January 19th, 2007
So Cute It Makes Me Sick
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.
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January 16th, 2007
Emo Is Killing Me
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.
January 16th, 2007
Idiocracy
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.
January 16th, 2007
What I Learned From 24
- LA is really dangerous place to live, all the terrorists hang out here.
- Any place in Southern California can be reached in less than an hour and there is never any traffic.
- If you ever get into trouble demand a Presidential Pardon, they grow on trees and the President hands them out like candy.
- The President is super involved in every counter-terrorist action, he will direct individual field personnel as needed.
- Counter-terrorist agents are really hot.
- Don’t worry about being tortured, beaten up, or maimed in some horrible way, you’ll bounce right back in about an hour.
- If you’ve been imprisoned and tortured for two years, all you need is a shave and change of clothes to get right back into action.
- US government agencies are super wired, every piece of technology works seamlessly together, every office has a flat panel with super awesome graphics, and PDAs are more powerful than any laptop or desktop I can think of.
- If you’re a computer whiz, you can say whatever obnoxious thing that comes to your mind and get away with it.
- Trust no one, there are conspiracies everywhere and everyone is out to get you. If you’re the President, make sure you hire a Chief of Staff you don’t trust.
- The HQ of counter-terrorism is the least secured place on the planet, its constantly being infiltrated by enemy agents and blown up.
- Years may pass between major terrorist incidents (seasons), but you’ll only look like you’ve aged one year (I think Jack Bauer should have aged 50 years by now).
- When you are busy chasing terrorists, you don’t need to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom.
- A major family crisis will take place on the same day you are fighting terrorists. Watch out for your hot, blond, teenage daughter, she’s probably dating some lowlife that will lead you to the terrorist leader.
- Most of all, act first and beg for forgiveness later, because you will always be right.
- One last thing, don’t hang out with some dude named Jack Bauer, you’ll end up dead.
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.
January 10th, 2007
I’m A Total Geek
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.
January 10th, 2007
The Great PS3 Shortage of 2006
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.
January 9th, 2007
What I Want For The Next 5 Xmas and Bdays
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.
December 17th, 2006
Miles and Milo On MySpace
The cats snuck onto the computer last night and started up a MySpace page! Not sure what they plan to do with it. Looks like there are a lot of other cats on there as well. Don’t know how they got past the age verification since they are only 1.5 years old.
August 31st, 2006
DVR Fall Cleaning
Every year around this time when the new TV season starts I have to go through my DVR (used to be Tivo, now on Comcast/Time Warner DVR) and remove all the shows that got cancelled. Since I don’t really keep up with the cancellations its always a bit of a surprise to learn which shows didn’t make it to the new season. I usually comb through my show list and look them up on tv.com to get their status. This year’s victims were:
Stacked, okay lame Pamela Anderson show, but was sorta amusing
Teen Titans, I really like this anime-inspired cartoon
Justice League, with the Teen Titans also cancelled, where am I gonna get my super hero fix?
E-Ring, this one I saw coming, too “rah, rah, rah, the American military can do no wrong”, good thing The Unit came along to take its place.
Living with Fran, really like Fran Drescher, looks not enough people watched the show
Alias, I knew the series ended, just couldn’t bring myself to removing the show from the DVR
West Wing, at least the series ended with a pretty good season
Stargate SG-1, Sci Fi channel recently announced that the current season will be the last, ack, I’ll probably forget and be in shock next Fall cleaning
On the bright side, Battlestar Galactica will be back and there will a special to recap season 1 and 2 shown before the new season starts. Here’s part of the press release with dates and times for the special:
Aug. 9, 2006: — Catch Up With the Battlestar Story
Watch a refresher before season three of Battlestar Galactica begins Friday, Oct. 6, at 9/8C. SCI FI is presenting a story-recap special called Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far. The one-hour show is narrated by Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), the Secretary of Education turned President turned resistance leader on Cylon-occupied New Caprica. Learn about humanity’s costly struggle to survive against its deadliest enemy.
The special will be available on SCI FI Pulse during the entire month of September, and it will air at various times and on numerous NBC Universal channels.
The special will be broadcast as follows:
Date and Time Network
Monday, Aug. 28 Free On Demand via SCI FI’s cable affiliates
Friday, Sept. 15, at Midnight/11C USA Network
Sunday, Sept. 17, at 7/6C Universal HD
Monday, Sept. 18, at 9AM/8C USA Network
Friday, Sept. 22, at 6/5C Sleuth
Friday, Sept. 22, at 8/7C Universal HD
Friday, Sept. 29, at 7/6C Bravo
Saturday, Sept. 30, at 11AM/10C Bravo
Saturday, Sept. 30, at 4/3C Universal HD
Friday, Oct. 6, at 7/6C SCI FI
August 21st, 2006
Jailbreak!!
Over the weekend, Miles and Milo conspired to break out of the house for some fun outside. They took off at 11:30 pm and since they are nearly black I really couldn’t see where they went. Luckily, they came back meowing at the back door around 3 am. In my worried state I imaged a comic strip to describe the jailbreak (amazing what you can do with Powerpoint). Click on the picture for a bigger version.
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