We left off at Tuesday. As far as I can see there is only one new show on Tuesdays that is worth watching, "My Name is Earl". There are a few good show returning on ABC for Tuesdays, but as far as new shows go this is it. This is hands down the best show on NBC right now. I'm going to say it's the best new show this year. It could also be the best show on television right now. NBC needed to pull out the big guns this season and they did with "My Name is Earl".
I really can't say much about Wednesday. There aren't any new shows that I would watch on Wednesday. ABC and CBS both have moved some of their seasoned veterans to Wednesday night, but there really isn't anything new worth talking about.
Thursday night belongs to UPN. At 7:00 a great new show "Everybody Hates Chris" is on. I give the name of the show a 1 out of 10 on originality, but the shows content makes the name forgivable. Following at 7:30 is a show called "Love, Inc." The matchmaker premise has not done well on television, but this show approaches it a little better than shows like "Miss Match". I am clearly not this show's target audience and I'll admit it really isn't the type of sitcom I would normally watch. However, being on right after "Chris" and the alternatives being the second half of Survivor or O.C., I think this show has potential to be around next year. Also there are a few characters on the show that just have me rolling.
Friday has never been a big television night. I think FOX is putting Malcom in the Middle out to pasture by moving them to Friday. It seems the WB are taking their turn being the Friday night sitcom station. New to their Friday line up is "Twins". I imagine it took all of 30 seconds to come up with this program idea, but they've done something right. I don't know if it's the cast or the writing, but something draws me to this show.
Just remember, whether your watching some tired old sitcom or Law & Order spin off, you do have a choice. You don't have to watch that awful reality programming. Let the networks know that we won't tolerate "reality" anymore.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Friday, September 23, 2005
You Have Options....Stop Feeding the Disease
It was the first week of new fall television. I have to say that I am partly responsible for the scope of television over the past few years. When reality television had it's first boom, right around the first Survivor, I watched. It just keeps getting worse and worse. I turned into that guy who complained about how reality television sucked, but continued to watch it because I claimed there was nothing else on. I'm not feeding that beast anymore. I do not and will not watch reality television. It is bad. I feel guilty watching the news, because it's too reality driven for me. I want writers and actors and sets. All of you out there that know how bad reality television is...just...stop...watching.
I offer you the alternatives. This is what I've seen from the shows I watched this week.
I'll start off on Sunday. In addition to the already popular Desperate Housewives, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, and Grey's Anatomy, there is a new show of which I caught a glimpse. It's called "The War at Home" starring Michael Rapaport. His constant uneasiness with every situation that arises is funny enough. The situations you can relate to although they are often taken to the extremes of our imagination which you can tell is definitely a goal of the show. I am going to definitely suggest you watch this one along with the rest of the Fox line up on Sundays and Tivo (or record like we do...the old fashion way) the ABC shows for later viewing. Also, I've found that Desperate Housewives is better to watch taped because you can go back and watch parts you missed when you were laughing or gasping and skip the commercials when they leave you in suspense.
Monday night could possibly the strongest night of television. It is shame that they put so many good shows on one night, because that means that some of them are doomed and also that the rest of the week is filled crappy reality television. I'll start with CBS. Two popular returning shows at 7:00 and 8:00 (all times central), The Kings of Queens and Two and a Half Men. It's obvious that CBS hopes that these two can carry the show at the 7:30 and 8:30 time slots. The 7:30 slot, How I Met Your Mother, has a very good premise. In fact if they could just make some slight adjustments it could be more popular than "Friends". The biggest downside to this show is the character played by Neil Patrick Harris (formerly Doogie Howser, M.D.), he has got to go. His character really isn't that relevant and is obviously the Steve Urkel of the show trying to get America to say "Suit Up". The show at 8:30, Out of Practice, has some very redeeming qualities in the characters. This is however overshadowed by the poor acting. The show actually has a good setup and depending on how they develop the charactersand how much the acting improves (I'm so disappointed in you Henry Winkler) it could turn out to be a worth while sitcom.
