10 Things to Think About on a Friday

The job hunt continues in earnest and tax season is upon us. April Fool's saw some sick burns (@hosin thought our apartment had been robbed, most of my family thought I had enlisted in the Army), and Lent is almost over, for anyone who buys into that sort of thing. I started building music for the April iPod update last night, so I'm jamming to some exciting new tunes here today. But you? You'll have to wait for the new tunes like everyone else. But I would never leave you hanging on a Friday, so here's 10 things to ponder before you can rid yourself of the shackles of your boss and go running free into the fields of the weekend.

1) Eating fruit is good for you. Drinking fruit juice can be healthy too. Is there an added bonus when your fruit juice comes in a box that feels and looks like the fruit itself?

2) I've heard some pretty creative ways to avoid drinking and driving. This guy just wanted a way to get from his house to the bar to his house again without standing up at all, and he found it in the form of a bar stool attached to an electric mower. Too bad he crashed it and got a DUI.

3) I didn't know there was a program running this long. They talk about the Simpsons going on 20 years as a lengthy run. What about a show that's been on 72 years and nearly 16,000 episodes? That's the run that Guiding Light will have enjoyed when it gets canceled this year.

4) Poor Screech. Not only will Dustin Diamond always be remembered as the hapless geek who could never get a date with Lisa Turtle, now he's resorted to selling t-shirts to save his house and even that hasn't stopped him from not paying his electricity bill.

5) Nothing like a good fight amongst celebrities. These folks manage to dwarf our income, live in ridiculous style, and yet still can't get along. This time, it's Tom Brady's ex Bridget and his current wife Gisele fighting over comments Gisele made about Bridget and Tom's baby. Tom is hoping these two can kiss and make up. Leave it to a guy from Serra high school to make money, win Super Bowls and then create a Springer-like atmosphere with two famous and beautiful women. You can take the guy out of Serra, but you can't take the scum out of the guy.

6) DJs mix records. Mash-ups chop genres up and put them together. What about a DJ who cuts up records, sews them back together and then mixes the result? Talk about chopped, these records have been sliced, diced and spliced.




7) A report out of the UK says that having a sister makes you more optimistic. Guess that explains my state of mind (one sister, two step-sisters). Unfortunately, according to the report, they aren't so lucky to have me as a brother...

8) As much as I like to make fun of the fly-over states and the super conservative, the joke is now on California. After one of the most liberal states in the union couldn't strike down a ban on gay marriage in the latest election, folks out in Iowa struck it down as unconstitutional. Iowa. More power to them, I guess. Or less to us.

9) More and more press is being given over to Twitter and the various uses for it. In the most recent one, Demi Moore, receiving a tweet about a potential suicide, re-posted it and got help for the woman who was unharmed when they found her.

10) AT&T worked hard to get the Apple partnership, and now it seems that it will do anything it can to shit all over its iPhone users. It has now put a cap on 3G streaming data, and, more importantly, changed its TOS to prohibit streaming of 3rd party material (which would include YouTube, SlingBox and others). Not sure why AT&T is so horrendous at customer service and product support, but this is sure to anger a lot of users.

And that's it from this end. Take care of each other and eat some warm cookies and cold milk...it's good for you.