The Blanket Fort

Spotted on Craigslist.org

Let us frolic in my totally dope blanket fort

Yes, I know what you’re saying, “dude, that blanket fort sucks.” That would not be the first time I’ve heard such short-sighted criticism. Its structural integrity is dubious at best and there isn’t a whole lot of headroom. But c’mon, it’s not like I’m a freakin’ architect or anything. Besides, this little baby is just a prototype. I have vast resources of cushions for anchoring and blankets in order to maximize square footage. My living room is just waiting to be turned into a totally sweet labyrinth of love.

I am very open to suggestions in respect to design and construction, as I’d like this fort to be a shared vision. Much like the Taj Mahal, its intended that this little beauty will be inspired by a very special lady. Once our shelter is erected, we can move in and work on some of our higher order needs. Or we could just order a pizza and tell ghost stories. Please email me with a picture if you want to be invited to this living room party. It will be sweet.

PS: I’m allowed to have sleepovers.

Goodbye DVD.. We Hardly Knew Ye..

I've been telling my customers that they only need their home-made DVD to last another 3 to 4 years before the prices of flash memory make DVD's obsolete... I forgot about Moore....

This little white rectangular sucker stores 2 Gigabytes (half of what a DVD holds) and is selling for $20.95... In 18 months... bingo... $9.95 for a drive that rivals DVD, that doesn't get scratched, although might get swallowed by the damn dog...

TiVo Rolls Out Video and Photo Sharing Service

Now I can FINALLY rules the airwaves,... bwa ha ha ha ha!!! I can create scads of useless, silly one video per week of something interesting to me and my non-existent growing loyal audience, and put it out there. You can receive the content on your TIVO. If you want all the stuff I create, you can get a SEASON PASS to my content.. Please don't ask for disc two of Girls Gone Wild, I'm not quite... done with it.

Click HERE for the FULL SCOOP on sharing photos and video with Tivo simplicity,

Peyton Manning United Way Video- Sat. Nite Live Style

Very Funny Clip from the recent show...
Incidentally, my long-time client RAINN WILSON, hosts SNL this weekend..

Remote Controlled FULL SIZE Car

Battlestar Galactica: Peabody Award Winner

Surfing the web this morning, I discovered, that in 2005, Sci-fi TV show Battlestar Galactica won a Peabody Award, further fueling my desire to get caught up with the series.. I'm on episode 6. The show is probably airing it's oh, 55th or so this week..
How prestigious, I thought... The PEABODY... Then, I did a quick peek to see what other TV has reached such rarified air..... um............... The air ain't so rare...

SOUTHPARK
BERNIE (Freakin' )MAC
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE
DEADWOOD
HOUSE
DORA THE EXPLORER
THE WIRE
THE OFFICE (BBC VERSION)
BOOMTOWN
SIX FEET UNDER
BLUES CLUES
BAND OF BROTHERS

THE SIMPSONS
THE X-FILES
LA LAW
FRASIER
MAD ABOUT YOU
THE WEST WING
THE DAILY SHOW
THE SOPRANOS
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS
dozens of others.....
(Including just about every David E. Kelley show that ever aired... He must bribe them..)
Ally McBeal, Boston Public, The Practice, Boston Legal )

It's time for a new award to really separate the wheat from the chaff...

Touchscreen Tablet For Your Laptop or LCD

I've kinda been waiting for something like this for awhile... Turn any PC screen into a touch screen kiosk- kinda thing... for only $130... Now I can tell my clients to just fill out what they want on a PC screen at the front of the store whilst I keep playing Donkey Kong evaluate their master disc for scratches and playback issues..
"Just attaching it on LCD monitor frame and connecting it to USB port, you can enjoy tablet functionality on your laptop monitor." (Via scifitech.com)

Help Fight Alzheimers with your PC

If you leave your PC running for hours at a time unattended, either intentionally or forgetfully, ease your conscience a little by downloading FOLDING AT HOME,
a software app that waits till it sees no activity on your PC for a few minutes, then says, "Hey? Mind if I borrow your brain to run scientific calculations on enzymes and other scientific stuff, so you can avoid having your brain turn to swiss cheese in ten years?"

Weird Combo: Soccer Ball & Batteries

From this packaging, one could assume that Duracell sponsors some variety of soccer somewhere in the world and that nothing special is going on. OR, one could instead assume that soccer balls have required batteries all this time and that's why I've always sucked at soccer.. (via Gizmodo)

Ten Best VIEWER's CHOICE Movies of 2006

From Rotten Tomatoes.com, a clearinghouse of critical reviews and audience polls, comes this list of the Ten Best:
10. Borat: Cultural....
9. Cars
8. United 93
7. V for Vendetta
6. Thank You For Smoking
5. Children of Men
4. The Prestige
3. Casino Royale
2. Little Miss Sunshine
1. The Departed

I've seen #'s 9,6 and 2..... I guess I'll have to change my Netflix Queue around......
Personally, I fell asleep to #6.... tedious.... not funny in the least. I'm surprised by a Bond Film at #3.... Apparently, they've remembered how to make a great Bond movie again. Already wrote loving mention of #2... The ending is PRICELESS..

