The Celebrity Intelligence Index...
I was talking to a friend of mine last night before a screening of The Bourne Supremacy (good movie!) and we were talking about reality television and how stupid most of the people are on it eg. Jessica Simpson and Anna Nicole Smith, which led into a conversation about smart vs. dumb celebrities.
It seems to me that actors are either real dumb or real smart with nothing in between. Occasionally you will see an actor or actress who seems like a regular person of normal intelligence, but not so often.
As a result I figured we could use a scale for intelligence...Anna Nicole being the lowest and Stephen Hawking being the highest. Jennifer Connely, Morgan Freeman and Mel GIbson are in the middle high end, Jessica Simpson is one above Anna, and Keannu Reeves, Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck, and Gillian Anderson are in the middle to low side end.
Personally, I figure I am somewhere between Quentin Tarantino and Morgan Freeman.
Sunday, July 18, 2004
The "Family" is in town...
The last few weeks have been exhausting...My older, shorter brothers have been in town and one with their wife and two small chillun's, one 4 and one a newly mobile 9 months.
Now being the rebel and a loner that I am, while I enjoy seeing everybody, I am always amazed how LOUD it is when the Italian-Irish (McWop, as I refer to it) mix that is everyone is together, and then combine that with my brother's friends coming over and bringing their little extensions of their own DNA and well, it gets a little frazzled. I am going to a family reunion for my mom's side in August, so I guess this was practice for it.
Add to the mix a work deadline that required me to work 32 hours of unpaid overtime, and I am starting to need a real serious nap!
Still, It was fun. The All-Star game was here this week, so we went and sat outside during the home run derby watching people run to get home run balls that went over the back wall at Minute Maid Park.
My brother's son learned a valuable lesson when the old people say "Don't mess with the Psychotic Cat" But he got to play with my toys, so I rate as the cool uncle.
My niece (who some people stupidly made me her godfather) finally stopped crying when I would pick her up. And I found out that babies are really fun to mess with psychologically. Kind of like smart dogs, actually.
...So when am I going to start my own family? Not for a while I think.
The last few weeks have been exhausting...My older, shorter brothers have been in town and one with their wife and two small chillun's, one 4 and one a newly mobile 9 months.
Now being the rebel and a loner that I am, while I enjoy seeing everybody, I am always amazed how LOUD it is when the Italian-Irish (McWop, as I refer to it) mix that is everyone is together, and then combine that with my brother's friends coming over and bringing their little extensions of their own DNA and well, it gets a little frazzled. I am going to a family reunion for my mom's side in August, so I guess this was practice for it.
Add to the mix a work deadline that required me to work 32 hours of unpaid overtime, and I am starting to need a real serious nap!
Still, It was fun. The All-Star game was here this week, so we went and sat outside during the home run derby watching people run to get home run balls that went over the back wall at Minute Maid Park.
My brother's son learned a valuable lesson when the old people say "Don't mess with the Psychotic Cat" But he got to play with my toys, so I rate as the cool uncle.
My niece (who some people stupidly made me her godfather) finally stopped crying when I would pick her up. And I found out that babies are really fun to mess with psychologically. Kind of like smart dogs, actually.
...So when am I going to start my own family? Not for a while I think.
Friday, July 09, 2004
On Socializing with the Bosses...
Every once in a while our office goes for an "official" office happy hour. The reason for this is twofold:
1. It gives the employees a chance to relax and unwind and relax after a stressful day.
2. It lets us employees find out what the upper level people really think about us.
Seriously, we have a young (a few years older than myself) "associate", who whenever you get a beer in him, his tongue really loosens up, and you can ask him anything...For instance I am known by the higher ups as "the Union Rep" and "Superman", because I am always making sure all of the people I work with and who work for me are doing ok.
Its quite the valuable resource this happy hour thing...Much power happens here huuurrM? (Imagine Yoda saying that last part)
The other thing I found out is that not wearing a white dress shirt and keeping your hair longish translates into "being a non conformist who doesn't completely embrace the company line" during a performance review.
