The Nerd's Eye View

I was watching a bit of television yesterday and talking to my roommate when Carmen Electra came on screen in an art gallery and started talking about her photography. The CEO of Ritz comes in and Carmen began to extol the virtues of Ritz Camera, who helped get her those "big enlargements" for her prints. As David Ritz brushed off her gushing, he said, "That's ok, Carmen, we get enlargements to anybody quickly!" Then the announcer said the words "big enlargements" several times to drive the point home (thanks guys, we get it).

All of this is crass, but not entirely surprising. What IS surprising though, is the sight of David Ritz looking at boobs. That's right, in the midst of aw-shucks-ing his way through an ad, he glances down at Carmen Electra's breasts. How does that escape the editing wizards at the ad company? In a way it's hilarious, of course. I mean it goes to show that we men are all the same (just like your mom told you) no matter if you're some yobbo watching television or the owner of a rather mediocre chain of photography specialty shops.

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Boy, can you believe Star Wars is 30 years old? After 30 years the portion of my childhood that has been most relentlessly marketed has acquired a reach and maturation that few stories have. So it's sort of odd to think of anyone who hasn't seen it - and yet this gentleman has. And he's blogged the experience. His account contains gems such as this:

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R2-D2 has stormed off in a huff. The excitement of starring in a classic film is all too much for him, the poor love.

I highly recommend it, if only to return you to that perfect moment when you didn't know anything about it all and it was all new. Oh those days of innocence.

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We'd been waiting for it for quite a while and finally it came on Tuesday. Faceless Corporation announced that it would be selling my division. Actually that's not entirely true, the division was split off in an independent venture that is co-owned by Faceless Corporation and Immobiliare Intl. What complicates this is the fact that the new company doesn't actually legally exist yet, with no clear date for when it will. Of course there is a clear date for when we cease to be employees of Faceless Corp. Flawless planning once again rears it's unwelcome head.

Yes it's all very weird. Being as risk averse as I am, I have to suddenly learn to run fast and loose, leveraging all this chaos to my advantage. This has the potential to be the sort of disaster that one usually sees in farces about well-meaning young country bumpkins in the city. Let's hope it goes better than I am anticipating.

Bonus question: what happened to the confident young jackass I was in undergrad? Post answers at your leisure.

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