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About Greg

Who am I?

Well I like off-beat humor, for example from Max Cannon's cartoon character called MilkMan Dan, the The Three Stooges, Marx Brothers, etc. If you can't enjoy life and laugh frequently, what the heck is the use?

I think a lot of things are funny or interesting.

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I like to understand why people do things, and how stuff works.

A pet peeve: people not paying attention to what they are doing/quality of work. For example, I've had a lot of landscaping done around my house. For almost every 5 things fixed, one thing is broken. I have to do a "recon patrol" to find the broken sprinkler heads, cans of coke mere feet from the trash cans (feeding armies of ants), cigarette butts in every nook and cranny... hmm..

Here's a funny picture of a guy we were behind on the way to work: this dope was actually reading the paper while he was driving, and oblivious to everyone giving him strange looks as they passed. What happened is that the cardboard tube could not handle the weight of the carpet, and eventually bent. Pieces of carpeting were flying off as it ground on the freeway. We had to pull off, but I would imagine about 5 more miles, and all of it would have unloaded. I wonder what happened when he got to the installation location: " uh, it was on the truck when I left, I don't understand". This dope could be carpeting your house next week! Another vote for the minimum wage.

Some recent things that really irritate me (we should not stand for)...

Watching a good movie on the Sundance channel. The bottom right corner has "sundance"... like I am retarded and don't know what channel I am on. Well, guys, let me say that if I am so stupid that I cannot tell what channel I am on, then I deserve to live in ignorance!

But it gets better. Above that is a continuous ad for a show on the channel, "All new Tuesdays 10p", well that is even more irritating. I have tons of channels, and an online guide, and I can search by keyword for shows, and record them... stop advertising, I'm already watching your stupid channel.

Oh, but it still gets better, the show name is "girls who like boys who like boys"... like I really need to see this continuously. I'm straight. I have nothing against gay men. I have nothing against women who like to hang around gay men. I think it's stupid, but it's their choice to do this.

But I sure as hell don't need to have the bottom right corner of my screen filled with this junk continuously!

So, it gets even better, go to the sundance web site to complain... have one heck of a time finding where to leave feedback.. find it, and it's now a discussion group.... fine... (chickenshit really)... now it's a blog/forum... instead of a place to send an email or post a comment... finally find it and notice all the dates on the posts are 2007 to 2009... guess what, they left all their old discussion crap on the site, but it's no longer open for feedback.

So, I'll post it here:  SUNDANCE, YOU SUCK, just like the rest of the stations that are slowly cluttering up the movies I pay to watch with advertisements. I'm going to go all netflix and dump DirecTV and/or Cable so you can go out of business. America, remember when we would not stand for things and stood up? Well the "encroachment" of ads into everything we see and hear is just out of control.