11/9/5: Bunch o' Crap

The thing about low-traffic e-loggin'* is, if you really stop and think about what you're doing, how hard you're working to accomplish it, and how many people end up reading it and/or caring about it...well, you'll lose your mind. 

So instead you pretend you're doing it just for yourself, and you soldier on for pride's sake.

I am sure I'm not the only one to notice this, but on the new D. Wade sneaker commercial, the slogan is, "Fall seven times, stand up eight." Which I guess is some Japanese proverb, and it sounds kind of cool. But don't you really only need to stand up seven times if you fall seven times? I guess they are counting the first time you stand up, prior to the initial fall. But there's nothing heroic about standing up that first time. It's only the ensuing seven stand-ups that make you a tough guy. Plus, how do they know you were already standing prior to the first fall? Maybe the first time you fell was out of a chair or off a sofa or something.

Or are they saying you should stand up twice after your seventh fall? I don't get it. That ad is dumb.

Alexi S. was camped out in Fort Greene, Brooklyn waiting in vain for Deion during the marathon, and strangely, he took this shot.

Here are a couple of ignorant Apple-related questions.

1) If the Apple mouse only has one button, what replaces the right-click (my most indispensable Windows maneuver)? How do you view your options prior to a full click? Is there like a hesitation click or something? Can you use a two-button mouse?

2) Now that Apple has introduced the video iPod, whey haven't they begun to offer movies for it? it seems like a natural fit. They could be sub-DVD quality and sell for like $3.99. There's your business model, Apple. Is the MPAA just too wary of piracy to involve itself with any kind of file-based business venture?  Are they just working out the details?  And think about this: iPorn.

When it comes to technology, there are so many slick new things to buy that it seems almost impossible to list them all. Instead, maybe it's wise to begin a process of elimination -- listing all the potentially cool gadgets that hold zero interest for me.

1) The Rokr iTunes cell phone

That's it so far.

Why is it a big deal that Kate Moss got caught on video snorting coke? Who could possibly be surprised by the fact that she does coke? She's been pretty open about her addictions in the past. She's dating a guy whose relationship with drugs is not unlike Chester Cheetah's relationship with cheese. So if the fact that she does coke is no giant shock, what is her great crime? Being taped doing her thing? That ain't her fault. I guess some people are upset because, get this, they think Kate is a role model for young British girls. Not to go all Barkley on you here, but if Kate Moss is your daughter's role model you're already fucked.

For nine points, whodat?

* Brush-suggested alternative to the word "blogging"