Discovery Channel

Or more specifically, their “Big Science” series. I recently watched their Human 2.0 special, and it was interesting, but seemed to take all of its content down to the lowest bar possible and water it down with nauseating amounts of recap after commercial breaks, reused footage, effects, and sound bites, topped off with only tantalizing mentions of interesting subjects that the hour-long garbage pile only mentions. I was laughing at how overused the unneeded theatrical elements were, and was literally yelling at the screen for more facts and less meaningless filler timewasting! Discovery: If you’re reading this, assume your audience has more intelligence than one of those petri-dish brains you highlighted, and adjust the depth of your shows accordingly, please.

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People Magazine?!

I was recently on the receiving end of a somewhat amusing misunderstanding. I’ll let Chris’ email speak for itself.

hi there Steve,

today’s the first time i’ve looked at your blogs, but i have to say i really like them… the Window’s 3am one was great! i recently found a “people magazine” from december that had a review about “The Who” that i think you did…(unless this is a diferent Steve=), but i just wanted to say that it was really great! i’m a musician, and you said it all just right… i’d love to hear what you think about my band… if you get a chance, please check us out @ www.myspace.com/goodbyeelliott . anyway, keep up the good work, and if this isn’t steve from people, you blogs rock as well=) thanks so much for your time, Chris

I found this uproariously hilarious, even a bit scary, to the point that I spent the next reading and re-reading this email, all while laughing nervously. It was somewhat unnerving to be suddenly contacted by someone I didn’t know just out of the blue… I don’t really care about pop music, much less to the extent of writing an article about it, let alone one for People Magazine! My reply:

Hello Chris,

I’m glad you enjoyed my blog. I’ll have to say I don’t write for any magazines. My writing is limited to school assignments and my website. It must have been a different Steve writing in People, I apologize for any confusion.

I looked at your site, and your music seems very well done. Congratulations on releasing a CD, and have a nice day!

-Steve Dougherty

I was wondering how Chris would’ve found my site in the first place. I Googled my own name, and it turned out I was the fourth result! I’m assuming this is how Chris found me.

PS: I’m using Lima beans instead of ice for my cold packs because they’re softer and drip less.

PPS: This post was heavily edited after initial publication, as to not be too critical of Chris.

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Ow.

Well, I was feeling great yesterday, but it turns out it takes a day for the swelling to kick in. 🙁

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Wisdom Teeth

Well, I’m getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow morning. I’m a little apprehensive, but I’ve been told I have a virtually nil probablility of any complications. I know it won’t do any good to worry and it would only hurt to do so, so I’m trying not to. The drugs will help: laughing gas and Valium. I don’t like not being in control of myself, but it’s better than feeling them cutting my jawbone open and my wisdom teeth in half.

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Irony!

$ sudo apt-get install cron bash amarok find
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
cron is already the newest version.
bash is already the newest version.
amarok is already the newest version.
E: Couldn’t find package find
$

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Blog Theme

Changed the theme to something that will hopefully load a bit faster. But then, that’s apparent so why am I posting this? The world may never know…

Really… Hot…

Not having an air conditioner isn’t too fun. Global warming anyone? I might write an article once it cools off some and I can think straight.

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