the IDIOT

while window-shopping netbooks last month i commented that i’d love to see them add a phone to the package. the sales guy groaned a bit, almost like i was nuts. looking at the apple iPad though, my opinion’s even stronger. of course phones will eventually be added to computers usable by more than scrunched thumbs or fingers. most of what i do on a computer and smartphone would work well on a phoned netbook or similar. i want one gizmo instead of the 5 trailing from my pockets.

at a bike race in the early 90s i asserted that, naturally, bike computers would eventually incorporate GPS with cadence, heart rate, and barometric altimeter for detailed 3D analysis later on home computer. the old fogy ref nearby gave me a similar “what the fuck are you talking about” groan, since GPS was barely alive even in airplanes then.

fellow connoisseurs of the feminine aspect should have a look at Whip It — perhaps better titled Tosser’s Paradise.
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i’ve figured for decades that standard video will eventually be 360° post-controllable. here’s a damned impressive internet demo of the format.

on the audio side, here’s the type of demisemi-analogous microphone donna summer used to record her vocals on Another Place and Time.

last thing i expected to find this morning. never knew that dave roth recorded a version of Eat ‘Em and Smile — the whole album — in spanish (then titled Sonrisa Salvaje). ha! follow the link and hear the samples. funny.

here’s a YouTube of the full spanish “Yankee Rose”.

after you enjoy the stage crashing fan at 1:15 in this vid (super funny), savor the sea of video recorders. years ago fans with film/video cameras would’ve been trounced by security. now? hopeless!

can’t stop the signal.

despite problems here and there, and creeping lazi-cutesyness, Ally McBeal rules, and it’s finally been released in the goonited states (apparently with its multi-source “copyright”-plagued music intact). during the promo period, get the first two episodes free via iTunes.

my honey prevails:

Gina Carano may still be the face of women’s MMA, but she’s not the best female fighter in MMA. Cris Cyborg destroyed Carano in the main event of Saturday night’s Strikeforce card, beating her throughout the first round and finally winning by TKO just before the round came to an end. (more…)

month or two ago i was hanging out at a store owned by a couple silly enough to be my friends. it’s pretty casual there, and sometimes they’re off elsewhere while i just play with their birds (3 cockatiels, 2 love birds, 4 budgies) and try to stay out of the way of customers.

two women and a young girl walking by asked me about the birds, and we chatted for a bit. the mother mentioned some book about a girl and an owl. since the daughter was obviously very into the birds, i asked if she’d like to feed and water them. she was thrilled, and did a great job with minimal instruction. i dig watching kids discover things.

on the way out the girl asked if she could keep a feather she’d found on the floor. can’t stand drone kids, and this was the anti-drone prototype. wonderful. they said goodbye and i figured that was that, since they’re about 40 miles away. (more…)

since gun sales are prohibited on craigslist.org, is there a “craig’s list for guns”? several, but my fave is gunlistings.org. sure, for years there’s been gunbroker.com, but that’s an eBay for guns, and a tad squirrelly, IMO. (more…)

i love keeping a cooler in my car. have stopped going to restaurants with “waiters” (who mostly suck), and rarely do anything but eat meals i prepare with my portable kitchen — two containers of utensils, spices, etc., including perishables most people wrongly assume must or should be chilled once cut into (e.g., tomatoes, onions).

a small cooler with only 10 pounds of ice can keep food fresh for days in the summer. the drawback is the water; if efficiency’s your thing, the water must stay until it hits the 50s. but water tends to ruin some food. today, i may have found the answer, and it is LOCK & LOCK, baby! (more…)

though so far i can speak only of the first seven novels in the series by lemony snicket, mark me as an enthusiastic fan. surprised i’ve not heard more for these books in liberty circles. hell, book seven — The Vile Village (2001) — is nearly a frontal assault on the “it takes a village” ninny talk of the sadly not bygone clinton parasite squad. throughout each book “adult” bureaucracy is mocked, children left to exercise skill and solve problems (albeit in the extreme). the absurd recurrence of the same villain throughout the series (first seven books at least) quickly transcends predictability, into joyful expectation, and the presumed child audience is always treated intelligently. have busted out laughing plenty of times. some tire of the repeated shtick (e.g., words used are often defined, sometimes humorously), but i dig it okay. (more…)

big fan of ale with extry hops, and always on the lookout for something that does it crazy. i also generally dislike india pale ales, which makes asking for pale ale somewhat a pain in the ass at a bar. my go-to is sierra nevada pale ale, but that has been eclipsed by perhaps the world’s stoopidest hoppy hop-crazed hop-OD’d ale. (more…)

time still hasn’t caught the free art of Ally McBeal, its roiling imperfections notwithstanding (e.g., vonda shepard — bleh). 30 Rock hasn’t dusted it. i think even david lynch didn’t, with his stellar and — roy batty style — appropriately short lived On the Air. (more…)

a blog dedicated to misty may’s ass. sadly, dear misty no longer carries the form of her wonder years, but here’s one of my faves from the nostalgia file: (more…)