In the extremely entertaining theme of faildogs.com, we have failblog.org. A word of warning though, you might find something on failblog that isn't very family friendly. So you've been warned.

This one's a classic that's been around a long time:

Driving to work,

Howard Stern and ba ba booey.

Sipping my hot Starbucks.
Laughing.

Until Eddy Murphy starts staring at me.
I try the windshield wiper washer.
Again.
Again.
Until I run dry.

Eddie.

Won't.

Go Away.

I hang a right at mile marker 257.
Tires shreak.
Cappuccino flies out my window.
I fly through the green trees.

Flipping.

Ground.

Sky.

Ground.

Sky.

I lie in smoking wreckage.

Ticking.
Hissing.

Sirens and dogs howl,

closer, closer, closer.

The face haunts me,

his face,

his face.

HIS FACE!

Eddie, please.

Get.

Out.

Of.

My.

Head.

Or at least off the 405.

This made my day

I was wondering about this the other day. I was up super late and stumbled across MASH, which, for now, is my choice. I remember watching this constantly when it was on. Even now it still holds up, imo. It's a little dated and hokey with the laugh track and stuff but it's so much better than most of the fly infested poo on these days. I'll never forget the episode when Henry Blake dies. Never. I still get choked up thinking about it.

I love other shows. Probably the runner up is the original Star Trek. But nothing really compares to the sentimental feeling I have for this show decades after it went off the air.

So what's your favorite TV show of all time? Leave a comment!

This is a picture of Nico Rossberg in his Williams F1 Car during the French Grand Prix in Magny-Cours. You can see the photographer in the picture. Looks like he's shooting with a 600mm lens on a monopod. If you're wondering about the crazy helmet, this is one of the pit crew (I'm not sure which team though). They have fully enclosed system complete with oxygen in case of a pit fire.

I found this picture here. The photographer was Andrew Ferraro from LAT Photographic. Nice job Andrew!!

Note - click on the picture for a huge version.

Check out the photos from www.boston.com of some flooding and tornados and such from Iowa. Wow.

I'm very disappointed to say that this movie sucked donkey snot. It was disjointed, boring, and just a sad, typical, mishmash of committee designed Hollywood fecal matter. You don't connect with the characters, they just seem stuck in the movie, and are completely one dimensional. Even more so than usual. They completely wasted John Hurt, Kate Blanchett, and Karen Allen (who was great to see in the movie). Not to mention Harrison Ford. Some people think he was too old for this movie. I say, nay nay. This movie failed because of the writing and directing, not because of the acting or the actors age. This movie wasn't written, it was designed. A committee sat around a conference table and brainstormed over Lattes and Frappuccinos and wrote ideas on a white board - we need an insect scene, a snake reference, a cave with skulls, a scene where they fly over the map, hey lets make Indy all warm and fuzzy and give him a happy family ending.

It's like they have a database of movie cliche's and some Mac application where they drag them around in little scene bubbles and connect them up and then print out the script. It's call Microsoft Movie Cliche Database Professional Enterprise Edition 2008 and it blue screens my machine. Hell, it blue screens the internet.

Oi. The plot. The plot was ridiculous, confusing, and didn't make sense. I knew we were in trouble from the first scene. The (non-sensical) rocket sled thingy. The refrigerator. Sigh. Though I will say there was a quick visual reference to the first movie that entertained me for about 0.25 seconds until I realized I'd rather be watching the first movie. (ooh, snap!) The ending was like they tacked on the ending from another unrelated movie. Seriously. And I think it was one of the "Mummy" movies. I think I saw Brendan Fraser dressed up as one of the rock throwing tribesmen. Instead of screaming tribal war screams, he was screaming "I hate mummies!".

Take this plot criticism from someone who is fairly lienient about plot lines, especially if there is a sci-fi element. I will forgive a dumb plot if the rest of the movie holds together, which, in this case, it didn't. This was like one of those paper towel commercials where they mop up something gelatinous with the leading brand and the brand they're selling in a head to head wipe off. Off course the "leading" brand disintegrates on contact. And, indeed, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull disintegrated on contact.

There was even these references to Indy's past during "the war" that I'm like, whu? Huh? Bwah? Did I miss something in the other movies? What in the name of all that's ancient archeology are they talking about? Did I miss a movie? W!? T!? F!?

The movie really felt like a bunch of scenes chopped together without any transitions - the first movie just flowed and was so fun from start to finish. This was like riding a broken down roller coaster with rusty chipped wheels, missing rails, and creaking supports. It just bangs and jostles you around with no finesse or style. It gets you there, and may be a bit exciting at moments, but only because you think you're going to fly off the tracks and impale your face on a Ring Toss spike.

This movie didn't work. At all. It Failed. Epically.

I blame George Lucas. They should take away his movie making license. He really flew the star wars plane into the ground. And now this. George, go jump in a lake. A deep, deep, cold, remote lake. Maybe one with a legendary sea monster hiding in it. If you like I can email you some GPS coordinates. I can arrange a Helicopter pilot.

Oh, and readers, sorry about the Donkey snot comment.

I have to say, I pretty much agree with him. Watch this video. You'll laugh, I promise.

