Trailing Off

Who doesn't like a double-post?

Recently, I had a person comment to me that they hated those Microsoft commercials where it shows the little 4-year-old downloading and emailing pictures. To them, this was Microsoft's way of snubbing all those people who can't work a computer.

The person commenting actually thought Microsoft was offending them by showing a little girl doing something this person couldn't.

Here's the deal: this commercial is only one of like a dozen like it, most are shown on the web. That little girl was the first -- a 4-year-old who was sending a picture she had taken of her fish to her mom. The other commercials consist of other kids doing easy picture and picture slideshow-projects using Windows Photo Gallery. The 4-year-old was to show how easy it is to use Windows Vista Photo Gallery because if a 4-year-old can do it and you can't, obviously, Windows is wanting to alienate you from its market so you will never want to buy one of their computers. Yeah right. This has nothing to do with the fact that the person commenting about the commercial was an idiot.

If you've seen all the commercials, one here or there/know anything about what I am rambling about, or, at least can figure out the gist of this latest commercial campaign, you will have then figured out that Windows is holding this benign contest where a 7-year-old goes up against a 70-year-old trying to do a task in Vista, an 8-year-old and her/his 72 years-older counterpart, and a 9 and 90-year-old, battling to the death.

The commenting person asked me, "Then why haven't I seen the older folks' commercials," where I said immediately after his comment, "because they probably died mid-way through their task." I don't know, and I don't care. So a little kid can do something on Vista that takes us incompetent people with computers 10x as much time to do. I have some pretty awesome (ossom, or l337) computer skills, and Windows Photo Gallery, I could most likely, work with in my sleep. It is what is expected of a person who has worked around various computer systems his whole junior high/high school/college/employed-life. And by person, I mean myself. Plus, I take the advice of friends, and what they've done with computers, and added that to my experience after learning said-skills through advice.

I'm really glad a 4-year-old can work a camera and computer in the same day/time-frame. I was beside myself after hearing that Japan once again beat the U.S. out of the World Baseball Classic. No I wasn't. I could care less, but I did theorize that Japan took the title for the second consecutive year because they play with honor, and most likely practice way more hours than we do. Hell, they go to school longer than we do, study more than we do - out-performing us academically each year - and to really kick us in the balls, their children can dismantle-then-rebuild a plane using no instructions. If you are 3 years-old, you can build a plane in Japan. So, to see Americans aged 4-9 working a computer like a pro makes me feel less depressed when I think of our country's standing in education. We're not even in the top 10 on that list.

Am I apart of any worthwhile causes? Absolutely not. So where do I get off commenting on our country's education-system? Let's see, the past couple of weeks, me and Nathan have been playing Resident Evil 5. I like to play as Sheva, the badass female mercenary. Check out these moves.

God, those are some shitty videos. So pixellated. Thanks youtube! You'll also notice not much action from Sheva - most of the time, the camera system is tracking Chris, the dude, but she's back there, and she's tough! Most of all, in my opinion, she's the best character in the game, maybe even the best protagonist in the whole series of games. The girl has some pretty fantastic knife-skills. A lot more versatility than Chris Redfield. Yep, that was a video of the chick hopping on the shoulders of the majini and crushing the infected-man's head into the ground.

Not to say Mr. Redfield doesn't have any game. The guy punches through heads!

So that game is a lot of fun, and so are the prequels I'm playing through again.

I'm starting a writing project. Don't know what it'll be yet - an idea I've been toying with for 2 years now, and I'm finding a medium in which to do it in, but I'm not sure what to classify it, so it's just a writing project.

My hands smell like chicken. It's hard for me to get behind a good-flavored grape pop. A lot of it tastes like Dimetapp back-in-the-day, and not to be confused with today's Dimetapp. Today's Dimetapp could be cherry or that disgusting yellow, with that I don't know what that flavor is, but I don't want it in, or near, my mouth-taste. Or the almost as dreadful orange. There used to be a sweet orange flavor, until people started drinking cough medicine for fun. Our day's Dimetapp was grape. And no matter how hard you convince me, no one can stand to drink grape pop all-the-time, even if it kicks ass and tastes like back-in-the-day Dimetapp. No sir, or madam.

I have found a grape pop that I can stand to sip on once and awhile, but not chug or depend on for the rest of my days. It's Welch's and it's a pop that tastes like juice. I will get it occasionally, and on that note, whenever I rarely drink soda. Spontaneously, I might prefer a Coke over all else, or even Dr. Pepper, diet or regular. I can stand to drink just water or ice tea all week, sometimes all month. That, and the occasional booze. Coincidentally, I am a grown-up.

It's sickening how some people have to depend so heavily on pop or sugar. Sometimes it's beneficiary especially with diabetics. Blood sugars low - what's this? - GUMMY BEARS! A couple minutes later, you're bending cars in half once more! Other times, a person isn't consciously thinking about how much sugar they ingest, and tis not good.