Price Scanners

Some department stores such as Walmart and Target are awesome when it comes to checking the price on the products they sell. Don’t know how much this shirt or action figure costs? No problem walk over and scan it and bam! Price is known! Best idea ever! Now why don’t the other stores such as clothing stores in the mall have this?

I was at a clothing store and had two shirts, unsure on whether or not they were part of the sale I was going to stand in a line and ask the cashier. Then I realized something, why is there not a price scanner in this store? It’s annoying to have to stand in line, then ask a cashier the real price on the clothing only to either buy it or not buy it.

Once I found out the shirts I was interested in was over priced at 70 bucks each, I had to walk away. I felt rejected and probably looked like a broke ass since I couldn’t afford the shirts. In reality, I could afford it but didn’t want to spend that on a piece of clothing which has no resale value! This whole ordeal could have been avoided if there was a price scanner.

Plus it makes shopping faster and easier! No lines come black friday either since people will be able to find out the true price.

So come on stores in the mall, adopt the price scanner!

Buffets!

I find it perplexing what people eat when they are out. I find it even more perplexing when they do it at a buffet.

Buffets were started in Europe and became very popular in America. In fact it became so popular in America, there are now a variety of buffet restaurants to choose from. Let’s break this down!

Buffets are a bad thing, and well sort of a good thing.

They are sort of a good thing because there are healthy buffets that exist such as Sweet Tomatoes, (http://www.souplantation.com/) which is a great place to make fun salads and other random healthy orientated dishes.

However aside from this, buffets are not a good concept, here’s why!

This happens to a lot of people, I myself have experienced this occurrence. When you first walk into a buffet something interesting happens. Two of your five (sometimes six) senses become excited. First your eyes. You see all of these variety of food. From fried chicken to pizza. Cakes, pies, and even a guy carving up some freshly grilled steak! Suddenly you forget the true meaning of eating consciously. Your other sense, your nose, becomes engulfed in a aroma of food. Your sense of smell becomes lost in a forever maze of smell.

After this, people usually pile the plate with a ton of food forgetting about important things such as sodium, fat, and other things that matter especially for the older crowd.

In addition buffets waste a lot of food. People will become so excited and get a ton of stuff only to realize they couldn’t finish everything.

I think buffets are an unnecessary luxury. In reality, people do not need to eat this much food, but they do it anyway. The reasons could be endless from celebration to depression. Regardless, this could be a contributing factor to why so many people are overweight. Whenever I go to a buffet, I see a lot of overweight people there. It makes me wonder.

Either way, next time you happen to go to a buffet think about your food. Ask yourself do I really need to eat this? Am I really going to finish all of this? Is this going to cause health problems later? If any of those is a yes, then strategize a plan on what you’re going to eat.

Thanks for reading!

Driving

America, there is a real problem in this country when it comes to driving. People have the tendency to drive their vehicles as if they are on the Indy 500. The sad thing is they usually do this while driving a SUV or some sort of vehicle that is not meant for this type of driving.

The best part of this, is a lot of people do it while talking on the phone. I don’t understand this. Let’s break this down!

Okay so what conversation are these people having that is so important that they must do it while driving? I could understand if it was an emergency, but if you were to drive and notice how many people talk on their phones in America, you will notice it’s a lot!

Plus, most of these people do it while driving in a vehicle with kids inside!

Yeah! Let’s not only speed, but let’s talk on the phone about useless stuff that could wait till I got home, but let’s also do it while my kid is in the back. I don’t understand why people do this, do you?

Is it me or are Americans always in a hurry too? I have driven and been in other countries and from experience, I don’t see this phenomenon. Maybe because the fines/laws are higher/stricter and actually enforced. Or maybe because there are more cameras to monitor this silly activity, I really don’t know. It’s just crazy how a lot of Americans are always in a hurry, they drive crazy speeds all while doing it on the phone too. (Wonder if this is how it is in Germany on the Autobahnen)

Something needs to be done about this asap!

So be careful out there, it’s an imaginative race course!

Stop Killing Youtube!

So I found a pretty messed up bug yesterday while watching random videos on youtube, a commercial. We see commercials (as it is they are louder than the actual tv show) on televisions, movie theaters, news websites and now on youtube? Really? Why do I have to sit through a 30 second commercial before watching a video someone uploaded?! I could see if this was a television show, but this is a homemade video! Come on people why do we have to endure this? I mean, this is 30 seconds of our lives we will never see again.

The commercials are usually pointless to begin with! It just goes to show that businesses are not only slaves to the ads, but they are slaves to the dollar. To have to advertise on a website is one thing, but to advertise on some person’s video is not right. As it is there was a rumor going around about wanting to advertise on our own moon! Enough is enough stop with the ads already! What’s even more funny is while watching the commercial a google adsense pops up! It’s like getting a double dose of ads! It’s hilarious how google has this setup.

