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Goodbye Wisdom Teeth

sirshannon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:35:22 +0000

On 3/16 last year, I took my too (still broken) arms to get tattoos. On 3/16 this year, I am having my wisdom teeth removed. The top 2 will be pulled. The bottom 2 will be excavated, I think they’re probably going to blast them.

I doubt I’ll miss them.

I Finally Joined Netflix

sirshannon — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:57:06 +0000

I am going to be camped out on my sofa for most of next week so I gave up my title of Last American Geek Without Netflix in order to have a ton of entertainment that won’t require moving from the couch.

After joining, the first 4 movies they suggested:
Howard the Duck.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Short Circuit.
Big Fan.

WTF.

Bob’s Cats No More

sirshannon — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:13:50 +0000

Michael Jordan bought the Bobcats.
Finally, Jordan gets a Charlotte NBA of his own and we get rid of the 2nd worst NBA owner we’ve ever had.

Michael Jordan is ready for a new title: NBA owner.

With minutes to go until his exclusive negotiating window was to expire, Jordan struck a deal late Friday night to buy controlling interest of the Charlotte Bobcats, putting the six-time NBA champion in charge of the money-losing team in his home state.

Owner Bob Johnson announced in a statement that he’s agreed to sell the Bobcats to Jordan, who been a part-owner of since 2006. Jordan has been running the team’s basketball operations.

from New York Times

Google Buzz : Randomly Connecting Strangers Since Last Week™

sirshannon — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:44:41 +0000

I’m not sure why Google released “buzz” with a name far too similar to a similar product from Yahoo! without bothering to think it through a little better than they did. “Half Baked” is about the nicest way I can think of to describe it. Usually when Google releases a product that is far from finished, they offer it to test users instead of pushing every one of their users onto the playground before it should be open to the public. Some would call this an abuse of their member database and I can’t really disagree. At the very least, it is an abuse of their users’ privacy. Automatically adding friends and contacts and friends of friends and friends of contacts and contacts of contacts certainly couldn’t have been deemed a good idea inside Google, right? Seriously? But then again, Google Contacts is still the worst Contact system I’ve seen in 7 years, so maybe they did think this was a good idea. Maybe they thought conversations between strangers like this would be good, clean, fun entertainment for the internet:

or maybe they forgot that whole “beta” thing and hit the “go live” button a couple months too soon.

Still Boycotting the Olympics

sirshannon — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:34:30 +0000

Because I still can’t think of anything positive about them, other than the profits that some of the companies will make. Those companies don’t include the host city as a whole, or NBC, or any of the sponsors, but I’m sure someone is making bank on this scam.

sirshannon : Boycotting The Olympics Since 2008™

Dear Weather Guy

sirshannon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:56:10 +0000

How about a snowy weekday for a change? I think we’ve had enough snowy weekend nights, you should change it up a bit. Thanks.

Dear HTML5 Video Element

sirshannon — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:49:35 +0000

Dear HTML5 Video Element,
Wake me when you support fullscreen. Thanks.

YEsSIR Awards 2009

sirshannon — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:43:53 +0000

Time for 2009’s Year End sirshannon Says It Rocks Awards!

Movie of the Year: Avatar. This was easily the best CGI in a movie by far and the best 3D in a movie so far. Unless these 2 things become passé in a year, Avatar could end up being the Citizen Kane of CGI (a so-so movie that set a standard for all movies from that point on).
Honorable Mention: Moon.

Worst Movie of the Year: I didn’t bother seeing many shitty movies this year but the worst I saw was Terminator: Salvation.

Song of the Year: According to iTunes, my most played song of 2009 (that was released in 2009) was Mastodon – Oblivion.
Honorable Mention: The Mars Volta – Teflon

Album of the Year: Dangermouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul.
Honorable Mention: The Mars Volta – Octahedron, Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of The Day

Live Concert of the Year: Leonard Cohen at The Academy of Music in Philadelphia, PA. 3rd row center seats may have colored my opinion but this was a show I never thought I’d have a chance to see.
Honorable Mention: tie: NIN|JA 2009 in that big shed in Charlotte, NC and The Butthole Surfers at the Masquerade in Atlanta, GA. Again, these were shows I thought I’d never get to see (again, in the case of Jane’s Addiction): Jane’s Addiction and The Butthole Surfers toured (separately) this year with their original lineups.

Word of the Year: “heh”hv
Honorable Mention: “tweetup”

Software of the Year: Windows 7 – for being so good that people who pretend to hate Vista for no real reason aren’t able to hate Windows 7 for the same non-existent reason.
Honorable Mention: Android 2.0 – for giving at&t haters a little hope for a good phone. If Google would fix their contacts, I’d switch.

Hardware of the Year: iPhone 3Gs
Honorable Mention: Motorola Droid

MMA Fight of the Year: Fedor vs Brett Rogers. Fedor’s return and MMA on CBS, all in one night. Fedor, for the first time since Fujita clocked him in 2003, looked like he might lose the fight for a while. I think Fedor may have passed his prime but that just means that we can finally see him fight without knowing he won before it even begins.
Honorable Mention: Pretty much any fight with BJ Penn or Scott Smith in it.

TV Drama of the Year: Mad Men. Season 3 of Mad Men continued the trend of allowing me to call it “the best show on television” without hesitation.
Honorable Mention: Sons of Anarchy. I really liked the first season of this show but the 2nd season made the first look weak in comparison. There were more “oh shit” moments in this show than I could try to remember. It reminds me of back when The Sopranos was good.

TV Comedy of the Year: Curb Your Enthusiasm. Another great season of Curb plus the Seinfeld reunion I didn’t know I wanted.
Honorable Mention: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. SuperNews.

Christmas in Galax, VA

sirshannon — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:49:12 +0000

There was a ton of snow on the ground when we arrived in Galax for Christmas and a full day of rain didn’t change that. Click the image above to see more photos from the trip.

10 Things About Avatar

sirshannon — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:01:29 +0000

Dune
Dances With Wolves
Gears of War
Blade Runner
Alice in Wonderland
Apocalypto
Aliens
The Matrix
The Incredible Hulk
Pocahontas