Snow Day For Some

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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.