On Fox, you'll catch Arrested Development at 7:00. It's the best show your not watching. Fox is hurting themselves by moving this show around, they did the same thing to Family Guy the first go round and the number 1 reason people stopped watching Family Guy is because the didn't know when it was on. The first episode of this season is probably the funniest one to date. If your watching something else tape this you won't regret it. Following is Kitchen Confidential. I'm giving it shot next week, because I can't stand to watch another episode of grown up Doogie Howser. 8:00 brings Prison Break, I hear nothing but good things, unfortunately I have yet to see it, and it's on the same time as Monday Night Football. Maybe I'll get the Season 1 DVD next year.
The other show which is definitely worth watching and is competing with Monday Night Football is Just Legal on the WB right after the long running 7th Heaven. I don't know why, but the first episode was shown on Wednesday night in a perfect time slot, now the WB decides to doom one of the best new television shows this year by putting it in this time slot. Booooo. Bad move.
I'm going to cut this short and continue ranting about new television shows next week.
I offer you the alternatives. This is what I've seen from the shows I watched this week.
I'll start off on Sunday. In addition to the already popular Desperate Housewives, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, and Grey's Anatomy, there is a new show of which I caught a glimpse. It's called "The War at Home" starring Michael Rapaport. His constant uneasiness with every situation that arises is funny enough. The situations you can relate to although they are often taken to the extremes of our imagination which you can tell is definitely a goal of the show. I am going to definitely suggest you watch this one along with the rest of the Fox line up on Sundays and Tivo (or record like we do...the old fashion way) the ABC shows for later viewing. Also, I've found that Desperate Housewives is better to watch taped because you can go back and watch parts you missed when you were laughing or gasping and skip the commercials when they leave you in suspense.
Monday night could possibly the strongest night of television. It is shame that they put so many good shows on one night, because that means that some of them are doomed and also that the rest of the week is filled crappy reality television. I'll start with CBS. Two popular returning shows at 7:00 and 8:00 (all times central), The Kings of Queens and Two and a Half Men. It's obvious that CBS hopes that these two can carry the show at the 7:30 and 8:30 time slots. The 7:30 slot, How I Met Your Mother, has a very good premise. In fact if they could just make some slight adjustments it could be more popular than "Friends". The biggest downside to this show is the character played by Neil Patrick Harris (formerly Doogie Howser, M.D.), he has got to go. His character really isn't that relevant and is obviously the Steve Urkel of the show trying to get America to say "Suit Up". The show at 8:30, Out of Practice, has some very redeeming qualities in the characters. This is however overshadowed by the poor acting. The show actually has a good setup and depending on how they develop the charactersand how much the acting improves (I'm so disappointed in you Henry Winkler) it could turn out to be a worth while sitcom.
On Fox, you'll catch Arrested Development at 7:00. It's the best show your not watching. Fox is hurting themselves by moving this show around, they did the same thing to Family Guy the first go round and the number 1 reason people stopped watching Family Guy is because the didn't know when it was on. The first episode of this season is probably the funniest one to date. If your watching something else tape this you won't regret it. Following is Kitchen Confidential. I'm giving it shot next week, because I can't stand to watch another episode of grown up Doogie Howser. 8:00 brings Prison Break, I hear nothing but good things, unfortunately I have yet to see it, and it's on the same time as Monday Night Football. Maybe I'll get the Season 1 DVD next year.
The other show which is definitely worth watching and is competing with Monday Night Football is Just Legal on the WB right after the long running 7th Heaven. I don't know why, but the first episode was shown on Wednesday night in a perfect time slot, now the WB decides to doom one of the best new television shows this year by putting it in this time slot. Booooo. Bad move.
