edit: you know, i was thinking about "the tape" and i really can't say enough, how great chris's cinematography was. the angles, the zooms, the feel... it was truly a work of art. if i, or tori, or my sister had filmed it... it wouldnt have been HALF of what it was. my hat goes off to you chris... especially how you zoomed in on me as i'm "for the love of god not the posters" and how the camera kind of goes sideways? thats about as artsy as teh naked dude in 28 days later. pure. art.
10 Record covers you SHOULD know by now. (can you guess all 10?!?)
i was making a list of my 10 all time favorite record covers.... then realized that 7, had absolutely no writing on the front.... so i decided to make a list: "My Ten Favorite Record Covers Without Any Words On Them" the first person who can guess all 10 right, i will hook you up... with something. who knows. so heres the list...
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so can anyone guess all 10 correctly? i need band name/artist name and the name of the record. start sniffing!
so i got the info pack for benefits at my job. the benefits are REALLY good. as far as insurance goes, the coverage is really really superb. if i were to get the full package of dental and health insurance, per month for myself it would be about $130 so roughtly about $65 deducted from each paycheck. not too shabby. coverage includes a 5 dollar copay on all regular yearly or bi-yearly dr. check-ups. 25 co pays for all unscheduled dr. visits (say you have teh flu, or cold and need meds) and teh hospital visits werent that bad priced either. as far as dental, it was no out of pocket expense for all preventative care (your 6 month cleanings and so on) and 90% coverage for all basic procedures (fillings, root canals, things liek that) and 60% coverage for all indepth procudures (dentures, implants, teh like) not bad at all. i'd pay 10% to get a filling or two!
then i looked over in the next collumn to see what coverage is for 1 + spouse, to see coverage for tori. and i almost choked. to cover tori with me in this plan for health and dental, would be $500 a month. WHAT THE CRAP!?! thats 1/4 of our monthly bring home income! how does it go 130 for one person... to $500 for two!?!?!?! why is it not 260??? what a joke. i KNOW we need dental insurance. its a no brainer. but the dental is teh cheap part! teh dental will only be 40 bucks a month for teh both of us. so even if i took it off... our health insurance alone would cost $460 a month. THATS MORE THAN OUR RENT! THATS MORE THAN MY CAR PAYMENT! that would be the single most expensive expenditure on our list of "junk thats taking our money each month" list. so what am i supposed to do? the only way we could afford this insurance, is if i work a second full time job... or she works a full time and a part time job. lol what a joke!!
i can now see why 40+ Million americans have no health insurance.. its not because our bosses don't offer... or we just don't want it... its because we can't afford it on our meager salaries! i only bring home 1400 a month... and 500 a month for insurance?!?! how lame. we can't afford it... at all. but what if like after i decline it, i break my arm a week later??? then i'll be REALLY screwed.
you know... ol' obama is starting to sound sweeter and sweeter after i finally saw how screwed we are in this country. i'll sell my country to hell if i can get cheap insurance... take that Big Insurance. screw you and go out of business. that'll teach you for screwing us over.
but the word is IF. if he can't get us cheap insurance.. then he just needs to stop it altogether. -keith
ok so chris and i were texting while he was on his break, and i brought up time travel to save Sega's butt. I said i want to time travel back to 1989, talk to the CEO of Sega of America, and the Japanese Sega guy too, and just tell them straight up how the future goes, give them Wikipedia info, and come up with a streategic way to kill nintenDUMB. =)
my plan is to go back to 1989, a week before the American Genesis launch in August. and start to tell them about the unprofitable decisions of the 90s. heres how i would lay out the plan....
Aug 1989: Genesis is launched. don't change anything about the genesis.
the next part pains me to say... but im willing to take one for the team. im willing to lay my own feelings to teh side for the good of the company. i would tell them "after the genesis, you guys created a 16 bit cd expansion, then a 32 bit cartridge expansion for the genesis. i LOVE both of those systmes dearly... but they ruined you guys as far as your reputation for console support went. don't do those. just focus on the genesis. throughout the early 90s.
