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G of “The G Show” pointed me down a certain road called “Memory Lane” where a rush of my early days with my nerdbox came flooding back: The Dial-Up BBS
The G Show ALSO has a very funny (for once) article about the interweb-connected children of politicians.

This is fantastic — Become Jackson Pollock in [...]

Jonathan Coulton, of “the flickr song” and many others has another John-Mayerish song out about how Pluto got denied…it’s sung from the point of view of “Charon”, Pluto’s moon/dwarf planet.”I’m Your Moon”
Random side-note, Coulton will be performing a “virtual concert” in Second Life on September 14 in association with PopSci and Creative Commons.

Last night was [...]

TiVo TiVo TiVo! Hooray!
I jumped off the TiVO bandwagon sometime last year, when my cable provider offered their own , albeit very very mediocre DVR that could also handle HD recording — TiVo has been unable to do that, until now. The rumor mill says that TiVo 3-HD will be released on 9/17 — for [...]

Some guy named Keifer, accepted an Emmy award for Jack Bauer last night at the Emmy’s, with 24 winning “Best Drama”
The Daily Show, The Office and old Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ new adventures also picked up big shiny statues.
More Emmy coverage at MSNBC

Via Mika A - Improv Everywhere’s Latest “Scene” — ‘ Slow motion at The Home [...]

C & I saw Dave Chappelle in DC last night at the Warner Theater. In this picture what you’re not seeing is the Howard University marching band that came up on stage at the end of the show to sing happy birthday to Dave C. He turned 33 and celebrated it by [...]

On the latest season of CBS’s Survivor — the THIRTEENTH SEASON, they’ve finally divided the teams how our sweet pure, WHITE God intended — by skin color.
I mean, obviously the Asians will do great at the math challenges and the Hispanics will do awesome at the quay-sa-dilla making but really is it that important to [...]

What a day it ’twas yesterday. It all started out with me posting something funny (for once) and then about 25 minutes later deleting the entire thing by accident. That alone told me: “it’s NOT going to be a shpadoinkle day” (where the sun is as warm as a baked potato)
Anyway, the fury boiled so [...]

This weekend after C was finished with her “Anne Taintor” themed bridal shower, we rocked it over to Winchester, Virginia — then realizing we missed an exit by 20 miles we rocked it back to West Virginia to celebrate the nuptials of our friends Ryan (CEO of Muppethouse Enterprises, martyz.com hoster) and [...]

Bruno Kirby passed away this week at the age of 57 due to complications of leukemia.
You may remember him as the wagon wheel-coffee table loving husband of Carrie Fisher from “When Harry Met Sally” or as Robin Williams’ a-hole boss in “Good Morning, Vietnam”.
Godfather Part Deux, Tin Men, Sleepers, and City Slickers are [...]

In lieu of actual content today, I present two episodes, via Greg G. via YouTube of:
“Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager”
Episode 1:

Episode 2: