the futurama is coming
Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006
TV Squad.com is reporting that Futurama will return to Comedy Central (and maybe Fox) for at least 13 episodes in 2008. This is fantastic news that may finally confirm months of rumors. My only problem is that we have to wait until 2008!
I can't wait to sit back with a can of Slurm and watch Fry, Zoidberg, Bender, Leela and the rest of the gang ride again!
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hilton, weird food, shower cleaners, and my cok
Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Here's a few things...
I was reading an old issue of Giant magazine (Dec/Jan 2006) and I laughed at what Val Kilmer said about Paris Hilton (whom he met during her brief appearance in the movie, 'Wonderland'). He said, "Paris Hilton was great. I'd ask 'How are you?' and she'd say, 'I'm hot.' I thought she was acting but now I realize that's how she talks. I think she's very funny." Envisioning an that exchange between Kilmer and the rediculously dumb Hilton is hillarious.
On Saturday, I drove for about a million hours. First I drove from Ringoes to Brooklyn to pick up Jen. Then from Brooklyn to Lodi. Then from Lodi to Flemington, and finally from Flemington to Ringoes. [What's funny is that I've linked each leg of the trip to a Google Map -- but I didn't actually take any of those routes...] Good for the fun, bad for the gastank. We checked out The International Food Warehouse in Lodi, which was pretty freak'n cool. Check out Jen's site or my flickr for a few photos.
I am now the proud owner of a Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner. Be jealous ... very jealous. Your shower is dirty -- and mine is being cleaned by a robot. I'm also proud that the "dirtiest shower" is right here in NJ.
Anyway ... I'm really tired and I should have gone to bed about an hour ago. If you're interested, here's a picture of my Cok. If that's not enough for you, here's a picture of some Delicious Fresh Kaak. Yes, I know that I'm immature ... but it's funny.
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inappropriately exposed underarms: part deux
Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006
I received my answer from Quiznos today, and I kinda feel a little guilty now. Maybe I was an asshole? I don't know... But I do know that I can't go to that Quiznos location anymore. I'd be horrified if he somehow realized that I wrote the letter. That and I'm afraid that I might find some flakes of deodorant in my food...
This is his reply:
I am sorry to hear about your recent experience at our store.
As one of the top Quiznos Franchise owners in the area, my team and I like to pride ourselves on our outstanding customer service and food quality. Unfortunately at the time you had visited the restaurant, I had stopped by to pickup some items when my team (as you may also have noticed) was overwhelmed with a large volume of business from several soccer players. I am sorry that my attire at that time may have offended you and I agree with you that this was not proper attire. I thank you for your feedback regarding this issue and I do not plan on this happening again in the future. I hope that you will continue to visit my store and I am sorry about your experence on Sunday.
If you should ever have any other future concerns, please do not hesitate to bring them to our attention so that we may improve or correct our operations.
I look forward to seeing you in the future.
Sincerely,
Scott Adams
Quiznos Franchise Owner
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inappropriately exposed underarms
Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006
Sometimes I get on a letter writing kick... I was recently a little grossed out by the fact that a Quiznos employee was wearing a sleeveless tshirt. This is what I wrote to Quiznos corporate:
I would like to complain about an employee/owner at Quiznos store #5308 in Lawrenceville, NJ. I ate at the location at around 12:30pm on Sunday, June 11th, and was surprised to see an employee in a sleeveless red t-shirt, working behind the counter. The man is middle aged and has dark hair (I believe that he and his wife may be the store owners). I find the fact that he is wearing a sleeveless shirt unsanitary and inappropriate for food service. Although it seemed that he was assigned to the register, his disgusting, dangling underarm hair was unhygienically poised over people's sandwiches, cups, napkins, etc. I did eat my meal that day...but in hindsight, I am disgusted that it may have contained flakes of deodorant and drips of sweat from his inappropriately exposed underarms. I will think twice about going to that Quiznos location in the future.
I'll let you know if I get a response...
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propaganda, murder & brangelina
Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006
I'm a few days late on this, but NewsDesigner.com's coverage of the Al-Zarqawi's murder in Iraq is inspiring. The site (which is normally concerned only with the trends and overall design and redesign of newspapers) posted the covers of major US newspapers that came out after everyone had already heard about the terror leader's slaying. It's definitely worth checking out...
Most disturbing and overtly racist is the New York Post's cover -- with the [disturbing] dead face of Al-Zarqawi and a voice bubble saying "Warm up the virgins." Page 2 and 3 was a spread with the head "Evil Zarqawi Blown To Hell." While I'm all for the uncensored freedom of press, that is going well beyond the realm of good taste. Shame on you, NY Post ... and shame on the people that consider what you print to be news.
I don't like where we are headed... Even a more respectable publication, Time magazine, is running a cover of Al-Zarqawi's face with a red X over it. While Al-Zarqawi was a bad guy, the press is seriously sensationalizing his murder. A few months ago, people actually died in riots stirred by an image of Muhammad with a turban bomb that was printed in a Denmark newspaper. I remember looking at my high school history book and being disturbed by the racist World War II propaganda. Looking at today's media, I get that same uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Or then again, maybe the spawn of Brangelina is all that we should concern ourselves with... thanks, Boston Herald, for showing us what is important.
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fly like a bunny, into the ocean
Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006
I love you, my Doody baby. Seven short years with you wasn't nearly long enough. You were a true friend to me, and life will never be the same without you. I promise that I will never forget you, Doo Doo.
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dvd kiosks = dumb idea
Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006
In an effort to save shelf space and boost the sales of dvds, stores like Walmart, Target and Best Buy are looking at options to install kiosks in their electronics departments for downloading and burning dvd movies. This would help them compete with the likes of Itunes, which now offers video downloads, as well as Netflix and Blockbuster Online which with a subscription will send dvds to your mailbox. An article on Yahoo News claims that "Retailers are concerned that digital downloads might spell an end to the sale of DVDs, and see the download-to-burn kiosks as a way to keep them in the DVD business." Major retailers are looking to roll out the kiosks in 2007, but will face many licensing and technology difficulties in the next year if they plan to do so.
While this might seem like an okay idea (think more variety, larger film databases, maybe lower prices), I can think of a few drawbacks. First off, it will be at least a year before the kiosks are in place ... which leaves a lot of time for movie download sites to offer this services to me at home. Why would I want to drive to Walmart when I could download movies and burn them on my home PC? ...If you've ever waited in line at one of those photo printing kiosks, behind an E Coli infected, drooling, dirty moron at Walmart who's trying to figure out how to use a scanner, you'll see my point. You buy a photo printer prettttty fast so you never have to experience that again. I'm also wondering how these kiosk-dvds will be packaged. If you have (self-diagnosed) OCD like me, you like your dvds alphabetically organized on a bookcase ... and some cheesy blue and white WALMART DVD sleeve that houses Peter Jackson's 2008 release of The Hobbit (Hey, I can dream, can't I?) would look pretty lame next to my 2-inch thick Lord of the Rings extended edition dvds. Then again, that probably wouldn't be alphabetical, so it would probably never happen anyway...
PS... Sorry to my (average) 6 visitors a day for the long absence ... hopefully I'll get my act together and start posting more frequently. But what can I say? I'm a busy guy!
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