30 in 30 Day 3 Report

   With twelve minutes till midnight I'm going to say my earlier entry is going to have to be my submission for today. Hey this is my fourth time around I can slack off a bit.

   Midnight is such an arbitrary time. Next year I'm going to declare my days officially change over at sunrise.

   Anyway, this is the daily State of the Blogosphere report.

Day 3 Report
   Yesterday was Day 3. We had updates from ironlioninzion ("Ladder Theory"), bartgroks, beastmario, eazyt, witless_nerd (posted 3 times on the 2nd and twice on the fourth, so I guess that averages out to a post on the third?), xaositecte posted about how to survive the imminent rise of the zombies, thanew, jeff4mvh hasn't posted again (but as long as this is just an account of yesterday, his joining post was yesterday so I guess he makes this list), metalphoenix has apparently been playing along from the beginning unbeknownst to me, and neugotik has joined in after I randomly responded to a poll she posted. I hope I haven't forgotten anyone.
   apoplecticfittz isn't participating this year, but as someone who has completed 30 in 30 with Gold Geoduck honours for the past three years I will still note his occasional posts this month as being embued with the spirit of 30 in 30. Also, after disappearing for over a year and a half malibu_knight has returned!

   Yesterday a number of people had pretty good entries, but none really stands out to me as a clear favourite. Your homework is to comment on another participants entry.


   While this day is technically over so I could report on Day 4 now as well, I really don't feel like writing two summaries back to back.



   Today I saw "Knocked Up" with my friend Alex (my former boss's daughter). I don't know what I was thinking, the movie was a total chickflick / baby oriented. O= It did have its funny moments though.

   Tomorrow (Tuesday), my friend Nidia from down here will actually be in Davis. Figures I'm there for five years and she doesn't visit until I'm gone. Anyway she's visiting colleges with a group from her JC. If anyone (Gabi?) wants to meet up with her and her boyfriend and show them some sights, guide them to Plutos, etc, I think that would be neat.


Previously...
   30 in 30 I - Day 4: By day four the differences between those with blogstamina and those without was becoming apparent. This day brought the first failures to post, neither mrkevincostner nor oystercracker posted this day, though they picked up again the following day. shekb managed to succeed where jdryznar & incomple were consistently failing, by making a funny entry about Bush & Cheney; lerani posted about the Garfield movie and how it tries to portray itself as edgy; stephenl posts an ode to a jelly doughnut; and apoplecticfittz hits blogging gold with The Ten Blogging Commandments (Blogmandments?).
   30 in 30 II - Day 4: Now see since I wasn't doing daily recaps I'd have to look all over the blogosphere to piece together what happened on the fourth day.
   30 in 30 III - Day 4: I post a meme, and note as my favourite of the day professor_david's post, due in part to an extensive conversation about chicken strips in the comments.

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I found out Matt snuck off and had a burrito with Isabelle, that skank, yesterday! What a traitor!

05 of 30 - Smarmy Commercials

   Right now I'm in San Diego, at my lovely girlfriend Miss Kristy Heidenberger's place. But she doesn't know! She's at the gym at the moment. I came down to suprise her, since I don't usually make it down here during the week.

   On my way down here I passed a car that was completely upside-down on the side of the road, and in a totally different location a big-rig whose engine was on fire!! Clearly these are signs that the zombies are coming or something.

   Today I worked at Bee Busters. Killed some bees. Nothing particularly noteworthy to report though.


Commercials That I Hate
   There are many commercials that I hate. When they come on, I fervently wish to myself that I could suddenly appear on the set the moment they are filming that scene and tazer everyone involved. And then I'd find the corporate board that approved the commercial and tazer them as well.
   In particularly, there are several commercials that for some reason think its appealing to portray their product or organization as smarmy, smart-alecky, self important littly bastards. Two really good examples come to mind:
   Chad the Wireless Guy, AKA some wireless service I can't rememember. Despite having seen the commercial numerous times and been filled with loathing I can't for the life of me remember which one it was. I feel like its got the same syllables as "calltell" or something dumb like that (okay I looked it up to get the image, its Alltell). Anyway, that unmemorableness right there is failure as a commercial. But anyway, its the commercial where this jackass blonde guy with a goofy face always embarresses a bunch of dweebish representatives of the other companies. But whenever I watch it I just get the overpowering feeling of "HE IS SUCH A JACKASS."

Dear Chad the Wireless Guy: You are a jackass I hate you.

   Apple Computer Commercials do the same thing. You know those ones where they anthropomorphize a macintosh and PC computer as people. And the PC is getting a webcam taped to his head and the Apple guy is acting like a smarmy little bitch and being all, "oh, heh, thats funny Mr PC, I have a camera built-in already!" Well whup tee doo I guess you're perfect for myspace, but you're too socially inept to be compatable with any other computers in the real world, how accurate!!

   These and commercials like them do not make me at all want to buy their product or service. Rather they give me the impression that everything they stand for is jackassish and vile.

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Went to taco tuesday at this place called Fred's down in Huntington Beach today. Some pretty good tacos! (and margaritas!)