Terrible Analogies

I wish I could forward this video to every person who calls me up with a tech question:

This new gadget appeared on our snack machine at work over the weekend:

Sure, go ahead and charge that 75¢ bag of Doritos to my credit card.  Yeah, this doesn’t look sketchy at all.

I wonder what the fees are to use this thing?  This system doesn’t even require proof that the credit card you’re using belongs to you.  There’s no keypad.  No signature required.  Nice.

This is a sign of the times I guess.  In a world of instant gratification, devices like these cater to those with less will power than smarts.  It takes advantage of those who can’t control their dire urge for a Snickers bar yet don’t have two quarters to rub together.

Hey, if you really need those yogurt covered pretzels so bad, I’ll loan you the change to get ‘em…and I won’t charge you an added fee.

Wow!

The trailer for the upcoming television show The Walking Dead really has me excited. I’m not big of TV in general, and haven’t followed a television show in many, many years (I loved Lost, but only watched it on DVD), but this trailer has me chompin’ at the bit. The acting looks solid, the production is top notch, and with big names attached I don’t see how it can fail.

It’s amazing that a studio is taking a gamble on this.  I’m happy to see that not every production company is gutless.

I feel like a kid on Christmas morning. Can’t wait for the 90 minute premier on October 31st!

To kill some time before the big premier, you might want to pick up a copy of World War Z by Max Brooks. This book gets behind the psychology of a global zombie invasion.  I can’t recommend this book highly enough.

I can only hope that when I grow this old my imagination takes me to places like this:

…that you get to sit home and play Plants Vs. Zombies all day long.

Apparently, the goal of this game is to protect your most valuable of possessions (your lawn mowers) from an ever-lovin’ hoard of unstoppable zombies hellbent on destroying all grass trimming devices in existence.  To accomplish this obtuse task you employ the help of various sentient plants, each with their own unique method of fighting off the persistent zombie onslaught; some shoot peas, some devour zombies whole, and others block, blow up, or simply possess the undead and force them to do their bidding.

Ah, but those damned zombies have powers of their own.  Sure, you have your run-of-the-mill zombie, but it appears that some of them have grown smart and have learned to don armor, wield defensive shields, alter their speed of approach, and even complete their daily Sudoku puzzles as they bear down on their intended victims.

Easy to play / hard to put down, Plants Vs. Zombies is the best way to pass the hours holed up at home with the flu.

…that and drinking heavily, but that goes without saying.

The above link will bring you to the free online version, but the small screen and advertisements really detracts from the experience.  As your lawyer, my advice to you is to shell out some coin for the full version.  Go on…you’ll make a zombie very happy if you do.