because it’s the same machine that’s planning on putting out a FUCKING REMAKE OF BACK TO SCHOOL (starring cedric the entertainer).

that’s why. what a waste of time.

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WHAT IN ALL THAT IS HOLY: a FUCKING REMAKE OF THE MUNSTERS?!

I am still at work!

my first ever jury summons came in the mail yesterday! I must mark my calendar down for tuesday september 6.

hiho.

[edit: what? you don't get the measley stipend if your employer pays you on your jury days?]

so I read in some college basketball recruiting site (last paragraph) that there’s this kid semaj something, who has a twin brother named james.

what is this, tomax and xamot from gi joe? you CAN’T DO THAT to REAL LIVE HUMAN CHILDREN.

GOD.

…we have many shirts in XS, S, and M.

fuck, I’ve noticed SO many girls on the street wearing black AC/DC shirts lately. did their logo recently become public domain? or is AC/DC the new CBGB’s in wanna-be rocker attire? oh wait, I know, is urban outfitter’s having a sale on them?

jesus.

so I got the new static lullaby cd on my lunch break. I popped it my PC fully expecting iTunes to chime in and tell me it’s ready to grab the songs off the cd.

NOPE.

no media programs (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc) even recognize there’s a disc in the drive. instead there is this dinky pop-up menu telling me I can only rip it to WMA format OR some sony digital walkman nonsense. it won’t let you directly grab the songs and convert to mp3.

but you know what, if it’s important to you to have mp3s of songs on these “piracy-proof” cds there’s a way around it and here’s how. you’ll just need:

1. a blank cd
2. a cd-rw drive

step 1: grab the songs off the cd (via the dinky menu) as WMA format.
step 2: burn the WMA files onto a blank cd.
step 3: grab the songs off the cd like any other cd.

yeah, fuck you sony. I paid for this cd and I’m fucking putting it on my ipod.

you know, the announcers kept saying how michigan state just has more experience out on the floor, which is true from a statistical standpoint, but I really thought kentucky had better talent.

ok, so I had kentucky losing in the sweet sixteen in two of my brackets and in the elite eight in the other. so by us losing in the elite eight today I should be happy, right?

wronnnnnng.

what really pisses me off is that we had opportunities to put the game away. and what really infuriates me is how we gave the game away in overtime. patrick sparks had the MIRACLE THREE POINTER to send the game into OT and what did we do? let the game go into double overtime as our star kelenna azubuike (a junior, no less) practically fucking dribbled the ball until time ran out and tossed up a desperation shot.

it kills me that we played SO well in the first half only to piss it away in the second half and the second OT period.

and so my interest in college basketball is officially over for this season. I suppose I could pull for illinois since that might win me dinner in one of my brackets, but I’m just not very hungry.

so I caught the american version of the office last night. there’s only one thing I can say about it, really, and that’s:

COME UP WITH YOUR OWN FUCKING MATERIAL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.

the episode was pretty much WORD-FOR-FUCKING-WORD taken right from the original episode 1 script. even the set was practically identical! they seriously must have simply bought the script and made a handful of microscopic adjustments with the pop culture references and called it a pilot.

and I feel bad for the actors who were probably directed to act pretty much exactly like the actors in the original. on the bright side, having watched the original series countless times, it was fun reciting the lines before the american actors got to them on tv.

the show has a chance of being interesting if they actually wrote original storylines. otherwise they might as well air the original version on nbc.

of the 3 SEC schools that played yesterday, 1 (kentucky) squeaked by a much weaker team and 2 (alabama & lsu) were handed convincing upsets. why the hell does the SEC suck so bad? mississippi state and florida play today, and GODDAMMIT they better not make the SEC look bad.

oh yeah, and since when do bobby knight’s teams get past the first round? damn you texas tech.

I’m 12 for 16 in one of my brackets and 11 for 16 in the other two. I’ve done worse I suppose.