...Personally, I think all the old bald white guys are just jealous...
Every once in a while our office goes for an "official" office happy hour. The reason for this is twofold:
1. It gives the employees a chance to relax and unwind and relax after a stressful day.
2. It lets us employees find out what the upper level people really think about us.
Seriously, we have a young (a few years older than myself) "associate", who whenever you get a beer in him, his tongue really loosens up, and you can ask him anything...For instance I am known by the higher ups as "the Union Rep" and "Superman", because I am always making sure all of the people I work with and who work for me are doing ok.
Its quite the valuable resource this happy hour thing...Much power happens here huuurrM? (Imagine Yoda saying that last part)
The other thing I found out is that not wearing a white dress shirt and keeping your hair longish translates into "being a non conformist who doesn't completely embrace the company line" during a performance review.
...Personally, I think all the old bald white guys are just jealous...
Sunday, July 04, 2004
USA...USA...USA!
I love this country...It's the only place in the world where:
... People can be shocked by Bill Cosby telling it like it is
...Kobe can be flown from Colorado to LA to play in the NBA Playoffs, and Robert Downey Jr. can be let out of jail for an acting job.
...A documentary about the evils of the Bush administration can be the number one film of the week, while his standing in the polls is as high as ever.
...Where you can have Bill Riley and Al Franken fight over the use of a phrase.
...A former President can write a book admitting his affairs with white trash women in the oval office.
...Our current President who pronounces the word "tyranny", "tie-ran-ee"
...A cable network called music television does not play music.
I know it seems like I am bitter and cranky about these things, but I actually think it shows that this country is a tolerant albeit sometime misguided place. Freedom of Speech, and Religion, and sometimes the freedom to act like an idiot and be forgiven. I have a lot of foreign friends due to my days in grad school, and I always am surprised how much I have in common with them in the belief in the American Ideal, which for me was derived from too many Superman and Captain America comic books, but for them it is a true dream to come over here and through personal trial and effort, be successful.
I believe this dream is what makes America great, to have the opportunity to succeed, regardless of education, gender, creed or geek hobby you may have.
The inscription on the Statue Of Liberty Reads:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your
teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed,
to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
— Emma Lazarus, 1883, written to help raise funds for construction of the pedestal.
Maybe Americans shouldn't get their freedoms automatically and have to work for it like immigrants.
By the way....Spider-Man 2 was awesome!
I love this country...It's the only place in the world where:
... People can be shocked by Bill Cosby telling it like it is
...Kobe can be flown from Colorado to LA to play in the NBA Playoffs, and Robert Downey Jr. can be let out of jail for an acting job.
...A documentary about the evils of the Bush administration can be the number one film of the week, while his standing in the polls is as high as ever.
...Where you can have Bill Riley and Al Franken fight over the use of a phrase.
...A former President can write a book admitting his affairs with white trash women in the oval office.
...Our current President who pronounces the word "tyranny", "tie-ran-ee"
...A cable network called music television does not play music.
I know it seems like I am bitter and cranky about these things, but I actually think it shows that this country is a tolerant albeit sometime misguided place. Freedom of Speech, and Religion, and sometimes the freedom to act like an idiot and be forgiven. I have a lot of foreign friends due to my days in grad school, and I always am surprised how much I have in common with them in the belief in the American Ideal, which for me was derived from too many Superman and Captain America comic books, but for them it is a true dream to come over here and through personal trial and effort, be successful.
I believe this dream is what makes America great, to have the opportunity to succeed, regardless of education, gender, creed or geek hobby you may have.
The inscription on the Statue Of Liberty Reads:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your
teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed,
to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
— Emma Lazarus, 1883, written to help raise funds for construction of the pedestal.
Maybe Americans shouldn't get their freedoms automatically and have to work for it like immigrants.
By the way....Spider-Man 2 was awesome!
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