Walk A Mile In My Shoes - Technology, Web Design, Saving Money
Here are the results from: Poll - Is The World Tired of Movie Parodies?.
As you can see, I didn’t really get the input I wanted, but regardless, here you go:
Out of my tiny lil’ sample, it seems that we’ve had our fill of movie parodies.
Popularity: 30%
By now we’ve all heard about the racist comments that Dog The Bounty Hunter spouted out while on the phone with his son. Yesterday I heard about his apology on the radio. It was rather hilarious actually. He said stuff like he feels connected to the Black community and as such thought he was allowed to use that word; he uses it all the time among his black friends; and (this one is the kicker) he now knows that “he’s not black” and he can’t use the word. I’m serious, that’s what the guy said.
First off, as a black man, you know what side of the fence I’m sitting on with this. With that said. The N word is a bad word. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. However, there is something to be said for context.
I’m not sure where it originated from. It could be a Culture thing, a Black thing, a Hood thing, or a Hip Hop thing, who knows (let’s just call it Hip Hop to be neutral). But the Hip Hop community has a way of taking negative words and flipping them to mean something totally different. Case in point, words like bad, mad, sick, wicked, ill, etc. Flip open Websters and you’ll know that none of these is a good thing. But take a walk down to the hood and you’ll hear them being used to mean something totally different.
I’m sure that you’ve noticed. I have, and it drives me crazy everyday. But Dreamhost has been having some major speed issues over the past several days. I frequently check their status page, but everything listed there says that it’s been resolved.
I finally contacted support a few times and I was told they got a server, that’s causing issues. It’s the server that I’m on, go figure. So they are in the process of moving everyone’s account off of that guy and onto any server. Who knows how long that’s supposed to take.
In the meanwhile, I thank you for baring with me during this time. It’s funny that this is all happening during my first month of being on Dreamhost. I remember sitting and longing for that day that my old host’s subscription would expire and that I could move. I remember not being able to wait any longer and moving anyway.
Was all of this in vain? Would I have to go back to 1and1 with my tail between my legs? I think not. I’ve gotten too many good reports about Dreamhost to nix them after just one month. And come it, it’s a shared host; there’s no account for what the next idiot on your server is doing.
I guess I should have known better. Girl gets into car wreck, girl almost dies, they put a bunch of bionic parts into girl, now girl is a killing machine. How could that kind of plot fail?
I haven’t seen something as corny as this in a long while. Why do I watch it? I don’t know, it’s television; I like television. They could have at least tried to make it not suck so much, but I guess it was too much for them.
Oh well. Don’t worry NBC, you guys still have some great shows on.
Popularity: 20%
An oil change is a relatively simple thing to perform, or so they say. They supplies are usually the least expensive of what you pay for if you go to your dealership or another auto shop. The bulk of the cost comes from labor and the oil disposal fees. So a lot of people save tons of money by simply doing their own oil changes. To those I say, more power to you. 
For the rest of us, like those who live in apartment complexes, and those who aren’t very mechanically inclined. We need to take our car to the shop.
Dealerships are notoriously overpriced when it comes to basic auto maintenance. Don’t get me wrong, for those 15K, 30K, 45K, etc. maintenance schedules, I won’t hesitate to bring my car to the appropriate dealership. Now when I say appropriate, I don’t necessarily mean where you bought your car from. I’m talking about the dealer that corresponds to your car model. They know your car inside and out.
