Yesterday after I got home from work and finished studying, I turned on the TV and caught a movie called Evelyn. It was presented in fullscreen instead of widescreen. Now what really annoyed me was that me being a fan of widescreen, I realized how bad fullscreen really is. In the movie there was a scene where they were driving. In that scene the driver was talking but all you saw was the passenger listening and talking. Seriously? This is exactly why fullscreen sucks you LOSE picture, hence the screen before the film, This film has been modified from its original version, it has been formatted to fit this screen. Now in 2011 this should be an obsolete phrase because a majority of Americans now own Widescreen TV's. However I do own a widescreen TV, but my parents were watching it in the living room. So I have to go up to my attic and watch my 4:3 RCA TV. That really doesn't bother me. what bothers me is that 99.9% of all new TV shows and Channels have switched to the Widescreen picture format. Now if they show a 16x9 TV show don't you think that they would show a widescreen movie?
So at the commercial break, I went on IMDB to see what the film's aspect ratio was. It was 2.35:1. It looked horrible in fullscreen. So I turned on NBC to see what was on and they were showing National Treasure 2 Book of Secrets in Fullscreen. Why do they show it in fullscreen if all of NBC's Shows are in widescreen. So I put Evelyn back on and finished watching it. So the moral of the story is Fullscreen is Bad!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
UPS Mail Innovations Sucks
Last Thursday I ordered a Mickie James figure from mattelshop.com and they shipped it via UPS Mail Innovations. Its been a week since the item shipped and I still haven't got it. This shipping service is a piece of shit and I really mean it. If the toy was shipped via regular UPS it would have got here by now.
Lets reference Animaniacs for a second. Remember those Good Idea Bad Idea segments? Well this is one of those. Good Idea, shipping a package through USPS. Bad Idea, letting UPS ship the package through the USPS. I never heard of this bullshit shipping service before so I was curious to find out more about this UPS Mail Innovations. So I Googled UPS Mail Innovations and found out they have real shitty reviews. I really mean shitty.
In September I ordered a T-shirt from a website, It was shipped via FedEx Smartpost. I am going to do a comparison here between UPS and FedEx's mail services. With FedEx I got my T-shirt in a week. With UPS it's been a week and I still haven't got it. If FedEx is faster than UPS, wouldn't UPS try to be faster?
Well that answer is no in my opinion. Because mail is not really a priority to UPS. If I was waiting for a heart for a transplant and it was being shipped UPS Mail Innovations I would be dead by now.
Another problem with this service is the tracking info. Since I work part time and go to college part time, I have time on my hands to track a package. Although most people don't have time to do so. They shipped the package on the Friday the 21st of January. and the tracking info wasn't updated from that time since until Tuesday the 26th. When I get something shipped via regular UPS tracking info is updated constantly. This is ironic since UPS is the largest courier service. You would think that they would be consistent with all of their parcels being shipped.
If I could sue them for every day that I suffer without my Mickie James Diva figure. I just want my darn figure already.
Lets reference Animaniacs for a second. Remember those Good Idea Bad Idea segments? Well this is one of those. Good Idea, shipping a package through USPS. Bad Idea, letting UPS ship the package through the USPS. I never heard of this bullshit shipping service before so I was curious to find out more about this UPS Mail Innovations. So I Googled UPS Mail Innovations and found out they have real shitty reviews. I really mean shitty.
In September I ordered a T-shirt from a website, It was shipped via FedEx Smartpost. I am going to do a comparison here between UPS and FedEx's mail services. With FedEx I got my T-shirt in a week. With UPS it's been a week and I still haven't got it. If FedEx is faster than UPS, wouldn't UPS try to be faster?
Another problem with this service is the tracking info. Since I work part time and go to college part time, I have time on my hands to track a package. Although most people don't have time to do so. They shipped the package on the Friday the 21st of January. and the tracking info wasn't updated from that time since until Tuesday the 26th. When I get something shipped via regular UPS tracking info is updated constantly. This is ironic since UPS is the largest courier service. You would think that they would be consistent with all of their parcels being shipped.
If I could sue them for every day that I suffer without my Mickie James Diva figure. I just want my darn figure already.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Handy Tak Sucks.
When we first moved in to my grandfathers house after he died, i wanted to hang pictures of NASCAR drivers on my wall. My mom and dad didn't want any holes knocked into the plaster walls. So my mother recommended Handy Tak from Super Glue. Boy was this a mistake. Handy Tak looks like hardened yellow gum that is supposed to be an adhesive. My sister in law swears by this garbage. So my mom got some of this terrible product from her. So I put it on the back of an old Delaware license plate, and for the most part it stuck on but after like a day it fell off the freaking wall. So I thought if I put more of this garbage called Handy Tak it would hold the license plate. WRONG. It didn't so after 4.8 years of living in my house i had a gob of this Handy Tak in my attic. I haven't touched the stuff in years. So after buying another Lady Gaga poster at FYE for $2 and $16 on a frame I decided I should give Handy Tak a try again. I put 4 balls of the adhesive on the 4 corners of the poster frame, stuck it to the wall, and walked away. The moment that I turned my back on the poster, it fell off the wall. I then stormed downstairs to look for a better product, I had 3M in my mind. I then found Scotch Mounting squares which didn't do a better job either. So In the long run STAY AWAY from HANDY TAK!!!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Superman Is an Illegal Immigrant
I hate to be a bearer of bad news but I'm afraid I have no choice to tell you this. I was talking to my friend at work yesterday when I was mentioning when superheros who come from other planets are illegal immigrants and how would they document where they were from. I happened to mention that America's favorite superhero Superman is an illegal immigrant.
1. He came from another planet. When his spaceship crash landed on Earth from Krypton he was found in field by his adoptive parents. Now if you found a baby boy in a field somewhere with no form of ID whatsoever wouldn't you just call the authorities such as the police dept or the FBI. No they just take him in without reporting anything to the authorities.
2. How would you get him a Social Security card, birth certificate, and birth records, when you find a baby from an alien planet in a field without raising eyebrows from government officials? Simply its a fictional universe but i am going to nitpick on this like this is in the real world. Superman's adoptive parents couldn't just adopt a baby that they found without him being put in some kind of foster care first. Legally you could not adopt a baby that was abandoned on your doorstep without the proper legal procedures. So in order to get their baby a birth certificate, Social Security card and other important paperwork they would have to go to someone who forges documents.
3. Wouldn't people who know his adoptive parents be suspicious of where they got the baby? For all they know they could have kidnapped the baby. All of a sudden having a baby would raise questions because the adoption process is a long process with all of the legal stuff.
4. Why isn't the US Government concerned that the fact that Superman is obviously an illegal immigrant due to the fact that everyone knows he is from Krypton? Maybe the government gives amnesty to heroes who are illegal immigrants. On top of that the US Government cannot deport his ass back to Krypton because it exploded. So I guess the government loves American icons so much that they don't care.
1. He came from another planet. When his spaceship crash landed on Earth from Krypton he was found in field by his adoptive parents. Now if you found a baby boy in a field somewhere with no form of ID whatsoever wouldn't you just call the authorities such as the police dept or the FBI. No they just take him in without reporting anything to the authorities.
2. How would you get him a Social Security card, birth certificate, and birth records, when you find a baby from an alien planet in a field without raising eyebrows from government officials? Simply its a fictional universe but i am going to nitpick on this like this is in the real world. Superman's adoptive parents couldn't just adopt a baby that they found without him being put in some kind of foster care first. Legally you could not adopt a baby that was abandoned on your doorstep without the proper legal procedures. So in order to get their baby a birth certificate, Social Security card and other important paperwork they would have to go to someone who forges documents.
