For some reason, I’ve really been tuning into commercials lately…

Have you seen the new Honda commercial? This guy is walking along the beach staring at all the ladies in bikinis (the women are kindof blurred out so the guy is the main focus). As he’s walking along he’s not paying attention to where he’s going, and he bumps into a new Honda. I can’t remember if it’s a new Accord or Civic, but it’s a pretty nice looking car.

As soon as he realizes what he’s bumped into, he begins staring at the car as he walks around it. When he gets around the car he starts walking backwards, still staring at it. Then he bumps into a woman in a bikini.

Though this commercial still involves bikini-clad women, it doesn’t promote sex like the AOL commercial I critiqued last week. This one was done in a much more tasteful manner. I think it’s pretty funny.

I have the most anal-retentive professor in my Survey of Jazz class. We had an exam today and he had so many stupid rules. Rule number one was no talking, which is fine except that he talked through the entire exam just explaining (and repeating) all of his asinine rules.

First, he made us all sit at the front of the room. He pointed out every empty seat and made people come up to the front. He kept asking people if they were left-handed, and then he would make them sit on the one side of the room (I guess there are several lefty desks on that side or something?).

He then announced that since the class time goes until 3:20pm, we were all obligated to stay until that time whether we finished early or not!

We used scantrons, and he repeated no less than ten times that he didn’t want people asking him if the machine would be able to read a bubble that had been erased (as if we haven’t used scantrons since elementary school). No one was asking him that, so I have no idea why he had to make such a big deal out of it. As he was handing out the exams and the scantrons, he wouldn’t give any of us a scantron until we had written our name, section, and the date on the exam itself.

After the first listening portion of the test he announced that the second listening portion would start at 5 minutes to the hour. He then said, I realize a lot of you use digital clocks, so I should point out that on this analog clock [pointing to a clock on the wall] when the big hand gets to the 11 that’s five minutes to the hour.

When the class time was over he dismissed us row by row and made us walk to the front single-file to turn in our exams. :eek

Looking for ideas of what to get me for Christmas? Well, here it is: the new Handspring Treo 600. Maybe several of you could go in together? 😉

This is the best palm/phone combination that has been released to date. It’s smaller than all the rest, it has Palm OS 5.0 (with a powerful 144 MHz ARM processor), 32 MB of RAM with an SD/MMC card slot for more, a beautiful high-resolution color screen, polyphonic ring tones, a built-in digital camera (0.3 megapixels), and if you get it from Sprint you can get unlimited Internet on your regular calling plan for $50/month.

Right now I don’t have a working Palm (I went through about seven Handspring Visor Prisms before my warranty expired!). I could buy a cheap one, but I want one that will last me a long time. I’ve also really wanted a palm/phone for a while. I just wish I had the money…

Guess what everyone? Georgie Bush has a blog site! You can view it here.

No commenting allowed on that blog though. Darn! If you so desire to do so (or to read other people’s responses on this whacked out creation) go here.

Who’s seen the new AOL commercial for their built-in popup blocker? It starts out with a woman in a swimming pool with a bikini on. She swims to one end of the pool where there is a set of stairs coming out of the water. She begins to climb out of the pool, but just before her chest comes out of the water a popup window comes onto the screen. Then, as she continues to climb out of the water, popups appear over other sensitive areas of her body until there are so many popups all you can see is her head and some of the background. Then, a mouse pointer comes on the screen and begins to close the popups, and you can just barely see her behind there putting on a towel. By the time all the popups are closed she’s got the towel completely covering herself. Then, an announcer says, “Annoying, isn’t it?”

This commercial bugs me. I get calls every day from people trying to use ContentWatch’s PopupProtect software to stop pornographic popups from appearing on their computers. Here AOL is actually trying to convince us that we should buy their newest version of AOL so we can block the popups that obstruct our view of all the porn. Doesn’t AOL have parental controls built in? What kind of double-standard is this?