Animal Advertising

No, I'm not suggesting that people start advertising to animals... that'd be quite a waste of money.

I am rather bringing up the point that I have heard that people are more likely to remember advertisements with animals in them than those that don't. My question is why aren't many of the advertisements that involve animals winning awards? Maybe I'm just not seeing that because I'm not looking too far back into the history or archives of advertisements that have won awards... but still... it's something to think about. It doesn't have to be like how talking animal movies are usually terrible... advertising, I've noticed, generally does it better than some movies.

Paintball

I've never played it... but I hear it's fun, yet at the same time painful.

My question, however, is this... why is it that the guy who sells (or sold... does he still do it?) those paintball passes on campus also give out DVDs about the Bible and Christianity? I remember when I got one of those, he gave me one... it had me and my roommate wondering why there appeared to be a connection to paintball from the christian community.

I mean... I don't see the connection, does anyone else? I remember that Simpsons episode where Homer and Bart become Catholic and Marge takes Bart to a Protestant Christian festival where Bart is instantly converted back to Protestantism when he sees that there's paintball.

Or is this just an isolated incident that just so happened to involve paintball?

Soda

Why doesn't Mexican Coke and Pepsi have a bigger place in the shelves of 7-Eleven? Ever since the referendum passed that allowed University Park to issue liquor liscenses, my favorite section of the 7-Eleven across the street that had Mexican Cokes and Pepsis has been replaced with beer and cheap wine! Mexican coke is great, and tastes considerably better than the coke they sell here...

Ah well, at least the store in Hughes-Trigg still sells it...

...watch, as soon as I post this, SMU will allow selling alcohol on campus!

Cops, the TV show

I don't watch it. But I know generally what it's about and what happens. A friend of mine had a great idea, and one that I wish to express too. Why not show the police arresting white-collar criminals, like someone on par with Bernie Madoff or something? That might make for some interesting kind of drama... although granted it would probably have to be on CNN money or whatever channel shows financial news, but still... it'd just need to be at a different time slot and on a different channel.

MacBooks

I admit, I really like Apple's products for computers. I really do. I have a MacBook and an iPod, but the only problem I have is that they are very generic-looking. I recall a specific demotivational poster someone created showing an entire lecture hall filled with students having macbook pros. I think Apple needs to go in a direction to allow their computers to look different... or at least come in the same variety of colors as the iPods they make.

Awesome

I'll keep it simplified down to a Facebook post my friend made when he posted this video:

"Whenever you're about to say 'I can't' do something, remember the guy at the beginning of this video and shut up!"

Industrial Espionage

Couldn't anyone really commit industrial espionage on just about anything? I mean, I have a friend who makes costumes, and she, naturally, competes with other individuals who make costumes that are commissioned by other individuals. Another friend of mine bought one such costume from this one other person and she immediately began examining it to see how this other person went about making masks. It occured to me that I was watching Industrial Espionage in action right in front of me... but that does beg the question of what a company could do by simply examining their competition's products. Is it really that easy to figure out the secrets behind their competition? Or maybe they just have more moral sense than to do that... I remember when Coke or Pepsi, I forget which one, was offered by someone the formula to their competition's soda, but the company turned it down out of respect for their competition.

Food for thought.

Stream of Consciousness

Remember that Drinking out of Cups video that was really popular on YouTube that everyone thought was a recording of a guy tripping on LSD in a closet?

I know that really wasn't the case, but still... stream of consciousness monologues like that, whether due to drugs or not, could be quite the new thing for comedy clubs.

Just a thought.

Music

I heard this song in the Student Union today. It got stuck in my head... and it made me think of how music (in particular rock) has changed so dramatically from this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p88Rh3C_rQ To... I dunno, generic heavy metal song #567 The top comment at the link got me thinking about the concept of music having "soul" in it. I can tell what he/she is talking about. I don't think that every single piece of rock music today lacks soul (or maybe I simply have a differing perception of what "soul" is) but it is a noticeable change.