I'm going to cut this short and continue ranting about new television shows next week.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
A Fool for an iPod
While your making your way through Chicago, or where you may be, take a look around. You see them on trains, buses, people walking around, those tiny wires that connect people's heads to their pockets. It's what you hear when your sitting next to someone and thinking, "I can hear the voices in that guy's head". The beloved MP3 player.
Take a closer look and you'll see people like me, big headphones connected to a CD player. I must be so behind the times. How can I not have one? It matches all of the clothes I own. Everyone knows that I don't have one, they can still see. Why don't I just get one so the world will stop worrying about me.
I don't want one....
First of all the MP3 player is still in its infancy. The amzing advances that we will see made to the MP3 in the coming years will probably prompt me to get one, but for now they are nothing. Most people use their MP3 players for one thing...listen to music. Most MP3 players can do alot more. Aside from not being aware of the things you can do with it, most everyone would find the other uses, useless.
One of top deciding factors when purchasing an mp3 player is memory. Everyone thinks they need this big 40gb hard drive so they have all sorts of music to choose from at any given time. Studies show however that most people only keep enough songs on their devices to fill up an iPod shuffle....1gb. Also, consumers seem to be down on flash memory. The truth is flash memory is faster, it will skip less than that ulrtaslow harddrive in your full sized ipod. Flash memory is also gettting cheaper by the day. Why spend all of that money on something you'll barely use. Right now 1gb flash memory cards are the highest, but were very close to having 20gb flash memory cards being on the market.
If your such a gadget freak that you need 1 gadget to do one job then at least get something that you can exchange memory with. Why not get a flash memory mp3 player, chances are if your a gadget guru that can afford a $300 ipod then you have a digital camera too, and maybe something else that uses the same type of memory. Then again if you anything about gadgets, you'll know that you can get an mp3 player on anything nowadays. The most common being a Palm top Computer or PDA. It costs about the same price and can do lots, lots more than just play music.
I would almost swear that someone's nerves were connect by that tiny white cord connecting the earbuds. Why is this the chosen speaker for music lovers. Those tiny circle have the poorest sound quality. I thought if you loved music you got a bigger stereo, with bigger speaker so you could hear more depth. I suppose as long as it looks cool with your jacket and doesn't mess up your hair, then anythings good for listening to your music collection.
I'm not looking down on anyone for owning these cool, little gadgets, I promise. I just don't see where the need for this specified device came from. All of you trendy, hipsters sleep safe knowing there is one less person out there after your iPod. It is the number 1 target for theives now. It's worth more than what's usually found in a wallet.
Someday one of these genius marketing professionals will add something that will make me want one. Until then, I'll just go about listening to my headphones, one cd at a time....dreaming of a palmtop computer that I can listen to music on while I read an e-book or play a game or write a work of prose or take a picture at all of the people whose heads are attached by those tiny white wires.
Take a closer look and you'll see people like me, big headphones connected to a CD player. I must be so behind the times. How can I not have one? It matches all of the clothes I own. Everyone knows that I don't have one, they can still see. Why don't I just get one so the world will stop worrying about me.
I don't want one....
First of all the MP3 player is still in its infancy. The amzing advances that we will see made to the MP3 in the coming years will probably prompt me to get one, but for now they are nothing. Most people use their MP3 players for one thing...listen to music. Most MP3 players can do alot more. Aside from not being aware of the things you can do with it, most everyone would find the other uses, useless.
One of top deciding factors when purchasing an mp3 player is memory. Everyone thinks they need this big 40gb hard drive so they have all sorts of music to choose from at any given time. Studies show however that most people only keep enough songs on their devices to fill up an iPod shuffle....1gb. Also, consumers seem to be down on flash memory. The truth is flash memory is faster, it will skip less than that ulrtaslow harddrive in your full sized ipod. Flash memory is also gettting cheaper by the day. Why spend all of that money on something you'll barely use. Right now 1gb flash memory cards are the highest, but were very close to having 20gb flash memory cards being on the market.
