Create Your Own Superhero

One for the Kid in all of us: my superhero has orange flames, a killer red and white outfit and a flat-top haircut. He'll kick your butt. or burn it, or something like that..
Make sure you have 10-15 minutes time to do this...It takes awhile with all the choices...SUPERHERO GENERATOR.
It is NOT this Guy..

Windows Gets Its Revenge On the Mac

Click here for 5 funny clips Steve Jobs would rather you didn't watch.

Stream Of Consciousness

Boy, it sure must suck to be Alec Baldwin, or his daughter right about now...
I'm going to find out how to block calls on Sona's Cingular phone from some nitwit Mexican girl who says she's selling tamales, and then starts babbling incoherently... (The mexican, not Sona.) I hope Steven can do well on the Presidential Fitness test Monday... You can't really study for that one... I don't think I ever got one of those awards... It is freaking COLD here in L.A. in late April... Miserable windy wet cold...
Anyone know how to help me kick my dogs habit of humping the lawn furniture padding? I'm not gonna be sitting on that Chaise lounge any time soon... "Drive" on FOX is way too convoluted and stupid to invest any more time on... And you thought "Lost" was tricky... Sheepskin slippers really don't keep your feet as warm as you'd think, they start to retain moisture and get your feet colder than if they were bare...
On that note... time to go make the donuts... Have a great weekend.. Here's a gallery of Hot Moms.

Well That's It Damnit, I'm Officially Old

I looked at this week's charts of Radio & Records, for Alternative Music.
I didn't see a single blasted song I;d heard of, out of 40....
Even on the ever-so-hip Adult Contemporary charts, I only knew 6 songs.
On the CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio) .. ie teen hits, I know 3 songs..
I refuse to listen to any song where the artist credit has the word FEATURING in it..
I MUST wear glasses to see anything on the PC screen...
My sideburns are mostly gray and white.... What the hell happened to me?

Where the HELL Was THIS Girl When I Was In College?

From Craigslist

Battlestar Galactica N Underbellies

I've updated my Netflix Queue to send me nothing but Battlestar Galactica series discs,
so i can get caught up with the series.. I'm still in season 1, and they're in 3.. Can't quite put my finger on what it is that is so irresistable about the show.... hmm... if you know, tell me... I'm curious...
One thing is for sure, this.. is NOT your father's Battlestar Galactica. There is a Marathon coming up on SCI-FI Channel May 16-17-18 on Season 3, for those who aren't purists about seeing it from the start... If you do, at least rent the MINISERIES first, and then watch the show... Season 4 starts... alas, in January 08.
Caught the Series Premiere of Notes From The Underbelly last night. Cute, funny, sharp zippy dialog, very similar to Studio 60... With a touch of pathos, like the vintage thirtysomething, of the 90's.... My client, Rachael Harris, plays the semi-slutty divorce attorney, Cooper. It moves to Wednesdays next week... Lost is filling in a LOT of blanks, finally after 2 seasons of stringing us along.. I finally know what the Other's reason was for being on that damn island.. Pregnancy and cancer research. The King Of Queens is down to its final five episodes.. It never won the Emmy for best comedy, but it should have...

Rachael Harris, above.

Getting a New Windows Vista PC? De-CRAPIFY It

The PC De-Crapifier: Free software with a strange name that might make your life easier. Your mileage may vary, but it can save you a lot of time and effort when you are setting up a new PC or laptop. It blows out all the nonsense CRAP that is pre-installed when you first turn on your PC... It lets you pick and choose.... Who knows, you might actually want to KEEP the AOL....

Here...

Ever Driven Behind a 747?

Check out this clip...

Desktop Punk Rock

Multiple Java Apps here that are kewl..
Desktop Punk Rock. Ya Gotta Visit The Site..

New COLOR LASER PRINTER for $12.95?

Techbargains.com has a Lexmark COLOR LASER PRINTER for $362.50. from Next Warehouse.com
Rebate of $350 good thru June 30. = Final price: $12.95......................

Star Wars To Become A TV Show

Watch the 2 minute interview with George Lucas HERE.

Family TV

Steven started Spring Break today, and I wanted to make sure he had a decent show to watch, once in awhile... He loves Star Trek:The Next Generation, but that is on Spike (Mens TV) and every commercial break is filled with ads about making your package bigger than a horse, and lasting for 6 hours adult items. It's sick, putting ads like that on what is ostensibly a kids show. Luckily, a new channel, ION (DirecTV 255) has a couple of shows for someone HIS AGE... He's outgrowing cartoons... They have THE WONDER YEARS from 10-11 pm pacific time nightly, and GROWING PAINS, at some other time. Both shows were well written, funny MONSTER hits.... Good to see them finally back on the air.
Heroes returns April 23, too... And if you want to catch up on LOST conspiracy theories water cooler chat, read on.

