American Idol vs. President nonsense

This is just pure nonsense. All these articles on the internet and on the news saying that Americans think American Idol is more important than the Presidency. Articles like this and this, spin the truth about the numbers. They all claim that 63.5 million votes for American Idol is more than the Presidency. But they fail to mention two very important aspects of the voting.

1. People can vote more than once for American Idol. Do you really think that 13 year old girl only voted once for Taylor? Or that 13 year old boy only once for Kat? Get real. There are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people that voted more than once. That brings that 63.5 million number down really fast.
2. The most votes in a Presidential general election was 62 million...for one of the candidates! Yep, you guessed it, George W in 2004. But what about all those other votes for the other candidate, ol' whats-his-name? Do those votes count? Didn't those people care enough to go vote too? Can't we count them when we're comparing Presidential votes to AI votes?

It's the same damn liberal media spinning the facts to scare Americans into thinking our country is going down the toilet, when in fact they have created the toilet to begin with.

Check out the real numbers here

Why I hate 24x7x365

I can't take it anymore. I can't stand when people say "twenty four seven three sixty five." This doesn't make any sense. Each unit is building upon the preceeding unit, so by saying those 6 little words, what you are really saying is "twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred sixty five weeks a WHAT?!?!". "Twenty four seven" should be sufficient. And "twenty four seven fifty two" would also be ok. And I'll even go with "twenty four three sixty five." But please stop saying 24-7-365.

Are any search engines crawling my website?

Would any other webpage have these words on it?

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Today's rant – Interrupting conversations

I hate it when people interrupt conversations. Now I’m not talking about a third party stepping up and making his way in between you and whomever you are talking to (that’s for a different day). I am referring to people that decide one form of communication is more important than another. Usually this comes in the form of a phone call, whether land line or cell phone. Since when is it ok to put a person on hold that is standing face to face with you, in order to take a phone call? Would you expect me to hang up on someone just because you walked up to talk to me? So then why would you “hang up” our conversation to take a cell phone call? Is there some formal order of importance with different forms of communication? Maybe the order is phone, email, IM, SMS and then finally in-person. Trust me, if they wanted to talk to you, they’ll call back. And on the flip-side, stop taking it so personally when someone doesn’t accept your precious phone call, they’re probably in a face-to-face with someone just as important as you.