One thing you should know about me is that I have not had cable TV since I left GA in 2008. I hate cable TV and I hate that I have to pay for basic cable just to have internet since the package is cheaper than internet by itself. My silent protest is never hooking up the basic cable to my TV since I moved to Albuquerque. With that said, I have been trying to enjoy my TV tonight in the hotel room. There is one issue though, there is more ads than show. Now it seems that shows have 4-5 pauses for commercials and the commercials are some of the worst I have ever experienced.

I understand that advertisers need to be brought in to pay for the content and it’s my right to turn off the cable if I so choose, however, when is too many commercials? I am spoiled by Netflix. No commercials, and plenty of content for me to enjoy. I tried Hulu but I minus well just pay for cable since they are just loaded with unbearable commercials. I just can’t seem to win which is why I am borderline on cutting the cord completely.

Ads ruin everything and now that Youtube is injecting ads I tend to even use that site less. I don’t mind paying for a subscription, just drop the ads. I can’t be the only one that feels this way.

So this is my promise: I Adam Mulholland will never buy anything because an ad told me I should. You are wasting your advertising dollars. I promise never to brag on Facebook or Twitter about the awesome commercial I saw. I promise never to share thoughts about any commercial to any friends unless it’s referring to such a horrible job that was done in making it or how awful the product is, and this would have to happen during the actual play of the ad. I am done with ads on TV. I hope Youtube and Netflix destroys TV and I am forced to go forever without shows like Two and a Half Men, NCIS, Dancing with the Stars.

How are you enjoying your commercials?

Today’s announcement of releasing albums on SanDisk memory cards couldn’t be further from reality of what really needs to be done. It’s said that you will be provided with ways to unlock music using a dongle and buy these 1GB memory cards at the same price of a current CD. These companies’s don’t get it. We don’t need more memory cards. Many people have plenty in which we download music onto them and have the ability to delete and replace with music we like. Why would any smart business person think this is going to be profitable?

They assume all these people who have devices that play a SD chip would want to buy 12-18 songs on a stick. I don’t know if many know this but on a 1GB chip you could potentially hold 300 songs. If they would just embrace today’s technology they could actually prosper. I don’t know one person that would even consider buying even one of these chips. Most of my friends use at the minimum of a 4GB memory stick. For $30 you could hold 1200 songs downloaded from Itunes or another source. This would mean you would have 1200 songs you want to listen to.

What is it going to take to show these music companies that they are always moving in the wrong direction? The digital age lends a hand to remove all the middlemen costs like distributors, vendors, production, and so on. They could be making so much money. Instead of suing all these people for $3,000 each they could build a killer site and cut out Apple and make more money than they ever have. Are they just lazy to run their own site? Are they just blind to technology? Either the music company is going to figure something out or they will just fade away to small entities of groups that sell their own music and learn how to cut out the middle man…the record companies.

This is in reference to this article.

Think of all the Spider-Man movie antagonists. You have the Green Goblin, a tortured soul. He wants to do what’s right, but that damned formula is forcing him to be evil. You have Doctor Octopus, tormented by the loss of his true love; manipulated by his tentacles. You also have The Sandman. He killed Peter Parker’s uncle and you’re still not allowed to hate him, because he has a sick kid. So, why should we root for Spider-Man, when there’s no pure evil to balance out the pure good? Another question you have to ask yourself is this, why aren’t we allowed to hate these guys?

The villain should be the unsympathetic embodiment of all the ills that plague our time. Iron Man was dead-on in this aspect. You have a greedy, anything-for-profit, capitalist, providing terrorists with weapons. You hate everything about him and want him to be destroyed. It’s a declaration that popular culture recognizes these traits to be repugnant. In a time with outrageous gas prices and oil companies making record profits, it’s our way of saying, “You have us in your clutches at the moment, but history will hold you in the same regard as slave merchants and robber barons.”

There’s another reason a truly evil villain resonates so strongly with me, personally. I developed my moral foundation from comic books. I didn’t get my introduction to good vs. evil from religion or philosophy. These things are above a child’s head. All I needed to know was Superman fought the bad guys and I wanna’ be like Superman. Of course, I learned of the varying degrees of grey, as I got older, but there’s something comforting in seeing a real asshole being defeated. It’s an affirmation that my initial beliefs still hold true and the Universe has balanced itself out, yet again. It’s also profoundly refreshing to see that some unredeemable jerk has been held accountable for his actions.

