i guess the gap didn't last long

with my second iPod also biting the dust a few months back (apparently, the software wasn't fast enough for my very quick thumb - and just quit on me), i was wondering if i should still go for an MP3 player, considering i already have my Jesus Phone (refurbed and still ticking - take that, 3G!) and the Touch was a ... touch too expensive for its specs (but once you've tried CoverFlow, you really gotta have it).

along comes the wife who probably saw me not just once surfing the Apple website and looking forlornly at the iPod page. surprised the hell out of me today, and i'm even reluctant to take it out of its wrappings because its so cool. a black 120Gb classic will go a long way. its not a Touch, but its the best thing for these times. hopefully, it would keep up with my Flash-like fingers this time.


thanks, booboo. (now i have to think hard on what to get you for yours)

Jeff Bezos is sweating.

uh oh. here comes a new revolution.

you never know who's under the mask

infiltration, via Flickr.

come on
let me hear you say
F the RIAA

teh Microsoft world

flyboys

the good thing about this is, it actually gave some people a legit excuse in coming to work late.

playoffs?

just because. never gets old.

shame on you, Time Warner.

don't celebrate yet

from caglecartoons.com

verily, 'tis a foolish, foolish thing. word.

and they'll sell us the cable they'll hang us with

Cable companies want to gouge us a lot more, says this NYT article:

The cost of providing Internet service is about to fall even more, as cable companies install new technology, called Docsis 3, that will both increase their capacity and allow them to offer much faster download speeds.

So far, however, companies in the United States have chosen to use Docsis 3 as an opportunity to offer far more expensive Internet plans. Comcast has introduced a new 50-megabit-per-second service at $139 a month, compared with its existing service that costs about $45 a month for 8 megabits per second. Time Warner just announced it will charge $99 for 50 megabits per second.

By contrast, JCom, the largest cable company in Japan, sells service as fast as 160 megabits per second for $60 a month, only $5 a month more than its slower service.

Why so cheap? JCom faces more competition from other Internet providers than companies in the United States do.

the restaurant bill analogy does not apply for cable. you set up all-in-one plans to lure customers, then you complain of the usage. tell you what - open up a la carte service for cable TV channels and maybe we can discuss this usage pricing thing for the Internet.

TPDTA* speaks!

what? you didn't see this coming? after all the pre-season hype of me going over to the Dark Side? really?

i wish you all could have been looking at a mirror at the end of the last episode - man, that was a gas. totally hilarious. it also gave me great pleasure to kill that douchebag Larry Moss. i did him a favor. he would have gotten some blame for this fiasco anyway. he'd end up being reassigned to a desk job in the Mesquite field office. that's a fate worse than death.

Jack's been a good friend and all, and i hate to do this to him. but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Jack had his great run, although between you and me, he should have been executed by the Chinese.

now its Tony Almeida time. its my time to shine, dammit! (that's a nice change from "dammit, there's no time!")

if you guys still want a Bauer headlining "24", well, Kim Bauer can always team up with me. you know i always had eyes for that yummy dish. i couldn't be worse than a hockey player. as a matter of fact, i can kick a hockey player's ass.

so there you go kids. there's a new sheriff in town.

(Kim Bauer, yummmmmmm....)

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*the perpetually-dour tony almeida

of course, we all start at Google.

master is drunk

yeah, screw chaos and just embrace the sweet muzzled life of your order.

boo-hoo-hoo

give me a zero out of your income figure to add to mine, and let's see how you whine, "good old middle class" whiny fuck. you all have too much of a sense of entitlement - try living frugally, bastards.

taxation with representation

yeah, i know times are hard and taxes are a killer, but these people need some perspective, courtesy of the Daily Show.

do you know a Hamilton who isn't ridiculously tanned?

well, i guess Linda Hamilton isn't, is she?

paying thru the nose

in this economy? i think my $70 Toyota Center seat was much better than a $5 bleacher seat.

now let us call on Hydra ...

you do need experience!

should we plunk down $10 for this? or should we rather watch Sasha Grey's Anatomy?

oh, the horror!

here are my contributions to FrankenFlicks!

Iron Man in the Moon
+
when a struggling comedian is forced to build an armor to save his life, he decides to use this technology to pack comedy clubs and inspire future generations of stand ups.

Any Given Sunday Bloody Sunday
+
football players fancy themselves as modern day gladiators, but would they be able to stand up to British troops in a fight for their civil rights?

X2: X-Men United 93
+
the X-Men are feared and hated by the world, but they are the America's last hope to save a hijacked airliner during the dark day of September 11.

Lord of the Rings of War
+
a notorious arms dealer is conflicted on whether to help a band of gay hobbits destroy a ring that would allow the Dark Lord Sauron to rule the world or gain a lucrative deal that would make him Sauron's exclusive supplier of weapons.

and this last one is a mashup of my pal Jego's two favorite movies ever:

Crimson Prince of Tides
+
a young submarine officer stages a mutiny against his captain but checks with his psychiatrist first, eventually falling in love with her. and then all hell breaks loose.

holy $hit, taxman!

even if this isn't a scientific poll (as the CNN fine print says), the closeness of the numbers is a bit scary. it means people still want to burn whatever money they have/are getting (option a), or they already spent the goddamn thing over the last 12 months (option c).

well, does it matter to the taxman? "just give me what is due me, peons!"

goodbye, Turducken!

losers.

haven't eaten in a Domino's in two years, and now, i don't think i ever will again.

raise your daughter much better than this

no doubt, he's employed again!

good luck, FIU. considering Thomas presided over the Madison Square Garden brawl, there's always the potential for a repeat.

i should switch back to Windows now??

what th-? are you serious?

