Category Archives: Thoughts

Dana Plato in better days

From the 1993 Sega CD game Night Trap:

Dana Plato-related sidenote — if she had been famous in THIS decade, what would have become of her?
Back then, a celebrity getting into drugs and softcore porn was frowned upon. Today it only seems to help your case.

on my way to the arena

Let’s go Trojans
Fight on!

Bienvenidos a Nueva York

ANOTHER SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA THURSDAY
NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL RANGE FROM 5 TO 10
DEGREES ABOVE ZERO…AND COUPLED WITH NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND 10
MPH…WIND CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM ZERO TO 5
DEGREES BELOW ZERO.

EXPOSURE TO COLD CAN CAUSE LIFE THREATENING HEALTH CONDITIONS.
AVOID SERIOUS CONDITIONS SUCH AS FROSTBITE [...]

In the City

Haven’t updated for a bit….somehow moving cross-country AND starting a new job has dominated my schedule for the past couple weeks. Go figure.

9 Simple Ways (That Have Nothing To Do With VOD) To Fix Netflix

I’ve had a mini-manifesto (can I call it a ‘minifesto’?) brewing in the back of my mind for awhile now, and it’s time I just put it out there: as a long-time Netflix user (with over 1,300 movie reviews logged), as well as a casual investor/market watcher following their stock (Nasdaq: NFLX) and its fortunes [...]

Look out iPhone(s)…here comes ZunePhone

Like an SNL skit, the initial concept does wear out halfway through, but it’s still pretty hilarious.

I. Am. Iron Man.

Iron Man
70%

Spider-Man
70%

Green Lantern
65%

Hulk
65%

Catwoman
55%

The Flash
55%

Robin
50%

Supergirl
45%

Wonder Woman
40%

Superman
40%

Batman
25%

Click here to take the “Which Superhero am I?” quiz…

Dreamhost Facts (or A Holiday Moment to Reflect on How Bad Dreamhost Blows)

Straight from Dreamhost-sucks.com, a site which does a good job of summing up my feelings towards the current hosts of this site (and reason why it’s running so abysmally slow at the moment):
I’m an unhappy DreamHost customer, what can I do?
E-mail us with your DreamHost complaints and criticism. We’ll post them on the blog for [...]

Google Celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa

Noticed something when I did a search for some Christmas-related stuff on Google today:

And I went ahead and checked — Google’s giving the same treatment to Hanukkah:

And Kwanzaa:

But I’m sad to report, no Google love for Festivus.

Yet another reason to avoid Taco Bell

E. coli sickens 22 in New Jersey; 14 ill in Long Island [CNN]