I need to give credit where credit is due. This idea is partially due to a conversation I had today with my buddy, Crapinator. Props to you Crapinator may you get corporate sponsorship soon...
Sports leagues had this one figured out a long time ago, now Uncle Sam just needs to follow suit. I'm talking about corporate sponsorship of America. Instead of the U.S. Marine Corps, it will now be The Wells Fargo U.S. Marine Corps, instead of The White House, it will now be the Tide Detergent White House, instead of The Lincoln Memorial, it will now be known as the FedEx Lincoln Memorial, and instead of The Capital Building it will now be known as Smucker's Jelly Capital Building and Hill.
The American Flag wouldn't be exempt from this either. Budweiser could sponsor the flag and emboss their logo somewhere amongst the 13 strips. Instead of stars in the blue field, the flag could have different corporate logos in their place - not much different from NASCAR, if you ask me and what's more American than NASCAR? That's right, baseball. Baseball's got it down too. In baseball you see corporate sponsorship everywhere, Coors Field, Minute Maid Park, PETCO Park, AT&T Park, Tropicana Field, U.S. Cellular Field, Comerica Park, Safeco Field, and Ameriquest Field. The transition to National Parks would be simple. Instead of Yosemite National Park it would now be AT&T National Park, instead of Yellowstone National Park it will now be Coors National Park, instead of Zion's National Park, it will now be Zion's Bank National Park.
I tell you this idea might sound loco, but it's not too far off. We've got to figure out a way to pay off this big ol' national debt that's accumulating. If the NFL can sign a deal with UPS so that UPS can call itself the official delivery company of the National Football League, then Schwanns can sign a deal with the United States Postal Service to become the official food delivery company of the United States Postal Service. Schwanns delivery guys could deliver mail at the same time they're delivering food. Just think of how much money that would save.
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UML Drawings
There is not a single funny thing about these and there are no attempts at humor here. I only put these here as a reference for anyone that is taking a database class. Hooray for you!
Someone pointed out to me that feeble is spelled feeble, not feable. Since I'm not an illiterate monkey allowed access to a computer keyboard, I had to change the title of the blog, which means that this blog has a whole new address. Not that anyone reads this mindless tripe anyway.
When I was in high school, I read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. Back then I didn't really catch his wit and humor, but I was able to follow the story. I've been re-reading it and now I'm catching his wit, humor, and philosophy. There's a much deeper meaning in it than I originally captured. Any digression attributed to the Hitchhiker's Guide is Douglas Adams' own philosophy on the universe. What makes this work so interesting is that he's able to portray that philosophy in a humorous manner. The use of characters to tell a story keeps the reader's interest while Adams subtley brainwashes you. A good example of this is Adams' own philosophy/belief in, what he calls, radical-athiesm. He uses an allegory of a sentient puddle of water. The water thinks to itself that it fits perfectly in the hole in which it's resting and somehow there must be a higher power in the universe that created the hole for it to rest in so perfectly. It looks up at the sky and sees the sun and starts to worship the sun and thank it for creating it and for creating the hole in which it rests. While all the time the sun is slowly contributing to the water's demise.
I'm not saying that I agree with his radical-atheism, but in a very humorous manner, Douglas Adams has described his belief and I understand his point-of-view. It takes a certain degree of genius to use such metaphorical symbolism.
Not that I could even hold a candle to Douglas Adams, but I'm going to attempt to describe things using allegories, parables, metaphors, and any other literary devices that obscure my real intent. I'll leave it to the reader to decipher the real meaning. There is one particular subject that is pressing on my mind quite a bit at the moment and I will write about it when I've had some time to consider it.
OK, so this post isn't all that funny. Like I said, who reads this mindless tripe any how? And for those that do, I spell checked it, you pedantic gits.
When I was in high school, I read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. Back then I didn't really catch his wit and humor, but I was able to follow the story. I've been re-reading it and now I'm catching his wit, humor, and philosophy. There's a much deeper meaning in it than I originally captured. Any digression attributed to the Hitchhiker's Guide is Douglas Adams' own philosophy on the universe. What makes this work so interesting is that he's able to portray that philosophy in a humorous manner. The use of characters to tell a story keeps the reader's interest while Adams subtley brainwashes you. A good example of this is Adams' own philosophy/belief in, what he calls, radical-athiesm. He uses an allegory of a sentient puddle of water. The water thinks to itself that it fits perfectly in the hole in which it's resting and somehow there must be a higher power in the universe that created the hole for it to rest in so perfectly. It looks up at the sky and sees the sun and starts to worship the sun and thank it for creating it and for creating the hole in which it rests. While all the time the sun is slowly contributing to the water's demise.
I'm not saying that I agree with his radical-atheism, but in a very humorous manner, Douglas Adams has described his belief and I understand his point-of-view. It takes a certain degree of genius to use such metaphorical symbolism.
Not that I could even hold a candle to Douglas Adams, but I'm going to attempt to describe things using allegories, parables, metaphors, and any other literary devices that obscure my real intent. I'll leave it to the reader to decipher the real meaning. There is one particular subject that is pressing on my mind quite a bit at the moment and I will write about it when I've had some time to consider it.
OK, so this post isn't all that funny. Like I said, who reads this mindless tripe any how? And for those that do, I spell checked it, you pedantic gits.
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