Being at college I don't have an enormous time to watch television. When I do have 20mins or so it's always at terribly awkward times, like a 10am class being cancelled. When I was a kid, if I was lucky enough to fall deathly ill my mother would "make" me stay home, at which point I would sleep in all day. And my all day I mean I slept like a baby until 9:58am when I would sit straight up in bed and tune into the Price is Right with Bob Barker.
I miss that show so much. I guess it's still on but Bob has retired, so I don't even bother.
The sound in this clip is off by a full 2secs or so, but it's got over three million hits. It's good enough even without the sound locking up.
You know that little "ding" that your car makes to let you know your seatbelt isn't on? It's a reminder to safely buckle up or you could get injured. It's the same ding that tells you your oil needs to be changed. It's a great system for keeping your car running right.
Well these dings and jingles are great because they stop after 10secs, and you're reminded to do what it says. Well my car is confused. It thinks that my brakes are going out, so it really wants me to know it. Which is good, if they were going out. But they're not. My brakes work perfectly. The car just seems to think they don't.
So about 10secs out of PARK, the car DING DING DING DING and the red light comes on saying the brakes are out. Well this is a bit annoying, but I ignore it, the car knows I got the point and we drive on together. Then my car's short-term memory leaves it.
30secs after the DING happens, the system goes, "hmm, everything seems fine now, I'll just shut off this light, and he can go back to… DING DING DING DING DING DING DING Hey your breaks aren't too sharp buddy! You ought to really go… uh… oh, everything's fine. What was I even dinging about? Oh well I guess WHOA DING DING DING DING! Lookout! Did you hear about your breaks?"
Yes. Yes it is a joy. It's actually really funny. About every 40secs the DING DING happens for about 10secs. So, 10secs of DING, 30secs of rest, 10secs of DING… repeat.
I think it's hilarious. Or at least I did. But in the past few weeks it's been doing this I've driven the 4hr drive to home 3 times, plus 3 little 1hr Little Rock trips. That's 30hrs of DING DING DING.
Aubrey was along for one of the trips home and one of the Little Rock trips. She said it was only a matter of time until I went completely insane. This DINGING DING is kind of wild and most likely will slowly put me away.
However, I have chose to not let it bother me or bring me down. I have stayed positive to my passengers through mumbling "Serenity Now" to myself under my breath. It'll all go away soon, and why wait? I can have serenity now! I feel perfectly fine about the entire situation.
I just got the camera out of the box six hours ago and wanted to get something up. The focus is soft. The video isn't stable. I sound like a fool. The lighting is gross. You can see my room. My room is gross.
Feel free to mention any other attributes of this less-than-perfect video in the comments. I don't even know what I said, I just had to get something shot and online super quick to see how things turned out.
Thanks! Give me a week and I'll have something slightly entertaining to watch. Anything would be better than that.
On second thought I'm gonna run and change the title of this post to "super nerd rambles about nonsense for 2:04."
It's time for a camera upgrade, and I'd like to do it before December. That blog was about trying to choose a camera from Canon. I had three on the table, and none of the three fit what I wanted. They were too low-end, too expensive, packed full of stuff I don't need and lacking things I do. Well, later this week Canon is releasing the EOS 7D, a camera quite possibly designed to be exactly what I need, and nothing I don't.
I am excited. I can't wait for the long-overdue upgrade, and look forward to posting some images out of this new little wonder from Canon.