They also have a list of the 100 WORST OF ALL TIME worth checking out..

The Debate Is Indeed Over: It's Not OUR Fault

Realclimate.com is a liberal-leaning site, to say the least. It had an announcement about a 3 on 3 debate to be broadcast on radio and the web. It happened today. They polled the audience as they entered the facility on their beliefs.

All the watermelons (Green on outside, red on inside) were bragging about how they would annihilate us deniers... They even wondered amonsgst themselves if they should EVEN BOTHER giving deniers any attention at all, as the Gorrifier has already declared the issue settled.

From their website:

The proposition was: "Global Warming Is Not a Crisis." In a vote before the debate, about 30 percent of the audience agreed with the motion, while 57 percent were against and 13 percent undecided. The debate seemed to affect a number of people:

Afterward, about 46 percent agreed with the motion, roughly 42 percent were opposed and about 12 percent were undecided. The debaters included among others, Michael Crichton, Exec. Producer of ER and Jurassic Park and major novelist. If you care to hear any of it as a PODCAST, CLICK HERE.
So, 17 percent of the audience saw the light, and switched sides......
And the MAJORITY left the room feeling much better about our little globe.

Happy Birthday Steven!

12 years ago today, the best day of my life happened.
Steven Alexander joined us at 12:30 am

We celebrated with a Cinnabon n' hot chocolate in bed
We got him a portable DVD player
He also got a couple of (what else?) Playstation Games.
He is learning how to fly a little remote control helicopter.
We are going to dinner now at Yamato,, (Like Benihana)

Dinner At Yamato, with Jan, Esther, Nyree, Daniel, Sona and the Birthday Boy.

Who's Responsible For Jihad? Greeley Colorado!

Before Sayyid Qutb became a leading theorist of violent jihad, he was a little-known Egyptian writer sojourning in the United States, where he attended a school later to be named Univ. of Northern Colorado, in Greeley.

Greeley, circa 1950 was the last place one might think to look for signs of American decadence. Its wide streets were dotted with churches, and there wasn’t a bar in the whole temperate town. But the courtly Qutb (COO-tub) saw things that others did not. He seethed at the brutishness of the people around him: the way they salted their watermelon and drank their tea unsweetened and watered their lawns. He found the muscular football players appalling and despaired of finding a barber who could give a proper haircut. As for the music: “The American’s enjoyment of jazz does not fully begin until he couples it with singing like crude screaming,” Qutb wrote when he returned to Egypt. “It is this music that the savage bushmen created to satisfy their primitive desires.”

Such grumbling by an unhappy crank would be almost comical but for one fact: a direct line of influence runs from Sayyid Qutb to Osama bin Laden, and to bin Laden’s Egyptian partner in terror, Ayman al-Zawahiri. From them, the line continues to another quietly seething Egyptian sojourning in the United States—the 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.

Now, THAT'S Nature!

Canyon Skywalk Makes Me Want To Hurl

It doesn't officially open till the 28th of March, but a few lucky visitors hapless rubes got an early glimpse of the Grand Canyon's Glass Skywalk. The see-through sidewalk juts out 70-feet over the cliff's edge and the only things standing between you and the 4,000-foot chasm below are a lot of steel and 4-inch thick tempered glass. The glass plank can hold up to 800 people (each weighing 175 lbs). I'm pretty chicken when it comes to heights, but this is something I'd totally do, skip especially after seeing the video . $25 for admission, and the right to say you've been on the most disgusting, crass money grab by the so-called stewards of our environment, the American Indian. This picture should be in the dictionary under the word IRONY. If you really want to see NATURE's HARMONY WITH MAN,
Click Here.

Talking Dennis Miller/Ann Coulter Dolls

I've got yet another reason to live:
DENNIS MILLER is back on the air, this time DAILY, on talk-radio!!
He'll be on 6-9 pm on KRLA 870 Los Angeles where I am, and on KNUS in Denver..
In his first ever radio show, five-time Emmy award winner and four-time Writers’ Guild award winner, Dennis Miller will be taking listener calls, as well as interviewing high-profile special guests.

If you can't wait till then, check out THIS HILARIOUS site dedicated to talking action figures
of some of America's most beloved hated political figures, such as:

Talking Ann Coulter Doll

Talking Dennis Miller Doll
" Let me get this straight, you were insane when you killed your wife? Fine, we'll fry you in a clown suit! Here, grab this sparkler, and whistle."