If your such a gadget freak that you need 1 gadget to do one job then at least get something that you can exchange memory with. Why not get a flash memory mp3 player, chances are if your a gadget guru that can afford a $300 ipod then you have a digital camera too, and maybe something else that uses the same type of memory. Then again if you anything about gadgets, you'll know that you can get an mp3 player on anything nowadays. The most common being a Palm top Computer or PDA. It costs about the same price and can do lots, lots more than just play music.
I would almost swear that someone's nerves were connect by that tiny white cord connecting the earbuds. Why is this the chosen speaker for music lovers. Those tiny circle have the poorest sound quality. I thought if you loved music you got a bigger stereo, with bigger speaker so you could hear more depth. I suppose as long as it looks cool with your jacket and doesn't mess up your hair, then anythings good for listening to your music collection.
I'm not looking down on anyone for owning these cool, little gadgets, I promise. I just don't see where the need for this specified device came from. All of you trendy, hipsters sleep safe knowing there is one less person out there after your iPod. It is the number 1 target for theives now. It's worth more than what's usually found in a wallet.
Someday one of these genius marketing professionals will add something that will make me want one. Until then, I'll just go about listening to my headphones, one cd at a time....dreaming of a palmtop computer that I can listen to music on while I read an e-book or play a game or write a work of prose or take a picture at all of the people whose heads are attached by those tiny white wires.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Help Me, Help You
Earlier this week I submitted a form in order to donate my car to Hurricane Katrina Relief fund. I don't really have a lot of money to give to the cause and it's definitely a cause that needs to be given to. That's when I decided that my car should go to a better cause.
The car is about 12 years old and has the mileage to go along with it. It is however a great little car. It is not a wreck. Its runs very well, the only thing that effects its performance is the battery. The car has been sitting for months and the battery needs to be charged. It really doesn't matter because even as scrap metal it would make a decent donation to the cause.
Unforunately for me and for the people who have already been through so much down south they didn't take it. They refused to accept my car for donation. The reason given was that the car was too old and had too many miles on it.
Why? That's their purpose. This is what they do. Now I can add them to the list of lazy people. They are right there with co-workers and fast food restaurant employees and Customer Support call centers employees. It's funny because it really doesn't effect me, since I'm not getting any money for it anyhow.
You know I try and try and try and get a lot of unnecessary hurdles from a lot of ignorant people. I'm just trying to help out why would someone want to stop that. I'm started to believe the trashy media now. Maybe, people out there are out to ruin the South somehow. How many different times have we heard about how slow it took to get aid to the disaster area. How many times have we heard of others getting blocked from helping out.
You know it's no wonder people don't like to help out in time of crisis. No one wants to make it easy for you. At work, our parent company instituted a matching donation plan where the company would donate equal to the some of all of its employee's donations. The procedure to make the donation was so overly complicated that some of my coworker gave up on trying to donate. I'm sure they put their money in some other way, but it was just rediculous.
Final Scream: WE'RE TRYING TO HELP! PLEASE LET US!!!
The car is about 12 years old and has the mileage to go along with it. It is however a great little car. It is not a wreck. Its runs very well, the only thing that effects its performance is the battery. The car has been sitting for months and the battery needs to be charged. It really doesn't matter because even as scrap metal it would make a decent donation to the cause.
Unforunately for me and for the people who have already been through so much down south they didn't take it. They refused to accept my car for donation. The reason given was that the car was too old and had too many miles on it.
Why? That's their purpose. This is what they do. Now I can add them to the list of lazy people. They are right there with co-workers and fast food restaurant employees and Customer Support call centers employees. It's funny because it really doesn't effect me, since I'm not getting any money for it anyhow.
You know I try and try and try and get a lot of unnecessary hurdles from a lot of ignorant people. I'm just trying to help out why would someone want to stop that. I'm started to believe the trashy media now. Maybe, people out there are out to ruin the South somehow. How many different times have we heard about how slow it took to get aid to the disaster area. How many times have we heard of others getting blocked from helping out.
