Two different Pro-Shops in two different states, and that's about the only thing that's changed. It is just scary how similar environments, and even more people are to other people. Here is my case study: FH will be course #1 and PR will be course #2)
Case #1: Greenskeeper
This isn't a big shocker that I find the two course superintendents very similar....until you see how specifically similar they are. Both have exact same height (a touch shorter than avg.) Both have same build, both wear sunglasses in the pro shop. Both wear flip flops while watering greens. Both enjoy hunting. Both have same rough looking unshaven appearance. Past appearances you get to demeanor. Both portray tough boss role. Both like to joke around and pretend to leave the pro shop because they are busy, but would rather stay and talk a bit longer. Both are hard on their employees (good thing). As a matter of fact, I can't find one difference between them. Oh...and both are named Brian.
Case #2: Father who has talented golfing daughter
Both present nice smile, approaching appearance when you first meet them. Both call the GD pro shop when something goes wrong to complain. Both say "I'm not one of those father's that likes to brag, but (insert daughter's name here) played 4-16 in just 3 over par. And she had a double bogey on 8!" Between the two father's, I've heard they don't like to brag a collective 7-8 times. Both are tall. Both have no hair. You never see the wives. I could go on.
Case #3: The Assistant Pro who hates the job
Both like country music. Both like fishing. Both negative in a good way. Both are passive aggressive. Both are same tall height...well, 6'4" to 6'3" anyways. Both loooooove drinking beer. Both love their city's baseball team. Both hate members with a passion. Both could care less about hating members. Both quit their jobs to pursue other ventures. Oh...and both are named Matt.
Case #4: The beyooooootch of the club
Both are short, dark headed, short haired, complainers. Nothing is ever done good enough, both are involved on a personal basis in way too many things......time is up...but you get the idea. More case studies I could present. The enthusiastic golf pro....this use to be me. The accountant. The teaching pro that thinks they own the gdf golf course. Naturally, any of the jokers on the food side of golf operations.
Blah Blah Blah....seen one golf course, seen them all. I look forward to the day where I answer to nobody.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Sunday, September 9, 2007
The Brothers Solomon
I don't think the Brothers Solomon movie will be big. Here's why:
Since when did Saturday Night Live actors get to do movies without first being successful on SNL. I'm not saying the two actors (Will Forte and Will Arnett) aren't talented, but look at history of SNL performers going to movies and it just doesn't fit.
You could argue that SNL has been on a downward slide for a while now, or maybe it's just my generation of mid 20 year old's have grown out of the pop loop. But seriously think how many recurring characters these actors had, then look at the Will's:
Will Ferrell, Dan Akroyd, Adam Sandler, Martin Short, Eddie Murphy, John Belushi, Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Jon Lovitz (hasn't starred in a movie), Tim Meadows, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon (hasn't even starred in a movie), David Spade and a few more I haven't mentioned. Basically, I feel these actors have earned their big screen success, and the Will's have not.
They won't be the first to go from SNL to DVD in 4 hours, remember "It's Pat" - Julia Sweeney didn't make it, she was even more deserving I felt. After that Al Franken played in "Stuart Saves His Family." ....unsuccessful. In fact just about everything with the exception of Office Space (which wasn't directly from SNL) has been box office crap. This isn't going to be much different. I say no more SNL...I still watch hoping it's good, only to be disappointed time after time.
Since when did Saturday Night Live actors get to do movies without first being successful on SNL. I'm not saying the two actors (Will Forte and Will Arnett) aren't talented, but look at history of SNL performers going to movies and it just doesn't fit.
You could argue that SNL has been on a downward slide for a while now, or maybe it's just my generation of mid 20 year old's have grown out of the pop loop. But seriously think how many recurring characters these actors had, then look at the Will's:
Will Ferrell, Dan Akroyd, Adam Sandler, Martin Short, Eddie Murphy, John Belushi, Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Jon Lovitz (hasn't starred in a movie), Tim Meadows, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon (hasn't even starred in a movie), David Spade and a few more I haven't mentioned. Basically, I feel these actors have earned their big screen success, and the Will's have not.
