Archive for July, 2008

Ten Websites I Can’t Do Without

Here are 10 Websites I Can’t Do Without that you might want to check out if you’re not aware of, listed in Alphabetical order by subject:

Computer

www.TestMy.Net This is an excellent testing device to find out your download and upload speed.

Dead Rock Stars

http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/deadrock.html Your up to the minute source of practically any musician who has died, past or present. I was shocked to find out that some of my favorite musicians were dead as there was virtually no news about their deaths in the newspapers.

A Tribute to Keith Morrison of Dateline – The Howard Cosell of Crime Reporting

A Tribute to Keith Morrison of Dateline – The Howard Cosell of Crime Reporting

Stargate: Continuum – A Very Good Time Travel DVD Movie

To all you sci-fi fans of Time Travel and/or the Stargate SG-1 TV series, I think you’ll be very happy with the latest Stargate direct to DVD movie, Stargate: Continuum.

Continuum deals with a whole bunch of time travel concepts including “the grandfather paradox” – if you kill your grandfather, would you cease to exist, and the plot is basically Ba’al, Stargate’s arch enemy, travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from ever being started causing the time line to change leaving the SG-1 team, the ones who haven’t vanished, left to try to restore it. This is where things get really interesting

I Never Went on A Fake Job Interview – One of my life’s Regrets!!

One thing I’ve always regretted not doing in life is going for a job interview for a position that I either had no interest in or knew I had no chance getting and just messing with the interviewer’s head as long as it didn’t bite me back. To people who are saying, why would I want to waste all this negative energy doing something so immature, my answer is because it would be a fun way to release stress after being messed with during job interviews. The interview that specifically comes to mind is, for a lousy $3,000 more, I was interviewed by 9 people at the same time around a large table and one of these people had a speech impediment and I couldn’t understand a word she was saying. For her initial question, I asked politely if she could please repeat it,as I didn’t quite understand what she was asking and the other 8 people looked at me like I was the village idiot. This went on for several more questions and after the second time, I basically just tried to guess what she asked and give the answers to what I thought she may have asked.

I Fought the Law – The Bobby Fuller 4 Story Should Be an HBO series

I Fought the Law – The Bobby Fuller 4 Story Should Be an HBO series

Timebox Sounds Like Demos the Beatles Would Have Made Between Strawberry Fields and Sgt. Pepper

For all you Beatles fans out there, between their Strawberry Fields and Sergeant Pepper period, I just discovered a group that I think you’ll love called Timebox who hit their prime in the late 1960′s in England. Their master recordings sound like “missing Beatles demos” circa the Strawberry Fields – Sergeant Pepper period.

US Presidents Super Trivia Quiz

As this is a presidential voting year, here are some great trivia questions and answers that I found online.

1. Who was the Last Foreign Born US President?

If you’re saying this is a trick question because a President can not be foreign born, you are WRONG!

I Loved Major League Baseball in the 60/70′s But Hate It Now

I grew up in New York City in the 1960/70′s and as a kid and later a teen, the New York Yankees and New York Mets were my life before I discovered girls. Baseball was my favorite sport and I’d go to endless baseball games a year as well as watch most of the games on WPIX and WOR, the local New York Stations. Today, I hate Major League Baseball and simply don’t follow it. Basketball and football are my sports now. I don’t think I’m alone.

Why Don’t Pro or College Football Teams Try These Plays?

One thing I don’t understand about pro and college football is why teams don’t seem to try the following plays listed below. If some teams have, please let me know and I’ll revise this Post as applicable.

Punting – The Punter lines up 20 -25 yards or more behind the line of scrimmage rather than 15 yards

Superhero Movie Extended Edition DVD – Pretty Funny Despite the Bad Reviews

Out of boredom and fearing the worst, I just rented “Superhero Movie Extended Edition”. I may be wrong but I assumed “Superhero Movie” was made by the people who did “Date Movie”, one of the worst movies I’ve ever rented and after reading the bad reviews on “Superhero Movie” I almost didn’t rent it. To my surprise, this was actually a pretty good movie, not great but not terrible either, a solid “B”. It was like a “Poor Man’s Scary Movie 1″. In all fairness I should mention that if you don’t have a minimum knowledge in comic book lore you might not find this movie funny. Likewise, if you are a total Fanboy, you might find Superhero Movie’s humor too subtle and lame for you. It walks a fine line.