Archive for December, 2007
Dad’s a scumbag, and Mom is in denial
I haven’t been posting this past week because I’ve been in Idaho visiting my Mom. It’s not that Idaho doesn’t have Internet connectivity, it’s just my Mom doesn’t. So now I’m at the Boise airport, waiting on my delayed flight out thru Chicago.
The holiday season is not always a happy one for my […]
CompUSA is managing to screw up their going-out-of-business sale
It’s becoming oh-so-clear why CompUSA is going out of business in the first place — they don’t know how to handle a sale. I mean really, they’re going out of business right during the height of the consumer orgy known as Christmas. Meaning their competitors like Best Buy, the guys who beat them […]
Gorilla playing drums to “In the air tonight”
Okay I’m late to this party, based on the fact that the video has already received well over a million views. But I don’t really get to YouTube on a regular basis. In fact I would never probably have heard about this clip except that they were talking about it on NPR as I was […]
New Harrier jump-jet coming
One of the best things to come out of Britain the past few decades (beside the Spice Girls), was the ultra-cool Harrier jump-jet. It was so bad-ass to see one of those things making a vertical landing just like a helicopter.
Well the new version, a variant of the F-35 stealth fighter, is finally rolling off […]
Peter Jackson to make two-movie version of “The Hobbit”
Our long national nightmare is over — New Line and director Peter Jackson have buried the hatchet in their royalties disput over The Lord of the Rings. Meaning they can now get down to business and film Tolkein’s pre-LOTR book, The Hobbit.
I wonder if they’ll be able to line up Ian McKellan to reprise his role […]
Why would anybody still want to hire Bobby Petrino?
Bobby Petrino has now burned more bridges than the Allies and Nazis combined during World War II. And yet still somebody wants to hire him. Not just hire him, Arkansas enthusiastically embraced him with a multi-million-dollar contract.
Why would anybody want him given these last two years? He says he wants to stay at Louisville then he […]
Humans evolving more quickly, when do we get the mutant powers?
Scientists say that humans are evolving more quickly now than ever before in human history. I say those scientists need to focus on ways to speed up evolution. Because I’m tired of waiting on those mutant powers to evolve.
I want super-human strength and I want it now. Or maybe the power to control magnetism, that […]
Farewell, CompUSA
I’m going to miss CompUSA. The chain got sold to a company that plans to liquidate the retail stores while also trying to sell off related buisnesses like the CompUSA.com e-commerce site.
It’s not like CompUSA was ever my first choice for buying computers and electronics. But what I liked was their location — the Louisville […]
One Man Star Wars was just hilarious
The Kentucky Center had two events going on last night — the preview night for “Nutcracker Suite”, and Charlie Ross doing his “One Man Star Wars” show. I’m thinking those of us who saw the Charile Ross show had the better time and better use of our entertainment dollar. Because you can rent Nutcracker Suite […]
Monday Night Football finally draws bigger audience than High School Musical 2
High School Musical 2 this past August had set the benchmark for highest viewership of any cable programming. Until finally this past Monday, ESPN managed to break that mark but only just. They got 17.5 million viewers for the Patriots-Ravens game, while High School Musical 2’s mark was 250,000 less.
There was a time though when […]