An Appology

I just wanted to let my fans know that the Comment section for this blog was turned to members only, meaning that I was the only one that was allowed to comment. Thank you King for pointing that out. The option has been changed so that anyone with an Open ID or a Google account can now comment. Sorry for not catching this sooner. Let the berating begin.

The TMI Guy

I was listening to the radio and they were talking about Facebook personalities. One of them was the “The TMI Guy” and at first I was like do they tell you too much private information or personal information like when they have sex or when do stuff that is completely offensive (one example that I will give is that someone mentioned that they discovered 2-girls-1-cup...or whatever it is and while I have never visited the site, I do know of it's reputation and I would never publish that I went there) in my eyes (and of course everyone is different on their thoughts on what is offensive). But as I listened to this, I realized that the DJ was just saying anyone who updates their status (no matter what that status is) more than 5 times a day is a TMI Guy. How is that TMI. I want to broadcast my thoughts over the internet. Isn't that the whole point of Twitter, YouTube and Facebook? If broadcasting my life to those who wants to see it, then I am proud to be a TMI guy.

Last Night's Adventure

Last night, the wife and I tried to do something cool and fun. It didn't work out like we wanted it too. In fact, it was bad. I want to save the big announcement for when we release what we are doing and have a product (for lack of a better word) that we can both be proud of. So, until next time.

Big Announcement Coming

The wife and I would like to give you a big announcement coming in the next couple of days. This has to do with a new thing that we will be doing and placing on a new blog for people to download and listen to.

That is all I have to mention at this time, but I do want to caution people, this is not an announcement about a new member of the family...just to let you know.

The "Study"

Do you want to hear what I am tired of: Hearing about a new study that links golf swings to brain cancer. Every single week and sometimes every single day, I hear about a new study that is linking something that we do everyday to a cancer. And I’m not talking about the studies about second hand smoke and lung cancer. I’m talking about a study that link peanut oil to allergic reactions or a study that links cell phones to depression amongst dogs or a study that links fast food to high risk drivers. Can we spend our taxpayer money on more important things in this world?

Yes, I know that taxpayer money isn’t always spent on this, but a lot of it is. During the Clinton Administration, I remember that a budget bill was not going to be passed because a portion of the bill would have gone to a study in Wyoming that was measuring the effect of cow farts on the ozone. I know we need to protect the ozone, but are we going to outlaw cows because of their gas? If not, then what does this study really do?

If the government wants to conduct studies, then let’s do it for something useful like studying near Earth objects (asteroids that could cause a global extinction) or robots that could take over humanity (Terminator series or if you really want to go back, "I, Robot" [a book that I loved when I read it]).

GR Taking Off

Geezer Radio is starting to take off and be sucessful. Check out these stat's.

Yesterday, Geezer Radio had:

33 Subscribers
26 Reaches (which means "they may view your content on a feed search engine or news filter site")

That is the highest it has ever been. Let's also break down how people are subscribing to our feed:

Google Feedfetcher - 8
Zune/3.1 - 8
iTunes (Windows) - 6
iTunes (Mac) - 5
FeedDemon - 1
Generic Java-based feed client - 1
Juice - 1
My Yahoo - 1
Windows RSS Platform - 1
urlfan-bot/1.0 - 1

I would also like to say that I do subscribe to my own podcast, and the reason I do is because I want to make sure the quality and feed is working correctly. Another reason I subscribe to my own feed is because McJeepers and Furgus have begun their own podcast under the same feed, and I have come to enjoy listening to their interviews and topics. It's a GREAT complement to the podcast that Spark and I do.

So thank you to everyone who listens in. Also, WE WANT FEEDBACK on how we can improve the experience for everyone who enjoys our show. So please drop one of the four of us a line and let us know what you are thinking.

Geezer Radio New Episode

There is a new episode of Geezer Radio available for download. Special Episode: Hawk Sausage.

Digsby, the All Knowing

I am going to venture off of my normal posts of hellfire and damnation towards people and events, and instead focus on praise. I know you might not feel right seeing me praise something, but you’ll just have to deal with it.

Digsby is perhaps one of my favorite applications, and I think that if you use multiple instant messaging services, multiple e-mails, and multiple social networks, then Digsby is for you. Digsby can include them all. I have AOL, Gmail, and Yahoo chat and e-mail. I would normally have to install the app for all three of these to get the functionality that Digsby offers. I added to the complexity of my life by then joining Twitter and Facebook, but with Digsby, I only have to log into one app to access them all.

