The Apple Transition

Saturday was one of the few days i have the rather cultural experience of riding New York City Transit... the subway. And as i rode to my destination i noticed what apple has done and the affects of the company on our lives. If you take a gander around, its not hard to see that nearly everyone in your train car is listening to music for a morning pick-me up. And nearly everyone jamming out is doing so with an iPod. 

                                  And not just on the trains my friend. You'll see this everywhere. The most popular mp3 device out there is on the hips and in the hands of everyone on the street. Apple still dominates the big NYC with its standard in technology for listening to music. But slowly, we are seeing this brilliant company grow to greater accomplishments. 

                                   Apple, although was most widely known for the iPod, is now growing more popular among computers. I, like many others who have been converted, love my mac to death. Its what i'm typing to you all now on. But not only are people breaking out of their tight PC shells, they are allowing Apple to run their phones. This is great if you ask me. I mean, all mac products are reliable, so why not use mac for all of your things? You know your already covered, so its actually most sensible. 

                                   Still, a percent of the people out there today are still a bit scared to break free of the PC. After all, thats all they have used. But once you go mac, you never go back.

                                                                        ---BuTtOnS 

Robo Trippin'

                    Is it a dance? Is it a genre of techno? No and no. It is on the news though. 

                   

                  So apparently it seems that some teenagers are so desperate to get high now that they are using cough medicine from their houses and over dosing on it. They call it "robo" from robitussin (cough medicine). And trippin is self explanatory. Now, this has

been going on for a while now. Lots of people knew about it. Now, out of no where, 

the news decides to pick this up as though this is a new fad, and they haven't even told 

us anything most people don't already know, except its official name.

  Now the saddest part to me is (for starters) some teenagers are so desperate 

to either get high, get attention, and or fit in that they are turning to their medicine  

cabinets and over dosing on something as simple as cough syrup. Now the second 

saddest thing is that other people are seeing these videos and actually following! You'd

think they would see the flaw for intelligence in the concept and not try it. But instead

they see the humor, and the popularity. And they know that people will say "wow, you

actually did that!?!" and they know it will win them what they want the most. Attention.

They won't recognize that thats what they really want at first, but they'll see it 

eventually. It is just simply unwise and ridiculous. Anther poor aspect of this is the

amount of people following and how easy it is to both get high on normal medicine

for them and watch videos of it. If you went to youtube right now and type in "robo

trippin" you'll find dozens of videos capturing the chronicle of these kids doing this. 

Sad, but true. Well thats my interesting story of the day.

uhh, crack is whack!

---BuTtOnS*****

A Game Show with a Twist

I just saw one of the weirdest game shows i've ever come across. 

             

           The show is called "Wanna Bet?" (as shown in HUGE letters above lol) hosted by two british men. They have 4 celebrities sit down on this couch. Than they have guests come on the show and say they can do crazy stuff. Before they try to prove what they say they can do, the celebrities bet on whether they will succeed or fail and wager money. If your right, it works like Jeopardy. You win what you wagered. If your wrong, its deducted. In the end, the celebrity with the most money wins.

           So now that you know the rules, you should know how crazy some of this stuff is. The oddest for me tonight was a man who claimed he could tell what artist and album a CD was if he sniff/licked it. Two celebrities said he'd succeed. Two said fail. He was blind folded and randomly given 5 CDS to lick. The hosts showed us the CD before he did his job. He got 4 out of 5 correct, which was the requirement. 

           My question is not so much as  how he does does this, but how he DISCOVERED he could do this! Was he in his apartment one day like "hmm...i bet i know that iron maiden CD so well that if i licked it i'd know it."? Better yet, this guy has been doing this for ten years! 10! 

          I recommend someone to see this show once. Just to see how ridiculous/amusing it is. 

 

                                                               still wondering how you discover such talent,

                                                                                             ---BuTtOnS*****