I've made my feelings on Mike Shannon, the Cardinals radio announcer, perfectly clear in the past. And while I've tried to explain why he irritates me, I think this collection of Shannonisms sums things up better than I ever could. There is much to laugh at on that page.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 29 August 2006 at 7:20 AM

I'm a pretty bad blogger. This is why I'm experimenting with the box above, the "currently ... via twitter" box. Twitter is a service whose premise is that every moment has a caption, so to speak. And they provide a way to share that data. The service is supposed to link me with a bunch of friends, and everytime I update they get a text message with my "twitter" and every time they update I get a message. That doesn't appeal to me all that much. But I do like the idea of sending in quick updates of no real consequence via my phone whenever the mood strikes me. So that's what I've been doing lately.

In addition to being a bad blogger, I've noticed that I haven't updated the book or movie selections on the left recently. I'll get around to that at some point.

If you read this far, congratulations. Your prize: tetris magnets.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 28 August 2006 at 9:45 PM

NBC might be able to turn their dismal ratings performance of past years around this coming season. I've seen a handful of pilots for the up-coming TV season and the two stand-outs are both NBC shows. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip lives up to the all the hype its gotten. Aaron Sorkin appears to be back in top form and he has lined up an awesome cast to anchor the show. The other highlight was Kidnapped, a show about a family trying to recover a son from the titular kidnapping. The cast, anchored by Jeremy Sisto, looks to be solid and the action sequences are grade A. Both shows are highly recommended.

Studio 60 airs on Mondays at 10/9c beginning on September 18th and Kidnapped will air in the old L&O timeslot on Wednesdays at 10/9c starting on September 20th.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 21 August 2006 at 10:45 PM

Here's what happens at a Netflix shipping facility on an average day. Kind of interesting.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 21 August 2006 at 10:22 PM

Evansville and the rural communities around it made it onto the NPR blog today. Indiana's 8th Congressional District is shaping up to be an interesting race. Of course, any race featuring John Hostettler (R-IN, known for [1] his attempt to bring a loaded handgun onto a commercial airline flight, [2] his assertion to a group of female constituents that the breast cancer they had contracted was probably related to abortians they had had earlier in life, and [3] his refusal to ever again grant any interviews or provide any access to the local paper after the published details related to [2]) is always a bit crazy. Hostettler would make an interestig post all by himself, but wikipedia has him pretty well covered.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 8 August 2006 at 6:03 PM

This just in: Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff believes that terrorists will not use ferries or personal water craft to enter the United States. Consequently, the security-inspired passport requirements going into effect on the US-Canada border will exclude these modes of entry.

I feel much safer knowing that we're protected from ferry-based terrorists and don't even need to bother with standard security measures for this mode of transportation. 9/11 taught us that terrorists hijack airplanes. I don't even know why ferries were under discussion.

Comments: 0 Posted by david on 8 August 2006 at 12:38 PM