You know it's no wonder people don't like to help out in time of crisis. No one wants to make it easy for you. At work, our parent company instituted a matching donation plan where the company would donate equal to the some of all of its employee's donations. The procedure to make the donation was so overly complicated that some of my coworker gave up on trying to donate. I'm sure they put their money in some other way, but it was just rediculous.
Final Scream: WE'RE TRYING TO HELP! PLEASE LET US!!!
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Stop the Spamming
I'm sick of it. I don't mind whatever gets missed in the filters on my e-mail. I don't care about seeing ads on website. I don't even mind pop-ups all that much. It has gone too far.
Spamming my blog now. Why?
I don't want your golf tip of the day. I don't want to refinance anything. I don't want to join your online poder room. Even if I did, it is not a reply to post on my blog.
This is going to cause me to stop blogging or at least using this service. I don't want it if I have to put up with these losers.
So help me, if one of you spammers or advertisers respond to this I'm gonna....
AARRRGGGHHHH!!!
It won't matter because the jerks don't even read the blog they just put their crap into the comments section.
Do other blog sites have this problem? Maybe its time for me to find out. Blogger better do something about this. They are ruining this for me and everyone else out there, just trying to have some fun.
P.S.
I WON THE XBOX 360!!!
Spamming my blog now. Why?
I don't want your golf tip of the day. I don't want to refinance anything. I don't want to join your online poder room. Even if I did, it is not a reply to post on my blog.
This is going to cause me to stop blogging or at least using this service. I don't want it if I have to put up with these losers.
So help me, if one of you spammers or advertisers respond to this I'm gonna....
AARRRGGGHHHH!!!
It won't matter because the jerks don't even read the blog they just put their crap into the comments section.
Do other blog sites have this problem? Maybe its time for me to find out. Blogger better do something about this. They are ruining this for me and everyone else out there, just trying to have some fun.
P.S.
I WON THE XBOX 360!!!
Monday, September 12, 2005
The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Alright, here's the deal. I've been trying to win an Xbox 360 in the Mountain Dew drawing every 10 minutes. I put a total of about 7 entries in the 6:00 pm eastern drawing on Friday 9/9/05. This was what time I got off of work. I didn't get to look at the internet all weekend and when I finally did this morning I saw...on the winner's board....in the 6:00 pm eastern timeslot...on the Friday 9/9/05 calendar day....the initials....A.M.....followed by the city/state, Chicago, IL....That's me!
Now I had entered a few times before, I like Pepsi products and there no use wasting the codes when the prize is an Xbox 360 before you can buy it. I hadn't put any codes in for a few days at least and then I see this. My problem if you haven't seen the contest site is that they don't tell you the winner's name. Living in a city with a couple million people there is bound to be someone else with the same initials as me. There are definitely other Chicagoans who drink Mountain Dew and Pepsi. Some of these people enter this contest, I know because I've seen other winners from the Windy City. But, to meet all of those criteria and enter in the contest on the same day, with the same 10 minutes time slot...what are the chances?
Now the website says that you will be notified within 72 hours if you won, just in case someone does have the same initals, in the same city, yadda yadda yadda. So I should be expecting to get my e-mail and updated account history page tomorrow or assume that I am not the winner.
So I get on the Xbox 360 forums and start reading what others experiences had been. Apparently there are a few people that have thought they won, but didn't because someone else had a matching description. I could live with this. I would be a little disheartened, but I could live knowing that someone else won. I had not one before and I probably won't be the winner sometime again in the future. Then I found people who didn't get notification until 130 hours after they won. This is where I'm having a problem.
I would just hate to lose all of this time I could have been entering codes into the contest. I get the codes anyway, I drink Pepsi, they are sitting in my messenger bag. Do I give them away, throw them out. You can only win once so entering them in may be useless. It's the not knowing that I can't stand. I've already found out from my fellow Xbox forum members that calling is useless, they won't release the list until the contest is over and they won't tell you if it's your name or not. You just have to wait.
