Chuck E. Cheese is breeding a nation of loyal sports bar goers.

Oh. My. God.

There are no words to describe the horror that has become Chuck E. Cheese. There were actually video screens blaring out kid (and advertising) friendly versions of pop songs. the Bckstreet boys’ “Larger than Life” became a song about recycling …paper…or plastic…ugh.

The worst though was “Living La Vida Loca” became “Drinking a Coca-Cola”. Dance routines and everything. But I was drinking a Pepsi! WTF?!

The full force of advertising towards kids is amazing when it’s staring you in the face.

It was almost exactly like being in a sports bar, only brighter. Awful music, too loud T.V. unsteady people who love to bump into you. The feeling that there shouldn’t be babies there even though there are….

I was seething…

and then we hit the cereal isle in Fred Meyer….

Jan 30, 1798: The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives was witnessed by legislators. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.

History is cool.

All I wanna know is… Who’s playing with me?

The State of the Union Address Drinking Game

Hey… Can you keep a secret?

[Scott leans closer, and speaks in a conspiratorial whisper:]

I’m enjoying my job again. Keep it quiet, but in the last week or so, things have actually been improving! My boss has regained the realization that our company is only going to survive if we put some programmer hours into active product development. He’s not only suddenly into development, he’s really into it! He’s practically issued communication blackouts for the programmers so they can focus on their jobs without being distracted by client “bug” reports and feature demands.

He’s had me compile a list of our 20 most critical bugs and features for our part-timer and one of our full-time programmers to focus on. And our other full-time programmer is being wholly aimed at product development to meet the needs of our largest client, which means that features and notes that Steve and I made a year ago about things our products were lacking are suddenly being paid attention to! Some of them have already been completed!

We’re even discussing the need for documentation! (there should be heavenly light shining down on that word, and a choir of angels singing praises… You don’t understand how important documentation can be until you support a product that has none).

Just thought I’d let you know. Things are going well at the moment. For all I know it could be the calm moment of sunshine before the storm, but believe me, I’m enjoying it while it lasts!

for the quicktime-enabled:

here i am, serenading the deep blue sea ;)

(here’s a link where you can do save-as)

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