Slick Willie Doll

Many others, including Doctor Laura, Ronnie Raygun and Kinkie Friedman:
"Hell yeah, its a Cuban cigar... but I'm not supporting their economy, I'm burning their fields.."

Wish you could EASILY put video on the web?

A great standalone solution awaits.... Hook this little devil up to your TIVO, or DVD player, and it'll record NICE picture quality video SUITABLE for the web, or your PDA, or Cellphone, or even an iPod or Sony PSP.. (Geeks, Schneebly says it encodes in REAL TIME in MPEG 4 at 320 x 240 30 fps.) (Non-geeks.. Grok say: picture good.. no trubel... easy time copy thing)

Putting video on Sony's PSP has never been an easy task. File names, proper folders, making sure you have the right format, and then dealing with various resolutions has never been an enjoyable process. While Sony has made some strides to streamline this process, the one thing they can't provide is video itself. Enter the Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder 2.

Small and designed to look much like the handheld gaming console, this is a wonderful gadget for those looking to easily transfer nearly any video to their portable. In addition to the PSP, the Recorder is ready to pump out video to everything from your iPod to your cell phone. If it accepts video in the MPEG4, AVI, ASF formats, it can be transferred.

Set up is amazingly simple, even for someone who has never handled any sort of device like this. Included (though rather short) composite cables hook into a device, say a DVD player. Another cable hooks to your TV from the Recorder. Play the DVD, hit record, and the Recorder goes to work copying the source into the proper format.

Options of course open this up for those looking to play around with various settings. Seven resolutions are available, from as low as 176x120 up to 640x480. At the latter resolution, this could double as a quick and easy DVR, assuming you have a decent sized memory stick. Photos and MP3's can also be played if they're on the stick.

It supports compact flash and SD memory without any extras needed. For the PSP, you'll need to buy an adapter so it fits into one of the two slots on the front of the device, or but the Neuros Recorder 2 PLUS... For iPod users, you'll need a USB adapter to transfer video from a memory stick. The recorder itself has no USB slots.

Using the PSP as example, you'll take your memory stick out of the console, push it into the slot using the adapter, and the Recorder knows exactly where the video needs to go. The folders are already selected and ready to save video. Cool..$99 at Amazon.com

Nintendo Wii.. Cooler by the minute.

Nintendo Wii Modified for Zelda.. The ultimate gift for a gamer. Just looking at the pictures in his eBay auction (now up to $700) brings us back to a simpler time. A time of video games, PB&J sandwiches from mom, and giggling at magazines with naked girls that our friend Tom brought over. Ahh, good old 2006. (Gizmodo)

The Best TV Character?

Online Poll of the Best TV Characters whittles down to Jack Bauer (24) vs. Dwight Schrute-(The Office) (played by Rainn Wilson, who is yet another of my clients making big waves this year.)
Many other long-time clients of mine got deals to star in new TV Pilots: Ving Rhames, James Van Der Beek, Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Titus, Tim Russ, Krista Allen, Erick Avari and others.

CHRISTOPHER TITUS- Funny, Funny Guy.

I look forward to this pilot, in particular... as do.. uh... many of my old buddies.

The Big Bang Theory (Warner Bros. Television)
Exec Producers: Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady (writers) Director: James Burrows
Cast: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kunal Nayyar, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg
Logline: Science geeks hook up with women out of their league.

and clearly, the most unfortunately titled TV Pilot EVER, EVER in history:

M.I.L.F. and Cookies (CBS Paramount TV)
Exec producers: Randi Mayem Singer (writer), Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, James Lassiter
Logline: Four single moms living in an apartment complex realize it takes a village to raise their kids.

TRIVIA: Which state has the longest coastline: California, Hawaii, Alaska or Florida?
A: Our northernmost state.

TIVO for AM/FM

Finally, a TIVO for my AM/FM Radio. I got XM because of all the freakin' commercials on regular radio, only to STILL have commercials on the channels I actually listen to, like Comedy Central-150.
Except for the fact that it looks like a shark fin, which has little to no relevance to the actual product. The Radio Shark 2 is an upgrade to Griffin's almost three-year-old Radio Shark 1. The Shark 2 plugs into a Mac or PC via USB and can then time-shift and record live AM or FM radio. This one is a bit better than the original because you have more customizable schedule recording features. It also is now compatible with iTunes and can handle Internet radio. The Radio Shark 2 is available for $50. (Psst...HD Radio users, a Radio Shark HD is on the way.)

Why Can't Bush Be Like Bauer?

It is always fun to read political writers wax philosophic about fictional TV characters... Witness a piece from: The American Conservative

What Would Jack Bauer Do?

