DVR is better than Live

I watched Heroes last night but next week I'll watch it on tuesday so I can fast-forward through all the damn commercials. The DVR really makes it much easier to watch a show when you have the time to. While the commercials sucked, I love the show. The newest member of the cast Christopher Eccleston - formerly played Dr,. Who in the British Sci Fi series - is the newest Hero, an invisible man no less. He should add some spice to the show, also there is George Takei - played Sulu on the original Star Trek show - cast as Hiro's father.

Tomorrow I'll watch 24, it's already recorded !!

My 1st Gasbag Review

When I start reading a book I like to stick to it, finish no matter how bad....sometimes I'm surprised and the story comes together and sometimes the book just stinks!

Nemesis :A book by Bill Napier

In Greek mythology, Nemesis is the goddess of divine justice and vengeance. This makes me wonder "What did I do so wrong that the Gods led me to this Horrible book?"

I know what it was, I've read Dan Browns novels ,The Davinci Code , Angels and Demons and Deception Point and when I read the back cover of Napier's Nemesis it appealed to me in a Dan Brownesque sort of way. Wrong!!

The book suggests radical Russians have somehow diverted a yet to be identified asteroid on to a collision course with North America. The US Government puts an international team of scientists together to identify the Asteroid and a plan to stop it. If we can't stop it then when do we launch our missles on Russia?

The worst part of reading this book was that I felt I was trapped back in my Trigonometry Class.: If D=R then S means I'm falling asleep.

The only part of the book that was of any interest was the historical perspective. One of the Phd's becomes convinced there is a 400 year old manuscript that was written by a monk but it was siezed by the church and hidden away because it called into question the christian doctrines of the day. Back then the church maintained that the earth was the center of the universe and if you didn't believe that you were gonna spend time on the torture table.

Whenever the book went back in time and Napier wrote about the monk's trials and tribulations...the story was very good. But too often he return to...."M to the Power of 3 multiplied by 6 and divided by L(2.5N)"blah blah blah...

The end was predictable.

If you have trouble sleeping, put Nemesis on your night table.

P.S. Go New England Patriots

Beat the Colts in today's AFC Championship Match

Use the New Word and get LINKED

Contest Post - Newer Posts Below
Most people have seen the 2006 Word of the Year, PLUTOED, but have you used it in a sentence
yet??

To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.

This posting will stay at the top for 3 days 1/20/07 the best use of "Plutoed" in a sentence and I'll give you a link here for the rest of the year at least....unless I run out of space and your blog gets "plutoed" to one of my other pages..

Another example: The New England Patriots "plutoed" the top seeded San Diego Chargers last Sunday and are headed for a match-up this weekend with the Colts.

Why ME ??!!

I'm tired. For a couple years I've been blaming it on lack of sleep,not enough sunshine, too much pressure from my job, earwax buildup, poor blood or anything else I could think of. But now I found out the real reason:

I'm tired because I'm overworked.

Here's why:. . .

The population of this country is 273 million.

140 million are retired.

That leaves 133 million to do the work.

There are 85 million in school.

Which leaves 48 million to do the work.

Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government.

Leaving 19 million to do the work.

2.8 million are in the armed forces preoccupied with killing Osama Bin-Laden.

Which leaves 16.2 million to do the work.

Take from that total the 14.8 million people who work for state and city governments.

And that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.

At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals.
Leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.

Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.

That leaves just two people to do the work.

You and me.

And there you are sitting on your chair, at your computer,reading jokes.

Nice. Real nice.

The Sunday Trumpet---Gods and Generals

The review from Basement Epiphanies of the Movie "Gods and Generals" begins...

"I’ve experienced something close to what hell would be like. It didn’t include any fire, nor brimstone. Nobody poked me with a pitchfork or forced me into hard labor. I didn’t see Rosie O’Donnell, and nobody had horns. Still, there was teeth-gnashing aplenty."

"I watched the movie God’s and Generals." Read the rest....

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Patriots Win Again

Laidanian Tomlinson, Marty and all the Chargers were invited to the AFC matchup with the New England Patriots, but the only ones dancing at the end of the game were the Patriots, sorry if we hurt your feelings L.T..........Yeah the Chargers have 9 Pro Bowlers and the league MVP, but it wasn't enough. Their organization restricted the sale of tickets to the game to Southern Californians, but it didn't help.

After it was over L.T. reported in his press conference that he "Is a classy guy," oh really.... Tomlinson yelled and pointed at the Patriots players, upset that some them were dancing on the Chargers logo at midfield after they had silenced the record crowd of 68,810 at Qualcomm Stadium.

"I would never react in that way. I was very upset," Tomlinson said. "When you go to the middle of our field and start doing the dance..." that fellow Charger teamate and Steroid User , Shawne Merriman does.

Merriman, nicknamed "Lights Out," did a spasmodic dance to celebrate each of his NFL-high 17 sacks

Tomlinson continues..."that is disrespectful. They showed no class and maybe that comes from the head coach."

Yeah, L.T., I'm sure Merriman never did that dance when playing on someone elses home field....Oh, and Merriman is so much classier then Bill Bellichek

The Chargers beat themselves by getting untimely and "UN-Sportsmanlike" penalties that really hurt them.... Laidanian, you played a great game, if you want to be mad...be mad at your Coach....Marty should have given you the ball a lot more often. But for now, sit down and relax, your going to the Pro Bowl.

After he calmed down a bit Tomlinson said, "We lost to a better team today," hopefully the next opportunity we have we'll learn something from this."



Meanwhile the Patriots are headed for Indy and Peyton Mannings crew and guess what?

THE PATRIOTS ARE UNDERDOGS!!

Just the way they like it..

There was a sign outside a local Sports Bar here that made the news, It read: Californians WILL NOT be served during the game!

HA HA HA

Go Patriots!!!

The BEST Quarterback in the NFL , Tom Brady, and the rest of the N.E. Patriot team face their biggest game of the year so far against the #1 team in the NFL...and the Charger organization won't sell tickets directly to anyone NOT from Southern California......Sounds to me like they are scared!! Go Pats bring a win home!!!

Photos, courtesy of Paul Kelleher and ChickpeaGirl

10 Minute Email

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