Red Wine Research

I took a few days off from blogging because, well, nothing interesting crossed my screen. In the meantime, my main video editing Mac had what I thought was a fatal hard drive crash... So I found a Mac Mini on Craigslist that is more powerful than the system I've used for 9 years... (that's right.... I actually went 7 years using one computer!!!!.. that's gotta be a record..) The newer one, for $400 runs circles around the $3000 one I got in 98.... Steven has pulled straight A's for the past 3 months... There must be something in the water.... Have a Happy Easter...

Why I Get Riled Up About Global Warming

Transcript from a recent caller to the Dennis Prager Show:

Caller: I didn’t know if you realized how far this goofiness reached, but I have asthma, and I’m sure you’ve seen people with their little rescue inhalers. Right now, each inhaler is about $15 bucks. I don’t have insurance. I am an uninsured American. So it’s about $15 bucks. They are phasing out these particular inhalers because of these EPA rules, because the propellant that launches the medication down into my lungs is causing such a severe global hazard, that now my medication is going to triple in cost, because they have to use a new kind of propellant or accelerant, because of these new rules and regulations.

Dennis: I consider this to be one of the more important calls in the recent past. You do not realize how the poor will suffer, and I don’t mean Kevin is poor, though I suspect he’s not rich, given that he’s not insured. But you do not realize how…the Ted Turners won’t suffer, the Al Gores won’t suffer. But the middle class will suffer, and the poor, there’s a piece in the Wall Street Journal today about the poor paying more in Mexico for corn tortillas, because of all the ethanol now being extracted by corn, and corn is a staple. You know how idiotic that is? That he will have to triple his expenditure on his asthma inhaler? Do you know how nutty you have to be to believe that asthma inhalers are affecting the temperature of the Earth? The propellant is going into his lungs anyway.

It's this kinda B.S. that will hurt the poor in the world, while letting all the rich people feel better because at 'least they tried to stop global warming." Kyoto will cost 5 times more than the Iraq war and slow down temperature growth less than a tenth of a degree....

By the way, CO2 doesn't cause warming.... Warming Causes CO2......CO2 levels to go up AFTER warming has occurred.Al Gore is 180 .... uh... degrees ass backward on this one... And he knows it.

Another fun fact: 95% of the time in the last billion years, there were NO glaciers ANYWHERE on Earth? If we ignore Kyoto, the ocean will rise about 3.6 millimeters (the thickness of a nickel) this, and every year, for the next century, whether we drive Prius's or Hummers ..... For SMOG REDUCTION, Right On, Prius Drivers!!!

For GW reduction.... (as spoken by Tony Soprano) faget abat it....

If you stack up 1000 nickels, to represent THIS MILLENIUM, people in the year 3007 will have to deal with an ocean that rose 150 inches.. or 12.5 feet. Gore says 20 feet in 50 years.... hmmmmm..

Real Homes Of Genius

I've spent an hour this morning attempting to help Sona find a house for a very dicerning client. Stumbled upon this site.... AWESOME.

24 Getting Itself Into Trouble

I think the reason that 24 is so inconsistent this season is because they bumped off the majority of the characters that people cared about last season. Last season was great, but the problems started back then, not during this season.

They also have too many characters this season.

There is not enough time in an hour long show to make all of these characters multi-dimensional. Karen Hayes ends up in an airport for two episodes waiting for a plane, give me a break. Where is Jack's dad? Is Jack going to smooch with his dead brother's wife?

I agree about not knowing President Logan's status or what has happened to Martha and Aaron.

They had a chance to make CTU relevant when that British sounding dude (Johnson) was in a position to blackmail Ricky/Mike. But they finished off that storyline right then and there by having Mike coming forward and clearing Nadia. That story had a lot more potential.

I kinda wish all of Season 6 had been about Jack figuring a way out of a Chinese prison, and getting out of the country.... THAT, woulda been a nice break from the formula.

Lost: Back In The Game!

I double-checked, and tonight's episode of Lost was not directed by George Lucas. It just felt that way a few times, with its "special edition"-like splicing in of newbies Nikki and Paolo into old footage.
While that was a nice piece of editing, particularly in the crash scene, showing Keile Sanchez, pictured left, wandering around the wreckage walking right past it has to be asked: Is this a dirty trick on the part of the show's producers? Nope... It just shows that EVERY stinkin' thing said or shown on this show has a reason for it... EVERYTHING... This show is deeper than a Fellini film... Locke saying: "Nothing on this island stays buried." Seemed to be an innocuous statement about the diamonds being buried by Paolo.. But he was likely referring to their demise at the end of the episode... Awesome foreshadowing in the writing all over the place... Many fans said THIS episode was predictable... WTF?
If they are THAT smart? They should all be writing their doctoral theses at night, instead of watching TV.... Loved how they expanded Nikki's role apparently I am the ONLY one....... Loved her in the ill-fated WB show Related... Hope she digs herself out of the sand...