So, frantically...all day...I've been checking back on the website and checking my e-mail hoping for some new information. My 72 hours should be up at 5:00 tonight (Chicago time). It's driving me crazy. If I don't know soon I may explode. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do if I don't get notification by tomorrow. I just have this feeling that it has to be me.
I suppose I will continue to drink my Pepsi. I will let my messenger bag fill up with with plastic bottle caps. I will continue to frantically checking my e-mail and checking my "Account History" section of every10minutes.com. I will keep realizing that Tom Petty was right...The Waiting is the Hardest Part.
Now I had entered a few times before, I like Pepsi products and there no use wasting the codes when the prize is an Xbox 360 before you can buy it. I hadn't put any codes in for a few days at least and then I see this. My problem if you haven't seen the contest site is that they don't tell you the winner's name. Living in a city with a couple million people there is bound to be someone else with the same initials as me. There are definitely other Chicagoans who drink Mountain Dew and Pepsi. Some of these people enter this contest, I know because I've seen other winners from the Windy City. But, to meet all of those criteria and enter in the contest on the same day, with the same 10 minutes time slot...what are the chances?
Now the website says that you will be notified within 72 hours if you won, just in case someone does have the same initals, in the same city, yadda yadda yadda. So I should be expecting to get my e-mail and updated account history page tomorrow or assume that I am not the winner.
So I get on the Xbox 360 forums and start reading what others experiences had been. Apparently there are a few people that have thought they won, but didn't because someone else had a matching description. I could live with this. I would be a little disheartened, but I could live knowing that someone else won. I had not one before and I probably won't be the winner sometime again in the future. Then I found people who didn't get notification until 130 hours after they won. This is where I'm having a problem.
I would just hate to lose all of this time I could have been entering codes into the contest. I get the codes anyway, I drink Pepsi, they are sitting in my messenger bag. Do I give them away, throw them out. You can only win once so entering them in may be useless. It's the not knowing that I can't stand. I've already found out from my fellow Xbox forum members that calling is useless, they won't release the list until the contest is over and they won't tell you if it's your name or not. You just have to wait.
So, frantically...all day...I've been checking back on the website and checking my e-mail hoping for some new information. My 72 hours should be up at 5:00 tonight (Chicago time). It's driving me crazy. If I don't know soon I may explode. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do if I don't get notification by tomorrow. I just have this feeling that it has to be me.
I suppose I will continue to drink my Pepsi. I will let my messenger bag fill up with with plastic bottle caps. I will continue to frantically checking my e-mail and checking my "Account History" section of every10minutes.com. I will keep realizing that Tom Petty was right...The Waiting is the Hardest Part.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Quick Pick
I'm keeping it light on this Friday. I'm just going to throw out the weekend NFL picks. I only have 5 teams winning at home. I guess by Monday we'll see how I end up.
Tampa Bay over Minnesota
Denver over Miami
Tennessee loses at Pittsburgh
Chicago over Washington
New Orleans over Carolina
Seattle over Jacksonville
Houston loses to Buffalo
Cincinnati over Cleveland
Jets over Kansas City
Green Bay over Detroit
Dallas loses at San Diego
St. Louis over San Francisco
Arizona loses at the Giants
Indianapolis over Baltimore
Philadelphia loses at Atlanta on Monday Night
Enjoy the first weekend of football.
Tampa Bay over Minnesota
Denver over Miami
Tennessee loses at Pittsburgh
Chicago over Washington
New Orleans over Carolina
Seattle over Jacksonville
Houston loses to Buffalo
Cincinnati over Cleveland
Jets over Kansas City
Green Bay over Detroit
Dallas loses at San Diego
St. Louis over San Francisco
Arizona loses at the Giants
Indianapolis over Baltimore
Philadelphia loses at Atlanta on Monday Night
Enjoy the first weekend of football.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Football
It's time. It's finally here...football season. I'm going to talk long term here, hopefully I'll still be writing these things so you can look back at my predictions.
