I think we can all agree that Lisa Loeb is damn good looking. Check her out trotting around in a thong via her new TV show.
Yeah, I’m a dirty old man for posting this. I don’t care.
Archive for January, 2006
Ok, so blogging for Life in the Office about Scranton has been really fun. I can’t believe how many Scrantonians have come out of the wood work to comment and talk about living in 18504. I’m starting to realize now what a little subculture Scranton really is. I mean, from the vocabulary to the food to the references that we all know (like who Uncle Ted is). I really miss it.
Something else fun that’s come out of this is finding fellow blog-wielding Scrantonians (or expatriots). In particular, when I was a kid/teenager, I listened to the radio station Rock 107 religiously. Their morning team, Daniels and Webster kept me in stitches with their Scranton-centric humor. I can still recall favorite skits all these years later. Well, I came to discover that John Webster is blogging. How cool is that? Now I get to exchange comments with someone I thought was just so damn great when I was young. Ah, I love the internets.
I’ve also come across NEPA Blogs, which tracks bloggers in North Eastern PA. All this is renewing my interest in creating some sort of Scranton-centric web presence, mainly for my own selfish indulgence, and desire to preserve this aspect of myself. I wish I were sitting on the old Cornell Street front porch right now. Alas, we don’t even own that house anymore.
Sigh.
*No, joo?
Got my autographed Michelle Lewis CD today. Cool.
Here’s a little something that makes me crazy. If you have a site “launch,” but five out of your seven pages have nothing more than a dumb “Under construction! Come back soon!” message, you have not launched your site. Please, people, if you aren’t ready to publish a certain page, don’t. Clicking a link only to find a “Coming Soon!” message is extremely annoying. Don’t do it.
Ok, so I rebuilt Daddy Daze with Apple’s iWeb. I’m pretty sure all the bugs have been worked out, but let me know if you find anything.
How do you explain to someone what computer memory is? I have found that many, many people confuse “memory” with “available disk space.”
Case in point. My wife’s friend just brought me three original iMacs that her husband found at the dump (she told me they were “G4’s.” Starting to feel my disappointment?). She wants to use one to replace her G3 All In One. She was told that one of the iMacs needs “more memory” before it will work. Well, two of the three have 64MB and one has 160MB. I said I recommend she take the 160MB, since they were identical otherwise.
She asked why, and I said, all things being equal, this one has more memory and that’s why I’d select it. “So it’s faster?” she asked. “No,” I said, “but having more memory will allow you to do more things at once. Like internet, Word and maybe email at once.” “And then I can get all the photos from my daughter.”
Understand that I’m not condemning her, and I don’t want to make her feel dumb. In the end I just said something like “you’ll be happy with this machine” and left it at that. How do you explain to someone just what the difference between memory, processor speed and disk space are? Consumer hear these words and believe that they are of paramount importance. To a point the are, but for the end-user (like my wife’s friend) who wants to do nothing more that ebay, email and very light internet, the importance is diminished. I can’t ever explain it correctly.
A big “howya doin” to visitors who saw my post at Life in the Office, the blog about NBC’s The Office. I’m glad you clicked over.
I don’t talk about Scranton as much here, but the topic does come up from time to time. Again, thanks for visiting, and I hope you find something amusing.
When you’re following an angel does it mean you have to throw our body off a building?
Published January 28, 2006 Music\ Leave a CommentIt seems that Devo have taken a cue from They Might Be Giants and started producing kids’ music. Kind of. They’re actually kids, but they’re calling themselves Devo. At least they got the hats right. It’s all very confusing.
Don’t you just hate really long post titles?
[Found via What Do I Know?]
Every week I post an article that takes a look at the references to Scranton, Pa made during NBC’s sitcom The Office over at Life In The Office. Here is this week’s entry, based on the episode “The Carpet.” Enjoy.
Lots of new TV has been added to the iTunes Music Store today, including South Park, The A-Team, Beavis and Butthead, Laguna Beach, Jackass, Dora the Explorer, South of Nowhere, Punk’d and more. Woo!