If I wanted to buy your crap I would’ve done so already, but I don’t need car insurance from a talking lizard!

Someone needs to fix this.

I don’t want to see your boxers

So the other day I was going to work and there was this guy around my age (mid 20s) who had his pants on just like everyone else. In fact I bet he puts his pants on like everyone else, one leg at a time. But this guy wanted to be different, he wore his pants below his butt. In fact they were so low, not only could he probably not run very fast, but his butt was showing. I didn’t need to see this at 830 am on a Monday, nor wanted to see this.

And this leads to me my next issue. Guys who wear their pants/jeans too low. I mean it’s one thing to try to look cool, but how does wearing your pants below your )( make you look cool? In my perspective it makes you look like a total idiot. 1. You can’t run very fast if your jeans are almost down your legs. 2. You are going to feel a draft and if you fart it’s going to be more powerful. This could be a good thing if you want to not attract people. 3. Are chicks going to want to talk to some guy with his pants halfway down his ass? They might think he is some tard who can’t put clothes on properly.

Come on guys, think about this next time you want to look “cool” and “awesome” no one wants to see your ass.

Let’s Read this in 3D

This whole 3D phenomenon is getting silly. People are a tad too excited with this whole 3D technology. They need to take a step back and evaluate what they are getting themselves into.

Right now a 3D television will cost a consumer well over 2k. The funny part about even buying one now is regardless of the price the consumer will still need to wear the 3D glasses. Okay let’s pause here for a second and evaluate this. In order to watch TV I need to wear some crappy 3D glasses? Really? So if a sports bar decides to invest in the same technology, they will need to hand out the same glasses to their customers? Or will they be forced to bring their own?

The same goes with movies. I am so sick of wearing these stupid glasses with every movie that comes out. Yeah at least they are free, but at what cost? Why not just develop the technology a step further and make it so the user does not need any glasses! How about that? Would that be so hard? If it is then how about we don’t release this yet..oh right money. It makes money right now so why go that extra step?

Well I hope one day the technology advances to the point where I don’t need to wear some glasses in order to view a 3D movie or television show.

Let’s All Dance in the Store

I went to the mall a few weeks ago and remembered this could be something worth QA’ing. Ten years ago going to the mall was a lot different from the way it is now. I am not referring to the fashion or the type of stores, but the music in the stores. I walked into one store and I noticed they had a DJ in the store.

Now I have no idea why a store would have a DJ. I mean I am not going to start dancing in the middle of the store bumping into the other customers or racks of clothes. Seriously why do stores now hire a DJ? Is the selection on the ipod or satellite radio not good enough that the manager says hey let’s hire a DJ to mix this music!

The best part is the fact that the DJ is trying to look cool while doing this in front of the store window. Someone needs to remind the DJ that this isn’t club Fabric, no one is going to start dancing at 1pm on a Sunday at a store in the shopping mall.

It’s sad and funny to see a store try so hard to draw in customers by hiring a DJ to play the same music I could hear without them mixing it (half the time they suck anyway).

Airplanes

So I found two critical bugs with airplanes. The first one is the lack of a chut. If a plane was falling wouldn’t it be cool to have a parachute with a mask? It could have a built in flotation device too! Hey it works better than a seat cushion.

The final bug is the bathroom. There is a sign that says no smoking yet another one below it that indicates to put your ashes in a ashtray. Yes there is an ashtray too. That’s it!

It’s time to fire the whale

So a whale at sea world killed a trainer in front of a live audience. It was his third killing. My question is why didn’t they fire the whale after the 1st killing? Usually after the 2nd one employers usually fire their employees right?

I bet if I killed someone at my job I’d get fired, so why was this whale allowed three strikes? My other QA observation is why have a show with a killer whale??

Let’s break up the words. There are two of them, whale and killer. Whale a large mammal that eats fish and is fat and I don’t mean fat like the kid in 5th grade who ate all your cookies everyday at lunch! Killer..ok this should throw up a red flag.

When this whale interviewed for the job his employer at sea world should’ve thought that through. “Hmmmm Bob I don’t think you’re a good fit for us here because you have the word killer in your name.”

People please stop making animals do tricks for your amusement before I put in a ticket to do the same to you. I wanna see that fat kid swim and jump through a hoop for a candy bar and a diet coke.

A Tiger Apologized to Me

So Tiger Woods apologized to me on Friday for cheating on his wife. I remember the three of us used to hang out and go clubbing all the time. We also used to bar hop and Tiger drunk, always used to demonstrate his power swing.

Oh wait none of this actually happened. So why did you apologize to me Tiger? I don’t know you nor care about your life. Why do celebrities apologize for what happened in their personal lives?

Everyone I apologize for making a blog where I QA the world. That is all.