Friday, September 26, 2008

Confession

When I was growing up I loved that Dave Matthews song Crash. It was just so catchy.....EXCEPT Dave Matthews kind of disturbed me. Disturbed me because I thought the the chorus to that song isn't, "hike up your skirt ya little boy, and show your world to me, a boys dream." It's actually, "hike up your skirt a little more, and show your world to me, a boys dream." Change one word and it goes from being just a sexually suggestive song to being just a sexually suggestive creepy illegal song.

Oh, and after listening to Dave Matthews speak he is disturbing.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Ballet

So, everyday when walking to/from the parking lot from/to the office I walk past the studio for the Louisville Ballet.  Twice a day, I think to myself....."Ballet is awful." Then I keep going on my way. But really, ballet is awful. Really awful. I'm not saying that the ballerinas and the duderinas are stupid. I'm just saying that their passion is dumb.

For a little credibility they should do a mainstream hobby like ultimate frisbee......

Friday, September 05, 2008

Alaska

Well, apparently Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant. But really, is that surprising? What else is a 17-year old girl going to do in Alaska while she's waiting out the winter. I, for one, blame Alaska.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Gustav

I think everyone is quite happy that the Gulf Coast came through it's dance with Hurricane Gustav without too much damage. It should be noted that Gustav made landfall as Category Dos (2 for all my non-hispanic readers) hurricane. Katrina was a Category Five (cinco for all my non-english readers. The differences in description between those two storm strengths are "minor house damage" for a Category Two and "widespread destruction" for a Category Five. In fact, I don't know how happy I would be if I was part of the Army Corp of Engineers and my flood walls almost got topped by a Category Two storm (storm surge for a Category Five is 3x that of a Category Two.

I main problem with these types of storms is that provide a false sense of security to the people who evacuated. It sounded like the evacuation of New Orleans was very well executed, and many lessons were learned from Katrina. But if people keep getting evacuated for storms that don't produce a lot of damage, they're going to stop evacuating. Then you have a situation where a major storm (like Katrina) comes through and destroys everything. Everyone cries because they felt like the government wasn't prepared, and we're back at the beginning.