I know. I rarely update my blog. Life goes on. I only update it when I have enough free time to allow myself to NOT work. That’s why most of the stuff these days is just mindless drivel – like most blogs. Observe:

This was from the introduction for the FIRST broadcast show suceeding the pilot. If there was any way to be any more hilariously brash, I don’t have a clue..

Just another delightful moment of NewsRadio. There is still nothing more awesome than this show. Imagine 23 minutes of this.. with nearly all 97 episodes packed with slapstick, lunacy, and pop culture references.

Who can forget Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor? DAMN!

Please, please, please, someone – give me a reason to own a TV. Make something insightful and hilareous. Paul Simms, where are you now?

I had myself psyched up over this day, and this occurance; both for the good, and the bad. Mostly bad.

You know what? I’m not any different than I was… years ago.

I’m still mentally twelve. Most guys won’t admit that (in public.) Don’t get me wrong, farts aren’t a laugh riot, and I am capable of working well with groups of people, even people that I might not like – but really, not much else has changed.

I still don’t like facial hair; I used to think it looked strange.. now that I have it on a daily basis, it itches. I can’t grow a full beard, and if I did, I’d look like a twelve year old with a beard.

I can’t stand the sweets that I used to love, and if it’s salty, and NOT potato chips, I don’t want it. It’ll just make me feel lethargic. Chips are worth it, though.

Other than that, everything’s the same as it always was.. other than that evil three in front, which means I’m never going to go to a rave..

... maybe being thirty isn’t so bad.

Having been a long time Apple proponent, migration back into the world of the Commodity-Driven PC has been a bit awkward.

I opted for my most recent purchase to be a Dell Small Business system; for Dell’s prices are great, and I’ve aways had excellent luck with the DSB enviornment.

^{Yet another brilliant mind, destroyed by an idiot.}

Yes, the damage above was done by a ‘certified technician.’

Long story short, after calling both Dell, and QualXServe, on August 10th, I did get a replacement LCD, and a replacement lid. The laptop STILL didn’t work right , so I contacted Dell.

On August 21st, I had in my hands a brand new Inspiron 6400. Yes, Dell sent me a NEW laptop – and IT WORKS! No clusters of dead pixels, no random lockups, and the wireless does not turn itself off on a whim.

Dell has taken care of this problem professionally, and probably about as fast as I could hope. I’m satisfied.

I was searching for a small quantity of 4/3A batteries to rebuild a dead nicad battery pack in a laptop that’s not worth $50, so I’m surely not going to pay $100 to have someone else solder some wires for me.. the battery pack’s system is fine; the nicads are just 8 years old, and toast.

I stumbled across the yellowest web page made in the last eight years. There was an interesting article on the whole ‘getting free power’ thing, from both a scientific, and blatantly english stand:

”...20 mA at 48 volts is about one watt. Here in Utah we pay about $.07 per kilowatt-hour. So by tapping power from the phone line you could save seven cents in 1000 hours, or 41 days. Now you are sticking-it-to-the-man to the tune of 61 cents per year. “

Given these numbers (it’s $0.08 here), it’d still take about 150 years to get $100 worth of “free” electricity.

NewsRadio, the funniest American TV show ever to be produced (that was chock full of Canadians), has finally seen Season 4 to DVD. It’s a ‘thinking Man’s Seinfeld,’ but actually funny.