They won't be the first to go from SNL to DVD in 4 hours, remember "It's Pat" - Julia Sweeney didn't make it, she was even more deserving I felt. After that Al Franken played in "Stuart Saves His Family." ....unsuccessful. In fact just about everything with the exception of Office Space (which wasn't directly from SNL) has been box office crap. This isn't going to be much different. I say no more SNL...I still watch hoping it's good, only to be disappointed time after time.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Top Movie Characters
My List of Top Movie Characters...I was trying to stay away from the main characters and just focus on the moments in movies that I look forward to. (space limits not allowing me to put up any more pics.
Leon in The Professional - "Mathilda"
V in V for Vendetta - "Violence can be used for good"
Bill in Kill Bill Volume 2 - "Baby, You ain't kiddin"
Laurence in Office Space - "Hey Peter man, check out these tits on channel nine"
Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez in Traffic - "You like Baseball? Everbody like baseball"
Abe Petrovsky in Rounde
rs - "What we are finds us"
Billy McBride in Good Will Hunting - "I got a fucking job right now don't I"
Jerome in Gattaca - "I wasn't suppose to be second best"
Grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine - "If the hottest woman in the world wanted me to....I'm too fuckin tired"
Trinity in the Matrix - "It's the question that d
rives us"
Thorny in Super Troopers - "Enhance...Enhance...Enhance"
Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking - "That's a negotiation, not an argument"
David in The 40 Year Old Virgin - "I don't want your giant box of porn"
Luca Brasi in The Godfather - "May their first child be a masculine child"
Han Solo in Star Wars - "I don't know kid I can imagine an awful lot"
Ruby Rod in The Fifth Element - "Every Five Minutes there's a bomb goin' off or somethin."
Judge Smails in Caddyshack - "How would you like to mow my lawn?"
Thomas Crown in the Thomas Crown Affair - "You'd think they'd show a little more grit"
Lucas - "Empire Records" - Fav. Quote: "In this world there are nothing but possibilities"
Leon in The Professional - "Mathilda"
V in V for Vendetta - "Violence can be used for good"
Bill in Kill Bill Volume 2 - "Baby, You ain't kiddin"
Laurence in Office Space - "Hey Peter man, check out these tits on channel nine"
Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez in Traffic - "You like Baseball? Everbody like baseball"
Abe Petrovsky in Rounde
rs - "What we are finds us"
Billy McBride in Good Will Hunting - "I got a fucking job right now don't I"
Jerome in Gattaca - "I wasn't suppose to be second best"
Grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine - "If the hottest woman in the world wanted me to....I'm too fuckin tired"
Trinity in the Matrix - "It's the question that d
rives us"
Thorny in Super Troopers - "Enhance...Enhance...Enhance"
Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking - "That's a negotiation, not an argument"
David in The 40 Year Old Virgin - "I don't want your giant box of porn"
Wolf in Pulp Fiction - "So Pretty Please...with cherries on top...clean the fucking car"
Han Solo in Star Wars - "I don't know kid I can imagine an awful lot"
Ruby Rod in The Fifth Element - "Every Five Minutes there's a bomb goin' off or somethin."
Judge Smails in Caddyshack - "How would you like to mow my lawn?"
Thomas Crown in the Thomas Crown Affair - "You'd think they'd show a little more grit"
Lucas - "Empire Records" - Fav. Quote: "In this world there are nothing but possibilities"
Signs...Bad...Bad Signs
I apologize for not updating since last month. Business has been increasing in the design world, which is a good thing, except that I've been spending too much time on projects not related to izunotravel.com.
