Looks like I’ll be taking the site down for some time towards the end of the month, and I’m not entirely sure on when it will be back up. While I do enjoy having my own little web-server in my home, my only options out in PA are cable or fiber optic and neither have a static IP or the capability to support a full blown web server unless I drop twice the price for a business class account.
So if I don’t happen to come back – happy trails folks.
Just finished watching the latest episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles from the Fox website, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the latest episode was the best yet – and as far as the franchise goes, this series is the best yet.
For starters – they stay true to the story without being as linear as the movies. They’re more like the comics. Terminators are men, women, who knows – maybe at some point they’ll introduce dogs and children. The machines are THINKING, ADAPTING, GROWING. Both good and bad, working int he present day – and if one message is clearly evident – THE FUTURE IS NOT SET.
The performances are dead on balls accurate – the nods to the movies as well as the comics are obvious and contribute without dominating. The next movie in the series is called Salvation. Personally, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles IS the salvation for the franchise! IMHO, they had better work overtime on the 4th picture, I’d had to see another Superman/Smallville situation.
You take a franchise that has undergone SIGNIFICANT plot development beyond the secure environment of a comic series or films and toss out a 90 minute turkey which could have been released 20 years ago starring Christopher Reeve – and you have a Superman/Smallville situation. I pray that the Terminator franchise doesn’t undergo it, but just the same, I would not complain to see 7 or 8 seasons of this series if they do it RIGHT. There are INFINITE possibilities for this storyline, the movies have only shown us a snapshot in time. Here we have every week, live action, blood and guts, bone on steel. I mean come on, Summer Glau literally tore the CPU from another Terminator’s head to shut him down in the last minutes of the latest episode – CAMERON CUT THAT OUT OF THE MOVIES. I nearly fell off my seat! It’s fantastic!
On a related note, FUCK TIVO. Who needs it, I mean really? At this point – who doesn’t have a broadband internet connection? You run the wire from your video card to your television, load up the on-demand on the website, and you’ve got the episode with no commercial interruption. Long term? Buy the DVD’s of course, make sure those writers get their fair shake at least! But short term, miss an episode? FUCK TIVO. You’ve got to schedule it, record it, play it back and manually skip the commercials. At that point the advertisers already got paid so why the fuck should YOU have to even deal with it?
Load up the website, watch an ad or two, then watch the show without any commercial interruption. Worked for me. As much as I love high definition, and all the things that come with it – I’m looking to catch up with the story, I could care less that it’s not in 1080P as long as it looks good and I can watch it NOW, ON DEMAND.
On demand over the Internet folks, that’s the future – and if Hollywood keeps pumping out shows like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I have little doubt we’ll see a day where you don’t have to check the schedules to find out when your show is on, you just hit PLAY when YOU WANT TO. Rest assured I’m ready for episode 6, this show is fucking HOT.
So this year, the day of the primary, a news story started to circulate about the musician John Cougar Mellencamp and a disagreement with John McCain. It stemmed from McCain’s camp using a few of the Cougar’s hits during his stump speeches. Mellencamp is a Democrat, an Edwards supporter, and as we all know when it comes to wealthy Democrats – free expression is only free FOR THEM. For anyone else? Pay up.
Such was the case when Chrissie Hynde, the singer of the Pretenders found out that vast Right Wing Conspirator Rush Limbaugh was using the track “My City Was Gone” as his intro theme for 10 years. A few negotiations later, the intro song was back and Hynde had a half million dollar check from Limbaugh – per year.
Even Sean Hannity has run into this situation as for years he used “The Heart of The Matter” by Don Henley as his intro music. Henley found out, complained, and Hannity subsequently stopped using it.
At least Andrew Wilkow plays bumper music that nobody would listen to for free, let alone for royalties. I’m a little annoyed by that guy, but that’s a topic for another post.
This whole thing brings me to one of two possible conclusions…
The first is based in the fact that John McCain is not a Conservative, but a closet Socialist in an Elephant suit. Real Conservatives know this – that’s why most of us supported Ron Paul, but I digress. What better way to make McCain look like the real big media definition of a conservative than to have some elitist hypocrite attack him who hasn’t recorded anything of value since he purchased his first answering machine in 1982.
My second possible conclusion is that Mellencamp wants money. For a Liberal supporter of John Edwards to complain about McCain – but happily sign every check he gets from Chevrolet when his song is used to advertise pickup trucks with gas mileage ratings equivalent to the IQ of the average Mellencamp fan – reeks of hypocrisy.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Chevrolet. I drive a Chevy pickup. Mellencamp is a sell out, an opportunist, and a hypocrite. McCain isn’t worth even a dimpled chad, he’s nothing more than Hillary Clinton with natural hair color and descended testicles. This is just another case of wealthy people trying to manipulate the public for their own benefit.
