Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft

Well, my wife bagged the XFL game due to the fact it was ‘rainy and chilly”.

We went to go see Snatch instead. It’s a great movie. You should go see it now.

It’s raining here in LA and I have about 20 hours to track down a Valentine’s Day present for my wife. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Work is way too busy.

I went out last night to dinner, drank too much. Then like a college student, I went out to more bars and drank more.

I think I called my brother Matt late last night for some stupid reason. Sorry bro.

I don’t feel so well.

I’m sitting in the lobby of the hotel with some crappy international muzak playing over and over. 5 minutes till we head out for more meetings. I’m so not ready to deal with people…

I can already hear James, Joe & Lucas laughing at my sorry ass.

I watched the first game of the XFL on Tivo tonight. I had been at a movie with Michele and watched it after the fact. Gotta love Tivo.

My first impression is that it is fun. I think I’ll enjoy my season tickets. Phew…

From the opening seconds when I saw pans of the crowd where many were holding a beer bottle in each fist, I knew I was going to like it. Instead of flipping a coin, a player from each team runs for the ball and whoever comes up with it gets to choose kick or receive. Suh-weet!

Yes, my nitpicky brother is right, the football skills leave something to be desired, but it’s no worse than college ball.

I was surprised that at the end of the 3rd quarter between the NY Hitmen and the Las Vegas Outlaws, the broadcast switched to Orlando/Chicago game and stayed there. The Outlaws we killing the Hitmen and I doubted the hitmen would come back to win, but it was very strange to have the game you are watching disappear. I can olny assume that the XFL managment decided it was better to show the end of the high scoring Orlando/Chicago game than watch the Hitmen continue to get skunked.

The other thing to mention is the cheerleaders. I don’t think I’ve seen so much silicon since my bachelor party. I predict a few hot selling Playboy issues starring the XFL cheerleaders.

I’m travelling on business this week to the frigid East this week. So my updating may not happen.

Go read amazing story/picture.

I don’t know what amazes me more…
The brilliant person who thought this up?
The cashier that accepted it?
The police for tracking down this dangerous criminal?

What the hell happened to January?

If only I had a mental link to the net that let me post to Cruft while out and about this page would be full. Dimwits at the post office, our President-Thief, the importance of coffee, the go.com stuff. You’ll have to wait a bit till my neural implant gets installed.

I got a package in the mail yesterday from Great Britain. There were a couple Sci-Fi books I wanted that are unavailable in the US. I went to amazon.com.uk and order a couple of books. My appetite for good sci-fi is voracious. I picked up Use of Weapons by Iain banks and Cosmonaut’s Keep by [someone I forget]. I check out just like the US amazon, except it’s in pounds not dollars. A week or two later a package arrive from the UK. Easy as that. If I wanted to buy them in the US I had to pay a crapload of money for them. Long live the ability to reach out across oceans from the comfort of my home.

2 days till I get to watch the XFL on TV.
9 days till I get to see a XFL game in person.

Last night I got home and saw a slim Fedex envelope. What could it be? Yes! It was my season tickets to the Los Angeles Xtreme XFL team. While I’m not convinced the XFL will overtake the NFL anytime soon, it seems like a good idea to pick up some tickets to the opening season to the only football team in LA. I had never seen season tickets before, they look cool. Click here to see them.

I went to dinner last night with my college roommate, Brian. We went to a nice restaurant and ate well. Unfortunately, I’m paying for it today. I don’t normally eat such rich food.

Diagram of my gut contents

Now I’m sitting at work with a huge ball of food in my gut, feeling like a bloated warthog. Perhaps some coffee will kick my digestion into gear.

Argh. The pleasure, the pain, the belly…

Last night after I put the sleepy girls to bed (that includes the wife) I cracked open the Aiwa CDC-MP3 radio I got for Christmas. I got out the adapter kit I picked up on the way home. After following the simple instructions, and running back and forth from the car to house a dozen times with various tools, the new radio was working.

Now, mere mortals, I can drive while listen to MP3 files directly of a CDR I have burned myself! Muah-ha-ha-ha! We are talking about over 13 hours of finger-snapping, ass-twitching music on each CD!

Anyone willing to rip my entire collection of CDs to MP3s will be granted the privledge of touching the All-mighty CDC-MP3.

Why are people still writing checks at the supermarket?

C’mon folks, every bank offers check cards and every supermarket has the ability to use them. Yet I always see people writing checks to pay for groceries. What is wrong with people?

Tonight I’m at the grocery and the woman in front of me writes a check for her groceries. The clerk goes through the whole check rigamarole and hands her the receipt. Then she says she forgot to buy a bundle of firewood. The clerk rings it up and she writes ANOTHER check for FOUR DOLLARS. I thought my brain would explode.

Heaven helps us. As Henry Rollins would say, “They’re stealing my life, a minute at a time.”

I try to stop by Dioxidized to see what’s up with Gen Y slacker Lucas and hope that there are more nice pictures of women rather than pictures of dead people. But Lucas is back in the working force and hasn’t updated since SUNDAY, so I will make the post he would have made.

I was reading about MacWorld and the rabid fanatics there. I have pondered before this question. Now you can read my conclusion.

Is Apple a cult?

From: https://www.cultinformation.org.uk/definit.html

Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:

1. It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members
2. It forms an elitist totalitarian society
3. Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma
4. It believes ‘the end justifies the means’ in order to solicit funds, recruit people
5. Its wealth does not benefit its members or society

Let’s run through the numbers shall we?

1) Yep, see https://www.macevangelist.com/
2) Yep, see https://cult-of-mac.utu.fi/
3) Yep, All hail Steve!
4) Yep, check with Apple legal on this one
5) Unless you own stock, Yep

Looks like a cult to me.