Starting from Scratch

I paid $5 to rent Righteous Kill from Blockbuster today with great enthusiasm and anticipation. After all, it was De Niro and Pacino, united for the first time since Heat. Half hour into the movie, it started to get stuck. I moved the movie forward and back with one result - frozen screen.

So I cleaned the DVD with a clean cloth to start with, with cleaning liquid 5 minutes later and was tempted to put it in the dishwasher for a hail mary, but then I noticed a thin line across the diameter of the disk. Urggh! Scratches!

So I started wondering if there was an innovative way to remove scratches from CDs and DVDs. I scratched my head for 10 mins and came up with this one.

The Banana CD scratch remover

What you’ll need:

• A banana
• A banana peel - you will get this as a result of peeling the banana - wow! how insightful
  
• Some glass cleaner

1. Take a CD / DVD that has smudges and minor scratches on it. Better still if it is rented from BB and you were as frustrated as I was.
   
2. Using a circular motion, apply a freshly cut banana to it.
3. Next, wipe it down with the banana peel. The wax from the peel will help polish and further clean the disk.
4. Take a clean cotton cloth and wipe the entire surface of the CD / DVD. Be sure to apply moderate pressure while moving in a circular motion. This should be done for around 3 to 4 minutes.
5. Finally, spray the disc with glass cleaner and wipe it clean.

Voilà! Your scratched CD or DVD should now look like new! Please note that this trick will also help you repair scratched PS2 and Xbox CD’s and DVD’s.

Let me know if it works for you!

Michael Jackson Dead

5:32 Pm. WSJ alert! I thought the market lost 400 points. Instead I found out the world has lost MJ.
I suspected OD; the article said cardiac arrest. Well, I might still be right.

Anyways, however mixed up or eccentric this man child was, we've lost an incredible entertainer/musical genius. One, that in my opinion ranks up there with the likes of the Beatles and Elvis. I find the news of MJ's sudden death very sad and disturbing. I grew up with his music. There isn't a Michael Jackson song that I hear that doesn't remind me of a certain time of my life. And I'm sure that goes for many.

I don't know if he was a creepy pedophile, maybe he was just a perpetual little boy trapped in a man's body, who never ever got to live his childhood as a boy and was desperately trying to. A naivety of sorts. A true Peter Pan who was severely misunderstood and tortured in his own mind.

He certainly touched the lives of millions of children, metaphorically, I mean. He will forever be remembered for his music and the moonwalk.

R.I.P. Michael, you are missed.....................