March 23, 2005
The Wonders of TiVo
Well, during my recent slackoff of blogging, I got a TiVo for Christmas.
Let me tell you, it really is as good as people claim. It has 100% changed the way that my wife and I watch TV. No more worrying about when certain programs come on TV. No more missing Shows that I like. No more sitting down and saying "There's nothing on worth watching".
If the munchkin stays up late, or a phone call comes during a good show, its no problem at all. I just hit pause. I can come back to that show whenever I want to.
The only things I watch live any more are Sports (And now that Wake Forest is out of the NCAA Tournament, there won't be much of that for a while.) and 24. And 24 is only because I can only TiVo one show at a time.
Plus, now I can download TiVoed shows to my PC and burn DVDs. My son has a new DVD filled with Thomas the Tank Engine shows, and I have a couple more I need to burn over to DVD waiting for me.
All I have to do is set it up with the shows I want to watch, and presto. It automatically seeks thsoe shows out, regardless of what time they come on, and they are sitting there waiting for me.
The only downside at first is feeling like you have to watch it all. Eventually, you realize you can't. But Any time I sit down and feel like watching Modern marvels on History Channel, I know I'm gonna have a few of them taped. Same with any other show that I want to see. Its a really nice feeling.
Shameless Plug: And if you do happen to get one based on my recommendation, feel free to give my email address (wahooker@gmail.com) as the person who recommended it to you.
Rathergate redux
According to Power Line, it looks like someone else is trying to pass of some forged documents to the Media in an attempt at a political dirty trick.
This time, its an unsigned, suspicious memo purportedly sent to republicans suggesting that they take advantage of the Terri Schiavo case to score political points.
Take a look at the link above, to see the reseach Power Line has done on this one.
March 22, 2005
Your joke for the day
Got this one from Snopes.com
There was this little boy about 12 years old walking down the sidewalk dragging a flattened frog on a string behind him. He came up to the doorstep of a house of ill repute and knocked on the door.When the Madam answered it, she saw the little boy and asked what he wanted.
He said, "I want to have sex with one of the women inside. I have the money to buy it, and I'm not leaving until I get it."
The Madam figured, why not, so she told him to come in. Once in, she told him to pick any of the girls he liked.
He asked, "Do any of the girls have any diseases?" Of course the Madam said no. He said, "I heard all the men talking about having to get shots after making love with Amber. THAT'S the girl I want."
Since the little boy was so adamant and had the money to pay for it, the Madam told him to go to the first room on the right. He headed down the hall dragging the squashed frog behind him.
Ten minutes later he came back, still dragging the frog, paid the Madam, and headed out the door.
The Madam stopped him and asked, "Why did you pick the only girl in the place with a disease, instead of one of the others?"
He said, "Well, if you must know, tonight when I get home, my parents are going out to a restaurant to eat, leaving me at home with a baby-sitter. After they leave, my baby-sitter will have sex with me because she just happens to be very fond of cute little boys. She will then get the disease that I just caught. When Mom and Dad get back, Dad will take the baby-sitter home. On the way, he'll jump the baby-sitter's bones, and he'll catch the disease. Then when Dad gets home from the baby-sitter's, he and Mom will go to bed and have sex, and Mom will catch it. In the morning when Dad goes to work, the Milkman will deliver the milk, have a quickie with Mom and catch the disease, and HE'S the son-of-a-bitch who ran over my FROG."
March 21, 2005
Big Goof at Google
It looks like Google has picked up a neo-Nazi site in their list of news sources for the Google News program. They need a better filter over there.
March 17, 2005
And all this time, I thought they were shooting themselves in the foot!
Mike at Cold Fury Brings up a great example of how Democrats seem to keep doing harm to themselves every time they open their mouth.
He also has a GREAT idea for a new party logo for the Democrats to use.
March 16, 2005
Timewaster of the day...
Click here and then annoy the guy by keeping the mouse pointer on his face.
March 15, 2005
To prevent road rage, all Howard Dean supporters are having their driver's licenses revoked
Well, not quite. But Big Arm Woman points out this story:
TAMPA - A Tampa man is out of jail after a possible road rage incident that gives new meaning to the term "driving left of center."Nathan Winkler, 31, was arrested overnight and charged with aggravated stalking for allegedly terrorizing a mother and her two children.
According to police, Winkler pulled up alongside Michelle Fernandez as she was headed south on Armenia and began beeping his horn and flailing his arms, pointing at her. Fernandez, meanwhile, could not see Winkler's face because of a handmade sign in his window that read, "Never forget Bush's illegal oil war murdered thousands in Iraq."
"Apparently, this starts over political views or bumper stickers. She had a Bush/Cheney sticker on the back of her car. There's just no excuse for it to escalate to what it did," observed Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin.
Winkler apparently grew more agitated as they continued to drive along, allegedly trying to run Fernandez's car off the road several times over the next few miles.
The 34-year-old grew increasingly concerned for herself and her two children in the car and called 911. Action News obtained recordings of those calls, in which the fear in her voice is evident.
No one would answer the door at Winkler's South Tampa home.
"Look, he's trying to run me off the road," she is heard telling the 911 dispatcher. "Look at him. You [censored] idiot! Whatever, you moron! Get away from me."
"I was blowing my horn at someone because I'm running stop signs and everything to get away from him," she added later.
But investigators say even that did not stop Winkler from pulling in front of Fernandez and forcing her to stop. As he tried to run up to her car, she drove away and was headed to police district headquarters when she finally managed to lose Winkler.
Cops caught up with Winkler at his home not long afterwards, where he reportedly blamed Fernandez for starting the altercation by making an obscene gesture. He was booked into jail on a charge of aggravated stalking, but was free by morning on $2,000 bond.
Back at home Wednesday morning, Winkler declined to answer the door. From inside, a female voice told Action News that the incident was simply a "misunderstanding" with another driver.
Fernandez, meanwhile, could not be reached for comment.
Statistics to back up what I've been saying all along...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. media coverage of last year's election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush than Democratic challenger John Kerry, according to a study released Monday.
The annual report by a press watchdog that is affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism said that 36 percent of stories about Bush were negative compared to 12 percent about Kerry, a Massachusetts senator.
I thought William Wallace was Scottish, not Lebanese
Compare with this quote from Braveheart:
Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take away our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