I say, bring on the dicks. Give us someone to hate. Although, taking jabs at the untouchables is no ground-breaking maneuver, at least it’s not cowardly. From a movie-goers perspective, it’s refreshing to see that a few people still have a little bit of backbone. After all, it makes the hero’s victory all the sweeter.

So I can either save a few pennies per gallon or take out another loan for about $20K-$30K to buy a new vehicle and save money. These options sound completely insane to me. Why would I spend $20K on a new car just to save $1K-$5K on gas for a few years? This is the America I live in. We have no real answers or real solutions to real problems we face. Everyday I have the pleasure to read the junk that comes from our politicians. I am taxed, and of course re-taxed to buy thing. Why is my paycheck taxed so much? Why do Democrats want to raise taxes? Ahhh, I know…because everyone that makes these decisions make so much more than me.

The point of better gas mileage in cars will benefit me in about 6-7 years from now because in 2014 I will be shopping for a used 2010 hybrid. So in the meantime I will just smile when I am unloading $4 a gallon gas into my SUV. I won’t travel much, and I won’t go out of my way to go to friend’s houses or shop except on the internet. See with my thought process everyone can suffer in a giant circle. So if you run a brick and mortar business i am giving you fair warning to go and build a website. I never understood those people that run out and buy these brand new cars. What really gets me though is why would anyone buy a brand new car between 2006-2010? None of these cars are going to help you save gas. It won’t be till another couple years before they get good at making these vehicles so the benefits are still yet to come.

What is the solution? Honestly, there is none. We as American’s are subject to capitolism, and false fear on the stock market. Get used to it for at least five more years. Limit what you do unless you are rich and enjoy what you can. Reach out to friends that live close and enjoy what America has come to be.

Let’s start with the ultimate transformation of the word fuck to frak. Everyone knows what it is suppose to really be except the FCC. They have done an incredible job with that feature alone. The CGI is also great along with the plot. Take Adama (both). What great acting, and I would sleep with them both just based on performance (I don’t mean that in a gay way, I just mean in the same room talking about the show all night long). I figured out now into the 4th season Col Ty needs to be drunk even to think his wife (now dead) is hot. That is a great hidden truth the writers kept from me for 4 seasons. She actually looks like a Dr. Seuss character, but I think she was in the Grinch with Jim Carey but I don’t remember. The show has a never ending list of surprises for me.

Now they decide it won’t go past 4 seasons. Since when do shows decide this? Ratings decide this and another way to say I break it off with them. This isn’t isn’t right and I have been stripped from my voice of displeasure. Thousands of shows I have had the pleasure to change the channel on. This is the one though that I wasn’t wanting to see go. Sure they will make it to earth, but I will never see Adama, or Baltar vote in an American general election, spit on a cabbie in NYC, or even enjoy a nice Grinder from New England. I only recognize them being in New England becuase I can’t picture them wanting to land anywhere else. I want to see them grow old and have non-Cylon children. I want them to return back to their homes eventually so I know if cockroaches can make it through that kind of devastation.

Having the unknown is one best things to have. Battlestar gave me a knew womb in life that I could snuggle up to my computer monitor to watch. Some times I could feel myself in a raptor chasing number 3. This is the ultimate show and I can’t think of a rival in the same category. Save the comments that you disagree becuase I will only disagree with you and we will then have to settle to agree to disagree after all the disagreeing. See, it’s not going to work. This is my online protest to sign Battlestar Galactica to a written and signed in blood contract for at least another 15 seasons when I will no longer be young enough to stay awake to watch it.

As for you Athena, as I know you read my blog, I will see you on Friday…

I am anti-ad all the way. You can look at all my sites through and through and you will never seen an ad. I have about 10,000 pages total between all my sites and still not one little box or line asking you to click it. Today though I have had it, I am unbookmarking sites that want to shove advertising down my throat. You can say,”Then you won’t be visiting any sites”. You would be correct unless I create 1,000 more sites and use them as the only content I read. All I have to do is build and write everything and get into a car wreck which hopefully induces Amnesia and then I can rediscover those 1,000 sites and enjoy it with no ads.

