Top 4 Things That I Don’t “Get”
7:56 pm 08/21/06
1. Hi-Def TV. Really, there doesn’t seem to be anything missing from my current TV-watching experience; it’s just hard to believe that “HDTV” would significantly improve the quality of same.
2. MySpace. It’s just so…so…ugly. Scattered. Like every damn page was designed by coked-up squirrels or something.
3. Opera. No, not the browser - I mean the singing stuff. And “singing” is generous. The music might be enjoyable, and perhaps some of the acting - but that stuff being bellowed or squeezed out of their lungs doesn’t qualify as “singing” in my book.
4. I ran out of things. Ideas?
What about bad drivers?
I have a MySpace profile and in my defense, I only have one because my sister-in-law has one.
MySpace is how i keep track of my kids…LOL
I’m with you all the way on MySpace. It’s like surfing back to 1996 when the Web was all animated GIFs and awful background images (only this time we get embedded MP3s, too).
Here’s one I don’t get: cell phones with the option to mimic walkie-talkies (you depress a button to talk, one person talks at a time, everyone in the vicinity can hear both sides of the conversation, etc.). I see people roaming around Wal-Mart and the mall all the time using them, and it just seems like a step backwards technologically.
Oh, well…this is coming from someone without a cell phone, so maybe I’m missing the point.
I’m just amused that someone used the phrase “coked up squirrels” today… I’ll return the favor: “FLUFFY PIGEON!!”
UPDATE: “Fluffy Pigeon” is now my MSN IM handle for the day. Ha!
Amber, at what point should we begin to worry about you…?
How about people who make Top Four Lists, then include only three items and say they ran out of ideas?
But I’ll let you off this time because you said “coked-up squirrels.”
Jen…I can hear your mother saying, “…and if your sister-in-law jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?”
As for my contribution to the list…how about the latest batch of Hummer ads? Oh, wait, if it’s the Top Four Things DAVE doesn’t get, how come religion isn’t on the list?
Start worrying now. Seriously.
Jess, the walkie talkies on cell phones (like Nextel or Air-Tel) Use iDen technology. It works well for small business and emergency units like the paramedics, because the signal works in heavy weather or emergency conditions. During 9/11 and hurricane Katrina, emergency personel and people with Nextel phones were the only one’s who could get thru to each other. Emergency personel had priority, tho — they have their own unique UFMI that identifies them and allows transmission. The iDen tech is patented by Motorola but is an old WWI military tech that’s beneficial because it uses the 28 digit Ki security features — one has never had transmission intercepted or cloaked. So they’re beneficial, but why the average consumer latched on to the trend I’ll never know, maybe cause walkie-talkie calls are cheaper, and some phones have out of range transmisssion (so if you go camping, you can use your phones like the walkie-talkies you buy at wal-mart). Nextel first began the service for business and emergency, but then the public said, “oooh, neat, I want one.” All the extra phones gummed up the works, and now that Sprint and Nextel have merged, they’re marketing Sprint towards consumers, and Nextel towards the business’ they were intended for. I agree with you that they’re annoying, and they don’t make people seem hipper than they are. And my Bird can mimic that unmistakable W-T Beep! Ugh! (oh yeah, I worked for Nextel, can you tell?)
Courtney, I supposed in certain circumstances, there might be an advantage to the walkie-talkies for parents with small children — in an emergency, they can very quickly reach a parent without having to find or remember a phone number.
What kind of bird do you have? And what other unusual sounds does he mimic?
Mark, he’s an African Grey. He mostly does voices and sings, he can call out Dan’s name in my voice, it’s amusing when Dan comes in to ask what I want.
Somehow I suspect Dan is less amused than you are.
I have a sun conure named Cisco
who hasn’t talked yet. But I used to know a lady who had a cockatoo she kept in the kitchen, and it mimicked the sound of the garbage disposal.
A sun conure? After Quaker Parakeets they’re the second guardians of the underworld!!
When Dan and I worked at a pet store in IL, a couple would bring their sun conure in for nail trims. Both of them were deaf, and when that conure started squawking they got a huge laugh out of everyone covering their ears! They are little sweeties, tho (unlike evil Quakers — the birds, not those four guys up in New York).
Dan does take it in stride when Solomon calls him, tho.
Cisco is unusually quiet for a conure, but then before him I had a nanday. NOTHING is louder (for its size anyway) than a nanday, so maybe I’m just judging in relative terms. But all conures have great personalities.
You probably know that several states have banned quaker parakeets as pests. Florida is not such a state, but the @#$%ers at FPL will remove their nests and the inhabitants if they are near power lines, and they will not say what they do with the birds. Needless to say, this only encourages very negative speculation.