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Happy New Year!
I might be a few days late, but hopefully the first 4 days of 2009 have been pretty good for you. I been busy doing a winter cleaning, and getting rid of a bunch of stuff that I haven't touched in the 2 years I've lived in Austin, so I figure it's probably pretty safe to get rid of.
Part of that has involved ripping some CD's I bought a year or so ago for 99 cents a piece from a used CD store. It's compilation CD's, like "Happy Days of the 60's Volume 3" which just has like 12 tracks from the 60's. Hence why there were 99 cents. It's a cheap way to expand my music collection. Anyways, a few of the disks, even though I tried to check before I bought them, have songs that are not by the original artists at all, but some guy and his band in their basement doing a re-recording of it. And you've got to ask yourself, how low do you have to be to try and purposely confuse people into buying your CD by pretending to be something you're not?
One of the best examples of this was a movie score CD, which in very small font on the back stated it was performed by the "American Symphony". Then in even smaller font in the corner of the back, the "American Symphony" was described as two guys. Needless to say it sounded horrible and most of the "instruments" were just sound effects off the guy's electric keyboard. I mean no one would willingly buy this stuff ("YES! A crappy electronic keyboard of the Jurassic Park theme, just what I was looking for!) but obviously someone bought it at some point since it was sitting in the 99 cent used CD pile.
Oh and the recession is really starting to hit home now, and not just with Freescale, but the entire semiconductor industry. Since computer chips are in pretty much everything now days, if people aren't buying stuff, we aren't selling chips. Now to just wait for the bailout!
My car battery decided to crap out on me on New Years Eve. Well sorta anyways. It still started just fine, but if I let it sit with just the radio on, after about 5 minutes it would die, and then I wouldn't be able to start it. So I took it in last week and they said a cell was bad in the battery, which was due to the temperature extremes of Texas, and it always being outside. It was all covered under warranty though, so all's good.
Unfortunately though while I was sitting in the waiting room, well, waiting, they had Fox News on the TV. I try my best to avoid that channel if at all possible, but alas I was trapped. I still can't believe how incredibly blatantly biased it is, with commentators explaining that economic stimulus caused the Great Depression to worsen when the facts are exactly the opposite, and then complaining when one of the Big 3 car makers have the audacity to do ADVERTISING! How dare they try to sell cars to the American people, they should just magically want them. But no no, those horrible people are using TAXPAYER MONEY to ADVERTISE! ::sigh:: I felt dumber after watching it.
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