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 jimsal My Name(s):Jim, jimbo, jimy, juice...lol
Born on:Sept. 16th (Virgo)
My job: Dead-end factory job...lol
What I Should Be Doing: Recording Engineer, Playing in a band or solo performer, writing songs for famous people, writing more childrens' books or doing comic strips if not playing music
What I used to do: Everything you could possibly do in a Perkins restaurant, Assistant manager at Circle K, Jewelry/Watch repair @JCPenneys, and drummer in a rock band!
Dreams: to see the day when someone famous records one of my songs.....to make my own CD(s)
Loves: Family, animals, making all kinds of friends on the internet, and MUSIC!!!!!!!!  
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Monday, October 17, 2005
When Did The Weirdness Start?
 This was a cool story that'll get you thinking.....by Mark Patinkin
I was filling my tank with regular when I heard a woman's voice on the other side of the pump. She was talking on a cell phone. I peered around. She was very nicely dressed, and wearing expensive heels. It seemed incongruous to see someone like that with a gasoline hose in her hand. It got me wondering: When exactly was it that we became service attendants?
There happen to be alot of areas that get me thinking that way. When did going to prison become a good career move? When did Google become a verb? When did television reporters, especially male ones, all start crying on camera?
When did teenagers begin feeling they need to be more available by cell phone than doctors are? When did "debug" start applying to software instead of exterminators? When did "major airline" start equaling "bankruptsy"? When, without even intending to, did we start calling people in India 2 or 3 times a week? When did poker become the new Monopoly?
When did an obnoxious kid turn into a behaviorally disordered child with impulse-control issues? When did we find ourselves having entire conversations with recorded messages when we call directory assistance? When did people start saying, "I'll send you a JPEG," instead of, "I'll show you a picture?
When did half of female America get breast enhancements--and have each step chronicled on their own reality television hour? When did it become national policy for boys to show off their boxers and girls their midriffs? When did people start having playlists instead of favorite albums?
When did heartburn turn into upper esophageal acid reflux? When did kids start saying, "I'm Good," instead of "No Thank You"? When did we have to start shuffling shoeless through security to get onto an airplane? When did 98% of personal mail start arriving with a computer-beep instead of stamped envelopes?
And when did junk mail all focus on enhancing male body parts, restoring hair, or getting cheap printer ink? For that matter, when did ink cartridges start costing more than a printer itself? When did the most important measure of speed switch from miles per hour to megahertz, and now to broadband and megabits? When did it become an STD instead of VD?
When did 15 year olds start going to coffee shops? And when did adults start going to coffee shops to get the equivalent of a milkshake? When did we start spending more money to protect our computers from viruses than ourselves? When did every woman under 28 get an exotic tattoo just above the hindquarters and when will they realize the tattoos won't look quite as alluring when they are 70?
When did it become fashionable, as opposed to sloppy, to have our bra straps showing? When did everything in our lives start needing a password? Finally, when did everyone decide they needed an SUV? Which reminds me, I already need to go fill up my gas tank again. Which will cost me.....do i dare add it up? Sixty dollars.....And when did that start???
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