Perpetual Beta

Reaganomics may not have exactly panned out, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t on to something.

A friend of mine recently bought a new camera and asked for my opinion (she didn’t listen to it, but then again she never does) but it did remind me why I got the camera that I got about a year ago. This theory also applies to things like televisions and speakers, the latter of which I’ll be purchasing when I can. But I digress…

The theory goes something like this: all things being equal the product from the company that makes a higher quality line will be better. Allow me to explain. In addition to making point-and-shoot cameras, Canon also makes big bad DSLR’s. My theory states that some of that high quality construction, research, and innovation from the DSLR line will make it’s way down into the measly point-and-shoot cameras.

I have no idea if this theory is true or not, but it feels good so I go with it. I got the idea from speaker shopping, it seemed to follow that if you want a $600 pair of speakers, you should go with a line that starts around there rather than ends there. I suppose it’s the same reason you never want to have the nicest house in the neighborhood. Or so they tell me.

The theory probably doesn’t hold up in all cases, but at the moment I’m hard-pressed to come up with an example. Feel free to drop me a note with any suggestions.

By this logic I guess this means my next car should be a BMW.

More content from a movie you love that may be of questionable quality (there is a reason these scenes get deleted) but fills in plot holes or a tighter yet shorter overall film?

I had this whole rant ready to go about Netflix’s shipping woes and how my queue probably means they are shipping my movies out next Wednesday, as opposed to meaning yesterday.

Yup, I was all set. And then I checked the mail today. Turns out they really did ship out yesterday and I had 2 discs waiting for me. For some reason it always takes Blu-Ray discs an extra day to get here, maybe it takes longer to send the extra resolution, I don’t know. And before anyone gives me any crap for renting National Treasure 2, at least I didn’t pay to see it in the theaters.

I guess it didn’t matter anyway, cause all I watch right now is the Olympics anyway.

In the spirit of the recent Gizmodo post on the end of world, (it’s coming people, accept it) I have decided to make my own list of things to do before the 10th and we’re all obliterated by the LHC.

In no particular order:
- Go skydiving
- Drive a race car (WRC please)
- Go to Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, Paris, and Australia
- Fly to all those places first class
- Ride in a submarine
- Eat whatever I want (lots of cake)
- Go scuba diving (probably in Hawaii)
- Get into space (by jacking a shuttle?)
- Have sex in space
- Find Renee Zellwegger and punch her in the nose
- Kick her when she’s down
- Visit all the National Parks
- Climb 5.12c
- Lead 5.11
- Most importantly, do all those things with Lyn

Maintaining a blog is not easy.

Even one as pointless as this one. You constantly have to come up with new content and it’s not easy. Then you have to carve out time to actually write and that ain’t much better. The question is, is it worth it?

Blogs are supposed to be fun, no? If it’s not fun then why should I do it? Perhaps because part of the reason is because I want to be a better writer. And everyone (including Merlin) tells me that you have to write to do that. So maybe it’s not supposed to be just fun, maybe it’s also supposed to be beneficial. An exercise, if you will. And lord knows my writing muscles could use a few reps.

So I hear I sit, trying to write. And maybe that’s enough for me, but you dear readers deserve and demand more.

I shall endeavor to please.