Why did they ever cancel Sports Night? That was a good show.
‘Twas a foggy day in the Alpine Village…
The past couple of days have been filled with home entertaining goodness, as my boss finally remembered to pick-up the first half of my entertainment center over in Traverse City. Finally migrating everything over at about one in the morning, though, I realized just how shabby the original wiring with this system was when I first hooked it up. Adding a game here or a component there, I’ve now got a literal spiderweb of cables, but fortunately I’m still over another hundred dollars away from dealing with that mess! My only gripe with my new stand is that currently the center channel to my stereo system is behind a pair of glass doors, but at least I don’t have to worry about waking up to find my TV in a pile on the floor after the stand collapsed after years and years of abuse…
I also took the opportunity to pick-up a new universal remote control while I was throwing money away, although I’ve never had too much luck with these things in the past. Hopefully this one will be a little better than the last, as it apparently has a new feature that allows it to learn old commands from my other remotes so I can actually put them away instead of keeping them handy for the one or two commands that didn’t carry over. Hell, for what I paid for the thing, it should get up by itself, walk over to the TV and push the buttons by hand when it can’t figure out what I want it to do! Ahh, the joys of being lazy…
They Fight Crime!
He’s a scarfaced coffee-fuelled sorceror moving from town to town, helping folk in trouble. She’s a sarcastic communist mechanic in the witness protection scheme. They fight crime!
He’s an all-American small-town matador gone bad. She’s a blind wisecracking Hell’s Angel on her way to prison for a murder she didn’t commit. They fight crime!
http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm
Eleven Random Things I’d Like to Do Before I Die…
1. Go SCUBA diving on the Great Barrier Reef
2. Play a round of golf with the Pope
3. Write an episode of The Simpsons
4. Have sex, preferrably with a girl…
5. Visit my new plot of land on the moon
6. Speak to an auditorium full of college students about something profound
7. Ride an elephant
8. Attend a taping of Late Night with Conan O’Brien
9. Fly to Paris for lunch, just to make fun of the waiter
10. Make a cameo appearance in a James Bond movie
11. Participate in a jam session with Keanu Reeves, Dave Barry, and Bermuda Schwartz
Some movies are best left without a sequel…
Well, I finally got around to watching The Matrix: Reloaded the other night and all I have to say is, *yawn*…
Mind you, I ended up watching a pirated copy off the ‘net because I’ve found it’s exceedingly difficult to find a theater that is open at 2:00 AM (and because I’m a gigantic nerd). The quality wasn’t top notch, so maybe that had something to do with my movie-going -staying experience, but it just didn’t strike me like this phenomenal piece of cinematography that it was made up to be. I thought that the original was great – it left a few things hanging, but still told an entire story – but now it seems like we’re just pushing this story along into the next sequel and it was really obvious, or at least I thought it was. The first one stood out because it was a milestone of its time, but they followed the exact same formula to make this one and I honestly think that they could’ve done better by just leaving it be and creating a whole new story. Of course, I’ll still probably buy the DVD when it comes out, at least for the special effects and whatnot, but you won’t catch me lining up three weeks before the opening for tickets to The Matrix: Revolutions, that’s for sure!
Not that you’d catch me lining up more than ten or fifteen minutes for any movie tickets. I’m told that I don’t have the proper wardrobe for it, anyways…
Free shipping, my ass… <note the comma>
I just made yet another attempt to order a new entertainment center for myself online, yet once again I’ve been officially thwarted by the powers that be. Buy.com had a really nice set that I liked, but by the time I was able to scrape together the money, their free shipping offer had ended and they wanted something like double the cost of the furniture itself to get it to my house. I then substituted a similar piece from BestBuy.com and had the order nearly completed when I was informed that this item wasn’t available for special delivery in my area…I would’ve been happy to settle for regular, old UPS delivery as long as it eventually showed up, but no – apparently everyone’s caught onto just how heavy all of this crap is and opted to put clauses in their “free shipping” offers to omit themselves from actually having to live up to it.
My next option would be to drive a little over an hour to go pick it up in person, but if I had the time to do that, I probably wouldn’t be shopping online in the first place, now would I???
…oops, I almost forgot this one, too…
I found this particular quiz after Chris raved on and on about it, although I kind of expected to do a little better than I actually did! I normally don’t fill out these silly quiz-thingies, but this one seemed to fit me all too well…
My end result was only “34.91124% – Total Geek.” Et tu, Brutus?
And now making a guest appearance…me!
I haven’t written here in nearly a week. Kind of a bummer, but I didn’t feel like writing here when I knew that I had other places that I was supposed to be writing…hell, that were willing to even give me money to do it, so rather than battle the guilt (ok, it wasn’t that bad…), I figured it’d just be easier to blow this one off for a while!
So this weekend’s been quite the eventful one so far…
The bulk of Friday afternoon was spent underneath my car in an attempt to save paying one of the local garages $60/hour to do fifteen minutes worth of work. Granted, it took me damn near three hours, and I do normally try to stay away from doing those types of repairs myself that can lead to the car actually catching on fire, but hey – sixty bucks is sixty bucks!
Saturday was spent sleeping, for the most part – partially from the sheer exhaustion of not getting enough sleep all week, and partially because certain events occurred (or didn’t occur, actually) which led me towards not wanting to ever get up again, and partially because I’m just plain lazy. Nonetheless, I did finally pry myself up out of bed and began playing catch-up again, which is something that I’ve been doing an awful lot of lately. I think I am getting much closer, however, to being nearly back to normal again, although I’m sure that just about the time that this happens, a whirl-wind will hit me and I’ll be lost once again, but what can you do? What can you do???
Even though technically it is Sunday now, I haven’t gone to bed from Saturday yet so as far as I’m concerned, it’s still Saturday night. I watched Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedian this evening, which turned out to be approximately one million times better than the “film” I watched last night! It’s basically a documentary about comedy and comedians and how to make it as a comedian, even though Jerry’s already pretty much made it. I did think it was interesting how he could go onstage and completely forget his bits, just standing there trying to think, and the crowd still roared with laughter, yet the lesser-known comedians would occasionally do the same thing and get boo-ed and jeered, yet Jerry still beat himself up about it backstage like he was getting jeered, too. Fame does funny things to people, I suppose, but it was still definitely worth 80 minutes of my time!
And now I shall return to slaving over a hot keyboard in search of the funny, but before I go…
I HATE cats, but somehow I still managed to find this quite amusing.
Tom Green is an idiot…
Freddy Got Fingered is on Cinemax right now and it’s quite possibly the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. Tom Green just bit through the umbilical cord of a newborn baby.
…but I can’t turn it off. Why can’t I turn it off?!
P.S. Britney’s still hot…
Britney’s Guide to Semiconductor Physics
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm