Obruo

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?? Hot Chocolate
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrap and Sit under tree
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored
4. Do you hang mistletoe? Yes
 5. When do you put your decorations up? Between Turkey Day and Christmas
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Shrimp
7. What’s your favorite Holiday memory as a child? Visiting both sides of my family
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Kids at school in 2nd grade
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Most of em
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Colored Lights, Tinsel, & ornaments
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it
12. Can you ice skate? Yes
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Money!
 14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Kids enjoying Holiday
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cheesecake
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Opening gifts with family & friends
 17. Do the holidays ever make you feel sad? Yes
18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Rumpapumpum
20. Candy Canes! yuck or yummy? So-so
21. Fave Christmas Movie? None

OK, you need to give me the answer

… Mad World, the version I like best is from the movie Donnie Darko by Michael Andrews and not the original performed by Tears for Fears.

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

[chorus]
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very…
Mad World

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

[chorus]
Mad World…
Mad World…

Those of you who know me fairly well know I have no real problem with religion in and of itself, I do however have a problem at times with the way some people present themselves, especially to children who aren’t theirs.

I read a really interesting story about a high school student exposing a teacher lying about some biblical statements he made in a public school classroom, the entire recording of the class is at the bottom of the page.  After listening to it… wow.  None of my teachers, even those with *VERY* strongly held religious beliefs *EVER* did anything like that… and if they had I’d have done all in my power to have them removed as a teacher, no one has the right to inflict that on someone else’s children.  It’s both ethically and morally wrong in the extreme, not to mention a massive abuse of power.

Sick stuff in the extremes… scary.

I saw an interesting video on immigration, some of the issues he brings up I never thought about.  Most of my concerns with immigration have been along the lines of illegal immigration and the benefits the tax payers are providing the illegal aliens.  Some of the concepts he brings up are tremendously interesting and thought provoking.  I’m definitely going to have to do some more research on it.

So I had an opportunity to fiddle with a Zune today at office max while I was getting a new computer chair. It’s an interesting player but in all honesty I’d rather have an iPod or Zen. The Zune just has a lot of restrictions that don’t make any sense if they’re honestly trying to gain market share with this player… I choose to look at this player like most Microsoft early releases… horrible and will get better in revisions. Think about it… 98 was bad… 98SE wasn’t to bad comparatively. IE3/4 was *horrible*, IE5 was a Netscape killer. The XBOX was pretty lackluster but the 360 is truly a beast. I expect the Zune will be a similar product… right now it’s weak but in the future it has some potential. They really need to get some marketing people and techies working on that project pronto though.

Edit: Aszurom sent me this picture for this post… rofl.