Dumbest game show ever!

The show Deal or No Deal has to be seriously the dumbest game show on TV.

The concept is dumb – It is completely random; it’s like roulette – yet contestants will *agonize* over decisions that are utterly arbitrary. It lasts a freaking hour long! The 20 random hot babes just really feels gratuitous, something to distract you from the absurdity of the game.

The people are dumb – The contestants jump around like jackasses – it’s *irritating*!! If that isn’t bad enough, they get the families to do the same! The host is a pretentious piece of doodie.

All this being said, the show is damn addictive. Once you start, it is really hard to stop watching, and considering how positively *dumb* it is, I am embarrassed.

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Now everyone sing along with me…

The stars at night,
Are big and bright,
Deep in the heart of Texas,

The prairie sky
Is wide and high,
Deep in the heart of Texas.

The sage in bloom
Is like perfume,
Deep in the heart of Texas,

Reminds me of,
The one I love,
Deep in the heart of Texas.

tx-map-longhorn The coyotes wail,
Along the trail,
Deep in the heart of Texas,

The rabbits rush,
Around the brush,
Deep in the heart of Texas.

The cowboys cry,
“Ki-yip-pee-yi,”
Deep in the heart of Texas,

The dogies bawl,
And bawl and bawl,
Deep in the heart of Texas.

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Women are from Venus and men are from a place that’s *soo* much farther away

It absolutely boggles my mind how two people can look at the same thing and yet fixate on *completely* different aspects of it.

The best are the ads in these women’s magazines (and just for the record, this is something that I have only been exposed to since marriage!). The following is a representative sample, but there are tons like it… take a look:

Longchamp purse ad

Take a quick look at this ad… now do a gut check… what is the first thing that you focused on?

If you are a woman, you likely would have said the purse. Seriously guys, the women are looking at the *purse*. When my wife tried to point out the purse to *me* the first time, I stared blankly at her, “Purse, what purse? Oh you mean that thing blocking the naked chick!”

Brrr…

frost on my car
Ok, yes it’s November, but dammit I live in California and I don’t have to deal with frost and snow. Or if I deal with it, it’s only at a time and place of my choosing, I don’t want it thrust upon me. Yes, it’s pathetic, but what can I say… I’ve grown soft here…

That being said, I am pretty freaking proud of myself for having a frost scraper in my trunk ready for the occasion!

Dumbest company of the *decade*!!

Just cleaning out some old papers, came across this note we got in our apartment this past summer:

We think we gave you expanded cable service by mistake

This is a note telling me that over ten years after the fact, Comcast has *FINALLY* come to the realization that they were giving me cable service that I did not order.

TEN years!

Ten YEARS!

Ten EFF-ING years!!!

In related news…

GoogTube

Well I guess the answer to my question below, how YouTube will stay in business, has been answered. I guess this makes sense… instead of being the only unit that doesn’t make any money in a company, YouTube will now be one of many units that doesn’t make any money…

Is *this* the future of internet TV??

Some things I have learned after playing around on YouTube for a bit:

  • It’s amazing how many ways there to create an explosive force… what I have found so far includes water pressure, air pressure, dry ice+water, menthos+diet coke, a beer cannon and of course using actual explosives…
    • A related category is how many ways there are to have fun with fireworks… bottle rockets and firecrackers in particular
  • MySpace is a strange place indeed… I am clearly not in the target demographic…
  • Ann Coulter is certifiably insane. I mean seriously unbalanced. Wacko. Batty. Cuckoo.

    Ok I’ll be honest, I don’t actually think that she believes the things she says, I think she puts on a persona and is really good in acting it out. But don’t get me wrong, it is the persona of someone who is totally flipped out. Haywire. Deranged. Lost all touch with reality!

  • How the hell is this site supposed to stay in business?? This site feels *soo* 1999 – plenty of eyeballs/hype but no way to monetize. Note, I do not consider any business model that revolves around Paris Hilton to be a good idea.

Rip his leg off and beat him with the bloody stump!

I just got back from today’s Stanford football game… maan we suck!! I began wondering, is it too much to ask to live in a place where I can feel hopeful rooting for the home team???

Reviewing my life from a football point of view, is really quite sad… I did my undergrad at Tufts University – Tufts football is not only a division 3 team but a bad division 3 team. Then I moved to San Francisco, several years too late to enjoy the Montana/Young dynasty but just in time to enjoy the 49ers sucking it up for the the next 10 years. And lest I forget the year I spent in Canada – three words about that… Canadian Football League – ’nuff said! Now I am at Stanford where the biggest cheers I heard from the crowd was for the lousy field goal we scored near half time (and towards the end of the game, the visitors cheers were beginning to drown out ours!).