Ok sarcasm aside. What the big TV company’s and Youtube is thinking is WRONG. I do not want to watch shows on my computer with ads like regular tv. I left tv a long time ago because of it. If I wanted regular tv I could just get an adapter and hook up cable to my computer. The point is I went to the internet to get away from it. I would rather donate a buck to a site than click on any ads. Would I actually do this? The answer is damn right I would. You build something I enjoy and want to read then I will donate to you. The internet went from being a giant resource to something I am starting to not enjoy, kinda like listening to my tax preparer explain how much I owe the IRS.

This is one of those situations where I love the 15 year olds that upload stuff to bit torrent and newsgroups with everything cut out. To you fine folks that entertain me the way you know I want it, I salute you. To me, those guys and girls doing that are serving their country well. As for you corporate execs wanting to feed me full of your next product, kiss my ass. I go out of my way to not buy from companies that do this like GIECO, Male Enhancement Commercials (although it’s always been slightly interesting), and other companies that are garbage but somehow kick up advertising dollars like the Video Professor. You guys suck and ruin TV for the way it was suppose to be. No wonder so many people would rather game on the XBOX 360 than have watch a sitcom.

Yahoo and the other guys better fix this quick because I know I am not the only one feeling this. Everyone is getting less revenue through these CPC programs because people are tired of it. I refuse to click on anyones ads, not even as a way to “tip” the webmaster. I will see the ad then Google the ad for the natural results. It’s the long way around it but I don’t mind. If the only way you can make money is through this method then shut your website down. You have no business being open. Either offer a merchandise store that I can buy something from because I like you or you have a site that offers reference with ads in the text form away from the content. Be upfront about things. Let me know with a splash page that you really don’t have anything to offer except enough content to allow me to Google your site.

So, where to put ads so you can pay for you server and time? This is easy. Put them in a spot that is not in my face. Don’t plant 15-30 ads in the middle of me laughing so hard that I almost pissed my pants till the ad came on and ruined it. I want to piss my pants. Keeping me from that privilege is wrong. Let people enjoy the internet like they once did, tip the man with great content, and let everyone enjoy pissing there pants from a great clip on Youtube!

Much in the same though we are working here in our own country under a new program seemed to be newly adopted by our greedy bankers and oil companies. The new “Houses for Gas” program seems to be working not as well as the other program did. In this program People give back their houses to the banks in exchange to be able to by gas for their cars. However, in this triangle, the money is then given to Big Oil so they can claim the largest profits in the history of the world, and the bankers receive dead property. It’s got a little twist in it and people don’t really understand it just yet. Instead of everyone winning in this program, only Big Oil wins.

What this means is Americans can now afford gasoline to drive to work, the grocery store, and even to pick up the kids at work. It’s simple really. Just stop paying the mortgage, rent, utilities and then BAM! You have money to drive with. The downside is that after you drive and get the things you need you have no where to go home to. At the end of the day America is headed to the dark side of a recession and people are losing their dreams faster than ever before. Many have no where to turn as their credit suffers, and friends and family wind up in the same boat. Who had the responsibility in the first place though?

Fingers are pointed everywhere these days to find someone to blame for the worst credit crisis and economy seen in a long time. You could easily blame the banks for lending the money in the first place, but only if you ignore that they had their arms twisted from people screaming discrimination as they were denied credit. So the banks try to approve more people by creating these cute interest upfront loans, or reverse mortgages. So on one side the bank has a catch 22 to overcome and in many ways overwhelmed by the harsh reality of bankruptcies.

Then you have the individuals who took out the loan for not being smart enough to realize they couldn’t pay it back in the first place but instead hoped to cash in on a quick rise in property value. The people in the worst situations such as foreclosure and bankruptcy did not walk in the bank or fill out a credit application under gun point. Instead they willingly did whatever they could to make themselves look credible to get their dream house or car. So in the end the people of the U.S. did this to themselves by not reading the fine print and understand what they were responsible for.

Finally, Big Oil could be blamed for the rising coast of fuel and earning the biggest profits known to mankind, however, they don’t run Wall Street where the price of a barrel of oil is set. Instead we should look at the people investing over fears, uncertain times, and lies about running out of supplies. These are the people trying to earn a buck off of predicting the future and creating frenzy on the trading floor in which we see prices hit ceilings day after day.

