The Target in the ghetto

When Jen wanted to get a case for her new iPhone, the closest place to try to look for one was this one particular Target that was probably the only thing open on a Sunday evening.  It’s not a Target we go to at all, really, but at the time of the decision, it was the closest thing available, and I kind of figured, it’s a Target; you kind of know what you’re getting when you go to one.  However, this particular Target is kind of located in an area I’d like to classify as “urban,” or fuck it, ghetto, so it was going to be a conflict of which factor wins out – the ghettoness, or the clean and tidy branding of Target.

Well, the parking lot pretty much answered it from the get-go, because there was trash all over the place.  Discarded fast food bags, Sprite bottles, cups from a variety of fast food dives; pretty much the norm found in any ghetto area.  But that was just the outside, surely the inside of a Target would bring some normalcy back to the situation.

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Georgia’s new licenses suck

Can we say, overdesigned?

Recently, I had to renew my driver’s license.  Having seen a few people with the new format already, I dreaded doing such, and I had hoped that mine would be sort of grandfathered in some clause stating that I would get the old format, since that’s how my first Georgia license was like.  Unfortunately, that did not turn out to be the case, and just the other night, I got in the mail, my new state-issued Georgia driver’s license.

As hard as it is for some people to believe, I am a graphic designer, and therefore I do feel that I have a modicum of authority when it comes to judging the way things look.  That being said, I really, really dislike the direction the state of Georgia has gone in their drivers’ licenses.  It’s like there was a list of security features they wanted to incorporate which is fine and all, since security is very important when it comes to state-issued identification.  But when it came to executing the design of the new licenses, they simply fell, face first onto a steaming pile of failure.

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The sad modernization of Family Feud

Steve Harvey is a pretty funny guy.  I haven’t heard much of his actual standup, but from what I have heard, he’s pretty good.  Good enough to where he’s a pretty familiar name to most people these days.  But quite frankly, not even he can really save what has become of the once popular game show, Family Feud.

I used to love Family Feud, back in the day it was hosted by Richard Dawson.  My parents speak very little English, but even they enjoyed watching Family Feud.  I have a lot of fond memories actually watching Family Feud together with my parents and sister, like a real, stereotypical family.  The questions were basic and general, and just about anyone watching at home could have a fighting chance if they were remotely third-grade educated, or had been simply living for a while.

When I have lunchtime workouts, I’m running on the treadmill at right around the time when today’s Steve Harvey Family Feud reruns are running on what used to be TBS.  I used to watch ESPN, but for a channel that’s supposed to cover all sports, they can’t seem to not stop talking about NFL, NCAA football, golf, or NBA.  It’s almost as if they’re resentful that MLB has their own network, just like the NFL and NBA has, and does whatever they can to Rosa Parks the shit out of baseball coverage.  Needless to say, Steve Harvey Family Feud episodes are a lesser evil, and I’ve been watching them for a few weeks now, prompting me to finally post something about how much it sucks and how wrong it is these days.

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Initially amused, wondering if I should be offended

I’m not exactly sure to what this is, but it was sitting on the black and white printer at my work.  At first, I lol’d because being an equal opportunist when it comes to finding amusement in racial stereotypes, I found amusement in this crude adaptation of a chink.

But then it dawned on me that this was sitting on the printer, and that a user in the office had sent it to the printer, meaning someone in the office found some humor in this kind of tasteless art.  The thing is that there aren’t a whole lot of people in my office, and only one other actual Asian person, whom I’m pretty certain they don’t have access to this printer, since they’re on the other side of the office.  But the thing is, although I find it amusing, I realize that the wrong person at the wrong time seeing this would trigger all sorts of shitstorm involving racism and other negative connotations.

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Ingenious website

Through Kotaku, I discovered the site Gourmet Gaming, which I think is a fantastic idea.  Food creations based on the food items utilized in video games, to which there are obviously no shortage of after all these years.  I can’t say that I’m vaguely familiar with many of these creations beyond a just a few here and there, but when they touch on my nostalgia and make creations from them, we’ve got winners.

My favorites are the unknown Golden Axe meat, the Streets of Rage trash-can chicken, and the above pictured Castlevaniabroken-wall turkey.  Clearly, I favor those items that actually do something, as opposed to something in the background, and these are all from very old games, now.  Ugh – they’re OLD, just like me.

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Well, I guess I can watch the season opener now

I’m sick right now.  I rarely get sick.  I’m sick as a motherfucker right now, because people around me get sick because they’re weak and feeble, and their bodies can’t fight off sickness like mine can.  Furthermore, for whatever selfish reasons, these people still decide to show up to work and spread their plague, not realizing that it doesn’t take much to spread plague within an office environment; it’s about as easy to spread as likely as their kids did it at home, when they caught it at another easy place to spread it, like daycare.  Fuck people, stupid fucking idiots all around me.

I skipped trivia last night, because the symptoms were creeping in, and I thought I’d have some time to play some more ME3 instead, but I found myself shivering and miserable, and I ended up going to bed at eight fucking thirty, I felt so shitty.  At least three times I shivered myself to sleep, only to kick off the covers when the heat of fever made being covered unbearable.  I woke up several times to find the metaphorical frog in my throat that hurts like a bitch when I swallow.

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