First and foremost I'm a Rams fan. This season they will have 10+ wins in the regular season and end up losing in the playoffs somewhere.
The pathetic Detroit Lions will make a good run toward the end of the season and either barely miss the playoffs or lose in a wild card game.
I know I say this every year, but the Indianapolis Colts are one of the best teams in the league. The Colts will make it far this year, if they can use their obvious skills to get to the Super Bowl, then the championship ring is theirs.
The Atlanta Falcons will the Colts biggest challenge. The Falcons have a Super Bowl worthy team and going to want to make it happen this year. They will probably win 13+ games in the regular season.
The Patriots attempt at the first Super Bowl three peat will be unsuccessful. They will have 10 or less wins in the regular season and not even make it to the big game.
The Saints are "Flip a Coin" choice this year. They will either have their worst year or their best year this season, but not in between.
The Packers need to win a Super Bowl one last time before Favre leaves them forever. That will be the only thing on their mind the entire season. Either Favre will have an injury that causes him to miss a few games, the team's desperation for one last Favre Super Bowl ring will cause them make rookie mistakes and ultimately lose games, or a combination of the two happen.
The Chiefs will make the playoffs and lose somewhere in the midst of a Super Bowl run.
The Cowboys will only win about a third of their games.
The Dolphins will not have a shot at the playoffs, but will win at least 6 games.
The Titans won't even be newsworthy if one of their players is found taking steroids.
The Arizona Cardinals will have a good season, but will have a tough run at a playoff spot toward the end of the season.
You can count the Redskins, Bears, Bengals, and Browns out of the playoffs.
The Chargers will be the team this year that has great stats, but a tough time winning, put their offense and special teams on your fantasy team.
As far as the Super Bowl goes, it would be nice to see an NFC win, but I'm afraid that the AFC will probably take it again.
Enjoy the season!
First and foremost I'm a Rams fan. This season they will have 10+ wins in the regular season and end up losing in the playoffs somewhere.
The pathetic Detroit Lions will make a good run toward the end of the season and either barely miss the playoffs or lose in a wild card game.
I know I say this every year, but the Indianapolis Colts are one of the best teams in the league. The Colts will make it far this year, if they can use their obvious skills to get to the Super Bowl, then the championship ring is theirs.
The Atlanta Falcons will the Colts biggest challenge. The Falcons have a Super Bowl worthy team and going to want to make it happen this year. They will probably win 13+ games in the regular season.
The Patriots attempt at the first Super Bowl three peat will be unsuccessful. They will have 10 or less wins in the regular season and not even make it to the big game.
The Saints are "Flip a Coin" choice this year. They will either have their worst year or their best year this season, but not in between.
The Packers need to win a Super Bowl one last time before Favre leaves them forever. That will be the only thing on their mind the entire season. Either Favre will have an injury that causes him to miss a few games, the team's desperation for one last Favre Super Bowl ring will cause them make rookie mistakes and ultimately lose games, or a combination of the two happen.
The Chiefs will make the playoffs and lose somewhere in the midst of a Super Bowl run.
The Cowboys will only win about a third of their games.
The Dolphins will not have a shot at the playoffs, but will win at least 6 games.
The Titans won't even be newsworthy if one of their players is found taking steroids.
The Arizona Cardinals will have a good season, but will have a tough run at a playoff spot toward the end of the season.
You can count the Redskins, Bears, Bengals, and Browns out of the playoffs.
The Chargers will be the team this year that has great stats, but a tough time winning, put their offense and special teams on your fantasy team.
As far as the Super Bowl goes, it would be nice to see an NFC win, but I'm afraid that the AFC will probably take it again.
Enjoy the season!
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Baby Steps
Our computers are always out of date. We go out and buy the top of the line, with the most memory, the biggest hard drive, the most up-to-date software. Then two months later it's old, slow, and practically obsolete. This my friends is a ploy, these companies are taking baby steps toward progression in consumer computers.
