Category: Random

I don’t particularly like TV. There are a few shows on TV that I do like. One of them is Arrested Development. It’s funny and witty. The different lines converge at the end of the episode, in similar fashion to Seinfeld. But for some reason, Fox has decided to cancel the show. Thankfully, there is a petition to show disagreement with that decision.

To top that decision to cancel the show, it has been replaced with Skating with Celebrities. An Emmy-award winning show has been replaced with a reality show. But not just any reality show. A rip-off of a reality show on ABC. Take out dancing, make it skating, and you’ve got a brand new show.

What ever happened to letting a comedy, or any show for that matter, develop? I would think that if a show was good enough to win an Emmy, people will eventually discover it. I admit, I didn’t get into the show until the end of the first season.

On a side note, I watched American Idol for the first time tonight. It was from Greensboro, so I felt a kind of obligation to watch it. The show was absolutely awful. People singing in front of the judges, desparate for their approval, only to get their hopes crushed. This is what people watch for weeks on end? I’ll read a book any day.

Well, it’s that time of year again. With only four teams left in the NFL playoffs, folks that were never fans of certain teams all of a sudden long time fans. It happens every year.

When the Colts lost to the Steelers, lot of people came out of the woodwork saying how they always knew that the Steelers would win the game. I never knew them to be fans, but all of a sudden, here they are.

So with only four teams left, who’s your “team”? I don’t particuarly care now, but I’m following the Panthers. You know, support the home team.

Being the last day of 2005 (or Hogmanay in Scotland), I had noticed there were a ton of lists out there. I haven’t found any that were really interesting, so here’s just a random sampling of lists I found.

Blogpulse – 2005 Year in Review
Google Zeitgeist
The only list that matters…
Stories You Missed (But what if I didn’t miss them?)
The Culture Awards 2005

Of course, you could take a look for yourself. Go ahead and add to the list if you want.

Have a safe and happy New Year!

Update – 1/2/06 10:48 – I’ve added pictures of Sharon’s thumb to the gallery.

On Monday night, Sharon was slicing red onions with a mandolin (not that one, this one) and caught a piece of her thumb. Of course, she wasn’t using the entire guard. Instead, she was using just the guide, which got stuck on the onion, slipped, and she sliced her thumb.

I ran upstairs trying to find anything that could cover up her thumb, while Sharon tried to control the bleeding on her own. Looking back, maybe I shouldn’t have run upstairs so quickly. After a couple minutes, we decided a trip to the ER was in order. All that was left was collecting the sliced-off section and putting it on ice.

We got through the waiting room and to our own room exceptionally fast. However, when we saw a TV in the room, we knew we were in trouble. There was a guy across the hall that was in because his nose was all busted up, and he was in excruciating pain whenever he sneezed. In the room next to him was a girl that was getting a cyst removed from her buttocks. Even with the door closed and our TV on, her screams of pain came across loud and clear. So we waited.

After about an hour or so, Sharon was finally looked at. Since it was more of a slice, attaching the bit we brought it would do no good. Stitches were also out of the question; there was nothing to stitch up. So they injected a local pain killer and wrapped it up. We now clean her thumb and redress it twice a day.

I got some pictures of the first time the gauze was taken off. Look for them next week, once we get home.

What if we didn’t give each other presents on Christmas? How would the U.S. economy be different? (Apologies to other economies around the world – I don’t know the impact of Christmas on other economies.)

There wouldn’t be any such thing as Black Friday. Retailers wouldn’t depend on most of their revenues in a four week shopping binge. Would there be that must have toy every year? A Cabbage Patch Kid that every child must have or they’ll just die? Movies that come out in the late summer wouldn’t be rushed out in December. Gadgets wouldn’t be timed to come out at this time of the year.

We also wouldn’t get a lot of stuff either. I wouldn’t have gotten my iPod if I hadn’t been able to justify it as my Christmas present. And I bet a lot of jewelry wouldn’t be purchased if it weren’t for Christmas.

Or would birthdays be the big thing instead? I mean, we have to buy what’s produced at some point, or it wouldn’t get produced.

What do you think? How do you think our economy would be different?

If you need a reason to upgrade to Firefox 1.5, I think this site is it.

The site uses SVG and some javascript to simulate a planet and gravity. Enter in a launch angle and velocity and watch it go.

I have no clue how to describe this, nor know why it was created.