Well good evening gang. Again, as I said this morning we really need some new posts for tomorrow. So put on your thinking caps. Here’s a little music to inspire you. Continue reading
Daily Archives: August 15, 2011
10 posts
More sex on your teevee — well, you asked for it. The return of an SNL icon, or maybe just some guy who freezes under the spell of Kanye West. Johnny Depp won’t be eating beans by a fire, romantic comedies need more ice cream, what you won’t be watching next year, and action stars don’t age… they ripen. Mostly.
You love Hollywood dish more than your shoes.
If you were waiting for an affordable tablet to hit the market in the US, this may be your time. Acer’s new Iconia Tab A100 is now on sale and starting price is $330 (or slightly more from Amazon
[Android 3.2 ACER Iconia Tab A100 – tgdaily.com]
You know what? There’s no point in hiding the spoilers under a cut, because this movie deserves to be spoiled. Anyway, in case you haven’t seen this, click at ya own risk.
Yes, friends and neighbors, I saw Gamer, the Gerard Butler vehicle from 2009 that was all science fictiony and go-fast-and-blow-up-goodness in the trailer, and then a whole lot of “I wonder how many of these actors needed to make a mortgage payment?” in the actual viewing of the movie.
The premise is simple. In the near future, a crazy technology genius played by Dexter from HBO land invents some kind of nano technology that is injected into people, and it clones their brain cells and replaces them, with the twist that the new brain cells can send and receive information over an IP network. Continue reading
As some of you know, I recently started working at a doggy day care. It’s not that I just can’t get enough of other people’s dogs (I can and I have), but mama’s got to keep the lights on. Continue reading
When I forked over the $205 to Amazon for the Hauppauge HDPVR high definition television to PC recorder, I thought two things: “I hope it’s worth it” and “How the hell do you pronounce Hauppauge?” I found out the answer to both questions this week when my recorder died after 22 months of otherwise perfect operation.
Before Crasstalk came along, I spent most of my free time working on MythTV. I don’t care for the DVR service that the cable providers are offering. The monthly fees are a part of it, but that the menus on those provider DVR units are also full of ads is unacceptable. There are already ads during the content, product placement ads in the actual shows, they even shove ads in with my monthly billing statement. MythTV is partially an act of defiance on my part. I want at least some control over the content stream coming into my home. Continue reading
Here is a new, hopefully weekly, segment where we discuss a poet and some of their work.
This week’s poet is one of my favorites, Ted Kooser.
Background:
Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa in 1939. He earned a B.A. from Iowa State University in 1962 and an M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska in 1968. For most of his life he worked as an insurance executive in Lincoln, Nebraska and would get up early to write poetry before going to work. He is now retired, and lives near the village of Garland, Nebraska with his wife Kathleen Rutledge.
Well happy Monday. Here’s the headlines that will have you hoarding canned goods and buying ammo. Continue reading
Didja ever have some people exit your life, and you ended up wondering about them years later? People who don’t leave a huge digital footprint on myspace and linkedin and orkut and facebook, and yet you get curious about what the hey happened to them?
I had some friends two houses down when I was a little kidling, and I really loved spending time with them. Their parents had really tricked out their house, and what they managed to do with seventies technology was pretty impressive to a first-grade me. Their mom would feed us white bread, yellow mustard and baloney sandwiches for lunch, something that was verboten in my house – my mom was perpetually on a diet and fed us roasted turkey deli meat on dry high-fiber bread that had wood cellulose in it. Sawdust bread. Yeah. Continue reading
I’m back, bitches. Time to put your pants back on (not you BR and Rhino, you guys are fine), and start behaving again. Well, sort of. Our Beloved Leader is taking his vacation this weekend, so if you need something please contact me or Uncle Dogs for assistance. Also, we really need some posts for this week, any help would be appreciated. Let’s kick this bitch off! Continue reading