3. Wouldn't people who know his adoptive parents be suspicious of where they got the baby? For all they know they could have kidnapped the baby. All of a sudden having a baby would raise questions because the adoption process is a long process with all of the legal stuff.
4. Why isn't the US Government concerned that the fact that Superman is obviously an illegal immigrant due to the fact that everyone knows he is from Krypton? Maybe the government gives amnesty to heroes who are illegal immigrants. On top of that the US Government cannot deport his ass back to Krypton because it exploded. So I guess the government loves American icons so much that they don't care.
Friday, January 21, 2011
The Pains Cereal Box Prizes
When I was a kid I remember seeing a toy that came with the box of cereal. I would beg my mom to buy me the cereal she said I will buy it for you only if you will finish the box. Naturally I agreed to the deal. When I would go home from the store, the first thing I would do would rip open the box of cereal to get the toy out. Ironically its not the toy you hoped on getting.
You see the problem with cereal box prizes that are promoting a new movie is that they don't mass produce the popular ones. I remember 10 years ago when Kellogg's had diving subs that were based on vehicles from Atlantis the Lost Empire. If I remember correctly there were 5 subs all together. There was the Leviathan, the fishy shaped one, and a crayfish shaped one. Then there were the Ulysses and the sub pod subs. Now the problem here was in my theory that the Atlantean shaped diving subs were produced in higher numbers than the submarine used by the expedition team. You would think that everyone wants the Ulysses one. Well guess what I was one of them who wanted it. I never got it. Damn Kellogg's makes more of the less popular toys so we have to suffer.
Another problem with cereal box prizes is the chance of getting doubles of a prize. Back in 2004 I remember when General Mills was putting Hot Wheels cars in their cereals to promote the Cheerios NASCAR team and Richard Petty. Naturally Hot Wheels cars and anything related to Richard Petty means I have to have it. We bought the boxes of cereal and at first i started cars that I did not have. Then I started to get doubles. I kept getting that pesky 1970 Chex Plymouth Barracuda Hardtop. I must of got like 3 of those bastards. I needed to collect all 10 cars. Until 2010 I had only 9 out of the 10 cars. I was missing the 1974 Dodge Charger in the Cheerios livery. I finally completed the set when I went to a party at my parents friends house when their grandson gave me the car because he never plays with it.
I have since stopped going ape shit for Cereal box toys in 2009 when General Mills started using Lego for their NASCAR promos. I love Lego but the stuff in the cereal box isn't made by Lego. So Screw it and fuck cereal box toys. They are evil and a waste of money.
You see the problem with cereal box prizes that are promoting a new movie is that they don't mass produce the popular ones. I remember 10 years ago when Kellogg's had diving subs that were based on vehicles from Atlantis the Lost Empire. If I remember correctly there were 5 subs all together. There was the Leviathan, the fishy shaped one, and a crayfish shaped one. Then there were the Ulysses and the sub pod subs. Now the problem here was in my theory that the Atlantean shaped diving subs were produced in higher numbers than the submarine used by the expedition team. You would think that everyone wants the Ulysses one. Well guess what I was one of them who wanted it. I never got it. Damn Kellogg's makes more of the less popular toys so we have to suffer.
Another problem with cereal box prizes is the chance of getting doubles of a prize. Back in 2004 I remember when General Mills was putting Hot Wheels cars in their cereals to promote the Cheerios NASCAR team and Richard Petty. Naturally Hot Wheels cars and anything related to Richard Petty means I have to have it. We bought the boxes of cereal and at first i started cars that I did not have. Then I started to get doubles. I kept getting that pesky 1970 Chex Plymouth Barracuda Hardtop. I must of got like 3 of those bastards. I needed to collect all 10 cars. Until 2010 I had only 9 out of the 10 cars. I was missing the 1974 Dodge Charger in the Cheerios livery. I finally completed the set when I went to a party at my parents friends house when their grandson gave me the car because he never plays with it.
