The Big Ten Network debuts tomorrow, piquing the interest of many a Midwestern college sports fan. The Big Ten Network is a subsidiary of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is decidedly evil and way too rich for his own good, in partnership with the Big Ten universities. The network plans to carry all […]
Archive for August, 2007
A Lesson in Content and Distribution
Published August 29th, 2007 in Advertising, Business, Consume, Entertainment, Indiana, Sports and Technology. 3 CommentsIs this a parody band or an ingenious way to score free drinks in crappy bars?
All day people at work told me I looked great.
Someone asked if I was losing weight (yes, I’m still on a fucking liquid diet and pissed off about it, and don’t get me started on the weight loss crap), two people told me my hair looked fabulous (I rolled out of bed ten […]
You Might Have Settled the Argument
Published August 20th, 2007 in Chef, Family and Suburbia. 1 CommentBut Chef took a picture of the dinner plate in question and decided it looks more decidedly blue on film than in real life, thus ending the disagreement on whether the plate is indeed blue or purple.
I still say blue.
I ventured back to the oral surgeon today so they could remove the gauze packed in my gum holes. Over the weekend I was sure that the gauze had slipped out and been swallowed, so the clinic nurse did an x-ray and confirmed my suspicions. The x-ray showed nothing but ghost teeth, empty […]
Anyone use Skype? I need a guinea pig.
LEGO Zelda
Published August 18th, 2007 in Children, E, Entertainment, Movies and Suburbia. 11 CommentsEthan (almost 8) and my nephew (12) spent last week making stop-motion animation using a digital camera and a box of LEGOs. You’ll notice that once the pictures were completed they filmed a Windows slideshow of the pictures to animate the stills. The sound effects are Ethan. Soooo cute, and very creative especially […]
Friday Random Ten - The Percocet with Dry Sockets Edition
Published August 17th, 2007 in Health and Music. 14 CommentsWork didn’t last long yesterday. Without the ability to speak at length, I did all the paperwork available to me and left after a few hours. I crashed on the couch when I got home and awoke to the most painful headache, neckache, toothache, everything-above-the-shoulders ache that I spent the next two hours […]
CHOW magazine used to be carried at one of Chef’s favorite magazine vendors, but inexplicably disappeared from the shelves awhile back. We were very sad.
Imagine how excited he’ll be to know that his schnookums got a mention on the CHOW blog for a bitchy aside I made because I’m bitter that I’m denied real […]
I dread the thought of going to work tomorrow for a nine hour day, all day talking, smelling of bile, while I’m still oozing blood and infection from my gums — although it is entertaining to imagine attending our weekly meeting tomorrow morning hopped up on hydrocodone. Even though my speaking acumen is diminished, […]
Baby Einstein Videos Don’t Work
Published August 15th, 2007 in Advertising, Children, Consume and Education. 3 CommentsDisney is in an uproar demanding a retraction on a University of Washington study that their Baby Einstein videos don’t advance children’s learning development, and in fact “infants who watched DVD’s and videos designed for babies understood fewer words than did infants who didn’t watch the recorded programs.” No news yet on whether Disney […]
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