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I’ve re-organized the template for my blog and added a music player to the right. I really should just re-do this website in modern HTML, the code is so late 90s. I’m still hand coding this thing! Anyway, the music player will stream some tunes from my collection and I hope to keep it updated with new songs that I find. It might take a few moments for the songs to stream, so be patient, this is running off my poor 7 year old “home server”.
There’s a LA Times article claiming that Rage Against the Machine will reunite and play the next Coachella Music Festival. Hope this one isn’t a bad rumor!
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Holy cow, Monday nights are gonna be crazy for the next few months! Prison Break, 24, Heroes, and Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip are all playing on the same night. Good thing I have a DVR that can record two channels at once! I only wish I had one more tuner so I can record The New Adventures Of Old Christine as well, but oh well, there are other ways to get the show ;). With Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Jericho and the two Stargate shows coming back as well (hopefully The 4400 also comes back), I’m not sure how I’ll keep up with all these shows, my Netflix movies, net-based videos, and play my backlog of video games. I really need 28 hours in a day.
Here’s a whole website devoted to sickening super cute pictures of bunnies, kitties and puppies. I think I need to stab my eyes with a dull rusty knife now.
I can’t listen to the radio anymore. This emo stuff is killing me. Can’t stand the superficial moaning about how hard life is from a much spoiled suburban kids. Plus the singing gets to me. The singers pretty scream throughout the song, so when they need to kick up a notch, they have choice but to go into shred voice mode (screaming beyond screaming). Sounds like the Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes hopped up on too many drugs or a pack of jaguars and cougars being run over by a freight train. Maybe I’m just getting too old, the kids seem to eat up this crap. Hopefully, like all trends these days, this one will be over in 6 months.
This has got to be one of the most absurdly funny movies I’ve seen in a long time. From the mind of Mike Judge, the guy responsible for Beavis and Butt-Head, Office Space, and King of the Hill comes a cautionary tale of what happens when society continues to dumb-down and only the dumb people reproduce. The main character is played by Luke Wilson who is selected for an Army experiment in 2005 because of his average intelligence. The experiment goes bad and he wakes up in 2505 to become the smartest guy on the planet. Hilarity ensues as he tries to find a time machine to get back to the past. Anyway, this movie is out on DVD now, go check it out.
Okay, so I’m getting a little restless with the formula that 24 has follow into. The producers hinted that the new season would take the show in a new direction, but 4 hours into it, it looks like they are hanging onto all the old conventions.
So I watched this video of a guy upgrading the firmware on his PSP and I enjoyed it. Now I have to accept that I’m a total geek. I have a PSP and instead of playing games on it, I play around with firmware installs just like the one in the video! Warning: just watch a few seconds of the video and you’ll get the idea, if you watch the whole thing your head may explode.
Gather around children and let me tell you about the great PS3 shortage of 2006. You see back in the day before PS10s appeared out of the matter transmitter doo-hickey, people actually had to leave the house and go to the store to buy things. Shocking? Yes, its true I tell you. There was a great shortage in the stores and people lined up for days in the freezing cold just to get a chance to buy the PS3. There were riots, people were mugged, and people spent their life’s fortunes to buy them on eBay. Yup you had to use a computer to buy things on the internet in those days, the Google-mite brain chip hadn’t been invented yet. Just when things couldn’t get any worse a great miracle occurred, firmware updates were released, scalpers began returning the PS3s to the stores, the great PS3 airlifts took hold, and the machines began flowing like rivers of gold. All rejoiced and things were right with world until the fateful day that sparked the Xbox 360 - PS3 - Wii Wars ……….
All kidding aside, yesterday I was able to walk into a Circuit City and pick up a PS3 with no hassles. I was expecting lights to off, confetti to be thrown and dancing girls to come out when I asked for it at the counter. But instead the guy sorta shrugged and slouched into the back room to get one for me. Guess the excitement is over now.
Holy cow, I haven’t been this excited about a product announcement in years. I got to get my hands on the iPhone. Its does everything I’d expect a mobile device (don’t call it a phone) to do. WiFi, music player, web browser, camera, video, plus its all running on Mac OS X! The interface and touch screen is beyond cool. Don’t take my word for it check out Apple’s website. Who ever can get this for me at launch is excused from buying me xmas and birthday presents for the rest of my life. My RAZR is so dead to me now.