Many people will say that finally America gets to pay the price of what the world has been paying. In reality though how many pumping stations are in the U.K.? We pump oil right here on our own property. The U.S. has resources and as citizens we can’t even take advantage of what we have here. Sure, this article isn’t going to solve everything or even cover everything, but it’s a start to get some people thinking about whom to blame. Tough times come and go and we will go through more in the future. As wise men have said for decades, “History will repeat itself”.

I hope this isn’t like the syndrome of living with someone long enough and you begin to look like that person. I know you have seen great examples of this while walking a festival or a mall. You see a couple holding hands that you swear are brother and sister. In this case my computer will never look like me but I am hearing the noises. It’s my 10 year anniversary of owning a computer. Is it possible my mind is connecting with the machinery? Nah, it can’t be. I don’t know what is next, perhaps receiving email in my sleep. I used to leave my computer on in my bedroom and listen to the incoming AOL and YIM messages coming in through the night. I suppose it gave me comfort of almost having someone in the room with me.

I think this is the way of the future for me though. I will be ladened with the sounds of my daily activities as they blend into my everyday non-computing activities through the coined buzzes, dings, and other audio notifications. At least i don’t here the “You Got Mail”.

If you read closely I am going to blow the lid off of the reason Hilary is losing, and Obama is winning. No one wants to say it on the air because they know the Clinton campaign will demand answers and apologies like the “I am a mom first” routine after someone said Hilary was pimping Chelsea out (which by normal American  views…she was). Only 80% of us Americans are stupid enough to think otherwise about Hilary and thank God I am the other 20% (I think). Ok that’s it. I am saying it. The real reason Hilary is losing is not because she is a woman, but it’s because she sucks. She could be a tranny for all we give a shit. She is the worst of the worst for choices. The only reason Obama is beating her is because he doesn’t suck as bad. However, he still sucks, though but for some reason that 80% is really rooting for him.

I know everyone reading this is thinking what a Republican. Damn your smart if you were however, I will trump you by saying McCain sucks too. He would of been great 4-8 years ago but he has nothing really to bring to the table except his dying wish. I mean honestly if you look forward to November you’re crazy. I wish all of could strike until they bring someone better. I mean it’s not even like we started with the cream of the crop either.  We bottomed out even before the first debate. I have been a bit depressed and completely uninterested for the last 4-6 months with politics becuase of all of this. From everything, even the fake we will bring your jobs back, to the we can still win stuff.

If my President is working on jobs in a local community in the White House and not on the overall economy, or some foreign trade policy I am calling for an impeachment. Let the Senators handle their states. Why put Obama in so he can raise my taxes and cut the military? Why put Hilary in the House so she can feel like she made it as a woman? Why put McCain in the house so he can die of natural causes? I will add that I admire McCains military service and is a man among men.

People need to shut their lips about Hilary needing to stay in the race. She needs to get out because she sucks. Yes, I know I could use another term like “not right for the job” or “not as skilled” but it would take away from my true thoughts. Basically, she is plastic or a phony. We certainly don’t need a Clinton repeat. Lastly, I am ready to get a real race on between 2 party’s. McCain has a huge advantage right now. It’s like he isn’t racing against anyone. Obama would get my vote if he was republican and had different stances on all his views. McCain would get my vote if he was 20 years younger.

So if I am unhappy with everyone who will I vote for? I am hoping out of nowhere some awesome independant will miraculously  pop up and be allowed in the race. Yes, I know I am dreaming so my only answer is that I will vote McCain and hope he has a sharp Vice President that is competent enough to take over if the need arises. It’s the best I have and the best any of America has. I feel like a boy looking for a unicorn. (Sorry I couldn’t think of a less gay way to put it)

I have learned a valuable lesson in this experience. Screw the toy and fill up the kids. I can’t count how many times I left a fast food joint only to hear,”Dad, I am still hungry.” I always think if that damn toy didn’t come with your food you would of focused on the food and not the toy. So for now on the kids are cut off from the cheaply made toys, which I may add are not collector’s items no matter how much someone wants to say they are. Back 10+ years ago when they were placing higher quality toys in the meals I would of had a difference of opinion. However today the toys just go with the shitty movies they are putting out. We don’t even have quality movies anymore…just some CGI story Joe Schmo thought off and if it profits it’s a success.

Well this dad is turning off the toy pipeline. I think it’s time people start looking at what they are getting for their buck a little closer. This is just one man’s opinion.