Let's all pray...

Whatever.

Would Walt Disney outsource?

"The first year I leased out the parking concession, brought in the usual security guards - things like that - but soon realized my mistake. I couldn't have outside help and still get over my idea of hospitality. So now we recruit and train every one of our employees. I tell the security police, for instance, that they are never to consider themselves cops. They are there to help people. The visitors are our guests. It's like running a fine restaurant. Once you get the policy going, it grows." - Walt Disney (in Walt Disney Famous Quotes)

I'm guessing not. Too bad Bob Iger thinks it's a good idea. More and more people, now working in the actual resorts (down to the parks and hotels) are being let go in favor of outsourcing the jobs. What a world we live in.

Mark Twain motivates...

Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.

Everyone has a degree in India?

You know how corporations in America keep talking about the proliferation of degrees in India as a compelling reason to offshore jobs there? Have they also revealed that this is because it is paid for by the government? Yes, that's right. Unlike the people in the United States, those people don't have to pay their own way. I wonder if these corporations that are singing the praises of this system would even begin to consider paying into a similar system here. We know that answer. They definitely wouldn't think about it for more than half of a second, if even that long.

The police and their botched raids...

Check this out. An interactive map of all the botched police raids in this country. So many people think these never happen. It must be nice to live in their fairy tale world.

Your Oilers - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Photos from the guide book... Apparently not so good, but funny.

Ethan Moreau and Steve Staios After Hours

Missed this during the Cup Finals. Good stuff with good players.

Oilers Halloween

Talking about Shawn Horcoff being Gene Principe for Halloween...

Liars, Cheats, and Thieves...

Yeah, you know who you are. A bunch of fake women attempting to exert undue influence upon a bunch of others. Those who don't fall under the spell are cast from the society. A plague upon you. Try being honest. You can be an asshole, if you want to be, but be honest about it.

Skinny Puppy - Worlock - REMASTERED!!

You must see it, but you should really be a fan of:

1. Skinny Puppy
2. Horror films
3. Gore (and not Al Gore)

A little happy about the election...

I think only one of the candidates I voted for actually won, but I am relatively content with the results. I am not a fan of the Democrats, but I like seeing the Republicans take a punch to the nose like this. I was a little tired of their arrogance.

Horrorfest coming to a theatre near you?

If you are into horror films, you should check this out. A bunch of horror films are being debuted together in theatres across the nation in November.

A sucker for Walt Disney World...

Despite having a horrible experience at Walt Disney World earlier this year, and seeing that company for what it truly is, I find myself wanting to be able to go there once everything works out financially. No, I don't want to go so badly that I would compromise financial security to do so, unlike trips in the past, because I know better these days, but I still would like to go.

Of course, the family plan is that there are no Walt Disney World vacations until we have managed to pull off a trip to Disneyland for all of us. So, it isn't like Disney is totally out of the picture.

You have an office with your own lights...

...so why do you have to turn on all the other lights?

A Life Plan

It's time to make a life plan. It is time to figure out what is most important. Time to figure out what the ideal life would be. What the things are that will make me happy. Then the challenge is to go after those and make them reality. Corporate America isn't going to make it a reality. I've been riding in their boat and they seem to enjoy rocking it while threatening to sink it.

It's time to build my own boat.

Corporate America Sucks

There is no doubt about it. It totally sucks. There is no soul in there. There is no life to be found.

ESPN Mobile is shutting down...

Who could've seen this coming? They were charging way too much for this service. Now they will just license the content to others, which is what they should have been doing from the beginning. This concept of a 'premium' cellphone provider is a faulty one. I wonder what this means for somebody like Helio now?

Disney outsources the cleaning at Walt Disney World...

A lot of people already thought the cleaning was subpar, so I guess it will get worse. It will be a miracle if outsourced work is an improvement over the original internal work. I've never seen quality go up via this method of passing the buck before.

Kazahkstan doesn't like Borat...so what...

"The Government has expressed its displeasure about Borat's representation of our country.

"Our opinion of the character has not changed.

"We understand that the film exposes the hypocrisy that exists both here in the USA and in the UK and understand that Mr Cohen has a right to freedom of speech.

"Nursultan Nazarbayev has taken Mr Bush up on an invitation to visit this country to help build our relationship with the USA.

"I cannot speak for the president himself, only for the government, but I certainly don't think President Nazarbayev and Mr Bush will share a joke about the film.

"The bottom line is we want people to know that he does not represent the true people of Kazakhstan."

The Kazakh government has previously threatened Baron-Cohen with legal action, for allowing Borat to, among other things, make fun of his homeland, demean women, slander gypsies and urge listeners to "Throw the Jew Down the Well."

Bruce Arena reveals he has no tactics.

After a "1998-ish" World Cup debacle by the US national team, it has been revealed for all to see that Bruce Arena has no tactics hidden away in his mind. They must have accomplished their 2002 feat on hard work and surprising the other teams. Nobody was going to be surprised this time, so you needed some surprising tactics to gain an advantage. Especially if you run into a problem where some players are not properly motivated, or they are outclassed unexpectedly, you need a tactical mind to overcome it. Unfortunately, he was not able to overcome this.

For that reason, he should be sacked. However, the problem we have is that I believe he is clearly the best American available for the job. Fortunately, this is a global game and we can choose someone from afar that can guide the team to the next level. Limited ourselves to only what our own domestic coaches can attain is going to hold our players back. It is time to move on. National pride be damned, because we now have players who are more capable than our coaching.