I often get emails from people that are basically comments.  People send me emails that are like "I enjoyed that dog video" or "thanks for posting this".  I understand when people need to speak with me in private, but if you have something to say about something on this blog please leave a comment!  I guess it’s better than all those folks that are reading and not saying anything.  How fun is a one sided conversation?

My girlfriend and I are taking care of this really awesome dog named Booker.  He likes to play catch, chew on things, and sing when the trains go by.  Here’s a video of him singing to the trains and playing ball.

Watch it here.

1m 34s

28MB (I’m too lazy to compress this stuff, this is how it came out of the camera)

I was at the Pan Pacific this morning for some breakfast with my pops and I saw Harrison Ford getting into a big black Escalade.  Normally I don’t get that excited when I see celebrities but this was freakin Indiana Jones in person!

This guy has had starring roles "in four of the 10 highest-grossing films of all time: Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and Return of the Jedi (1983)." *

"The U.S. box office grosses of all of Ford’s films total about $3.18 billion, with worldwide grosses totaling approximately $5.65 billion. No other actor in history has box-office grosses as large as Ford’s." *

There were some knobs trying to get him to wave while they took pictures from like 50 feet away with their cameraphones.  It would really suck to be harassed everywhere you go.  Harrison is in town shooting The Wrong Element.  Here’s some more info on Harrison Ford’s visit in Vancouver.

If you’re a hack blogger like me that doesn’t even do good grammar good and stuff and punctuation; wrong it’s hard to convey mood.  I posted about my recently deceased Betta fish X-Ray to be mildly/morbidly humorous, like as if I cared so much about the fish that I was in mourning or something.  Some people thought it was mildly funny, as it was intended, while others sent me email that read like this: "we feel your pain" or "we’re with you on this terrible day of sorrow and mourning."  I thought it was pretty funny.  But what the hell does that have to do with anything?  Who cares you ask?  There is something more to this than the caffeinated attention deficit writing style.

It’s like when you’re text chatting (msn or irc->nerd) and the other person doesn’t really understand what the hell you’re trying to say, or they think you’re upset when you’re just really not very good at being funny.  It’s easy to get mixed signals when all you have is text.  So much communication happens subconsciously between people when they can see and hear one another.  The tone of your voice, your body language, your puppy dog eyes, the middle finger in the rear view mirror.  You know that kind of crap.  This is why part of the reason video and video blogs work well alongside regular old text blogs. 

If I had posted a video of the mock funeral for X-Ray, with the sobbing, the tears, the organ music, the tiny little fish coffin, and the over the top acting, it would have been much more obvious I DON’T REALLY GIVE A SHIT IF THAT STUPID FISH DIED! (evil laugh) (Getting mixed signals yet?)

Or I could be lazy, write about it and have your imagination create a more AWESOME video than I ever could.  Strongbad voice:  ALL HAIL THE VIDEO BLOGGERS OF THE MIND.  IT’S THE VIDEO BLOG THAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN. Repeat while listening to this: (dun dun duuun) and (pizza)