So what does Digsby do for me? It logs me in and keeps me logged in to all of them. Some of you on Facebook may have noticed that I am always on Facebook, well, I’m actually just logged into Digsby and that keeps me logged into Facebook chat all the time. I’m not slacking off at work; I’m just logged in to chat through Digsby. Now, I get you are wondering why I have all of them logged in at work. Well, that’s easy to answer also, I have to contact people all over the country through chat, and some of them use Google chat, and other use AOL, and others still use Facebook chat. So staying logged into chat all day is a necessity.

Some of you might like this next feature, and others may not. When you create a Digsby account, you can install it on as many computers as you want and the settings will carry over. If I make a change to my Digsby settings on my work computer, they will carry over to my home computer with no problem at all.

I also hear that Digsby is still looking to improve by including Skype and your Xbox Friends list also. I would like to see both of them, but I am not sure how that would work. Anyway, take a look at the website and see if this program may interest you.

www.digsby.com

I Don’t Understand Why...

Some people on this Earth go to great length to tear down someone they don’t like. For this example, I will use Facebook’s very own Fake Tony Romo. Now the profile lists that this is in fact a Tony Romo Facebook profile (And it’s not just Tony Romo. Sarah Palin, Barack Obama and Eli Manning, just to name a few, probably have someone out there claiming to be them and instead of just letting them be, they make fun of them),but it is one of the worst and most pathetic attempts at defaming and making fun of a person that I have ever seen. And personally, I think this could be considered computer fraud because someone signed up with his name and claims to be him. Okay, they aren’t making any money on it, but they are breaking the Facebook terms of service by doing it. But that’s not the reason why I am not happy with this poor excuse for a human.

The reason I am upset about this is that someone is using his (or her) free time to make fun of a famous person. Does this person, who claims to be Tony Romo but has the wrong birthday listed (as of yesterday and it might have been changed), even have a life? I can think of about a hundred other things I can do with my life other than take the time to make fun of someone one Facebook with a fake profile of someone. Why does society accept this?

Another thing that bothers me is that this person is so desperate to make fun of someone, who they can’t even begin to dream of measuring up to or competing against, that they go to great length to trick people into thinking that they are who they are not. Let me ask you this Fake Tony: How many touchdown passes have you thrown for a professional football team? How many multi-million dollar contracts have signed with a signing bonus? How many times have you had broken ribs in a football game and continued to play?

Instead of getting people to pay attention to you by defaming someone, go out and raise money for pediatric cancer. Instead of defaming someone, go out and volunteer as a youth adviser at your church. Instead of defaming someone, be a good husband or wife to your significant other by spending extra time with him/her. Instead of defaming someone, find a hobby that takes up this extra free time that you seem to have. (I've done all of these.)

Let me just lay it all out: Fake Tony, you are a pathetic human in need of a real life. Get one.

Cylons Everywhere

I have to say that I am loving the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica. For those of you, who don’t watch it, SHAME ON YOU! It is a great series. But I will say that most of Season 3 and Season 4 are kind of boring and there didn’t really seem to be a lot of point to it, but with 10 episodes to go, it has picked up as my favorite show. I won’t put any spoilers about what has happened in the past couple of episodes, but I am loving it. And it’s not over yet. Even when the final episode airs, there is still more of the Battlestar universe to cover.

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan will cover the Cylons plan to nuke the 12 colonies. I hope they cover some of what is going on around Capirca and/or the Battlestar Galactica during the time the plan is being discussed. And a new series: Caprica is in development, and although I am not 100% behind this idea, I hope that it’s successful because I would love to see the first Cylon war made into a series. How cool would that be?

Busy Days

It has been busy this week. Yesterday, I had DirecTV come out and install an HD Satellite dish. They did a good job, and I was pleased with their work. I also had to publish a podcast (GR:Episode 20 - Fracked) and have heard some pretty good feedback.

But today also is Friday, also known as the end of the week. It's also Valentine's day tomorrow. I didn't get my wife flowers for this weekend, and instead bought some for her yesterday. It was a combo of roses and tulips (I think) with some baby's breath as filler. I got it not because it was Valentines day, but because she's had a bad week and needed some cheering up. And although my wife is sick, I imagine that it did cheer her up a little. If I can make my wife smile at least once every day for the rest of her life, I will consider my life complete. She is so wonderful...

Episode 20 of GR

Episode 20 of Geezer Radio will be up sometime today.

