Shift + Ctrl + Alt + S About the great Mike Huckabee. This is just like George Bush part two, if not worse.
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I wish I knew about gluing the pages together before I tried to put Keri’s engagement ring in the Harry Potter Book.
There seems to be a lot of good articles recently about how to raise smart kids. About how telling them they are smart is different them telling them the amount of effort they put in makes them smart. To a point I definitely suffered from this as a kid and I still struggle with it today. It’s hard to relearn to just put on foot in front of the other.
I find it interesting that the people who complain the most about the wii-mote are the same people who are really good old school game pad commands like up, up, down, down, left, right, left, B, A, Start.
Gmail is finally showing me the new interface. Most of the new features are supposed to be backend but there are a few features of note. The contact manager is more robust and with the ability to add people’s IM from other services. It’s unclear if gtalk will actually let me talk to them though the gtalk client but I wait with baited breath.
The new contact manager is nice but still sadly under powered. I know too many people with multiple emails and I really want a better way to merge multi email addresses in to a single contact.
NaNoWriMo starts today. 1667 words a day to a 50,000 word novel. I’ve always read that writing needs to be daily habit. So far all I’ve accomplished is a yearly habit of joining NaNoWriMo. Lets see if I can beat my record of 10,000 words.
Today I officially unsubscribed from LonleyGirl15. I watched the whole first season and a little more. I was way behind on videos at this point.
I know at some point it would lose my interest. To often the plot went extremely slow and any built up suspense was almost rarely realized into something satisfying. I think I watched mostly because there was a lot of suspense and the slow plot really let them flesh out the characters.
It was a fun ride and though the series might be counted as a success I think the format is doomed to failure with out a larger company behind it. A real time action series needs to be well funded to work correctly and LonelyGirl just did not have the cash or ability to scale along with the plot they wanted to write.
Apparently smoking in NYC is going way down. Yet why are people blowing smoke in my face the entire way to port authority? I never had this problem in Boston.
On this I Am America (And So Can You!) day eve I finally got a chance to try Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream. And you know what, it wasn’t half bad.
It wasn’t until 2 years ago when I moved out of New Jersey that I realized how much people looked down on New Jersey. For no real reason other then that what they are told to do.
Never having needed to defend NJ (TCNJ was mostly a NJ love fest) my defense of “New Jersey is Awesome” came across weak. Now I’m keen to find well thought out arguments for New Jersey and the latest recap of HIMYM over at TV squad is a great example:
“I don’t know if you’ve been to New York lately, but if you go, the one thing you’ll notice is that most of the people there aren’t native New Yorkers. They’re from all over the country; they’ve decided to move to the city to chase their dreams or just get the experience of living there. After about a year, most of them feel they’ve been hardened by the experience, thinking they’re “real New Yorkers” because they got the privilege of crowding on the subways and paying $2500 for a studio. With that badge of honor, they feel they get to make fun of all the “Bridge & Tunnel” people who, even though they’ve lived in the area all their lives, have the good sense to live in a place where drinks are less than $15 a pop.”
Bravo sir. (via Keri)
Oh TV… why must our relationship be so love hate? I have to say I was about to give up this season.
Gossip Girls was boring. The narrator removes the emotion from the show (not Kristen Bell’s fault) and the CW does not seem to have enough money to really make these kids look as rich as they should be. And the dramatic pauses, talk about soap opera. This is at best the poor man’s version of The OC.
Reaper was fun but not the kind of show I really can get super excited about. Missy Peregrym also kind of bothers me. It was fine when she was dating Dino because he bothered me too but in any other context it just seems wrong.
Private Practice was horrible. Just about everything in the show was wrong. Could Richard Webber give her more outs to come back if Addison’s show is canceled? Why does he have to “hold her job open” when she basically followed her husband there and just started working full time when she arrived? Why does the daughter who hide her pregnancy from her father have a holistic birth plan? Is she really that organized? And I thought this was supposed to be funny. Face it anything with Amy Brenneman is just going to be a touch feely show that makes people cry.
Dirty Sexy Money is such a great show though. It, like gossip girls, is about ultra rich people in NYC. Though I guess ABC has real money cause unlike on the CW this show really looks like it has more money then it knows what to do with. Peter Krause, from Six Feet Under, is amazing and really is going to hold the show together. His character is likable and conflicted and just well written over all.
Season 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender starts tonight at 8:30 PM (EST) on Nickelodeon. This is one of the best animated shows on TV since Batman: The Animated Series.
I don’t remember the date being announced but amazon is reporting Spore will come out March 31, 2008. I’m so excited.
New site design. This one is hopefully a little cleaner and feels more open. A lot of the extra info I like is still in the sidebar but it fades out of view until you really want to focus on it. Over all just more focus on the content.