Where the perfect heads go to think.

If you have not seen the movie “Idiocracy”, I would highly recommend it.  It is a wildly funny movie by the same folks that brought us “Office Space”.  Because it was beyond the ability of most movie executives to comprehend the message, it was only marginally released.  In fact I don’t recall it having been released in Austin.  I did see it advertised a couple of times but I don’t remember it being in the theaters.

The basic premise of this movie is that the least intelligent people have children at a much high rate that do the more intelligent folks.  While the lower intellect thinks in terms of sex, and the fun that it is, the high intellect folks have a tendency to plan the consequences of that fun.  They tend to take precautions at the expense of spontaneity.  They also wait for the “right time” to have a child.  The idiots of the world have a tendency to be surprised by the fact that the “fun times” have resulted in a new life.

Eventually our research and development scientists spend more time on erectile dysfunction and hair loss remedies than they do on important issues of life and the illnesses that should be cured.

This move is not a fine example of American cinema.  The acting is less than stellar.  (Some performances were good but how can you show an example of tremendous acting skills when you are playing someone who is not very smart.)  But examine the message of the movie.  Examine the message.  Laugh at the idiots.

This is not a meritocracy culture  it is a culture base on idiocracy.  Funny movie.

I love to think.  There are always things that make me think.  Maybe I am a little bit too reflective, well I am certainly too reflective from the ears up. [Read more →]

Cameras are a tool to capture light.  That is all that they do.  Whether the camera is digital or film (which is getting more and more difficult to find these days) the basics are the same.  Aim it, pull the release of the shutter, and the image is recorded on the media for posterity. [Read more →]

The last few years, my son and I have watched the Super Bowl together. It’s not really a big deal since we don’t follow football until maybe the playoffs.  This year he is involved with a group at church.  He actually wants to go to their meetings every Sunday.  He said tonight that the youth group has a Super Bowl party. [Read more →]

I heard about 15 minutes of the State of The Union speech last night.  It was indeed a statement to my constitution that I didn’t yell out in a loud voice how much I have disagreed with the statements that this confused man was making. [Read more →]

Dear health Club owners and Real Estate Owners:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you.

Not to thank you for a level of service that you have provided to me, because you provide a no frills no service business model. Not to thank you for restoring the concept of a company doing somthing right just because it would be the right thing to do, but it is not required by law. [Read more →]

Watch your contracts!  Any time you sign up for a monthly service, especially something where you sign an authorisation form of any type.  About a year and a half ago I signed up for a gym membership, yes that is the beginning of comedy of errors.  Now you can read the rest of the story. [Read more →]

I sold computers for Dell for about a year.  Then I moved to other areas within Dell and got off of the sales floor.  The one thing that I learned was that the 3 year warranty is a real cash cow from any company.  Those warranties are not a huge expense to the customer and they are generally a 90% profit to the company that sells them.  That is why we got a spiff, or an additional bonus, for selling one. [Read more →]

My son turns 16 this week.  He told me what he wants for his birthday.  He wants “freedom”.  He is still mad at me since I made him go to bed last night earlier than 11:30.  Despite the fact that he had to get up this morning at 5:30 so that he could be driven the 30 minutes to get to school and go to band practice before 7. [Read more →]

Friday, December 11 my son joined with other members of the band to play a little football.  They do this every Friday night after the marching season is over, so that they can try to kill each other, just for fun.They have played in frigid cold, and in blazing hot, but the games are Friday night, after school, until it is too dark to play, which during November and December generally means around 5:30. [Read more →]