Sept. 1995: after 6 successful years of genesis, launch the saturn. while saving recources skipping the sega cd and 32x, they could now sink more recourses into correctly building the Saturn. i would just print out the wikipedia page on the saturn before going to '89 so they could read all teh problems, and fix them, while still implimenting ways to maintain an edge on sony, and make the saturn a truly succesful system it could have been.(like instead of two 32 bit processors... how about one 64 bit processor?) i would also advise them to stick with the initial sept launch date, and not jump the gun. i owuld also instruct them against the surprise early launch, because with it they made enemies with wal-mart and kb toys... which was dumb. and now they could sit back and watch as the saturn eat up sony for breakfast, and still makes a sizeable dent on the NintenDUMBs inability at going to a cd medium.
Nov. 2001: launch of the dreamcast. i say sept 99 was too early to launch this. i say Sega should have spent 2 more years on it, and it would have been an even BETTER system. if they had launched it with the xbox and teh Cube, i bet it would have had a dvd drive, a hardrive, and otehr improvements of the hardware. i mean... look at what sega did with the CD and the 32X, and that was just like.... 1 year of development each... if they had 4 years to develop a console... i bet, it would have been comperable to the 360... in 2001!
and then in 2006: they would have released a brand new console that would have given the 360 and ps3 a run for their money. so what do you guys think? decent plan? sega was just too obsessed with cruching teh current competition to see the bigger picture. "OH NO'S! the SNES has a better graphics and sound chip than the genesis... quick! sega cd, stat! and whiel your at it make a 32x so we can claim we beat everyone to the 32 bit market!" what good did it do? they just wasted time and money to beat the SNES. they should have tried to figure out how to beat NINTENDO not just teh SNES. that was a very narrow target.
I see this... ALOT at the crosswalk forums. ALOT. Threads titled "should we gt a divorce?" "can I divorce him" "is it biblical for us to get a divorce?" and I have a few hinge to say about it. I can't say on there, because it violates terms of aggreement, and like 80% of the marrieds aRe divorced on there, so there would be a HUGE backlash.
So here's what it boils down to... These people want divorces cause their spouce is annoying, wont get a job, addicted to booze/drugs/ciggs/or porn, abusive, inatentive, neglectful, adulterer, and the list goes on. I'm thinking "if yiu married a guy who's a boozehound, that's your own dumb luck. You should have got the know the person more before hand. If he cusses you out, again, your own dumb luck." all these morons are marrying idiots who are just deplorable people. Where was your head at during the dating process? Did yiu date for a few years, then gt engaged for a few years? If not, your an idiot and deserve the abusive no working drunk.
Now, the BIBLE says there's only 1 ground for divorce, and that's infidelity... I'll touch on that in a moment though. The bible says wives are to submit and honor husbands, and husbands love their wives like Christ loved the church. If your wife/husband is a drunk. Yiu don't divorce them, yiu pray for them. And stand by their side. "yeah but, my husband beats me" well, that's your own dumb fault. Your an idiot, and married a moron. Your stuck though till death, unless you want to break a covenant vow with god... I wouldn't wanna do that. Your only choice is prayer prayer prayer. Counsiling. All that good stuff. If your hubby is beating yiu though, he's not upholding his end of the bargain. Christ never beat the church, so why is hubby? Sounds to me like someone didnt spend enough time dating and choosing a good partner. I'll tie this up in a moment...
Infidelity... Bible says the only grounds for divorce is infidelity, but it seems to me that this is only an OPTION not a Requirement. Love your wife like Christ loved the church. If Tori cheated on me, it appears to me that my requirement is to forgive her. Christ said he will forgive us 70 times 7 for our sins. And if I cant forgive my wife, why on EARTH should Jesus forgive me of my transgressions? Christ didn't say to his church "yiu know, yiu guys lied to each other that one time, I'm divorcing yiu all." if my love is to mirror christ's, I am to forgive as well, not turn my back on her.
The only way to fix this divorce problem, guys... We've GOT to date longer. If yiu date someone 2 years, and engage for 1 year... I think yiu should be pretty good. The number 1 way to avoid divorce, is PICK BETTER SPOUCES!!! And when push comes to shove, cleave together through the hardtimes. Don't start the infighting.
I am to love Tori like Christ loved the church, so there's no room for infidelity there, because Christ never cheated on me. And she is to honor and submit to me. Theres no honor in infidelity. It's that simple folks!
In sorry, but I just think it's stupid there's so many people who want divorces on there, and there's not even infidelity... Did yiu not know that person? If they aren't working before you get married... Do yiuthink they'll magically get a job after the I do?!? Chances are they'll still be a lazy bum. So in the future, singles, spend more time dating and pick better partners. I'm done.
