Track 9: Down with Zoobooks

So, disappointing loss for Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl yesterday. Congrats to the Iowa Hawkeyes for a good game.

Although, what I really want to talk about today is Zoobooks. I was just watching TV, and that old as dirt Zoobooks commercial came on. You know the one I'm talking about. This one.

Who even buys this anymore? Heck, they've been advertising getting the special elephant issue for as long as I can remember. I mean, this wasn't even that great of a present back in the day. But nowadays, these things are practically worthless. C'mon Grandma, instead of giving your grandchild essentially a pamphlet about an animal, why don't you give him or her access to the internet. That would be a much more worthwhile gift. Rather than learning a little bit about some generic animal, you can let them learn about animals like these (and a whole bunch more).

While I'm on the subject, can these fools that run the company make a new commercial at the very least? Please? I really don't enjoy feeling like I'm in the mid-90s again. People, it's the new millennium. Get with it. Thanks.

I can't possible imagine that this company is making money anymore; therefore, I feel as if I should put it out of its misery. My sole existence (other than blogging and aerospace engineering) is to bring about the ruination of this company.  I don't know how I'm going to do it, when I'm going to do it, or what I need to do it. Yet, it will get done. Who's with me?

Track 3: The Degradation

So get this. I'm at home watching college football and enjoying all of the bowl games. Then what do I see on come on the tv? An utter piece of garbage commercial. Now before I get too much further, it's an advertisement for skinit.com. This website specializes in making custom adhesive skins for a number of electronic gadgets such as video game consoles, phones, and computers. Just to be clear, I don't have any sort of problem with the business of this website.

But the commercial they've chosen to make?

Completely awful. It's a white guy singing with a vocoder (aka "The Auto-tune Effect") about all the different things that one can put a skin on through the website. What's even worse is the fact that whoever made this video actually won an open contest. And they still chose this...

First of all, Jay-Z might've been talking about another conspicuous fellow, but he said it best. "This is death of auto-tune. Moment of silence." Yes, I do realize that the fad of using auto-tune was very popular in its day. It was a nice change of pace within the music world. But did you just pay attention to what I said? In its day. This crap is dead. The fact that two-bit website companies are trying to milk money out of it, backs up this fact even more. Need I mention "Party in the USA"? Therefore. Stop. Using. Auto-tune.

That's it. That's all I have to say. You auto-tune users disgust me. Get out of my face.