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commercials resurrecting

[10.31.2011]

so it’s nearly the holidays, and since kmart says its okay to put out their decorations, i’m going to talk about a semi-related holiday occurrence that comes around every year. i guess it saves companies a few thousand dollars to just keep recycling commercials every year and they think that people either a) won’t notice the m&m’s meeting santa over and over again for the first time or b) they think people look forward to their commercial each year. either way, i think i can make a fairly accurate prediction of a handful of commercials we’ll see starting the second thanksgiving has ended.

campbell’s soup kid doesn’t get hypothermia and makes a mess for his mom to clean up, but she’s happy to see him so she gives him campbell’s soup.

comcast again

[09.09.2011]

i recently moved, therefore my girlfriend and i had to go through the process of getting our tv and internet set up. i go in with doubts of course judging by their track record with me, but i try to remain optimistic. we get the setup time of 7-10 on a sunday. guy shows up at 9:55. not complaining, but i thought he would show up earlier, not a big deal. once he arrives, he says “okay so setting up tv and internet” and i say “yes, with wireless” to which replies “ooh…uhh…the job didn’t say anything about wireless, i don’t have the equipment for that.” fortunately we thought ahead and brought all old equipment from our previous residence (relevant to the remainder of this rant) and the guy can use it to do the install. he finishes without [view more...] [1 comment ]

why movies annoy me

[02.21.2011]

okay i do love movies, but i can rarely sit through an entire movie without picking at obvious flaws in the characters’ thought processes or the plot in general. yes i’m aware of the point “hey it’s a movie, just enjoy it and don’t pick at it.” well i can’t help it. i tend to put myself in the position of the characters so i always think what i would do in their situation. so here it goes, a brief list of common annoyances. i’d give a countdown, but i’m kind of writing these on the fly so i don’t know how many i’m going to think of in the time it takes me to write this article. k thx.

#1 let’s split up.
always happens in pretty much any thriller. the characters say “oh we’ll cover more ground if we split up.” like they’re on some sort of schedule. they go looking for the killer in the various rooms of the house one by one, or in pairs or something. pairs is equally as dumb because 1 person in the pairing may be the killer. and if i know i’m not the killer, why would i want to get paired off with someone who might be? that’s just not logical. okay here is the scenario common in scary movies (i think i remember it from one of the scream movies, yes i know they’re terrible): the group of potential victims is stuck in a house where they know the killer is. they cannot use the phones because of course the killer took an itt tech class and learned how to turn off the phones. side note, would you know how to “snip” the phone line? i wouldn’t. anyways, they decide “hey let’s finish this and go look for this person who has managed to kill off a bunch our group already.” they go [view more...] [2 comments]

comcast is a big fat liar.

[01.03.2011]

you bunch of liars. though, i guess i was naive to think that you were honestly going to keep charging what you were for my internet. so this time, with the knowledge i had previously obtained on my epic quest, see: comcast sucks, i instantly jumped on comcast chat instead of dragging through their idiotic phone system. i also went into this knowing that this time i was probably going to not get what i wanted and that i had milked their system too its limit (or to my own limit of complaining, which i don’t really do too much for my own sanity).

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words that don’t help

[11.19.2010]

being a web designer, i often get projects that are not clearly described. there’s a set of words that come up a lot. i’ve decided to highlight 5 that bother me the most and that do nothing to help me with a design. the reason they do not help at all is they describe nothing whatsoever. if someone says “i’d like my site to be very bright, simple, colorful (just to name a few)” then i can go “okay, i see what you want me to make.” if someone uses the words in my graphic below, then usually i want to jab a pencil in my eye. i decided to make a little graphic to describe the 5 most popular/terrible words and what first comes to mind when they’re used. click the image below to see the large version.

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Hello. My name is Nick. I make websites.