I had mentioned some of the other Christmas presents I received this year, but this one is by far my favorite.
From my parents, an authentic Favre jersey, autographed and framed, with a pigskin matte in the frame. It’s huge, the picture doesn’t do it justice.
Now to get the basement finished so I can build my shrine to the Packers.
I’m consistently impressed with 89.3, KMCP, The Current. The music keeps getting better and better. I had some money left in my MusicNow account, so I took Mary Lucia’s advice and picked up Ted Leo & The Pharmacist’s Shake the Sheets. I had looked for it at Best Buy, but they had had only 2 of their older albums. I also picked up Tegan & Sara, a Canadian folk duo (sisters, I think) that have opened up for Sarah McLachlan a few times.
Both discs were their newest releases from late in 2004, and both kick ass. Ted Leo reminds me of a fast driven Tim Mahoney, with a similar vocal style, but very different musically. Tegan & Sara are impressive in their own way, with poppy, fast alternative.
About 2 weeks ago The Current started giving away bumper stickers one or two nights a week. Unfortunately, the volunteers were always in downtown St Paul or Minneapolis, or Uptown, and I live in the boonies in the suburbs. I was pleasantly suprised to get a letter from The Current yesterday with a thank you for donating, and one bumper sticker and 2 window clings, and a promise that my welcome kit would come in a month, and my vinyl record in a few more. Time to get a car wash, peel off my Kerry sticker, and replace it with something better.
The big enchilada. The game they all play for. The Super Bowl.
I love football – it’s the one sport I have a passion for. While I hate baseball, hockey is ok (if they ever play), like NBA basketball, really like NCAA basketball and would put NCAA football a step above that, it’s NFL football I make a point of seeing week in and week out.
NFL Europe, training camps, I’ll do whatever I can to get my fix during the offseason.
And today is the day that all that hard work culminates in one game for the players.
But what drives me nuts about the Super Bowl is some of the hype (not all, but some). 8 hours of pre-game – 8 hours? Really? And after Janet Jackson last year, this year’s focus on being “tame” – and it’s just ridiculous. So it’s okay to have an erectile disfunction ad, but yet Fox changes the name of the Best Damn Sports Show to the Best Darned Sportshow? It’s ok for Mike Ditka to tell me about limp dicks but Fox yanks Mickey Rooney’s ass in a commercial spoof?
All ranting aside, here’s hoping to a close game like last year, some decent commercials, and good friends and food to watch the game with. (And go Pats!)
The New York Times has an article up about Homaro Cantu (no registered required link!) who prints edible pictures of sushi on a Canon i560 inkjet printer and serves them to customers.
Mr. Cantu has a vision to make technology enhance the dining experience, including making food levitate, edible printouts (in 3d no less), and edible utensils.
Interesting stuff.
The Inauguration You Didn’t See.
And this is the United States of America.
The Comment Spam I’m getting is out of control. I mention the word “poker” in a post Friday, and I’ve had spam sites try to add over 500 comments in the last 48 hours. I’ve tweaked the site a bit, and even before that, I’ve been lucky enough that none of the comment spam has gotten through yet.
It’s quite annoying to have it all sit in the moderation queue though. Rumor is WordPress 1.3 will be out soonish. I’m hoping it has built-in spam comment control, otherwise it’s time to start looking at some plugins.
How annoying.
The New York Times has a decent article up about MythTV, the Broadcast Flag, and Filesharing up. While it’s fairly high level, and some parts are wrong (Bittorrent letting you download a 1 hour show in minutes for example: I’ve downloaded plenty of TV shows and it’s not that fast, trust me) it’s not a bad article.
Even mentions the EFF and how they’re going to fight the Broadcast Flag, which may or may not put a stop to some of the filesharing. I agree with parts – I own Alias, 24, Sports Night, and every season of the Simpsons available on DVD. Purchased them and everything. I don’t mind buying TV I love (though it drives my wife crazy why I buy TV shows on DVD for shows I’ve already seen). But the government regulating even more the TV that comes over the air on what I can record, and how long it stays recorded for I start to have issues. It’s one thing if we’re talking about pay TV, say the Sopranos. But when I miss a week or two of 24, what is the issue if I download it?
If I miss an episode of 24, and I can’t download it, there is a good chance I am done watching for the season. Especially with serial shows like Lost, 24, Alias, and Desperate Housewives. Is it worth it to Big Media to not allow me to download and lose me as a customer for the entire season? I don’t think they always see the forest for the trees.
I’ll be buying a pcHDTV card for my MythTV box prior to July 1st when the Broadcast Flag goes in to effect. Maybe even two since hard drives are cheap now.
So I’m browsing the ‘net mindlessly this afternoon, and decide to take a peek at the Star Tribune’s movie page just to see if any new movies have come out I may be interested in. And what do I see halfway down the page but a story to the movie “Alone in the Dark” that came out this week, and this is what the synopsis said before you even click to read their review:
If you took the 100 worst ideas ever conceived for a science-fiction film, rattled them around in a Lotto tumbler and spilled them out onto the screen at random, you could not produce a more asinine hodgepodge than this.
How many people do you think will even read that review, much less go to that movie? That cracks me up, tell it like it is Star-Trib!
Kento was the big winner last night in our first monthly poker tournament.
It was quite fun, we made a few mistakes here and there, and a few people bet big early to get out more than anything, but I think it’s safe to say a good time was had by all.
Liquor flowed freely, food was consumed, and money exchanged hands. How can it get any better! 🙂
I’ll do a recap of how I did later. For now, all the photo’s from Fri. night are here on my Flickr site.
