Is Voicemail the next thing to fade away?

Man, I hope so!

Voicemails are irritating.

Look how annoyed this lady is at getting a voicemail:

Voicemail has become annoying mostly because in today’s world there are faster, better, ways to get a hold of people.  Text messages instantly spring to mind.  So the holdouts are usually those people that like to talk.  This in fact is hastening the demise of voice mail because it’s these people that leave you long one sided conversations that ramble for minutes before getting to the point.

Obviously business is different.  While email is still preferred, sometimes it IS easier to just leave a voicemail for someone who needs a response from you.  And let’s face it… business lags a little behnid the real world. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have this dinosaur called a fax machine in here.

So let’s toast then to the demise of voicemail.  If you can’t say it in 140 characters or less than you should say it in person or don’t say it at all.

Great name…

Although Los Angeles police said there wouldn’t be a family motorcade back to Forest Lawn Memorial Park, where the Jacksons held a private funeral service earlier Tuesday, family friend and unofficial spokesman Majestik Magnificent told E! News that Michael’s body was returning to the famous burial grounds, and the cemetery had ordered all press to clear out.

Wait… who?  Majestik Magnificent?  That’s awesome.  With a name like that your career is already chosen for you.  You’re either a wrestler, a magician or celebrity spokesperson.

Best Music Video Editing…

And this year’s arnoldcam winner in the music video editing category…

No MJ tickets

I got the new mail notification and saw I got one from the Staples Center.  Turns out it was a regrets email…. which is kind of nice.  Normally you don’t get any response if you lose in a lottery.

It’s jut as well though, while I’m sure positive I could have gotten a few thousand for these, maybe someone who really wanted to go got a pair.

Twitter humor

25% of the readership of arnoldcam are anti-Twitter.  That means most of you will think this is funny:

http://historicaltweets.com/2008/11/03/lewis-clark-discover-google-maps-doh/

Happy 4th of July everyone!

Celebrate safely.

Sarah Quit?!

Say it ain’t so, Sarah.

Apparently Sarah Palin has quit as governor of Alaska.  The DNC is already calling it bizarre behavior. We all know how fair and balanced our reporting is here and personally I think it’s a shame that the DNC is trying to label her a kook.  I say let her actions speak for themselves.

This lady is positive she’s going to go work for Fox where he can make political statements all day, get paid for it and never have to fundraise a dime to do it.

MSNBC is quoting someone who said that she says she’s just done with politics altogether  This at least makes sense about her leaving the job a year and a half early.

Personally I think it would be too bad if she left politics altogether.  I mean really… you never see other female world leaders like the Queen of England, Chancellor Merkel of Germany, or President Kirchner of Argentina doing glamor shots like that.  Losing a potential president with such great legs would be a loss for us all.

What I Learned Watching Transformers II

Saw Transformers II yesterday.  Special Effects- Great.  Megan Fox-Great, Rest of the movie-Not so great.  I did learn a few things though and here they are in no particular order:

1.  When the Army tells you that a city has been evacuated, that only means for 10 minutes.  After that the city will be teeming with people, cars and robots.

2.  If a girl that’s clearly out of your leagues has the hots for you, check if she’s a robot.

3. The Smithsonian has a door in the flight museum that opens up to an airfield in Arizona.

4. No one or thing ever dies for real.

5. There’s a robot heaven and people can go there.

6. It’s OK to directly steal scenes like Aragon’s vision of Arwen when he almost dies from Lord of the Rings or the scene from War of the Worlds when the son tells Tom Cruise “You’ve go to let me go”.

7. When you tell your Autobot/first car to take your parents to safety, you need to specify for how long or they’ll just come back in the next scene.

8. The Pyramids were designed to mimic Orion’s Belt (which is actually true) and following the belt will take you east to Petra.  Not into space or the southwest, where the belt actually points. (’ll concede this one’s a bit nerdy).

9. Search your clothing for ancient artifacts before you hang them up in the closet.

10.  Sometimes two and a half hours can actually feel longer than that.

They’re dropping like flies…

David Carradine

Ed McMahon

Farrah Fawcett

Michael Jackson

and now Billy Mays…

It makes you reflect on how you want to be known after death, doesn’t it?

MJ

RIP Michael Jackson

6/25/09