Fox’s hit drama normalizes torture, magnifies terror, and leaves conservatives asking why George W. Bush can’t be more like 24’s hero.

by Michael Brendan Dougherty

......When we are lazy, he is up all night. Where we cut and run from adversity, he cuts and runs right through his enemies. And a nation of cubicle-dwellers, daily harassed by the bureaucratic minutia of their hum-drum jobs, can’t help being attracted to a man who barks at his superiors, “We don’t have time for this!” as he takes on the ultimate job of keeping his country and his family safe. In The Weekly Standard, Martha Bayles rhapsodized, “When imagining a nuclear bomb about to explode in L.A., or a weaponized virus about to be released in eleven major cities, we welcome Jack’s Odyssean alertness, courage, and cunning.” One could add to this list Jack’s indomitable patriotism—his willingness to suffer any fate rather than see his nation harmed. To Bayles’s credit, she voices what she believes to be the mixed feelings of Americans about his methods: “it is harder to swallow his readiness to torture. For most of its history, American entertainment has depicted torture as pure evil. So it is jarring to see it routinely ordered, even inflicted, by the good guys.”

But for so many, even in the conservative movement, it is exactly Jack Bauer’s brutal tactics that make him worth admiring. After the premiere of the fifth season, National Review’s John J. Miller relished the “best line”: “You are gonna tell me what I want to know. It’s just a question of how much you want it to hurt.”

In 24, the war on terror is an omni-present ticking clock, pitting our legitimate security needs against the most cherished tenets of our civilization. The stress one hour of this imposes on Jack Bauer alone makes good drama, but its extension to all America, for an indefinite time, is a farce. The devotion to 24 and its protagonist demonstrates what few may care to admit: in the war on terror, the conservative movement has become willing to sacrifice principle to passion and difficult moral reasoning to utility. As escapism, 24 is riveting; as a parable for our time, it is revolting.

New Goodies

Here's a HEADS UP on a new phone service that apparently is the
BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD. Grandcentral.com
It allows you to route all calls from all phones to one phone, via the web.
It lets you place a link on your website. People click it, and call you.
And much more, including saving wireless minutes Oh yeah, it's free.

Redesigned Boeing Aircraft to Replace 747s?

It may look like a stealth fighter jet, but Boeing is hoping its new X-48B aircraft will become the commercial airliner of the future. The blended-wing plane—a name given to planes that merge the fuselage and wings into one—eliminates the tail part of a plane (which is usually the part of the plane responsible for lag drag). In doing so, the X-48B uses up to 30% less gas than a typical airliner. Boeing hopes to have a military version of the plane ready by 2022, and a passenger model by 2030.
via (Gizmodo)

My Politics

Lest anyone reading this think I'm an idealogue, I'll just throw my positions out
there for the hell of it...
I AM:
Pro Death penalty

Pro Choice (1st 3 months) - It has lowered the crime rate drastically
(Basically, as Dennis Miller pout it: I'm for anything that gets the 405 Freeway moving)

Pro Stem Cell Research

Pro Alternative Energy

Anti-Illegal Aliens

Pro Gun Control

Anti Quotas of any kind

Pro "Lost"

Anti- Howard Stern




Extremely Skeptical of:
Religions
Global Warming
Global Business
Global Anything
George Bush
The Burning Bush
Antonio Villaraigosa (Mayor of LA)
Schwarzeneggar - He ain't no Republican
9/11 Conspiracies
Every Democrat Running for President
Every Republican Running For President, except Tancredo and Fred Thompson

PLEASE watch this video.

If you've seen Al Gore's flick, and got all freaked out, then you owe it to yourself to view the OTHER MOVIE, that shows what I feel is the REAL truth.For Cryin-Out-Loud, PATRICK MOORE, the CO-FOUNDER of GREENPEACE, says Global Warming is an unproven theory that has been taken hostage by liberal extremists...

Moore calls global warming the "most difficult issue facing the scientific community today in terms of being able to actually predict with any kind of accuracy what's going to happen"^[6]. While acknowledging that the increase of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is caused by human consumption of fossil fuels, he claims that as of 2006, it cannot be fully proven that this is the reason the Earth has been warming since 1980.^{[citation needed]} He stresses that it is scientific evidence, not consensus opinion, that would prove or disprove this relation.

"It's become so complicated, there's so much snake oil around the whole subject... the best comment that was ever made was by Michael Crichton in his book State of Fear: 'I am certain there is too much certainty in the world'. And I am certain that he is right."^[6]

...There's too much money being made by people telling us we're all goin' underwater. You'll feel much better about the globe after watching the video, but a bit angrier at humans...Remember the SCIENTISTS telling us Y2K COULD be the end of the world as we knew it? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... shame on me.

The Great Global Warming Swindle

Channel 4 in London will air the response to 'An Inconvenient Truth' this week...
And now we'll finally get a good debate going... Turns out, there are PLENTY of scientists who disagree after all, who AREN'T getting paid to say so..