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Koi Fish Pondering

It seems that anything with a modicum of success is cloned.  For this entry I’m focusing on the cloning of Jack Bauer.  At least, to me, it seems that is happening this year.  For those of you who don’t know who Jack Bauer is, he is the hero in Fox’s 24.

24 - Season Four

I’ll be the first to tell you I didn’t catch onto 24 until last year.  While I was working at Yahoo!, friends in my group would watch and talk 24 for days on end.  Well, I checked out season 1 and 2 - easy when it’s on DVD - and I was hooked.  I then quickly added season 3 and 4 followed in my Netflix queue.  For the two weeks all farrah heard was the theme to 24 on our television screen.

This fall season there seems to be a series of shows that are, in essence, trying to capture the flavor of 24.  Neither of them, however, successed on any scale.

First up is Kidnapped.  I watched this show on DVD.  It seems NBC wanted to release two of its pilots on DVD before the start of the fall season.  The other show on the disc, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, looks very promising.  But I’m writing to talk about Kidnapped.  It stars the guffy likable Jermey Sisto from Six Feet Under as a man who can get retrieve a loved one who has been kidnapped.  Get this: he only charges you if the kidnapped victim comes back alive. Oh, how nice of him.

Kidnapped

Jeremy must also must deal with the FBI in the form of Delroy Lindo - who is basically playing the same role he did in the movie Ransom.

The parents of the kidnapped victim are played by Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany, both in pretty much wasted roles.  You can see the writers trying to setup the twists-n-turns that will weave there way through the season (Why was he kidnapped?  What’s the wife hiding? What did Jeremy Sisto’s character leave the FBI?  Should I really be watching this show?)  There is no ticket clock on this show, but I’m sure the show is set to resolve itself by season’s end.

Vanished

The other kidnapped based show is Fox’s Vanished.  It stars former Queer as Folk actor Gale Harold.  Gale plays an FBI agent with “something to prove”, trying to find the missing wife of a US Senator.  His acting in this show is pretty flat and emotionless.  If he’s supposed to be the tough guy lead, at least exude some charisma, will ya?  I’m not really going to get into this much, as the show is as flat as Kidnapped. The only thing going for this show is it has Ming-Na in it.  Too bad they don’t give her much to do.

I guess I’ll turn off my television and wait until the new season of 24 starts.

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No Swimming @ North Shore, Hawaii

Take a picture of something that someone put a sticker on.

Tiana with Stickers

Fun with stickers!!!

Give a child a sheet of stickers and they will handle the rest.

Look, I did what she said with the brick.  I didn't know it was bad, but The Pin's on it now for poor Frisco, and they're playing it all on me.  -- Emily from the movie Brick.

farrah and I watched this movie last weekend.  I’ve wanted to see it ever since I saw it’s preview during another DVD we watched several months ago.  It looked like classic film noir set in high school. 

It took a while to get into the nuances in the the dialog, but once you got into the rythym it was easy to follow.  In a way it was sort of like watching Trainspotting for the first time, not knowing what is being said.

I enjoyed the movie overall, giving it four stars.  I like the characters and the look of the film.  The pace of the story was spot on, moving from scene to scene at a good clip.  I figure if Sam Spade went to high school, he Brendan, the lead character in the film.

Go add this movie to your Netflix queue (or rent it at Blockbuster if you must).

What's your morning beverage of choice?  Coffee, tea, juice?  Homemade or store-bought?

If you haven’t seen this, it explains all there is to social networking.  So many online friends, so little time.

How cute were you as a baby/child? Let's see those baby pics!

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Yeah, I had to have these photos for our wedding slideshow.  I should really post farrah’s photos as well.  I mean, it would only be fair, right?

My website is down for the second time in about six months.  The reason my hosting company gives is hard drive failure - again!  Two times, on two different servers, in six months.  I think it may be time to make change.

So does anyone have a suggesting for a web hosting company? I’m looking for about 5GB of storage (for a small photo program I maintain),  PHP and mySQL, and not much else.  I’m not looking to break the bank on monthly fees, but anything under $25 is worth considering.  I’m currently with Midphase and have been with Hostgator (who wasn’t bad at all).

If anyone has a suggestion I would appreciate it.

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The guy go into McDonalds to grab a quick bite and gets more than he bargined for.  Violence is everywhere, even at your local McDonalds.

This is why I go through the drive thru.

[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“500.0”] I dropped by 12" PowerBook[/caption]

I’m a recent Mac adopter.  I bought my Powerbook last October and I just love it.  I probably will never buy another Windows machine, unless something drastically changes.  Last April, I did drop my PowerBook.  It didn’t go boom but it did bend a bit.

I know accidents happen, so I was able to calm myself after the mishap.  Given the mobile nature of notebooks accidents are more likely to happen.  I’ve heard the life expectancy of a notebook is three years, give or take a year.   I understand this.  Imagine my suprise when I came home yesterday and couldn’t power-up the PowerBook.

My thoughts started racing.  Did I drop this the PowerBook again?  Did the previous accident just have a delayed effect?  Did the cat sabatoge the PowerBook?  Can I convince farrah we should just buy a new one?  Oh crap, when was the last time I backed up this baby?