I have since stopped going ape shit for Cereal box toys in 2009 when General Mills started using Lego for their NASCAR promos. I love Lego but the stuff in the cereal box isn't made by Lego. So Screw it and fuck cereal box toys. They are evil and a waste of money.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Mattel Vs Jakks Pacific
I just bought the new spring action WWE Superstar Raw ring by Mattel. I can assure you that this ring is way better than the junk that Jakks Pacific makes. I already have the Jakks Pacific Rocky III ring and that is one of the worst rings I have ever had. I got my first WWE Raw ring when I was 8 years old back in 1997 and that was a bigger ring than the Rocky ring. Now lets cut to the chase with the review. The Jakks Pacific Rocky III ring is the same size as the Mattel Superstar Raw ring. Now here's where the similarities end. Assembling the Jakks Pacific ring is a pain in the ass. The reason for it being such a pain is because the ropes are not pre tied so when you do tie the ropes you have a huge knot sticking out of the turnbuckle. This leads to the second pain in the ass, the turnbuckle posts. The Second thing almost all wrestling fans hate about Jakks Pacific rings is that the turnbuckle posts cave in. What I mean by when they cave in is that the lunge forward when the ropes hooked around them. Now the Jakks Rocky ring has a rope bounce mechanism which is pretty crappy enough said.
Now the Mattel WWE Superstar Raw ring. As I said earlier the Mattel ring is the same size as the Jakks Pacific one. The Mattel ring wasn't a pain in the ass to assemble. In fact it was a breeze to assemble because the ropes were pre tied and so you wouldn't have to spend time trying to not have a big knot when you assemble the ring. All you have to do is put the turnbuckles in the holes and hookup the ropes. Another factor is that the ropes are now tighter than the Jakks Pacific one. The Only other assembly required was putting the WWE sticker in the center of the ring, putting 12 WWE stickers on the turnbuckle pads, and putting the Raw stickers on the two sides of the ring. The ring has a spring bounce action instead of a rope bounce action.
The real winner here is the Mattel Ring. It's easier to assemble and more enjoyable.
Now the Mattel WWE Superstar Raw ring. As I said earlier the Mattel ring is the same size as the Jakks Pacific one. The Mattel ring wasn't a pain in the ass to assemble. In fact it was a breeze to assemble because the ropes were pre tied and so you wouldn't have to spend time trying to not have a big knot when you assemble the ring. All you have to do is put the turnbuckles in the holes and hookup the ropes. Another factor is that the ropes are now tighter than the Jakks Pacific one. The Only other assembly required was putting the WWE sticker in the center of the ring, putting 12 WWE stickers on the turnbuckle pads, and putting the Raw stickers on the two sides of the ring. The ring has a spring bounce action instead of a rope bounce action.
The real winner here is the Mattel Ring. It's easier to assemble and more enjoyable.
Angry Grandpa
If Epic Beard Man and Tourette's Guy would have a son, their offspring would be Angry Grandpa. You see Angry Grandpa is a combination of the two memes above due to several factors. On the Epic Beard Man side, Angry Grandpa has the beard like EBM and the voice like EBM. For the Tourette's Guy side of him, is the traits of drunkenness and cursing all of the time.
Combining the two memes creates a Mega Meme, called Angry Grandpa.
Here are my Favorite Angry Grandpa videos
1. Angry Grandpa ruins cookout.
2. Angry Grandpa ruins Christmas.
3. Angry Grandpa Washing Machine Repossessed
4. Angry Grandpa Finds Out He Is On Break
Combining the two memes creates a Mega Meme, called Angry Grandpa.
Here are my Favorite Angry Grandpa videos
1. Angry Grandpa ruins cookout.
2. Angry Grandpa ruins Christmas.
3. Angry Grandpa Washing Machine Repossessed
4. Angry Grandpa Finds Out He Is On Break
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