My TV viewing habits have completely changed with the advent of DVD. I’ve never watched a lot of TV. In the past there were a handful of shows I’d actually make a point to watch, either going out of my way to be at home at the specified day and time, or I’d actually program the VCR (Joan of Arcadia on Friday night? Seriously, no wonder it only lasted two seasons).
But I can probably list those shows on one hand: The Tick (I used to tape it when it was on Saturday mornings), The Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, Everwood (a shortlived addiction), Joan of Arcadia.
However, since DVDs have come out you don’t have to watch TV shows at a specified day and time, you don’t have to wait for each new episode to come out, and you don’t have to watch commercials. I love it.
I took my daughter voting today. Some might think that sounds similar to but not as cool as taking your daughter boating, but I disagree. I think it’s important to instill the value of voting. I’m a firm believer in the idea that if you don’t vote, you have no right to gripe and complain about who’s in office. Recent presidential elections have proven that every vote matters and especially in Minnesota history has proven that third party candidates are viable options.
Of course it’s only the primary in a non-presidential election year, so it’s not worth getting that excited about. But it’s still cool.
I don’t really care for Al Franken. I don’t really care for Bob Jones University either. But somehow the pairing is pretty funny.
Al Franken took a “prospective student” to Bob Jones for the whole tour, complete with awkward questions about how students can’t leave campus unless they’re going home or on a mission and how students can’t listen to rock music (not even Christian rock?!). It makes me chuckle.
What’s especially funny is that Al Franken didn’t think a disguise would be a good idea and that Bob Jones was as slow on the uptake as they were. You’d think they’d get jokers like that fairly often.
And anytime you talk about Bob Jones, a trip to their web site is in order.
It is my great and happy privilege to inform you that season one of The Tick is now out on DVD. Spring to action at once! Get yourself to the nearest DVD distribution center and buy that DVD!
Where else can you hear that familiar cry of flatware–“Spoon!”? See the epic battle between a sneezy, not-healthy Tick and the oozing mucus Tick–cloned from a kleenex, no less! And hear that understated exclamation before a friend becomes dino-sized, “Bad move, Neil!” I’ve got my copy on it’s way.
You know, evil comes in many forms, be it a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin. But you can’t let the package hide the pudding. Evil is just plain bad. You don’t cotton to it. You gotta smack it on the nose with the rolled up newspaper of goodness. Bad dog! Bad dog!
For most of the summer I’ve been hiring a teen from the youth group to do my yard work. But this week he got a real job, or rather a few real jobs, and was too busy to do my yard. So I did it myself.
After hacking down the weeds that were trying to reclaim my driveway I took a break and noticed that my hand was shaking. Fifteen minutes of weedwhacking and my hand starts shaking. So either I’m a wuss and need to start doing more manual labor, or I need to hire more youth group kids.
OK, mapping my photos in Flickr. That’s pretty cool. I haven’t mapped very many of them yet (seems kind of dumb to map 80% of the photos at my house), but this is definitely incentive to upload vacation pics. Way cool.
Update: Uploaded more pictures, strictly for the joy of mapping. Gosh, this is addictive.
I don’t talk about it much here, but I’m the “chief blogger” for Church Marketing Sucks (CMS) and the Labs Director for the the non-profit parent, the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). The former is a role I’ve had for two years, helping to launch CMS and watching it take off. The latter is a role I’ve had since last fall when CFCC went non-profit and we really started figuring out where we’re going with this thing.
I love working on these projects. If I could do it all day long, I would. I love constructive efforts to help the church get better. And I love that so many people are jumping on the bandwagon.
Prompted by my baseball card post yesterday, I’m wondering today if the Internet has killed collecting.
I used to be quite the collector: Rocks, shells, baseball cards, racing cards, racing memorabilia, matchbox cars, postcards, yo-yo’s. Since college I’ve pretty much given it all up and sold off most of my collections (you’d be shocked at how quickly my meager rock collection was snatched up on ebay). I lost interest in collecting, and now the only thing I really collect are books (though limited shelf space has put a damper on that collection) and souvenir yo-yo’s (from places I’ve visited, so it’s rather limited).
I tired of collecting before the web really came into its own, but I wonder what effect the web has had on collecting.
Like many guys my age I have boxes and boxes of baseball cards stashed in a corner of the basement. Thanks to an exploding market that everyone my age dove into, plus the stories every dad told of grandma throwing away his Mickey Mantle rookie card, there is an incredible glut of late 1980s and early 1990s baseball cards.
Meaning all those pristine Topps, Donruss and Upper Deck baseball cards in the corner of my basement are worth about as much as the paper they’re printed on. Blogger Jason Kottke has been talking about baseball cards lately and pointed to a fewblogs and articles bemoaning this trend.
I upgraded my backend blog software to Movable Type 3.3 today. My initial response is meh.
When I upgraded to 3.2 I had someissues. So far I don’t have any issues with the basic functionality (we’ll see what happens when I post this entry), though several of the new features sputtered at first: 500 server errors for some new functionality and the editing buttons that let me link, do italics, bold, blockquote, etc. were missing (they’re fixed now). We’ll see what else goes wrong. If it goes the right, the best I can hope for is tag functionality.
With each upgrade I keep losing faith in Movable Type.
