinois 15 cents and I'm not going to be paying it.

Booya.

Well if memory serves me right this is my 80th post. I'm quite disappointed by the number I have at this point dispite "hiring" two extra people to blog. Which only added 3 to the number. Lazy bums. Well I guess I got what I paid for.

Shout out to Nay- it was here birthday yesterday I guess but what can I say I'm out of her clique- though that's another story. Suffice to say it wasn't my choice and I had no say in the matter. People get all moody over nothing these days.

Ciao 'Corpsters

Christianeque Secular Anthem

Look down upon me, Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand.
You've just got to see me through another day.
My body's aching and my time is at hand.
And I won't make it any other way.
-James Taylor

That's it for now... off to fertilize the lawn
Ciao 'Corpsters

What <3 means to me

I'm seeing this pseudo-smiley all over. And I wonder what it meant. So let's take a scientific look at it. First one would assume it looks like a heart. But no heart looks like that they look like...



So it gets me to think it looks like the underside of a nose. So when you tell somebody you <3 them... you either.

You "pick" them

You want to make a mural out of the "gold" on their bedroom wall

You tell them they smell bad and should change their hygeine habits to include showers.

I calls em as i sees em
Ciao 'Corpsters

PS website coming on Guenthercorp's first birthday May 25th... let's hope I have something to show this time.

How to Create a Number One Jam

Since the beginning of time, music has been a form of not only self expression but a source of entertainment. So I ask you... what is the secret of a great work of music? Speaking rockwise- combining a few to all of these elements will put you on your way.

Cowbell- deny it or not cowbell makes a song great

An instrumental introduction that sounds nothing like the rest of the song

A tune you can whistle to

A story that would make Homer (the poet not Simpson) blush

A baseline that doesn't strum along with the electric guitar

Well that's all I can think of now so I'll be sure to revisit this again!

Ciao 'Corpsters

Mystery of Life... or death

My mind's been buzzing a mile a minute... the usual... girls, work, and the mysteries of life. That and not getting enough sleep has allowed me to uncover the last one. The first I'll let you know if I get anything.

Heaven. For my faith, yeah it exists. How do you get there? Faith in Jesus and nothing else.

But what about the technicalities of it? The biggest confusion is how everyone is judged at the same time. Catholics have created the idea of Purgatory to try to explain this. And its not that far off. Here's how I think it'll happen.

We know everyone gets judged by their faith whether or not they get to heaven. Also that obviously different people die at different times, spaced by thousands of years.

We know God exists above and beyond all the dimensions. And the fourth dimension is time. So I believe at the moment you die, from your perspective that's judgement day. Sure everyone else alive keeps going on from their relative perspectives but they're judged at the same relative time as you are. So between the time you die and everyone else dies you're in some sort of limbo. Proof of that can be inferred when Lazarus (and others) was raised from the dead. Obviously they had no vision of heaven because they hadn't experienced it. Sure God can bring people back from that. I certainly doubt God would remove their memory of heaven, though I suppose it could happen.

Then of course that would disprove the popular theories of ghosts and "love ones" keeping an eye on you. That would cause people to shut their minds to such a theory.

Oh well, believe it or not I guess it makes sense to me. Either way it doesn't really matter. The faith is what matters.

Ciao, oh enlightened 'Corpsters