I started to freak.  farrah and I tried several steps before I started Internet searches on 12" PowerBook No Power.  There was several forum postings, and one off blog entries about this problem.  None of the solutions were working.  Stress on the old ticker was building.  

I then decided to go straight to the Apple support site for PowerBooks.  Can you guess what the first problem listed on the front page was?  It was “My computer won’t turn on"  All I needed to do was a simply hold down the Shift-Control-Option-Power for five seconds, then power back up.  Whew!

   [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500.0"] My damaged 12" PowerBook[/caption] 

Disaster avoided, but a lessen learned.  Boy, do I need to do a backup and soon. 

Eh, maybe next week.

What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it?

U2’s Vertigo is my default ringtone   You know the part?

Hello hello
I’m at a place called Vertigo
It’s everything I wish I didn’t know
Except you give me something I can feel, feel

I just never get sick of U2.  I’ve seen U2 several time in concert, both with BossaNova and farrah.  They always put on a great show.

Tigger has, as of this writing, twenty-four friends.  Twenty-four friends?  Yes. He has about nineteen more friends than I have on //LJ; eighteen more friends than I have on //Vox; and three more friends then on //360.

If you deciphered the above comments, then you know that Tigger has a social network page.  Check it out at //Tigger’s page.  And there is also //Dogster if you happen to have a dog.

Now I won’t blog on behalf of Tigger to often.  These sites seem well suited to find out more about issues facing pet lovers, as well as sharing memories of those who love us unconditionally.  I think that type of niche community site is better suited to finding answers, then say a MySpace page.

Anyway, Tigger is on the Internet.  Next thing you know my Mom will have her own blog!?!?!?

What was your favorite candy when you were a kid? How does that compare to now?

It’s about 12:40 am right now and it is still warm in the house.  All I can think about is how hot it is supposed to be tomorrow.  I can’t think how I’m going to keep cool tomorrow.  Should I go to the mall?  Should I see a movie?  Should I walk around Fry’s Electronics until I can’t stand being there any longer?

Speaking of Fry’s Electronics, I stopped by there after work.  There seemed to be a mad rush of people buying the $400-$600 portable air conditioning units displayed in the center aisle.  It was almost an end-of-the-world-I’m-going-to-get-mine-and-I’ll-kill-you-if-you-look-at-me-funny sort of rush.  The heat makes you do crazy things, I suppose.

I wish I could be like Tiana is in the photo.  I wish I could break out the inflatable pool, fill it up with water from the hose, and just lay there in the water.  

Come to think of it, who says I can’t do it?

What's your favorite drink or cocktail? What's in it?

Question submitted by charm.vox.com

When I gt in the mood, I like to take a trip to Long Island with a Long Island Ice Tea.  There are variations on this drink, but basic ingredients are:

1 part vodka
1 part tequila
1 part rum
1 part gin
1 part triple sec
1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix
1 splash Coca-Cola®

(The above provided by Drinksmixer.com)

After three of these I’m a happy camper.  If I had to choose another beverage it would be nice pint of Guinness Beer.

Paris Hilton

"It will surprise a lot of people because there's real artistry coming from Paris."

This above quote is about Paris, France, right?

No, the article is talking about Paris Hilton and her catchy pop-reggae-island-beat song that is playing all over the airwaves.  I’ve seen the glimpses of the video on VH1 so many times - but I haven’t been able to sit through the whole thing.

Just goes to show you: anyone in the digital age can be made a singer.

Those guys in Yahoo! Japan get all the fun, don’t they?  I found this video while surfing YouTube.  I never heard of the guy or the show, but hey, I don’t watch much Japanese television.

I was happy that there was a version with English subtitles.  I guess the user Bakafish takes the time to subtitle these little adventures.  If you want to watch more hilarity, do a search on YouTube for Bakafish and Hard Gay.

You heard about //Vox?

Well, Vox is the new social networking site from //Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal - all good blogging platforms.  I’ve tried them all, and one thing is for sure: Six Apart knows their stuff.

Yes, I and everyone else I know is thinking, does the world need another social blogging network?  Well, Vox is sold on its “all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about."  It is easy to use, and there are a lot of features in flux.

What I like: I enjoy the ability to easily integrate Flickr, Photobucket, or iStockphoto account.  I also like the ability to selections from YouTube and Amazon items in your blog entries.  The interface to create entries is simple to use as well.  I like the QotD (Question of the Day) which can prompts you to answer via a blog entry.  I also like the idea of neighborhoods - almost like adding a Flickr contact.  You don’t necessarily need to make the a Friend or Family, but you can read your favorite bloggers on Vox by having them in your Neighborhood.  Templates are nice as well.  There is advertising on your page, but it is very subtle.

What needs work: HTML tags can’t be used everywhere, such as My Profile and blog entries.  Since Vox is in Preview status, there is only a limited amount of users on the system, so only members can make comments on blog entries.  They could probably open this up with OpenID or some other method.  I would like to also see the ability to import a blog from another platform, such as LiveJournal, Blogger, or Wordpress.

Overall, it has been a good experience on Vox.  Oh, so you want to see my page? Well you can view //my Vox here.

Would you like to get Vox’d?  I might send out invitations to those I know, once I receive them.  Just try it out.  At the least, you can get your name - if it isn’t taken already :)