Guilty Satisfaction

I am guilty of one of the greatest moments of my life. A while back, I blogged about how joining Facebook was a mistake because I didn't really find a whole lot of friends from high school that I wanted to reconnect with. Well, that stance hasn't changed, but I do love Facebook. It's a one stop shop for me to post my blog, to put a link to a favorite video or website. I have also connected with a lot of Geezer friends that I normally wouldn't have gotten in contact with. But this morning, I got to have one brilliant moment of giving the middle finger to an ex-friend that always treated me like crap in high school.

Even thought I'm not going to mention his name, this guy was one of the most two face friends that I have ever had. Not going into details, but after high school, I realized that he wasn't much of a friend as I thought he was. Well, today, he sent me a friends request over Facebook, and in a moment of pure clarity, I clicked the "Ignore" button. I started to shake uncontrollably after that, but not from anger or me being scared. I was shaking out of joy. This may sound silly, but I feel like I actually stood up for myself in a way that I was never able to do in high school. I know that sounds stupid from a 30 year-old, but that's how I felt.

But I have to add this, because I would feel like I cheated you if I didn't mention this. This friend that tried to be my "friend" probably was waiting for me to send him an invite, just because he thought that I was this hanger on, but he was wrong. And now that I write this, I kind of regret not finding out why he took so long, or if he didn't see me until this morning. Some things I need to find out right away, and other things can remain a mystery and I don't care. Odd, don't you think?

In Bed

My wife has this unusual, but very funny thing she likes to do. Whenever she opens up a fortune cookie (these day’s they should be called advice or Zen cookies), she’ll read out what is on the little piece of paper and after the last words, she’ll include the words: in bed. Most of the time, it’s a really mundane sentence that makes no sense, but Sunday, me, my mom and the wife all got the following:

My mom got: Idleness is the holiday of fools...in bed.
The wife got: You will pass a difficult test that will make you happier...in bed.
I got: Good things are being said about you...in bed.

I thought that these three were the funniest I have ever seen, and I couldn’t help but laugh at them all.

Now for the usual fair. Last night was the most fun I have had playing online in a long, LONG time. I started out by beating Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, then hopped into a Gears 2 room for the first time in forever. It had nearly been two months since the last Gears 2 night, and I finally remember what I had been missing. I then hopped into a Left 4 Dead room to play some versus. That pretty much ended my night. And what a fun night it was.

Sorry for not posting anything yesterday. I was so busy at work, that I didn’t get the chance. And Sunday night, I was surprised to find out that I have a lot more readers than I thought I did before. I need to keep this updated if that's the case.

Agreeing with the Soapbox

Please check this video out, but be careful, it's not a 100% SFW.

With all that is going on between Sony and Microsoft trying to win a console war, people have taken sides, just like with everything else in this world, and this is the end result. Why do we have to so divided and be so emotional? I think it goes just a little deeper than having a fan favorite. I think the real issue is that everyone wants to have an opinion, think they are right about it and tell it like they see it. That is exactly what has happened with respect to electronic companies. They are called fanboys and to them, one company can do no wrong. Let me give an example.

Yesterday, I got into a discussion with a like minded individual that I have had discussion with before. He basically stated that Apple operating systems are vastly superior to Microsoft operating systems. Now, that being his opinion, I can't argue with that, because no matter how much you argue with someone, their opinion means that they are right. The last time I used a Mac was in high school (12 years ago) and I used to own an iPod. I HATED THE iPod...with a passion. The reason: no customization. The Zune is completely customizable. You can put whatever background you want on there, and Microsoft won't tell you "you can't do that". Does that mean the Zune is better than an iPod? Yes, but only in my eyes. He would probably disagree, and in his eyes, he would be right.

Sony and Microsoft have gone at it for years, and they both have loyal fanboys. I am a fanboy of neither. I own both consoles, and while I think the 360 is superior to the PS3, that doesn't mean the PS3 can't have anything good (Killzone 2 Demo was AWESOME). The fanboy wars need to stop. In reality, we all need to stop and smell the roses and be nice to each others opinion. So, the next time you think it would be fun to incite a fanboy war, watch this video and remember, you could be the guy that Adam Sessler points out.

Cheese for the Tortured Artist

So, Christian Bale went on a crazy tirade when someone moved his cheese. Okay, so no one really moved his cheese, but someone did interrupt his scene and he went crazy. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please Google: Christian Bale Tirade, but be careful that it may not be SFW.) Anyway, what is the end result in all of that? If you listen to the audio, he pretty much loses his cool and starts cursing out someone from moving into his line of vision during a really intense scene. But was it wrong? Did he have the right to curse that person out? Let’s analyze.