It's sad, and I hope you laugh at me....the other day I was writing a script font onto a piece of cardboard...I wanted it to look nice so I was taking my time with it, well I screwed up and my left hand went immediately to where the "apple" + "Z" is on my keyboard....except the only problem was I wasn't anywhere near my keyboard. When your mind tells you to hit the undo button in real life, you know that is a sign you're spending to much time on the computer.
Hopefully, I'll get to update the travel site this weekend.
It's sad, and I hope you laugh at me....the other day I was writing a script font onto a piece of cardboard...I wanted it to look nice so I was taking my time with it, well I screwed up and my left hand went immediately to where the "apple" + "Z" is on my keyboard....except the only problem was I wasn't anywhere near my keyboard. When your mind tells you to hit the undo button in real life, you know that is a sign you're spending to much time on the computer.
Hopefully, I'll get to update the travel site this weekend.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Cell Phone Minutes vs Earth Minutes
Cell Phone Minutes vs Earth Minutes
Did you know it is possible to use up all your 450 daytime minutes within a 50 minute window? This whole idea of rounding up is just way off. Say you dial a number and let the clock get to :01 seconds, you get charged for a full minute. You hang up and dial again during that same earthly minute, you have used up 2 minutes in a matter of seconds. Continuing this process 9 times per earth minute for 1 earth hour you have most likely exceeded your cell phone time for the month.
The process of going to school and learning how to round was a needless activity for future cell phone company executives. Perhaps I'm naive and the cost of operating a huge wireless network requires anal lube and no morals. But if I'm right, don't worry, I've got a suggestion. Short of creating a website, getting every U.S. cell phone user to go to that website and change their minds on the issue of why we need cell phones, I say we pay somebody to spend a day of their life turning his or her earth minutes into cell phone minutes....enter that person in to the Guiness book of world records for "most minutes lived during a day" (this would be
merely for fun), and sue a phone company for charging us extra minutes. How sweet would that be? I'll paint you the picture....Court Room....Judge....Cell Phone Attorney....Guy who got charged for using 12,960 minutes (psss, there are only 1,440 earth minutes/day) in one day by a cell phone company. If you don't find humor in that, go back to texting American Idol contestants and have a good day.
Izuno Update - Check the projects section for a new music playlist (finally) and I'm going to add a new travel encounter on the 31st.
Did you know it is possible to use up all your 450 daytime minutes within a 50 minute window? This whole idea of rounding up is just way off. Say you dial a number and let the clock get to :01 seconds, you get charged for a full minute. You hang up and dial again during that same earthly minute, you have used up 2 minutes in a matter of seconds. Continuing this process 9 times per earth minute for 1 earth hour you have most likely exceeded your cell phone time for the month.
The process of going to school and learning how to round was a needless activity for future cell phone company executives. Perhaps I'm naive and the cost of operating a huge wireless network requires anal lube and no morals. But if I'm right, don't worry, I've got a suggestion. Short of creating a website, getting every U.S. cell phone user to go to that website and change their minds on the issue of why we need cell phones, I say we pay somebody to spend a day of their life turning his or her earth minutes into cell phone minutes....enter that person in to the Guiness book of world records for "most minutes lived during a day" (this would be
merely for fun), and sue a phone company for charging us extra minutes. How sweet would that be? I'll paint you the picture....Court Room....Judge....Cell Phone Attorney....Guy who got charged for using 12,960 minutes (psss, there are only 1,440 earth minutes/day) in one day by a cell phone company. If you don't find humor in that, go back to texting American Idol contestants and have a good day.
Izuno Update - Check the projects section for a new music playlist (finally) and I'm going to add a new travel encounter on the 31st.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Shopping Checkout System
Self Checkout vs Cashier Checkout
I hadn't realized until now how much I hate those new Self-Checkout lanes. Here's my list of reasons why Self Checkout systems should be beaten down and recycled.
