SNAP! BACK TO REALITY
Didja miss me? I was in Jamaica for a week with the family and I've posted the obligatory slideshow but it is really a cry for help. I need some sort of QuickTime expert and/or guru to tell my why that slideshow doesn't stream while one that I made the exact same way streams fine. I just don't get it.
Funny story from my trip: As I've mentioned before, people are continually confusing me with my coworker Kevin. Continually. So I'm in the lobby of the hotel with my parents and the guy at the front desk says "Mr. and Mrs. Marlatt, how are you tonight?" Then he looks at me and adds, "Kevin, good to see you."
Unfortunately, the humor of that was lost on everyone present.
PLANE TRUTH: So, I've never been much of a fan of small children, but sometimes I realize that, really, I'm even less of a fan of their parents. I'm on the plane coming home and a little girl in front of me is looking at the flight safety card -- you know, because it's kinda cartoonish and, clearly, her parents haven't bothered to bring along anything else to entertain her. So the girl is looking at all the cartoon figures attempting to survive a plane crash but, at her young age, isn't really comprehending the situations being depicted. So she she points to one of the cartoon passengers and asks her parents, "Why isn't this lady smiling?"
Now, if I were a parent -- which I'm not -- I might go with a puzzled "I don't know, sweetheart." Then I might haul out some toy or stuffed animal or perhaps distract her with the HUNDREDS OF LARGE AIRPLANES AND BLINKING LIGHTS OUTSIDE HER WINDOW. These parents instead chose to explain that the cartoon woman isn't smiling because the plane landed in the water and now she's floating out in the ocean waiting for someone to rescue her. "If that happened to you," they explained, "you wouldn't be very happy."
Cue nightmares and... scene.
IN TV NEWS: The Simpsons are back - with a vengeance - this month. I'm not sure which is funnier, the use of the Perfect Strangers theme song in Treehouse of Horror XV or the following exchange between Homer and Milhouse:
HOMER: Beat it, Milton.
MILHOUSE: It's Milhouse.
HOMER: Yeah, and your father's Nohouse. Now scram.
Meanwhile, Arrested Development is back as well, and I've got two words for you: "The Seaward."
Funny story from my trip: As I've mentioned before, people are continually confusing me with my coworker Kevin. Continually. So I'm in the lobby of the hotel with my parents and the guy at the front desk says "Mr. and Mrs. Marlatt, how are you tonight?" Then he looks at me and adds, "Kevin, good to see you."
Unfortunately, the humor of that was lost on everyone present.
PLANE TRUTH: So, I've never been much of a fan of small children, but sometimes I realize that, really, I'm even less of a fan of their parents. I'm on the plane coming home and a little girl in front of me is looking at the flight safety card -- you know, because it's kinda cartoonish and, clearly, her parents haven't bothered to bring along anything else to entertain her. So the girl is looking at all the cartoon figures attempting to survive a plane crash but, at her young age, isn't really comprehending the situations being depicted. So she she points to one of the cartoon passengers and asks her parents, "Why isn't this lady smiling?"
Now, if I were a parent -- which I'm not -- I might go with a puzzled "I don't know, sweetheart." Then I might haul out some toy or stuffed animal or perhaps distract her with the HUNDREDS OF LARGE AIRPLANES AND BLINKING LIGHTS OUTSIDE HER WINDOW. These parents instead chose to explain that the cartoon woman isn't smiling because the plane landed in the water and now she's floating out in the ocean waiting for someone to rescue her. "If that happened to you," they explained, "you wouldn't be very happy."
Cue nightmares and... scene.
IN TV NEWS: The Simpsons are back - with a vengeance - this month. I'm not sure which is funnier, the use of the Perfect Strangers theme song in Treehouse of Horror XV or the following exchange between Homer and Milhouse:
HOMER: Beat it, Milton.
MILHOUSE: It's Milhouse.
HOMER: Yeah, and your father's Nohouse. Now scram.
Meanwhile, Arrested Development is back as well, and I've got two words for you: "The Seaward."
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