Jericho: Headed for an ear-rrr ache!!!

This post is just me whining! You've been warned!

This week has been goofy. Two of my friends asked me to watch their pets while they were out of town. So, twice a day, I've been heading over to their place, hanging out for two or three hours at a time (isn't unemployment fun!) coming home and doing it again a few hours later - all so their neurotic dog doesn't whiz on the furniture or commit suicide or something.

Now, as my reward, they have a HUGE TV, great sound system and like every cable channel they can afford! (Not to mention an XBox!) I haven't had actual cable TV since I moved into this apartment, about a month ago. So, I got a Law & Order fix, some Military channel (Wings!) and some other good stuff.

Get your mind out of the gutter. They're married - what use would they have for THOSE channels???

Today I'm flipping channels and ran across something I wasn't aware existed. There is a station called VH1 Classic - I guess it's supposed to be Classic Rock - but all of their shows seem to be "Heavy Metal" themed. I say "themed" because three old guys in bowling shirts and Mettalic sweatshirts sitting around talking music trivia like some freaking sports show isn't very "Metal" to me. (It's called "That Metal Show" - wow, even the title is a yawn.)

The first show I saw this morning, about 8 AM was called "Metal Mania". Oh boy. My first clue should have been the graphics for the program - all Day-Glo pinks and greens - also not very "Metal". But, when the first song came on - I got the joke: Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" ... yeah. This wasn't Metal - it was Butt Rock! This was followed up by Kiss with no make-up, a couple of other pretty boy hair-farmers, and finally Kip Winger! (Thus the title of this post! You didn't think I was going to explain that, did ya?)

I couldn't look away. Every time a commercial came on the Military channel show I was watching about how the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, out of sheer morbid curiosity I flipped back to see what other poof was ... "Rocking" "Out" - /air quotes.

Finally, the 9 o'clock hour struck. They opened with Quiet Riot. Better - well, not really, but at least there wasn't any leather clad asses shaking or 1980's "I'm too sexy to shave with a sharp razor" stubble. (Fucking Kip Winger!) Next was Scorpions; "Rock You Like a Hurricane". If you thought music videos made no sense, the 1980's European music videos might as well have been filmed on the planet Vulcan - just a sexier Vulcan - with lots of icy-cold, sexy but wholly unattainable blond chicks all crying because you hurt them!

This was followed up with Queensryche. Undoubtedly metal - and they didn't play "Silent Lucidity"! They played the other hit off that album, the title track "Empire". A kick ass song if ever there was. Then Iron Maiden and I had to go when The Cult came on.

Lesson Learned: don't watch "Metal Mania" until after 9 AM!

Max: Steve Cohen (D-TN) Spanks Robert Mueller (Dumb-FBI)

Max: Obama Goes Full On Bush

I expected I would eventually be disappointed by the Obama administration. I just didn't expect it would be this badly.

Max: Rocket Scientists - Pythagoras (Unbound)

Max: Rawk!

Max: Daily Show Interview With The Newt

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	M - Th 11p / 10c
Newt Gingrich - UNCUT
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Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor

Jericho: Holy Hoppin' Hares, Batman!

More funny videos like the "Superheroes in Cincinnati" at Heavy.com

http://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/


Ummmm .... I'm at a total loss. Excelsior!

Max: Father's Day Is A Comin'

Father's Day is a mere month and a week away. I know everyone is highly keen to shower me with material goods. Even though I am not much of a materialist, I care enough to make it easy to schwag me up. In that spirit, below are my many wishlists.

Amazon.com
Books - Comp Sci/Math
Books - Biography/Essays
Books - Fiction
Books - Food
Books - Graphic Novels
Books - Japan
Books - Music
Books - Reference/Other
Books - Religion/Philosophy
Books - Sci/Tech
Books - Society/Gov
Books - Writing/English
Clothes
DVD - Movies
DVD - Music
DVD - TV
Gift Card
Kitchen
Magazine Subscriptions
Music
Toys and Tools

Guitar Center
Max's Bass Desires

Stew Mac
Making A Solidbody Electric Guitar

Luthier's Mercantile
Build an Electric Guitar, Robbie O’Brier DVD

Birdsong Basses
Hy-5 Bass

Max: Some Thoughts on Miss California

1) Beauty pageants are retarded and the fact that the news has spent more time covering this shit than the many Bushlike policies coming out of the Obama Administration leaves me with a strong desire to move to an off grid cabin the the woods.

2) Last November, a majority of Californians voted for a law that not only banned gay marriage but may end up nullifying existing marriages. It seems Ms. Prejean is an ideal representative for them.

Max: Groovin' Euro Bass Studs

Max: Charlie Stross Contemplates The Future

The class of gadgets that the iPhone leads — I want you to imagine the gadget class that is the PC today, in relation to the original Macintosh 128K back in 1984 — is something we don't really have a name for yet. Calling it a "smart phone" seems somehow inadequate. For one thing, we're used to our mobile phones being switched on, or off (at least, in standby mode). This gadget is never off — it is in constant communication with the internet. It knows where it is, and it knows which way up it is (it's orientation sensitive). It can see things you point it at, and it can show you pictures. (Oh, and it does the smartphone thing as well, when you want it to.)

Let me give you a handle on this device, the gadget, circa 2020, which has replaced our mobile phones. It's handheld, but about as powerful as a fully loaded workstation today. At it's heart is a multicore CPU delivering probably about the same performance as a quad-core Nehalem, but on under one percent of the power. It'll have several gigabytes of RAM and somewhere between 256Gb and 2Tb of Flash SSD storage. It'll be coupled to a very smart radio chipset: probably a true software-directed radio stack, where encoding and decoding is basically done in real time by a very fast digital signal processor, and it can switch radio protocols entirely in software. It'll be a GPS and digital terrestrial radio receiver and digital TV receiver as well as doing 802.whatever and whatever 4G standard emerges as victor in the upcoming war for WWAN preeminance.

More here.

Max: The Mighty Boosh

A bit of awesomeness from across the pond.

Jericho Returns ...

Howdy, all! I'm in my new place. I didn't have Internet for a while. I was able to snag an open wireless connection for the first day I was here, thought I had it made - could never get the connection to work again. Now, I have Internet, but I can't get my Mac to connect. Not sure what's wrong. Working from the laptop kinda sucks.

I'm about half way unpacked. There is a part of me that feels if I haven't needed something out of one of my packed boxes yet - then I never will. I'm sure this isn't true. However, several boxes are destined to remain packed and stashed in a closet. I just don't have the room for junk in this place that I had in the last.

The job search is slow. Mostly because I'm bad at looking for work. I'm kinda living in a state of denial right now - enjoying the lack of stress and not worrying (much) about work. After ten years of stressful jobs - it's nice to have an extended vacation. I'm positive this delusion won't last long. I've watched every episode of Red Dwarf, so, after that I'm left with little to do - once I get truly bored, I'll look for a job all the harder.

Well, that's it for the moment. I need to call the previous apartment complex and yell at them for some charges they are trying to lay on us. Wish me luck!