I hate football, but I’ve been watching the ads on Hulu as they’re posted. Here are my favorites:

Pepsi Max: “I’m Good”

Everyone loves to see someone get hurt. It’s not right but sometimes it’s FUNNY! This Pepsi Max ad combines injuries much more serious than what we normally experience in our day-to-day life with the fast paced, one after another, “cominatcha” technique to make for something quite entertaining. Here’s the ad.

Pepsi: “Refresh Anthem”

This is one of those more serious ads that strikes me. In this spot, comparisons are made between then and now. With “change” being the word of the era, this sits well.

CareerBuilder.com: “Tips”

This ad uses the same fast paced delivery of comical segments as the Pepsi Max spot. The koala part made for a good punch line.

I know, I’m sorry. Bad pun. Dariush would be proud.

Honorable mention- Priceline: “Negotiator”

Uh… kudos to that Asian dude who nailed talking like Bill Shatner.

And that’s it, my friends.

Tickets are $10 apiece and it’s at the Gorilla Tango theatre in Chicago. I’m seriously thinking about going.

M-m-mouse is outta wack

I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me man
I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me

Come to yo’ house
They wire up ya car
Tune up jobs, replace yo’ motherboard
If you ain’t got no sound, it keeps shuttin’ down
If you ain’t got no sound, it keeps shuttin’ down

I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me

Been hacked? Just relax, they’ll fix ya blue screen
Router, hubs, IP, get ‘em mega mega clean
Call ‘em on the cellular if ya got Windows ME
Can fix anything, even Token Ring

If the popups ’bout to make you go insane
Give a ring, get your Wi-Fi to extra far range
Printer tools, backup tools, even make your web page
yoursite.com, it’ll be all the rage

Corrupt database? Let’s take a look
We’ll give you the services off the hook
Just call 215-4290
‘Cause man, Windows 95 has got to go

(break)

I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me man
I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me

Come to yo’ house
They wire up ya car
Tune up jobs, replace yo’ motherboard
If you ain’t got no sound, it keeps shuttin’ down
If you ain’t got no sound, it keeps shuttin’ down

PWNED. And she’s still in high school.

This new budget doesn’t cut funds for Medicaid, KCHIP, or K-12 education in the commonwealth. A sacrifice must be made if you don’t want to pay more in taxes. And if Steve Beshear wants to have any hope of re-election in 2011, he cannot raise taxes. The man was handed a mess in Frankfort and he’s trying to clean it up. We must have faith in him to do his best.

I’m sorry I refuse to celebrate your holiday. I’m not even sure why you have your own holiday or how you even came to symbolize love, but I’m not buying into it. Once again this year, I have managed to save a lot of money — not by switching my car insurance, mainly because I’m happy with who provides my current insurance, but there’s also my personal opinion that a cute animated reptile with a British accent trying to sell me car insurance HAS to be up to no good. The point is, I have more money in my pocket since for the 20th year in a row, I don’t have an SO clinging to me, demanding something I’m probably too broke to buy anyway. The ‘comony is in such a state that I’m happy to be on my own.

I understand your urgency, St. Valentine, whoever you are. You know your holiday is dying out in the ranks of people like me. Just yesterday, Pew Research said they had found that 38% of singles age 18-29 say they’re single and NOT looking. We’re catching on. And your mushy tactics won’t work anymore.

Do you want to know what I did for your holiday today, St. Valentine? (Whoever you are?) I woke up at 5 in the morning, worked my overnight job, ate breakfast, took a shower, went to my day job, ate lunch, went back to my day job, ate lunch again, worked from home for a bit, went BACK to my day job (by this time it was night), came home, and went to bed. I slept for two hours and then felt the need to tell you how alive I still am even after flatly refusing to acknowledge your holiday’s existence.

In conclusion, St. Valentine, whoever you are, I do not need your stupid holiday. Were I to have a girlfriend I would STILL not need your stupid holiday. Who needs a certain day set aside to show affection to your sweetheart? Should we not do it every other day anyway? I’m not seeing the necessity here. I say we should shave this excess off our society and go on with our lives, single or not. Expect a letter and status report from me next year.

Mild regards,

Me.

Edit: I’ve found the general meaning in the description of another YouTube post of the same ad. “10 Kung-Fu-Fighting-Ants, representing the downlink in a traditional ADSL broadband connection, are shown ganging up on a single helpless Ant, who represents the weaker uplink, demonstrating how traditional ADSL services typically offers uplink bandwidth that is only a 10th of the downlink capacity.”

“Barbara Walters… I’m gonna kill that bitch.”
–Nick Moorman