DomiNot!

yarrrrrr! its about time!

headline that would make downloaders everywhere cringe:

Pirates: Now United States Will Be Enemy Number One

wait, arent they already? you know, the RIAA, copyright infringement, and the like.

oh, those pirates.

ok. kidding aside, i don't know why these assholes are mad. you do the pirate gig, you better be prepared to take hits. what, you think we'll all cry and let you do your thing? you think you're Johnny Depp and all the women will be swooning over you? just because you have 10,000 Facebook friends ...

by the way, who is conducting these interviews and why don't they just give the location of these pirates to the awesome and badass Navy SEALS who smell like roses today? c'mon guys, kick some more ass! Hollywood is waiting.

rabbit hole

doing the obligatory rounds of visiting churches over the weekend, i found this in a prayer book.




i went, what the -!

after some soul searching researching, i realized my vocabulary is as small as a rabid, frothing Republican mind, as "ejaculation" can also mean:

A sudden short exclamation, especially a brief pious utterance or prayer.


whew! glad we cleared that up.

by the way, speaking of Republicans, this same church had a basement which served as a hall for community activities. among the tables were reading material, and upon inspection would mos def be GOP approved.


the true separation of church and state (or right-wing and Christians, depending on how you look at it) is still in a millennium far, far away.

Buffalo is the new Cincinnati

either this makes Terrell Owens look like choirboy, or his mere aura already drives his new teammates to conduct themselves in a detrimental manner. if we hear about Trent Edwards being arrested for dropkicking a child and property damage, that's it.

oh, look who likes Western stuff!

this is how you play the Wii

SNL - Alec Baldwin Playing with his Wii - watch more funny videos

thank you, Bloviator Alec Baldwin.

squeaky the mouse

yeah, you tell 'im, Roger!

where is Steven Seagal when you need him?

jolliberrycostly

very late post:

finally managed to get inside the new Jollibee in Queens, after a failed attempt. and of course, what your eyes see drives your appetite (read: takaw-mata)



so let's see: that's 3 cheeseyumburgers, a bucket of Chickenjoy, 3 spaghettis, a Peach Mango pie, and drinks. before you think am some kind of glutton, there were three of us.

so after the (burp) chowdown, what's the verdict? is it worth it?

Pros: only if you're really hungry.
Cons: y'know, for all of that, i think $45 was pushing it. that rounds up to $15 per head, and i think i can get the same for less at McDonalds. if we're going by taste, well, there's that slight hint of Manila, although the chickens here are not the same, hence the Chickenjoy left me wanting. of course, you'll never get sweet spaghetti (we saw a foreign patron actually putting salt on it) at the local McDonald's.

and then, let's just say, when i got home, i kinda had to have a reaaaaaaaaally long meeting with the President (if you catch my drift). i blame Jollibee and whatever they put in the food.


it will probably be awhile before i work up the desire to really have a Champ (now known on these shores as "Heavyweight". ugh. sounds like something cooked up by Manny Pacquaio's greedy, money-grubbing camp).



oh, well, at least i have a Jolli-bucket.

well, he was wearing Chiefs #49!

we wanna know who the best man is! is it Matt Cassel?

jiverly, heels, cops

with the twin shooting tragedies this weekend in Binghamton and Pittsburgh, once again we look back on gun laws in this country.

where do we draw the line again, with proof coming in since Columbine, that guns in the wrong hands end up creating these situations? how is it possible that the same constitution that allows people to bear arms, seem to be useless when those arms are used against the wrong targets? would justice be even enough?

hopefully the racist reaction is tempered (after V-Tech killer Cho Seung Hui, and now the weirdly named Jiverly Voong) by the fact that the Pittsburgh shooter was a white, unemployed 23 year old living with his mother.

it would be a logistical nightmare to put everyone who has a gun permit under some kind battery of psychiatric exams; for sure, a lot of psychos would still slip thru the cracks. but then again, how can you prevent something like this, short of repealing the 2nd Amendment? that would instantly create a new American revolution, since too many people are so in love with their guns.

for the brave cops who died in the line of duty in Pittsburgh, maybe they wouldn't have if no one else had guns except law enforcement people. this kind of thing doesn't happen anywhere else as frequently as it does in this country.

look, how do i know this Asian guy doesn't have two Glocks at home, and could potentially snap one day when he realizes selling fake DVDs inside laundromats isn't gonna cut it and his family's gonna go hungry?


and those are the immigrants that go nuts. equally scary are the gun rights people who keep theirs for protection but could also go crazy, and those criminals who have all those illegal guns and have no qualms about using them on anybody.


lots of questions. no easy answers. once again, weep, America.

yeah, he needs to be; otherwise how can he learn?

Netflix behind the scenes

wow. as an ex-Netflixer, i am even more amazed at the amount of work it takes to bring people their rented DVDs. though i wanted to see how they (used to?) throttle customers. or is that built in in the inventory and scheduling software?

i hate corporations ... run by stupid people.

20 days, 100 meters