1. Talk about taking jobs from people. I know it takes one person or so to run the lanes and fix the numerous problems people have, but that job has to suck. Usually one operator works about 4 checkouts. That's 3 jobs we just gave to the automated machine. But you may make the argument that we can't stop technological advancement, well this one, I say we should.
2. The process of scanning, bagging, and paying suck. If you have a grocery card you must scan first, but don't get it out in time..."HEY ATTENDANT!" If you pressed a wrong button...."HEY ATTENDANT!" If the weight measure doesn't register your ramen noodles...."HEY ATTENDANT!" If you have a coupon...."HEY ATTENDANT!" And so on and so on.
3. It doesn't save you anytime, unless there happens to be enough people in the regular lines and nobody is in the self checkout line, you can get the attendant to hold your hand.
4. Finally, it just pisses me off some jackass in management was crunching numbers and found out if he could get people to scan items and pay for items and bag items, he could cut around 80 hours of labor per week. If I ever run in to that guy, I'm going to give him a good hard kick in the nuts for humanity.
So the next time you think about going through the self-checkout...
Attendant - "Sir the self-checkout lane is empty."
Me - "No thank you, my ass is still sore from the last time."
Izuno Update
I need to work on getting some more music playlists. I've been making sure the site is consistent lately in the font and graphic's side. So you probably haven't noticed much difference.
I hadn't realized until now how much I hate those new Self-Checkout lanes. Here's my list of reasons why Self Checkout systems should be beaten down and recycled.
1. Talk about taking jobs from people. I know it takes one person or so to run the lanes and fix the numerous problems people have, but that job has to suck. Usually one operator works about 4 checkouts. That's 3 jobs we just gave to the automated machine. But you may make the argument that we can't stop technological advancement, well this one, I say we should.
2. The process of scanning, bagging, and paying suck. If you have a grocery card you must scan first, but don't get it out in time..."HEY ATTENDANT!" If you pressed a wrong button...."HEY ATTENDANT!" If the weight measure doesn't register your ramen noodles...."HEY ATTENDANT!" If you have a coupon...."HEY ATTENDANT!" And so on and so on.
3. It doesn't save you anytime, unless there happens to be enough people in the regular lines and nobody is in the self checkout line, you can get the attendant to hold your hand.
4. Finally, it just pisses me off some jackass in management was crunching numbers and found out if he could get people to scan items and pay for items and bag items, he could cut around 80 hours of labor per week. If I ever run in to that guy, I'm going to give him a good hard kick in the nuts for humanity.
So the next time you think about going through the self-checkout...
Attendant - "Sir the self-checkout lane is empty."
Me - "No thank you, my ass is still sore from the last time."
Izuno Update
I need to work on getting some more music playlists. I've been making sure the site is consistent lately in the font and graphic's side. So you probably haven't noticed much difference.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Harry Potter? I'm missing something
My new posse, I've been hanging around with is going to see Harry Potter tonight, and me, having no interest, needs to figure out why? I've seen about 4 painful minutes of the first movie during a broomstick game scene.
Can anyone help me, the mid 20's heterosexual male, figure out what I'm missing? I need to figure out the popularity of this movie and book with the older adult generation. Because apparently I'm wrong in thinking this is a kids book. Although it is in the kids section of the bookstore.
IzunoUpdate: 2 new 4 to 14 list encounters with Mike Keeling out of New Zealand, and the Lighthouse Reef in Belize. I've actually been surprised how many people are viewing this. Maybe I should be scared and more politically correct, but there is just no fun in that.
Can anyone help me, the mid 20's heterosexual male, figure out what I'm missing? I need to figure out the popularity of this movie and book with the older adult generation. Because apparently I'm wrong in thinking this is a kids book. Although it is in the kids section of the bookstore.
IzunoUpdate: 2 new 4 to 14 list encounters with Mike Keeling out of New Zealand, and the Lighthouse Reef in Belize. I've actually been surprised how many people are viewing this. Maybe I should be scared and more politically correct, but there is just no fun in that.
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