Now, I’m not an actor, nor am I a person of consequence that could be considered famous. I do have a small cult following, but with that said, I can hurt feelings when I write or say something (it just doesn’t make it onto youtube...yet) and it hurts real feelings in real people. What I wrote yesterday, was a prime example of something that could have hurt feelings, even though I was writing about my feelings. So, if I did that, I am sorry.

Slinger, if you read this, please know that I have no hurt feelings towards you or anyone else in the GGSE. I don’t think what happened was intended at all, but when I first saw it, it seemed that way. Looking back, it seems kind of silly. So, I hope you and anyone else who was hurt by it can accept my apology.

Now, back to Christian Bale, did he hurt feelings when he went off on that tirade? Probably. But people do that. I can hit a pretty big boiling point given the right circumstances. And one of the ultimate questions that will need to answered is, will this hurt his career. I’m not sure. When I think of Christian Bale, I think of a guy who is committed to his work. He should be. Anyone who wants to be respected in their job should care about what they do. If they don’t care, would you hire them? I wouldn’t.

The fact is that the way he threw his fit made me think that he cares more than just some actor trying to get a million dollar pay day. It actually makes me like him more because he cares about the job he is doing. Unfortunately, the movie industry (and society as a whole) relies on people getting along.

But there are instances when someone can go “postal”. I couldn’t tell you how many times I have wanted to yell at someone and tell them that they were wrong, and even though I know that, the situation requires diplomacy, so I must hold my tongue. So what Christian Bale did might hurt his career and right now, I give it a 10% chance at doing that, only because the Batman series is so hot at this moment. But he needs to keep temper under control.

Stop Moving My Cheese!

There is a good book out there called, "Who Moved My Cheese". I haven't yet read that book, but I think that I need to put that on my reading list. Why? You may ask, well, I am having a VERY difficult time figuring out if I am going to the GGSE Meet and Greet (M&G) in Orlando in May. I am kind of getting upset at all the changes this year.

It all started last month when I was told that the M&G would be in Orlando. Now, when I first heard the idea of it being in Orlando, I was against it. Mainly because I had become accustom to Atlanta, and thought that that was the perfect setup. After it was finalized and set in Orlando, I made peace with the decision and put my full weight behind it. I got behind it so much, that I called my dad, who lives in Inverness and asked if he could come by Orlando while I was there to visit (he was thrilled). Okay, so it's set for the first weekend of May in Orlando. Well, then they announced that it might get delayed to the second week, but it wasn't set in stone. A week later, it's been moved to the 3rd week in May and I am not happy! Why? Why am I so upset about this? The reason: I specifically told everyone that I can't make it that weekend, and what do they do? They schedule it for that weekend. I know this may not have been the intention, but it seems like they did that on purpose and they don't want me to go this year. I'm holding out the hope that is not the case, and it probably isn't but I do have to say, it seems like it.

Now the above situation started with the someone moving my cheese (having it in Orlando, instead of Atlanta where I was comfortable), but is now it's turning into whether I can go or not because of the circumstances of my life.

Although I have yet to confirm whether I can make it now or not, I do have to say that this is symptomatic of a larger problem for me. What problem is that? Well, my sister once said I had an aversion to change, and while I disagree with that in it's totalitarian whole, I can't help but say that when I get comfortable with something one way, I like it to stay that way. When I go to restaurants, I usually get the same thing, and you know what? I like it that way! Do I need to change what I eat when I visit a certain restaurant, or listen to a different radio station once in a while, or like No Doubt's "It's My Life" over the original? I guess I need to move my cheese.

But...

I like my cheese where I know it's tasty and good.

T-Rex Wife

My wife is a T-Rex. That's just a simple fact. Why do I say this? Does she scare me? Not most of the time. Does she threaten to eat me? Never. So, why do I call her a T-Rex? The reason lies in this: Whenever she get's home from work, she stands in front of me with her arms positioned so that they look like a T-Rex's upper arms. Also, if I don't move she will not be able to find me... I wish I had a picture and maybe one day I will, and when I do I will have to post it.

Okay, so this is very anti-climatic in description, but if you see the picture, you'll understand...maybe.

Episode 19

Episode 19 of Geezer Radio will be posted today. Tomorrow I will be covering why my wife is a T-Rex.