the tuesday numbers - february 26, 2008

X=185
Y=21
Z=11

the tuesday numbers - february 19, 2008

X=186
Y=21
Z=12

I would like to say having bronchitis sucks ass.

the tuesday numbers - february 12, 2008

X=184
Y=21
Z=13

mild frustration

There's a record show over in London tomorrow, but I busted the stylus on my turntable yesterday.

vinyl bonus track

The Tragically Hip put out their first EP in 1987. The EP for record and cassette had seven songs, but for the CD they put out had eight as cds were new to the public at that time. Turn to 2004. The cassette is next to non-existent in North America and the record is suburban big box store dead. However, the band Death From Above 1979 put out their album "Your a Woman, I'm a Machine" with a vinyl bonus track that's not on the CD. It's like some bizarre full circle has occured. In the eighties, you were rewarded for new technology while in the early twenty-first century you were rewarded with nostalgia.

the tuesday numbers - february 5, 2008

X=188
Y=21
Z=13

one of many reasons why I'm not on Facebook or own a video disc player...

I look at internet social networks the same way I look at home entertainment technology: it's an unconscious popularity contest where one group that has to be elitist and supplant their control over the rest of the groups for the sake of the status symbol.

Wait, how can I make this more confusing?

Ass #1 gets into to supporting one format of home entertainment like CED Video Discs, someone that is larger and more important called Ass #2 has decided that another format which is supposably better compared to the one you are using is now the dominant format like videotapes and Ass #1 has wasted an x amount of money on an obselete technology. Ass #3 sees what Ass #1 and Ass #2 are doing and figures another form of home entertainment will be coming along like laser discs and screw over Ass #2 (in reality, Ass #2 got the upper hand on that one).

My mindset is why go to the latest fad when it's going to be out of fashion once enough people get sick of it and wait for the next one, as someone higher up and lower down is going to screw over the masses.