Ponderings 5/20/12

1. "I'll have Another" celebratory tweets and facebook posts had to be confusing for everyone who doesn't follow horse racing. (In case you are not a fan, your friends were not all ordering another on Saturday at 3pm.)

2. I love human nature. This past week, I watched the Avengers and I had been warned there was a scene after the movie credits. Everyone who watched the scene enjoyed it, but the majority said it was probably not worth watching 5 minutes of credits. However, everyone who missed it and heard that they had missed it, was livid, some people went as far as re-watching the movie to see the scene.  

3. If you could get movie tickets 25% off, would you be willing to watch advertisements during your video? I don't think this would work for all genres, but for comedies that are only like 80-90 minutes, I wouldn't mind viewing ads during the movie.

4. I still don't understand why TV shows end in May. Why do they need a summer vacation?

5A. Facebook going IPO has increased everybody's stock market vocabulary.
5B.Wikipedia needs to do a better job of showing what articles are trending. (I have found some 3rd party solutions for this but nothing I have liked.)

6. Does anybody else get a little depressed when graduation day comes around and you realize you are another year out of undegrad? They need a new term for this condition. I vote for post-college nostalgia crisis.

Ponderings 5/12/12

1. If my mom's not on Facebook how am I supposed to wish her for mother's day?

2. I still have remains of mangos stuck in my teeth from the afternoon. (I already tried flossing twice)
2B. Blogger wants me to use British English and is complaining that I am spelling mangos wrong.

3. Most of us think we are celebrating Dieciseis de Septembre on Cinco de Mayo. But I guess Cinco de Mayo is a lot easier to say.

4. Walking past people helps remind you of responses to emails or other to-dos that you owe them. So now when I feel like I am forgetting something I walk past everyone. Great way to socialize while remembering your to-dos.

5. I am a big fan of public transportation, but I wonder if riding public transportation is more stressful than driving. Making it to the bus stop on time, waiting for the bus, dealing with unexpected stops, not being able to take a different route based on traffic maps, double checking your clock to see if you will make your transfer, double checking your clock to see if you will be on time to your destination, not knowing if there will be enough room on the bus vs. all the stresses of driving a car.

I still prefer bus but I don't think its an option for everyone if any of the above cause you a lot of stress.

6. The Siri commercial with Samuel L. Jackson makes me think Apple should let you pick the personality and voice of Siri. I would rotate between: Samuel L. Jackson, Lil John, Morgan Freeman, and Dick Vitale.

6B. Strategically Apple should go with the Lil John voice so that anytime the voice software is not working or it cannot recognize what you said. Lil John can just respond with a "What?", and then once it finally understands it can respond with an "Ok".
Example:
Me: Please remind me about my meeting at 7?
Siri: What?
Me: Remind me about my meeting at 7?
Siri: What?
Me: Dude, remind me about my meeting at 7.
Siri: Ok!

7. You know you love arguing when you notice you take different sides on the same argument based on which side has less support.

8. More people in Seattle use umbrellas in the sun than in the rain.