Miscellaneous rambling, and bragging about my kids.

AWESOME! if u get th chance, go to the deleted scenes and hit blades of glory song!
(main part of song)
sail across the sky, on the blades of glory, set the fire to the eye, on th blades of glory, todays the first chapter of our, mythic story!… oh yeah n its chazz n jimmy singin. (hot fuzz was awsome 2!)

Mobicious just launched a new ringtone maker. Totally free… you don't even need an account. They'll take your music upload, you select a 20 second clip, and they message it to your phone.

People, stop paying for ringtones!

Apple has a new feature for the iPhone. See a song on iTunes that you like? Click and turn it into a ringtone! The only problem is that you have to pay 99 cents for the song, and then another 99 cents for the privilege of making it a ringtone. Who is the ad wizard who thought that one up? Or was that one for the "We'll give it a shot and see how many people actually do it before the bad press gets too overwhelming" pile?

Naturally this has started up a flurry of "How to get free ringtones for your iPhone" articles, which in turn has spawned articles for "Get free ringtones even if you don't have an iPhone."

Over a year ago I simply got a phone that actually supports MP3 ringtones (a Motorola v360, to be specific). And then it was a simple matter of getting them on the phone. Easy easy. My ringtone is Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day…") as sung by David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd. The uber-cool thing is that my 5 and 3 yr olds can now both sing that song, referring to it as the song that Daddy's phone sings.

I suggested that my 5yr old sing it for her new kindergarten teacher, but then it dawned on me that her teacher would probably have no idea what she was hearing.

What season is the show in now? I don't even know.  I remember watching the first season, liking the premise, and then just sort of drifting away from it.  Like many shows, once it goes too much into the sob story and the crying, I get turned off.  You want to work for it and show some determination, then you'll have my respect.  But don't go crying about how hard it is, you're the one who got yourself into the situation in the first place.

In case you didn't see every single commercial, there's a twist thing time around.  We start with the Blue team (led by Bob), and the Red team (led by Kim) in a demanding physical challenge.  Both trainers are out in the desert (having parachuted there), and it's a simple footrace – be the first to touch one of them, and you're the team captain.  Then you have to pick your team.  This event could have been better, there were really no surprises.  When one last woman (Amber?) was still way behind, all the other contestants went out to cheer her across the finish line.  That was kind of cool, but at the same time I was like "You already quit.  Leave." 

There's 18 people, however, and each team only gets 6.  That means that 6 are leaving right off the bat.  Except, they're not.  Jillian, trainer from past years, is back in secret to lead this "Black" team without anyone's knowledge, including the other trainers.  In a week or so she's going to take her team back into the main game and shake things up a bit.  Neat idea.

Now, and I think this is a standard thing they do, all the contestants are led into a room full of junk food for a brainwashing lecture on how bad it is.  The trainers go from table to table talking about all the disgusting aspects of the food before ultimately dumping it on the floor.  What I would have love to see here is a freakout by the trainers, rather than a lecture.  Or even better, a freakout by the contestants.  Just go nuts and trash the place.  Don't just toss it on the floor, throw it up in the air and scream while you're doing it.  Show that food who's boss.

At this stage of the show, with 18 people, it's too hard to track them all by name.  So let's do the trainers.  Bob is my favorite, because you really do believe that he wants you to do well and that he'll be disappointed in you if you don't do your best.  What more can you ask?  It was great to see him standing right there with the team during weigh-in (apparently a new thing on the show?) and cheering them on.  A nice reminder that the trainers are part of the game, not really producers like, say, the host.

Kim doesn't do much for me.  She even said it in her own bio when she said "I'm not the new kid anymore" or something like that.  The problem is, yes, she is.  She's still got that "Come on, do it for me" sort of attitude that just wouldn't do it for me.

Jillian's style, I don't love.  I mean, I like it in a sort of "training montage at the end of a Rocky movie" way, but not as a motivational tactic for 400lb people.  In her bio she says that her motivational tactic is, and I quote, "Beatings beatings beatings beatings, and then more beatings."  Nah, not for me thanks.  I understand why *I* need to get in shape, but what I need to understand is why *you* have earned the right to beat on me.  As I said above, I really believe that Bob is personally invested in the contestants.  With somebody like Jillian I think she's mostly in it for herself.

Anyway, that's the first week, they end up kicking off Amber, the one who walked across the first finish line.  The captain of that team, the one who picked her, even acknowledges how pissed off he is that he could have selected someone that would try a little harder.

Good show, I'm looking forward to seeing more of it.

The guide to all things Subway, The Operations Manual, clearly states in chapter 10, page 10.32: Placing Cheese-
"When placing sliced cheese on bread, place the longest straight edge facing the hinge."

Conspiracy theory? I think not. But I like Drew's thinking.

You have to be pretty geeky to optimize the placement of cheese on a sandwich, right? Then again, you never know, you just might uncover a conspiracy!

Posted for the benefit of my brother, owner of several Subway franchises, who for all I know could actually be the guy described in the story :). Let's see if this gets him to hit that "Add comment" button at the bottom of the post…

After watching High School Musical 2, a commercial came on the Disney channel for something called The Jonas Brothers. "Ug, I hate the Jonas brothers!" said K.

"That's not very nice," I said. "Why don't you like them?"

"They're like a yogurt poster."

"That might be the most unusual simile I've ever heard. Why are the Jonas Brothers like a yogurt poster? I feel like the Riddler from the old Batman shows. Riddle me this, Caped Crusader! Why are the Jonas Brothers like a yogurt poster? Answer! Because there is a B in both, and an N in neither!"

I never did get a straight answer about the yogurt comment, something about a commercial they were in and how her friend Emma does not like them either. I just couldn't resist the Frank Gorshin reference, how often do you get to make one of those?

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/10/people.evans.ap/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

Remember Sara Evans, the country singer who quit Dancing With The Stars because she was in the middle of a messy divorce?  Well, it's getting messier.  The ex-husband has filed a document in court asking her to testify, under oath that she was not romantically involved with a number of men in her life. 

In general this would be no big deal, just a typical piece of legal fluff equivalent to trolling  — ask her to say it under oath, therefore if she refuses, she must have done it, right?

However, it gets more juicy when you read the list of names:  Kenny Chesney (isn't he the one that got divorced from Renee Zellweger because he's gay?), Richard Marx (wait…the guy from the 1980's??), Tony Dovolani (her dancing instructor on the show), and what appears to be the entire band "3 Doors Down."

Tony?  I thought Maksim got all the babes.

Over the weekend I was at a local seafood place picking up dinner, when I noticed on their very large menu board behind the counter that all the meals did, in fact, come with "Freedom Fries." As in, instead of French fries. Remember? Because the French aren't nice to us, or something. I hadn't heard that expression since, what, the day it was suggested and then laughed out of existence?

I figure that the owners of the place had to be pretty zealous in their patriotism to get the sign changed in the first place. It wasn't whited out or hand written, it was a legitimate part of the sign. That's fair.

But the real question is now, six years later when it's little more than a joke too old for even David Letterman to tell, would you keep it up there? Too expensive to change back? Have they forgotten that it's there? Or are they still just that zealous about their patriotism that they refuse to say the word French?

Chris was a loving family man. He was respected by so many. I have read many pages on this so called "ROID RAGE". According to the specialists who went over his body, yes he was positive to steroids in his system, but the steroids found in his system DO NOT equate to"roid rage". We should not jump to conclusions until the facts are out.