30 Days

Last night I watched the premiere of 30 Days, a TV series by Morgan Spurlock from the famous (or is that infamous?!) documentary Super Size Me. The concept of the show is very similar to Super Size Me - the results of 30 day lifestyle experiment are recorded (and accompanied by a social commentary).

In the first episode, he took his fiancée to Columbus, Ohio and they lived on minimum wage for a month. With the underlying point of the show being that a minimum wage job ($5.15 / hour) is inadequate to support someone, yet alone a family. They actually found jobs that paid slightly more than minimum wage (~$7/h), but had a quite depressing life. Despite living in an ant-infested former crack house (apartment), they ended up earning less than they spent in the month. (Mostly because of ~$1000 in hospital bills - it's kind of hard to pay that off when you only make ~$44/day after taxes)...it makes me grateful to have grown up like I did and to have a decent job.

I think in future episodes other people will be the guinea pigs and Spurlock will just narrate.

Daredevil

You learn something new each day. Today, after watching Daredevil I learned that dull movies and action movies are not mutually exclusive.

Crazy Question

Sometimes living in a big city is an adventure. I was at the grocery store, minding my own business while selecting some peaches [Yay! Peaches are in finally season. :-)] when a guys walks over and asks How do you spelling 'kidding', as in 'just kidding'...I look up and realized he is busy text messaging on his phone. (But, I'm not sure if that reduces the strangeness of the brief conversation though).

What We Still Don't Know

The BBC has made a list of What we still don't know (in response to the identity of Deep Throat being revealed). It's an interesting idea to ponder. However, the list is somewhat British (and a few items are fickle, such as the HP6 reference).

What do you think they left out from their list? (I'd go with the alleged 1947 Roswell UFO crash...)

Long Weekend

It's nice to finally have a long weekend. Saturday I went hiking with Suor to Franklin Falls. Some photos are here. Yesterday I went to party at Kevin's and today I helped Nabeel move. (His couch was bigger than the elevator. We had to carry it up nine flights of stairs. That was an adventure to say the least)...Being so busy, I don't think the weekend was long enough!

Mount Rainier

Some photos from hiking through the snow at Paradise on Mount Rainier last weekend.