From the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone : Universal Training Flim #304

Back in 1995, Universal Studios had just been purchased by Seagram's, and the new corporate masters of the studio wanted to assure their employees that Seagram's was going to remain artist friendly. So, they commissioned a training film... and hired Trey Parker and Matt Stone to make it. The star-studded extravaganza (with cameos from Steven Spielberg, Brian Grazer, Demi Moore, Sylvester Stallone, Michael J. Fox, and more) is absolutely hilarious, but of course was not exactly what Seagram's was looking for. Thanks to the magic of the internet, you can watch this fine short film - right here.

Part one -



Part two -



Enjoy!!

Very interesting new use for RFID

By now most people know about RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips - but here's an innovative new implementation of the technology. An implantable RFID chip that will allow diabetics to monitor blood glucose levels without needing to do a finger stick! Read all about it here in the press release from the company that developed the chip, Digital Angel. This is a very good thing - instead of two, three (or more) finger sticks a day, just hold the reader over the chip in your arm (or wherever you and your doctor decided to place it) and get an accurate glucose reading. What'll they think of next...

Borat : Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

I know, I know - two posts in one day! You aren't dreaming it, it's really happening!

So - went to see the Borat movie last night, because we had a free preview pass. Wow, was that a funny movie. Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius - but now some of the folks 'interviewed' in the film are unhappy with the movie, and say they were duped into participating. So, that brings up the question, can they sue? Well, Slate.com's Explainer (Daniel Engber) answers that question right here.

The movie was a big hit with the crowd we saw it with, so I'm sure it'll make a lot of money. That will probably sway the people that felt wronged by their participation in the movie to go ahead and try suing anyway. I guess I can't totally blame them if they try, but in reality they only have themselves to blame - no one made them say what they said. I guess it's just the American way - blame someone else and don't take responsibility for your own actions.

Well, sorta got off on a tangent there - anyway, the Borat movie was really good, I laughed a lot, which was problematic because so did everyone else (of course), and you tend to miss a funny line or two in the movie cause everyone is laughing through it. Minor complaint though. I do wish that I had known going in that there would be so much male nudity in it, cause I saw WAY more of Borat's producer Azamat (and Borat himself) than I really wanted too! Yikes...

24 - Season 6

It's coming folks - the next season of one of the best shows on TV, FOX's 24, starts in January! Here is the 'trailer' for season 6 -




And here is the 'prequel' - set a few months after the Chinese government captured Jack, a strike team lead by Aaron Pierce and CTU's Curtis Manning are assigned by President Heller to bring Jack back.



Wow - very exciting!! I can't wait, this season looks like it's going to be good!

Nope - I'm not dead!

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything here, but it's been an extremely busy last... Well, almost a month since I last posted anything. Lots of things going on and not a lot of time to just sit and write here on the blog. Oh well - maybe that'll change soon. Anyway... In the interest of all those poor people fearing the upcoming drain on your finances known as Halloween (darn those candy-loving neighborhood kids!), here's a How To guide that might help you out - How To Get Rid of Trick-or-Treaters (Written by the fine folks at getridifthings.com). Enjoy!

Funny Pictures

Browsing around the internet recently, I happened upon a couple of funny pictures that I thought I'd share -


Words to live by :)



Hmmm, I think PC might be a little disgruntled.



Creepy...



Looks like Darth Vader has fallen on hard times.



YIKES!!!

It Lives!

Well, the whole fridge debacle ended up getting fixed. We actually got it looked at a week ago on Friday, but I haven't been able to write anything here about because I have been a very busy, busy boy. Anywho... The fridge apparently had a bad heater (now doesn't THAT seem weird? Refridgerators need a heater - it's what keeps them from frosting up) and that problem caused the whole fridge to stop cooling properly. So 230 some-odd dollars later, it's all better. Yippie skippy. Now I just need to fix the lawnmower, and the laptop, and the PC monitor...

No new news on the job front - I applied for a few things Thursday, and have to call a guy back about one of them on Monday, so we'll see how that goes. Fingers crossed, as always.

Things are just falling apart...

Maybe I'm just unlucky. I really don't know. It's been a bad couple of weeks on the home front - our lawn mower is acting up, our garage door broke (but we were able to jury-rig it into semi-health again, good enough to not need to call a repairman), and now the refrigerator is broken. At the very least we'll have to call in a repairman, and at the worst it could be new refrigerator time. It really sucks because the current one is only 4 years old! That, plus I think my home desktop PC monitor is dying, and my laptop has a dead battery - yeah, not a good couple of weeks. Maybe this means something really good is about to happen, right? Like maybe I'll get a great new job, or my wife will get a great new job - or something, right?

All your Snakes are belong to us!

Here's an inspired idea - mash together the 'All Your Base' video with elements of Snakes On A Plane and you come up with -



Now THAT'S funny!

Next 'Amazing Race' starts September 17th

The next season of The Amazing Race is all set to start on September 17th, and the CBS website has been updated with the new cast info. My wife has already decided that Peter and Sarah are her favorite team. I haven't decided yet, still need to read through all the bios. Dustin and Kandice, the reigning Miss California and Miss New York, seem to be likely candidates for 'First team Philiminated', but teams have surprised me before by either sucking just a little less than the last place team on a few legs, or by actually being GOOD, so we'll see what happens. Should be a good season - because it's not another crap-tastic Family Edition (god, that SUCKED).