Saturday night I lost my cellphone. No clue where it went. Looked all over, called it, nothing.
Monday I cash in the insurance policy. Tuesday I get the phone. Tonight I get home, and there’s the phone, sitting by the stairs in my house. No calls were made, nothing, but there it is with a dead battery.
Landlord has no idea where it came from, neither do I. Maybe I dropped it somewhere and my neighbor picked it up, no idea.
Weird, very weird.
No Conservative primary in NY… In lieu of voting, I give you…
Most, if not all cellphones now have GPS capability. Why not offer a service so that when a phone is lost – the account holder can pay a small fee to have the phone located. Sure, there’s a chance it could be abused, but just the same – I’ve lost my RAZR and for the life of me cannot find it. If I could click a button on the website and be told where it is – I’d use it.
Last night I stopped off at the gas station to top off the Chevy and get some cash. Well I put the gas on my credit card, and accidentally tried to use the credit card at the ATM as well. I punched in the wrong PIN, got declined, and didn’t think twice about it.
Today I get home, the phone rings. “Out of area” is the caller and when I pick up the phone to say “Hello?” I get dead air.
Right before I hang up, I hear the nice robotic voice of my bank’s computer verifying my charges because the decline triggered a fraud alert. Not only that, I can also have it set up to text my cellphone. Never actually dealt with a fraud alert like that, but I’m glad it’s looking out for me.
That whoever is behind engine design at GM is a sadist.
I’ve never had more trouble changing SPARK PLUGS on any vehicle other than a GM – nor have I ever had a spark plug snap in half on any brand other than AC Delco. I’m doing a basic tuneup on the Silverado as weather permits – had a new exhaust system installed at Monro the other day, tonight I got half the plugs done, they look to be pretty clean considering the blown head gasket they apparently had repaired. No idea what I’m in store for with the passenger side cylinders yet… once I get the plugs, wires, cap, and rotor in – then I’ll replace the fuel filter and finally swap out the oil pressure sending unit. I don’t see the list of repairs getting shorter any time soon, but I’ll take care of the easy stuff first.
Misogyny justified in full in 3…2…1…
NY Feminists Accuse Kennedy of Betrayal
No, it wasn’t any of this…
He didn’t endorse a woman candidate… simply because she was a woman. Has nothing to do with qualification, or how the Clintons are trying to create their own illusion of Camelot… Nope, she’s running, she has ovaries – she cries, and her husband is a pig. VOTE FOR HILLARY! Please.
Sorry folks, as far as I’m concerned, Obama is the best man for the job when it comes to Democrats – Hillary is riding the coattails of her rather unpredictable hubby. Experience still doesn’t matter, and even if it did, she’d still be as useless as NOW.
Took a ride over to Sunset Hill Shooting Range in Tannersville, PA the other day to do get some target practice in. It’s not a bad range at all, outdoors – bays for pistols, rifles, shotguns, and they’ve got a pretty large assortment of weapons for rent.
Didn’t quite start out without a hitch however, one of the folks behind the counter had a bit of an attitude, and the first thing she did was hand me a non-cleared gun and ask me to clear it – meaning make sure it’s empty. I felt like I was back at my drivers test again. My buddy started to point out where the clip release was and she screamed at him “DON’T COACH HIM.” So I release the clip, drop it on the counter, then check the slide – I couldn’t find the slide lock. This whole time she’s screaming at ME to keep it pointed at the floor.
She pulls the same shit on my other two friends, one of them a trained weapons expert, and we pretty much blow it off figuring the aggravation will dissipate once we’re shooting. Afterwards we all agreed that we probably should have not even taken the gun and chided HER for handing us an uncleared weapon. After all, it’s the policy of the place that if you’re not firing a gun, it better be clearly empty. Personally, most of my experience is with basic revolvers and rifles – so I’m a fair shooter, but if you hand me a gun and start screaming at me… Arg.
It was a fun time, it costs like $10 to get in if you’ve already been there, otherwise you need to fork over another $25-35 dollars for their “safety briefing” which essentially shows you how to load, fire, and clear whatever weapon you’re working with for the session. I didn’t mind that part, and the instructor was a joy to work with.
All in all, I’d go back, but if I get asked to clear another weapon, she better hand it to me already cleared or I’m going to make her look REALLY foolish.
