I was inundated this morning with videos ranging from comical to ridiculous...I need to share...

• Office Space Wars: a fabulous parody of the movie Office Space done in a Star Wars setting (courtesy of BoingBoing)
• Idiot Rice Racers: a compilation of those moron tuner punks that you love to hate doing stupid things to their Honda Civics...yo (thanks Jared)
• Tank Rims: a parody of the all the Cadillac Escalade SUVs with 50 inch rims (thanks Jared)

So many commercials are just SO bad...that's why a site like The Spec Spot is such an interesting experiment. There have been sites like this in the past, but their names escape my memory and I don't think they are around anymore. The advertising industry should see The Spec Spot as a great service to them in that it allows visitors (regular Joes like you and me) to rate TV commercials. Now if I were a producer of commercials, which I'm not, I would use this site as a barometer to find out what people like and what they don't, in general, in the world of TV ads. Do you think the advertising industry will actually do that and start making better ads? Regardless, check out the site. There is some really funny stuff on there and the streaming seems to be VERY fast.

I asked my girlfriend Allison to marry me last night...and she said yes! Here's how it went down: when we first started dating (over two years ago) we worked for the same company. Needless to say it was highly taboo for me to be dating another employee. So we used to sneak out of the office together to "go get coffee" or for "lunch." We would go to this pretty little park in New Canaan called Waveny Park. It's essentially where our relationship started out. We still go for walks there regularly. So after last night's walk, as we were sitting by the Koi pond I popped the question. Total surprise was achieved.

We're both really excited to be engaged and we just wanted to thank everyone we know for all your support! There will be plenty more info to come.

-Josh & Allison

Earlier I posted about how I felt viewing the Nick Berg decapitation video. Now of course the conspiracy theorists are starting to talk about the murder of Nick Berg. Some of the arguments are compelling, others not so much. I'd just rather not think about it anymore...

1. Nick Berg's Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims, and Videotape Anomalies
2. Berg decapitation video was filmed inside the Abu Ghraib prison

My favorite show on TV these days, Chappelle' Show, recently did a hilarious skit on how different races enjoy different types of music. I couldn't agree with you more Dave. This idea touches my life very deeply. If you've read some of my previous postings I've mentioned that our apartment isn't conducive to having a dog. The reason it isn't conducive is two-fold. First, our font yard is an asphalt parking lot. Our back yard is a 2-foot-wide strip of asphalt connected to a fence topped off in barbed wire. In short, this is no neighborhood in which I want my girlfriend, or even me to be walking a dog, or anything else for that matter.

Secondly, my neighbors are Latino, and oh my do they love their music...at ALL hours of the day and night. When Guinness does come over to visit he gets all nervous and upset from the noise that constantly comes through the wall. The neighbors listen to, what I guess I will call Latin music, almost constantly. I guess it's Spanish language techno. While I'm sure it's "good" music from that genre, all we hear on this side of the wall is the constant thumping of bass. No words, no other instruments, just the constant and unbelievably annoying thumping of bass. The thing that boggles my mind is that there are really only two or three bass lines to ALL the songs they listen to. One song ends and the next one starts - I know that because it gets quiet for a second...but then it starts again...boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom, boom ba boom boom...over and over and over...

The Chappelle's Show skit hit home because, while my neighbors seem to enjoy this music a whole lot, it damn near drives me out of my skull. People often say things like "if he does that again I'm going to kill him." But, they don't actually mean that they are going to kill anyone. It's just a figure of speech. However, after hearing that awful, annoying thumping over and over at all hours of the day and night...I think I'm getting close to being able to actually kill someone. Sure, the police come out when we call and tell them to turn it down, but even turned down low I can still hear it. Sometimes I think I hear it when I'm not home. God, I hate it so damn much.

It's just funny how something one person takes absolute pleasure in can be another person's abject hell. But I guess the whole trick to living together as one human race is all about tolerance, right? Or maybe it's time to buy a serious stereo system and start cranking some Megadeth and Rollins back through the wall...