Seinfeld and cell phones

Seinfeld, among the best sitcoms ever created, has some really funny situations to which many of us can somehow relate. There's always something in our own lives that has probably somehow been put into a Seinfeld episode. One thing about Seinfeld, though, is the group of friends often seems to get into some crazy situation because they had no way of communicating with each other. The airport pickup where the flight was rerouted... trying to find each other when they're in different theaters... Jerry trying to yell something out to Elaine after she has left his apartment... it's always something. It just shows that this television show took place in the perfect time period (July 5, 1989 – May 14, 1998). Cell phones weren't typical then like they are now. If Seinfeld had started 15 years later, all four of them would have cell phones, and they would have had to come up with some other situations where a cell phone wouldn't be a simple fix. Having said that, I don't know how I would've been able to stay sane if I didn't have a cell phone. Yay for not having cell phones in the 90's, but more yay for having cell phones in the 00's!

Redundancy

People say some dumb things. I'm not saying people are dumb (That's a different subject), but they say things not realizing that what they're saying is unnecessarily repetitive. For example...
"ATM machine" - automated teller machine machine
"PIN number" - personal identification number number
"LED lights" - light emitting diode lights

Can you think of any other examples that would go along with these?

Edit 4/26/2008 9:41 PM:
I thought of another!
"LCD display" - liquid crystal display display

Do you wave at and talk to a person's chest when you greet them?

Okay, I realize it's an odd question, but I have a point here, so just stick with me and hear me out.

If you're a guy and you're a jerk, then it's possible that you would answer yes to this question, but anybody with any decency waves and talks to the FACE when they see somebody.

I just saw a commercial for McDonald's new Premium Roast Iced Coffee, a commercial which I've seen many times before, but something stood out to me this time.

First, here's the commercial:



Now here's the problem... at the 0:02 point and the 0:22 point, we see the cup lifted toward the mouth so the person can take a sip through the straw. No problem, right? We can conclude something from this, though... the camera is positioned at the person's chest or something.

But wait... let's watch the video again. This time, watch at 0:11 to 0:12. I know it's hard to see with this video quality, but I'm pretty sure I saw it correctly when it was on TV. But anyway... where's this crazy lady looking? The coffee drinker's chest? Is she talking to the coffee drinker's chest too? What the crap? She must be some sort of freak. Who DOES this?!

Those McDonald's marketing people apparently didn't do enough thinking when they did this. Did they not realize there would be people observant enough to figure this out? Well, McDonald's, you can't fool me. You may try to deceive me all you want, but I will continue to figure you out. Plus... it's not like your hamburgers are real meat and that yellow stuff on them is real cheese, so why should I believe this is even real coffee?

All that said, McDonald's, even if I was a coffee drinker, I wouldn't buy from you.

Cereal vs. breakfast cereal

I just don't understand.

If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cereals then it redirects you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breakfast_cereals ... I believe it should be the other way around.

Why should it take me to breakfast cereals when I'm looking for cereals in general? What if I want to find lunch cereals or dinner cereals, so I just look for cereals? Of course Wikipedia is going to forward me to breakfast cereals because somebody decided to be a jerk.

Who says cereal is supposed to be for breakfast anyway? Personally, if I didn't have to cook anything, my breakfasts would consist of French toast, pancakes, waffles, eggs, toast, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, muffins, etc... not all in the same meal, of course. Cereal to me is something I would rather eat around 10:00 at night than at 7:00 in the morning.

So what do you think? Does (cereal == breakfastCereal) return true or false?

Yep, I'm blogging again

I used to blog... back in 2005. I haven't kept a blog since then. Now I have a blog again. This is my first post on the new blog.

I'm sick and I don't like it. Talk about lame.