Friday, June 24, 2005

The World's Most Unfortunate Star Trek Prop

I love my DVR (aka Tivo). For an extra $10 a month, my cable company gives me a unit that allows me to record a show whenever it's on. Great for stuff like TV Funhouse, Duckman and other shows that are rerun late at night. I'd never remember to put a tape in, set up the VCR and leave the cable box on the right channel. With DVR, I just leave the box on at night, and in the morning there are a few more shows added to my collection.

It's great for fast forwading, rewinding live TV and provides a fantastic picture when you pause the recording. A picture so good, I can use my digital camera to capture images from TV shows.

Case in point, from a "Star Trek" ep I recorded last week, featuring Captain Kirk holding the most unfortunately shaped Star Trek prop ever...









Friday, June 17, 2005

Drinking Milestones

I thought the list posted on Modern Drunkard was good, but a little too romantic/Hemingway-esque for real people. Make your best friend the perfect martini? When my best friend from high school is in town, I make sure to have a couple of sixers on ice when he get's here. That's it.


Top Twenty Drinking Milestones

1. Drink from a visible alcoholic beverage on the street
(in a city where it's illegal, of course)
2. Receive more than three bottles of booze for your birthday
(six packs of beer count as 1 bottle)
3. Own a flask and use it.
4. Sneak liquor into an event in something OTHER than a flask
(your tummy does not count)
5. Knowingly bought drinks for a minor.
6. Get a drink thrown in your face.
7. Have the bartender pour liquor from the bottle directly into your mouth
8. Gone out of your way to go to a bar because a bartender you know works there now. (Give yourself 1 extra point for every river you crossed to get there)
9. Have a bartender’s email address/home phone number.
(Folks who became bartenders after you were already friends with them
don’t count)
10. Date a bartender from a bar you frequent.
11. Nail a bartender from a bar you are visiting for the first time.
(Bonus: 2 points)
12. Attend the closing night of a bar
13. Win an award or contest for your drinking
14. Be visibly drunk enough to be ejected from a bar, sports venue or bowling alley.
15. Be visibly drunk enough to be denied entry to a bar.
16. Thrown up and kept drinking.
17. Thrown up in or on a moving car.
18. Thrown up while riding in between cars on the subway.
19. Fall down from drinking.
20. Fall asleep in public after drinking

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Star Wars Galaxies

The new commercial for the "Star Wars Galaxies" game pushes the idea that you can log on at anytime during the day and there is something going. Looks like a galaxy populated by fat geeks with goatees.









And before you get up in my face about this, I saw the commercial during a rerun of "Star Trek: Deep Space 9".

The Next Shag

Remember the name Pieter M. Dorrenboom. He's going to be big soon. I discovered his art on the Dutch International Garage Festival flyer.

I'm a big fan of his industrial/cartoon style .

According to Pieter he's going online with his own website with his artwork later this year. Check back here for updates.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Dept. of Neccessary Covers

Curtis Yee is a classically trained musician who lives in Boston. If you send him the name of a song, he'll record a cover of it and post it to his website.

Did I mention he'll do it on the ukelele?

Some songs already posted:

Rancid - "Roots Radical"
Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun"
Beatles - "Blackbird"
J. Lo - "Jenny from the Block"
Nelly - "Hot in Herre"