Blogo is new blogging software for Mac OS X. I used it for a few minutes and I give it the thumbs down. I didn't like it for the following reasons:

1. Blogo didn't download my category list and give me a way that I could see to choose a category for my post. This by itself is an instant deal buster. I'm already out. Done. Kaput. And I'm a bit shocked this is missing, frankly.

2. Blogo is not WYSIWYG. It sort of is, but if you're dealing with a photo, then it inserts a little icon that represents the photo. This is frankly lame. I don't want a "Preview." I want to edit the actual post. I understand this is a hard problem to solve. But other people have solved it. If you want to be a player in this space, solve it, and solve it well. Get rid of the edit and preview metaphor. It sucks. It sucks big time.

3. Blogo posted a temporary post to my blog to get the styles of my blog to render an accurate preview. It then failed to delete the post. I had to log into my website and delete it manually. The problem with this is it will immediately get sucked up by feedburner and show up in people aggragators. This is really really lame. And it didn't tell me it was going to do this. If it did, I would have said, no fricking way you piece of poop. You lame piece of poop.

4. Editing in Blogo is freaking weird (and missing features like numbered lists). I had a picture in my post. I deleted the picture like fifty times just trying to delete a blank line above the picture in my post. Then I realized I had to drag down to the bottom of the post. WTHIAHB!? (What the hell in a hand basket?) Also really, really, REALLY lame. And frustrating. And just, well, silly. Why reinvent the wheel here? Try working like every other application on the planet, then we'll talk.

Hee hee. I submitted this picture to www.faildogs.com.

The Eye-Fi 2gb SD card automatically uploads your pictures to your website over WI-FI (here's a map of the hotspots). Seriously cool. The Eye-Fi Explore also geo-tags your photos. Eye-Fi Cards work with virtually all digital cameras that accept SD memory cards.

Teddy spent a couple of days in the hospital. Here he is on his IV drip and wrapped in a blanket.

He was extremely lethargic at this point and we really didn't have an idea of what was happening. We were very worried. It also was a difficult reminder of what we went through with Jack over the holidays. But by the end of the day he was feeling better. The hydration, stabilizing his temperature, and some medications perked him up. We left him in the hospital overnight. At around midnight he backed up the grate on his cage, like a dump truck backing up to the landfill, and let fly. Projectile style. And amid the staff diving out of the way, out shot a makeup sponge. Diagnosis complete. After that he was fine. We kept him under observation for another day but he's back to his normal self. That was the most expensive makeup sponge in the history of mankind.

Here he is about to get his followup examination yesterday, which he passed with flying colors.

Bill Wadman writes about why good lenses are critical for photography here.

I can't tell you the number of people I see who have this all wrong. Last year at the Grand Canyon, I saw a girl with a high-end Gitzo tripod, 5D body, and some crappy consumer level zoom lens on the front. Honestly, I almost pushed her over the edge.

Yesterday we noticed that Teddy was feeling lethargic and didn't have an appetite. Today he was throwing up from both ends, and was clearly very sick. I took him into the Veterinarian today and they're concerned. He'll be spending the day there and getting an IV, x-ray, and some TLC. We don't know what's wrong with him. He's only five months old!

Just upgraded to a business account with Comcast for my home internet (around $90 per month). I went with a business account because the upload speeds are faster and I get static IPs with it. They also have a promotion going now so the install was free and the monthly cost is reduced. I did have to sign a two year contract, but that's okay.

With DSL, I was getting about 4800kb/s down and 600kb/s up. This was as fast as DSL would go with AT&T unless I switched to U-Verse. But I didn't want U-Verse. The TV channels and DVR don't meet my needs (missing HD channels and only 1 HD channel at a time) and the DSL is only marginally faster. Plus I haven't heard great things about it.

With my freshly installed Comcast cable I'm getting, wait for it, 17500kb/s down and 2700kb/s up! Holy cow poo! They promise 16000kb down and 2000kb up and to my surprise it actually seems to be faster. I haven't hooked it up to my network yet, but that's what the installers speed report said on his laptop. I'll let you know how fast it is according to www.dslreports.com when I hook up the LAN to it.

I can't believe how fast this is. And because I've switched to Vonage for my home phone, Comcast + Vonage is much cheaper than ATT DSL + Phone. And the speeds are a bit mind boggling.

Here is my DSL speed report:

Why? One word. Man babies. Ok, that's two. Leave me alone, I'm grumpy.

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Now you can. Ride along in the new ZR1 a test track in Germany. The ZR1 is the new $100,000 corvette made out of carbon fiber and ceramic. It has 640hp supercharged v8 in it and is truly a supercar. This car is sick.

I'm finding this folder to be a pain in my sitting place. Not all the applications use it, and I frequently am wondering where the heck my files are getting downloaded to. Also, I just realized I have a two hundred and six terrabytes of random stuff in there. I've changed Safari and Firefox to download to the desktop so this stuff gets managed properly. I'd delete the folder from my User folder, but Leopard won't let me. I will, gleefully, delete the shortcut from my dock. Take that, folder. Not so hot now are ya?

Edit: I changed the permissions on this folder to "read only". Now nobody can save shiznit there. Powned.