Darius March

Yesterday a video made the rounds of Ashton Kutcher of MTV Punk'd fame complaining about early morning construction noise. Here's the vid:

Sound familiar? Well if you've been keeping tabs on my YouTube output, you would have seen this video from June:

And if you read the vid comment, you get a sense that *everyone* has been there...

In Ashton's video, he mentions enduring four months of construction, and seems peeved about being woken up at 7:30am. I don't know what the noise ordinance is wherever he is [sunny California?, perhaps?], but, as I mentioned in the vid, it's 8:00am in central Illinois. My main reason for the complaint was that I got no respite from the noise, as the crew would work early saturdays, and the homeowner family would do a lot of work themselves early Sundays, too. So it was non-stop for many months :(

Ashton seemed indignant in his video, but later apologized for his tirade, and even mentioned that this neighbor put up with his construction previously. So, with this little side-by-side, we may see that construction noise may be a necessary evil, but I'd like to think I handled myself a little better than the actor. The neighbor also brought this construction upon himself to improve his livelihood, and has likely displaced him to at least a while. Still, no reason for personal threats to be thrown into the equation here.

~dm

So this is what I look like in my new glasses:

And avid followers may make note of a recent (on the better side of two and a half weeks) haircut I am sporting. Luckily, I did not notice any grey hairs falling from the barber's knife this time. Look out for the glasses and haircut to make appearances in the upcoming youtubes we have planned.

So, yeah, let me know what you think, although no need to mention my reluctant smile in the above photo. It was a little late in the evening, and the 8+ hours of debugging had had their toll on my willingness to cooperate with the camera. Amazing how the wits and patience may be threadbare, but the frazzling has only affected the hairline, and not hue.

~dm