Showing posts with label Popular Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Popular Culture. Show all posts

3.11.2007

Bored At Work

Some thoughts as I sit here, bored out of my mind.
-TV networks have horrible names. Think about how often they are named incorrectly. For example:
American Movie Classics: They were playing Catwoman last night.
Fox News: How much is news and how much is tired discussions of decade old political ideology disagreement.
MTV, VH1, and CMT: No one plays music videos any more.
ABC Family: I am not kidding, they are releasing Fridays "Duke's of Hazard: The Early Years," an ABC family original, in an Unrated Version on DVD.
BET: I only have qualms with the E.
TLC: I don't know how much learning goes on in make over shows and home improvement shows.
-Found a fun website. Go to http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html. They can track the popularity of your name over the decades. For example, my name was almost non existent in the middle of the last century. Now, it is somewhere in the top 35 with about 2,800 Calebs per million babies in the US. I also looked up Fran. Less than 1 per million according to their statistics. That makes the two of us, given our ages, pretty unique.
-Another AMAZING site that I found last night. It is an index of hundereds of Restoration Movement texts digitized. Check it out at http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/subs/texts.html. There is a larger Restoration History site that this page is a part of. Pretty crazy.
-I started reading some of the Quran last night. So far I am in Surah 2, "The Cow." The title comes from an account of Moses telling the people to sacrifice a cow. What follows is an interesting bit of "I Spy." God tells them to get a cow. They ask "Which one."
"The Yellow One."
"Which yellow one?"
"The yellow one in that field."
"But there are several in that field."
And it goes on and on like that. Don't really understand, but when you have Leviticus in your Holy Book, I guess it is hard to throw stones. I'm not sure if mold laws are better or worse than a discussion of picking out sacrifice cows.
-Last night Portugal beat Uruguay in a play in game for the last spot in this year's rugby world cup. I know that no one else cares, but, like I said, I am bored.