Prison Break In Fine Form

In one sublime early scene of Monday (March 26) night's Prison Break, viewers were treated to the following puzzle: T-Bag fled a Panamanian hotel followed by the two least stealthy G-men ever. Those two were, in turn, followed by Michael, Sucre and Bellick, blending in every bit as poorly. Those fugitives were, in turn, followed by Mahone, twitchy and out-of-place as ever. And Mahone, finally, was being followed by Lincoln, eyes bugging with a "I was nearly on a boat to total freedom and now I have to trail my baby brother through the streets of the Third World country" fury. It became a delicious Prison Break conga line.

Ernest Van Leeuwen - Gone at 94

"Ernie" passed quietly this morning, one month after suffering a mild stroke. He was a genuinely nice man, a courageous marathon runner, and a pioneer in the retail video business. He was one amazing character, seemingly without an enemy in the world, and without the slightest hint of guile in his actions. Ernie was a rarity in Los Angeles: A REAL PERSON.
He cared deeply about the Earth's resources and overpopulation, and most of his free time in his later years was dedicated to spreading the word about it. He was the oldest participant in the L.A. Marathon the last 4 years he ran it. He had been in training for this years run, but it wasn't in the cards. He was, along with Rod, like a father to me, and will be missed.

Couch For Sale

Couch - Very Uncomfortable, Red - $3.75

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(From Craigslist)

Hello. Here is my couch. I hate this couch and it needs to get out of my house. It is the worst couch I have ever seen. I sat on it and now I'm in a back brace. I let my dog have the couch, but then he died on it, so I don't really need it anymore. I miss my dog and I hate this couch. I'm asking $3.75 for the couch because thats how much Buck's favorite chew toy cost me each month. However, I'll consider other offers. I would just throw this couch into the river, but I hurt my back sitting on the couch.

A little more about the couch:
I bought it 3 months ago.
I paid $900
It came from this swanky furniture place
I hate the couch
It is uncomfortable and will probably put you in a back brace

Summer Movie Preview

Summer Movie Preview
2007 will bring us what could possibly be the last film of the Spider-Man franchise, Spider-Man 3, as well as the third Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Bourne and Ocean's movies, the fourth film of the Die Hard series, and the fifth installment of the Harry Potter saga.

A couple of new franchises are also launching this year: Transformers and His Dark Materials (the first film being The Golden Compass).

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• "Live Free or Die Hard" Movie Preview
  
• "Evan Almighty" Movie Preview
  
• "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" Movie Preview
  
• "The Golden Compass" Movie Preview
  
• "Hairspray" Movie Preview
  
• "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" Movie Preview
  
• "Ocean's Thirteen" Movie Preview
  
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" Movie Preview
  
• "Shrek the Third" Movie Preview
  
• "Spider-Man 3" Movie Preview
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• "Underdog" Movie Preview

I think the comedy HIT will be: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry. Starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James. July 21.
For the Trailer, Click Here

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How to Draw a Car Using Microsoft Paint

I thought Billy Gates' app was the MOST USELESS they ever created. Apparently I was wrong. All you need is massive amounts of times, patience and graphic skill, of which I possess relatively none.

Welcome Worldwide Visitors

Since I began aimlessly typing about things I thought were cool blogging, the blog has been seen by automated bots real human beings from all over the place... I now know WHERE they came from. Now I just gotta figure out WHY? Either way, thanks for dropping in, and if you are returning, thanks even more......

MY VALUED READERS ALL GATHERED IN VEGAS, FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL BIG PEN PALLOOZA.. I bought everyone a roll of nickels and turned em loose. Below are locales of my visitors... an odd assortment...

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Mountain View,
San Diego,
Noblesville, Indiana
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United Kingdom Gosport, Portsmouth
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United Kingdom Middleton, Oldham
Canada Leduc, Alberta
France Paris, Ile-de-France
United Kingdom
United Kingdom Milton Keynes
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Denver, Colorado
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Athens, Georgia
Tarzana, CA
China
China Beijing
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Mountain View,
Japan Yokohama, Kanagawa
East Meadow, New York
Spain Derio, Pais Vasco
Tooele, Ut
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Brooklyn, New York
New York
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India New Delhi, Delhi
Washington, District of Columbia
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Erie, Colorado
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Anchorage, Alaska
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China Beijing
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China Beijing
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Brazil
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Littleton, Colorado
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