How many of you remember beta from the 80’s. If you were a hi-fi kind of person back then, then you might remember that beta was the better quality at-home movie-watching and recording media format. While it was a much better quality, VHS won out. Why would such a thing happen? How come? Some of us here at the blog might immediately respond with Physics as the answer. Well believe it or not, I can actually say that answer would be correct … if Rathna was your teacher. It is all about an orgy. The porn industry decided that VHS was going to be there choice for format and the rest is history.
Based on that history you may want to know that the porn industry has chosen Blue Ray to be there format of choice for high definition. (High definition porn is a scary thought.) So maybe your decision has been made for you.
Categories: technology
In an effort to fill some of the blog slack that Swany spoke of, I have decided to share with everyone something that I hope to have some day.
Some of you may know that I have started trading in the stock market, but what you might not know is that there is a whole niche of computers and monitor set-ups for traders. What you are seeing above is something that I could actually put to use right away. At a large price tag, though, that won’t be happening anytime soon. It will happen though.
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Perhaps while you’re waiting for that new Boba Fett television show to come out in two years, you can start putting together this Ultimate Millennium Falcon. It’s only a mere $500 and has 5195 pieces, “the biggest LEGO set ever made.”
With my LEGO IQ, it might actually take me two years to assemble this thing, but I figure Firecracker George could put this sucker together in a day. He might even be able to cut that down to an afternoon if you give him some Danger Mouse, Transformers, and G.I. Joe reruns to watch.
Categories: Star Wars · toys
A sneak peek at the New York Toy Fair this week of what the future of a certain sci-fi license holds. I may have to put myself in carbonite to wait that long. For several years now there were rumours of a planned Boba Fett heavy TV show set in between Episode 3 and Episode 4. I’d say that might just be more then a rumour now. Oh, my Star Wars Boba Fett collector cup runneth over!
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Looking back at my archives, I’ve been a bit lax this month on the blog in comparison to other months such as September when we maxed out at 101 posts. Perhaps I’m a bit blogged out or maybe I just have nothing that important going on so that I don’t feel compelled to procrastinate as much. Whatever the case may be, I’ve got a bit of writer’s block, and will resort to a video today to insure that your week will be filled with an annoying song (unless you’re two) playing over and over again in your brain. Just try and get it out of your head. I dare you! And, yes, that is the Hoff singing:
Categories: Hasselhoff · video
During my past ten years of goofing off in the realm formerly known as cyberspace (notice that name has gone into disuse?), I’ve adopted several nom de keyboards, usually taken from whatever was tickling my funny bone at the time. Because of this, I’ve developed a form of internet personality disorder, and I’m losing track of who said what where. Was it Blue Fugate on AIM? Was it Spice Weasel on CoX? Was it Scootypuff jr. on the Kool-Aid blog? It’s all oh so confusing.
So in an effort to integrate my multiple user personalities, I’m adopting a single screen name. I’d go see a psychiatrist instead, but I don’t have health insurance.
If you mourn the passing of Scootypuff jr., please know that I think you’re friggin’ nuts. It’s still me, guys.
As a friend recently said, “God knows us by our hearts, not our names.”
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I think I will be thanking W.M. Scratch for years to come for clueing me into Pop Candy. Just when I was feeling like I was reaching a drought into finding new music, Whitney Matheson from Pop Candy comes along with yet another gem from the Internet. Called finetune, this website allows users to listen to all kinds of music and create playlists to share.
I actually stuck a finetune player into the sidebar, and could envision putting separate ones for each member of the Kool-Aid Gang, although I don’t know if that would create some massive load time problem for the blog. The only downside to this is that you have to put 45 songs on your playlist, which is why the current selections on my player are a bit scatterbrained–I let the website pick the majority of my current list.
Anywho, take a look around on the site, and let me know what you guys think. I may finally be able to be as hip and cool as Wander in my musical selections yet!
Categories: music
Anyone catch the return of Lost from hiatus last night? Actually, I guess I’m only typing to Wild Willie–I’ve gotten the impression that he’s the only one reading this blog that watches the show, and even his interest sounded like it was waning.
Overall, I was a bit underwhelmed, but always leave it to a quick quip from Sawyer to salvage it:
I can’t believe you fell for the wookie prisoner gag!
Reading around on some of the Lost discussion sites, someone even pointed out that apparently Princess Leia’s detention block number of AA23 in Star Wars matched up with “Cheech’s” prison room number of 23 in the show last night. Nice.
Categories: Lost · television
Hmmm. I actually posted this a couple of hours ago, but it’s not on the blog. Considering I did this at work, I’m kind of worried as to where the original went. Probably accidentally sent it off to my boss or something. Anywho…
I was sitting in the break area eating my lunch today. Instead of the usual Time, People, Redbook, Entertainment Weekly, etc. that’s usually scattered across typical break rooms across the land, mine has scientific journals. So today I flipped open an issue of Nature that was on my table to read up on the latest scientific advancements, and stopped at an article describing a study to determine how earwigs decide which of their two penises to use. Yes, two penises. Apparently, this isn’t as uncommon a phenomenon as you would think, as various species of arthropods and spiders have dual members. But how do they decide which one to use with the ladies? If you’re a certain species of spider, well, you just eat one!
Categories: random · science
This might get Scooty all excited, but my guess is that he has little clue.
Every so often I get to help a kid with his homework. This last Monday was one of those days. I got to help a 4th grader separate words into diphthongs and digraphs. Fortunately, he had the answers from class. Unfortunately, he had no idea what either meant. I had only a little clue about diphthongs, and no clue about digraphs. Plus my little clue about a diphthong stopped with only having heard the word before.
Well, something you should know about me is that I like to know stuff. My sister loves to refer to me as a Sabe La Todo (it is ironic that I do not know how if Spanish phrase is spelled correctly). Not knowing what something means usually requires me to find out the meaning – but only if I can find out with little effort. As a kid this meant asking my parents what something meant. They would either tell me (which would also include making up an answer that I would believe), or they would tell me to go look it up and return with the answer for them as well. Things have not changed much since being a little kid. The only difference is that Wikipedia has now replaced my folks. Wikipedia responds the same way though. It either knows the answer (which would also include made up answers that I believe), or it tells me to go find the answer somewhere else and bring it back to make an entry on the site.
Luckily, little effort was spent because little miss Wiki had the answer for me. I even found out some really fun stuff about voiceless postalveolar affricates and voiceless labiodental fricatives (which all this time I really thought was men quietly using nature’s own dental floss). What I want to know is if you know what a diphthong or digraph is without looking it up first? Does your elementary education stand up to the test?
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