Fact: everybody loves a good Larry King post every once in a while.
Fact: Larry King hasn't had a newspaper column in over 12 years, so nobody understands why these posts are called Larry King posts.
What are people doing with all the pictures they're taking these days? At the zoo on Saturday (I'm nearly thawed out now), a guy was using a tripod to film the light-and-music display. Is he EVER going to watch that video again?!
Speaking of light-and-music displays: nobody born after 1960 has ever said to himself, "You know what would sound really good right now? A little Mannheim Steamroller."
I used to have a calculator with a "fraction" button. You could press 3 "fraction" 5 "equals" and the display would read 0.6. Or you could press 0.75 "fraction" and the display would read "3_4." It also worked with improper fractions. I think calculators should have a similar button for time. If I travel 45 miles at 63 miles per hour, I've traveled for 45/63 hours. I should enter 45/63, then press "time," and the calculator would multiply the fraction by 60, take the decimal figures and multiply them by 60, and the display would read "42 m 51.4 s."
When people find out I keep track of the counties I visit, their first reaction is, "What a weirdo," and then seconds later their second reaction is, "I wonder how many counties I've been to?" This is why a country-tracking app would sell. But I don't know how to build apps.
Something else that would sell modestly but well enough to warrant the time to create e-reader files: my novels.
A few weeks ago I realized that my running times shouldn't be compared to my high school times because my body now is equivalent to my high school self running with a midget on his back. Of course that would have slowed that guy down.
Several weeks ago I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall on Oprah's TV network, so it was edited for content. I tried reading the parents guide on IMDB to see how much I missed. Worst. Parents guide. Ever. In the description of the movie's sexual content are warnings like, "We see women in grass skirts and we can see their bare legs as they dance and move their hips." That would be acceptable in a G-rated movie set in Hawaii. Here's another actual quote from the parents guide: "We see men hugging one another in several scenes and in one scene two men are lying in bed next to each other, fully dressed." What?! Men HUGGING?!? Oprah didn't cut THAT out!
Of the parts of the movie I did see, I think the most-important line is when Peter says, "I didn't know it was a comedy, but then someone told me and it really just opened things up." It describes his puppet rock opera, his breakup experience, and--one could argue--the human condition itself.
I was really hoping Blu-Ray would die, but my most-recent trip to Target left me disappointed on that count. The realism of DVDs and sub-60-inch TVs wasn't that bad. Maybe we'd all be better served by putting in the effort necessary to make our lives nice enough that they don't require so much escapism.
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