Apr 27
What’s up with Cingular? I keep watching their commercials that say ‘raising the bar’ and it never bothered me up until right now. I just finished watching the commercial where a guy is trying to make a call outside of an indoor stadium and he doesnt have enough bars to make the call. Then his friend comes out and says he has 5 bars on his Razr phone. Why does this bother me? Granted I’ve been a Cingular customer for years, mainly because of their roll over crap, but seriously, I never have 5 bars. I barely get 3. And when I’m at a really populated city, I may get some bars, but its really sporadic. Now, I am talking about living in Los Angeles here.
This really blows. There really isn’t one great service that has any type of wonderful coverage. I can’t say how many times I’ve gotten dropped calls, or weird echoing or some other by product of having crappy coverage. When I lived in Korea I had coverage everywhere I went. I miss those days. I could be on the phone from the subway to the office and not have a dropped call or any other weird byproduct. The only thing I had to worry about was being able to hear my phone ringing in the loud bars.
Recently there was some spat from a Verizon Wireless executive where he states that people shouldnt expect to get coverage in their homes. If you lived out in the burbs, then this makes sense, but when you are driving through the city and your calls drop, now that is…err…uncalled for.
One of these days, the US needs to get their head out of their asses and get onto one phone standard, like Asia with CDMA, or Europe with GSM. I personally prefer CDMA because they have faster internet connections. We’re the world leader in everything, except mobile phones and service.
Stop the madness!
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Apr 18
For those of you who actually have tv, you HAVE to check out this show. Grey’s Anatomy. It’s very smartly written and has some really great characters. It’s almost like Ally Mcbeal, but for medicine. It has a great cast…I may even add, sexy. Eh, somewhat sexy. Well, there is really only 1 sexy girl, 1 cute girl, 1 oddly cute girl, and some ok looking people as the supporting cast, aside from Patrick Dempsey. He’s hot. I’ll let you guys figure out the rest. But really, watching this show is really great. But whenever I like a show because its smart and quirky, it tends to get cancelled, like Dead Like Me. I hope ABC doesn’t muck it up and cancel this show.
This weeks episode featured some great side stories, with a guy that shot himself with nails and also had a tumor, the HOT Katherine Heigl had to overcome her “dr. model” nickname, and everyone else learned something else too. hehe. I don’t want to give up the whole story. Watch it and love it! Aside from some of the medical foul ups and what not, its pretty interesting. I love ER, but this is definitely a bit better because of the small cast and not as many sub plots to follow. That’s why I just can’t get back into ER after not watching it for a while. I mean, didn’t some of those people die but they are back on the show?
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Dead Like Me
Grey’s Anatomy
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Apr 16
I had an interesting dream last night. With all of the current hoopla with the company and pondering my future and the fate of the world, this came to me…a job offer from Adagio. The offer was in the area of product development and rolling out a retail chain which is what our original plan was. The dream came out really interesting as they let me keep the Paper Street brand and that was what the name of the retail stores would be because it’s more scalable than Adagio. The name also caters to the younger crowd…Thinking about it, this could be interesting to do especially with what I have in mind for our stores and the menu. Plus the margins are way better.
There was a point where we took over some Starbucks stores. I could only assume that this is because I read an article that said that Starbucks have now begun cannibalizing their own stores by opening too many in close proximity, especially in New York. This is the only way for Starbucks to keep growing, and keep earnings up.
Anyhow, let’s say in a few years, if this ever happened, and we grow rapidly I wouldn’t be surprised to see Starbucks eyeing to make a buy and go full force into the tea business. Their Tazo line, although it isn’t bad, it isn’t that great either. Plus, they really aren’t rockin’ the tea blended drinks that could be made nor are they really pushing that brand. What Starbucks need, and what we all need is for Paper Street to be made! In all seriousness what they need is to create a separate store that has all of the same stuff but instead of coffee, have tea.
This isn’t a big surprise to anyone that has been drinking tea and got tired of hot or iced. But the big surprise is that not many people have done it. I want to do it! Adagio can do it! Paper Street Teas…well…one day we’ll do it!
So that was my dream. It actually makes some sense to go to work for Adagio and develop the Paper Street Teas brand for the younger crowd and get them hooked onto drinking healthy teas for once.
Ahhh….if only.
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Apr 11
I am so behind the times. I knew that a Mitch Hedberg died, but I didn’t realize it was this guy. He was a very hilarious comedian that I saw on Comedy Central. He looks like the stoner but he is really hilarious.
Not sure on how he died, but he was only 37.
This is pretty crappyola.
Why does this suck so much? Simple. I’ve been thinking about how life works and what it all means, and also reviewing my own life. I still can’t picture myself past 30. Where will I be? What will I be doing? What have I accomplished? What’s the point?
When I look back at my life it seems like I’ve totally peaked at 23. I made the most money and I did the most traveling. Now I’m just starting all over and it sucks. I see what can be done and what I can accomplish, but there’s something totally holding me back. Not sure what it is. But there’s something. I really wish I knew what it was so I can get over that hump. Will my life be cut short? Will people remember me? Better question. Will people even care?
Bye Mitch…You made me laugh my ass off.
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Mitch Hedberg
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For those of you that have read about my ultimate pda, a harddrive was a BIG must have. Let’s hope that PalmOne follows this trend and sticks a harddrive into the Treo and also give it some wi-fi! Then I may go ahead and upgrade to the new Treo. The cost is going to hover around the $500 mark, so it is a premium but it has a HARDDRIVE!