Oh look, now we can operate at 1 Gigahertz. Oh look, now you can have a full Gigabyte of RAM. Wow, you can give me a hard drive with 120 Gigabytes of free space what will I do with all of that....and then your computer is full...slow...and your seeing your computer on eBay for half of what you paid for it.....then it's brand new for half of what you paid and the latest and greatest makes your computer look like a typewriter.
Well, it's about time someone took a giant leap in the industry. Thank you AtomChip for putting something out there that is going to take another giant leap to surpass or even equate it, and in a notebook no less. The AtomChip SG220-2 runs it's own processor at 6.8 GHZ, gives you 1TB of RAM and 2TB HDD. No I didn't mistype that isn't an error it is a "T" not a "G". Check out what else it has to offer at http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html (that is an underscore not a space before the "w"). The only downside is that it is coming soon and not already here. No prices were given. I sure hope that this new trend picks up and teaches it's competitors a thing or two about power.
Oh look, now we can operate at 1 Gigahertz. Oh look, now you can have a full Gigabyte of RAM. Wow, you can give me a hard drive with 120 Gigabytes of free space what will I do with all of that....and then your computer is full...slow...and your seeing your computer on eBay for half of what you paid for it.....then it's brand new for half of what you paid and the latest and greatest makes your computer look like a typewriter.
Well, it's about time someone took a giant leap in the industry. Thank you AtomChip for putting something out there that is going to take another giant leap to surpass or even equate it, and in a notebook no less. The AtomChip SG220-2 runs it's own processor at 6.8 GHZ, gives you 1TB of RAM and 2TB HDD. No I didn't mistype that isn't an error it is a "T" not a "G". Check out what else it has to offer at http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html (that is an underscore not a space before the "w"). The only downside is that it is coming soon and not already here. No prices were given. I sure hope that this new trend picks up and teaches it's competitors a thing or two about power.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Back to the Grind
Having Monday off is nice, but it just ruins my Tuesday. The 4-3 ratio is much more fair than the 5-2 week we currently have. What moron came up with this? It sure wasn't anyone who enjoyed weekends. It must have been Hitler. It's one thing to ask for a certain number of hours a week 40, 30, 20, whatever. Then, you also have to coordinate your hours with everyone else's. Just because you want to come a few hours here a few hours there over five days, doesn't mean anyone else does. I would much rather just go to work for 40 hours straight, it's less than 2 days. I would then sleep for the third day enjoy the other 4 with sleep here and there and then go back for 2 more the next week. It wouldn't have to be Monday and Tuesday, it could be any 2 days. If I wanted to, I could 80 in the same week and that would have me caught up for the next week and I just wouldn't come in that following week or whenever it suited me to take off. I also could build up as much of this work-ahead time as I want. Theorectically making it possible to finish my year early and take a couple of months off of work. In exchange for this schedule I would ask for no paid holiday, sick, or vacation time off. That means that I would actually work more per year than what the average worker works now. Does this not sound like a fair trade?
Friday, September 02, 2005
A nice break
Labor Day? What the hell is that? I don't care All I know is that after 2:00 this afternoon I don't have to be back at work until Tuesday. I'm going to enjoy it whatever it is.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Democratic Spouse
Recent Event brought this to the front of my mind. Also, this is not a political view just an observation, this will not try to sway you either way. Why can't Democrats just keep their spouses chained up in the basement. Bob Creamer, Hilary Clinton, Tipper Gore, Namely. They can't stay under the radar. Whether they're committing a crime or trying to make an effort against something that is just going to end up making themself look stupid...that's right Tipper I'm looking at you. Or their only motive is to further themselves, not society. I'm not trying to limit anyone's free speech. Also, I'm sure that someone can come up with instances of Republicans being the same way. I just wish they could learn to smile and nod.
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