I think David Copperfield has lost his ever loving mind...

Seems Mr. Copperfield has found something very special in the Bahamas. He recently bought four islands in the Bahamas (they're called the Exuma chain, and cost him $50 million), and now has proclaimed to the world that they contain the 'Fountain of Youth'. Seriously - read the article for yourself here. I don't know, I think he's losing it - or trying to pull some kind of big hoax or something. Maybe he's been getting too much sun down in the Bahamas...

Alright Mister, that's it - You're On Notice!!

See honey - I told you Stephen put Jon Stewart 'On Notice' -



Jon had better watch out - he might get moved to 'Dead to Me' if he's not careful...



OK, I actually made that 'On Notice' board up - and you can make your own too! Just use this link. It's fun for the whole family!

'Mac and PC' spoofs

Some freakin' GENIUSES have come up with fake ads spoofing the current Apple 'Mac and PC' ad series. There's six of them (so far) - here are the first 3, and here are the next 3. God, these are funny - I'm sitting here at work laughing out loud watching the 'Networking' and 'Portability' clips. The guy playing 'Linux' makes me lose it too, he's hilarious!!

P.S. - Oh man, I ran a spellcheck on this post, and Blogger's spellchecker wanted to replace the word 'freakin' with... 'foreskin'! Hee - and yes, yes I am 8 years old.

The most frightening picture I've even seen

Really - no kidding. It's just that scary.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Cause I TOTALLY did - this is frightening.

Not gross, not vile and disgusting - like pictures of mangled corpses or something like that.

But frightening nonetheless.




Really! You're going to look at it and be all, "Yikes! He wasn't kidding!"




But, you know what??





My sister is going to think it's AWESOME.


I can just tell.



Anyway....



Here you go -



Last chance...












This is it!




SEE?!?! I told you!

The Daily Show : Jon Stewart and John Hodgman discuss Net Neutrality

I totally love this clip - I've watched it several times just for the part where Jon gets him to say "I'm a PC". They totally should have had Justin Long come on and say "And I'm a Mac!" - that would have been hilarious!!

Nice, I've always wanted to be a potentate...

I'd heard of this game before, but never actually played it. It's a logic game - you use five dice to play the game, and it's name is Petals Around the Rose (and the name is significant). However, once I found this site, Petals Around The Rose and played a few rolls I figured it out. So now I'm a Potentate of the Rose. NICE!

"Knights of the Round Table" as sung by the cast of Star Trek

Oh man, this is a good one! Somebody synched up scenes from Star Trek (the original series, of course) with the song 'Knights of the Round Table' from Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Great job - check it out here.

The 11 Best Chappelle's Show sketches of all time

Found this site while browsing around this morning, and it's pretty cool to be able to watch a clip of each sketch. Check out the list here - Top 11 Chappelle's Show Skits.
I kinda see their point regarding why the made their pick for number one, although I'd probably make their number 4 pick number 1.

Fun with Windows Vista

I've had a copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 for a couple of weeks now, and last night I finally got around to installing it on my PC (a lovely Dell Optiplex GX260 I picked up off of Retrobox.com for a good price). I need to add more memory, a bigger hard drive, and a AGP video card - so that took some time to secure the funds to buy the parts. I also wanted to clone my existing hard drive onto the new one, so I wouldn't have to reinstall everything. Got that taken care of thanks to a driver cloning freeware program I found, and then I was all set. Finally got around to actually doing the install last night, and it didn't take too long, about 42 minutes. Not bad really. Got user accounts setup for myself and the wife, went to ATI (for my video card) and got their drivers for Windows Vista installed. Didn't get too much time to play around last night, but I did check out the Widgets... whoops, 'Gadgets' a little bit. But even with limited time on the system, I'm already annoyed with the User Account Control popping up all time, locking down the desktop till you tell it that the program or applet or Control Panel you just launched is OK to run. That's getting tired VERY quickly. One weird thing - the display was acting a little strange. Hard to describe exactly, but it kind of hiccups. It's really the only description I can think of - and it's very odd. Perhaps the new Aero Glass display mode doesn't like my old Sony Trinitron monitor (well, it is about 6 years old - and in computer time, that's ancient). Perhaps something else is goofy. I'll have to play around with it. So, I'll be popping in with further thoughts as I get to spend more time playing around with Windows Vista - stay tuned...

Bad news for lovers of Winternals/Sysinternals utilites

Winternals and Sysinternals are well known for making great freeware (like Process Explorer) and commercial utilites (like their Administrator's Pak, which includes the best Windows recovery utility of all time - ERD Commander 2005). But now they've been acquired by Microsoft, and who knows what will happen next. One of their founders/lead developers, Mark Russinovich, posted on his blog that the Sysinternals site will remain up 'for the time being' (whatever that means). So go get copies of their freeware utilites soon - who knows if they'll still be there next time you go looking for them, right?