20 posts from February 2008

What is the last song you downloaded? Bonus: Share it with us!

I was checking my G-mail and there was a link at the top which read something like, "Do you crave pizza?  The Crave Reader knew that."  I checked it out and Honda has created a 20 Questions-type game to advertise their CR-V and it's called "The Crave Reader".  It's actually pretty good.  I did it twice (first with sleep then with a job) and it guessed both of them.  I'm going to have to think of some harder things and see if it can guess them.

I was getting ready to shut everything down on my computer and I happened to scroll down to the bottom of my Vox and came across an ad for Cliff Notes.  Except, it wasn't any ordinary ad for Cliff Notes.  It was an ad for Shakespeare: The Manga Edition.

So far they have "Hamlet", "Romeo & Juliet", "Macbeth", and "Julius Caesar" available.  I mean, I'm all for getting kids to read but manga?  Wow.  Wasn't really expecting Shakespeare to show up in that form.  Although it kind of makes sense.  They're plays that are meant to be watched not read so putting them in comic book/manga form seems like a logical step.  And who knows?  Maybe they really will get kids more interested in Shakespeare.

What's the best thing about today?

The Oscars!  Jon Stewart's hosting so it should be pretty good.  Although I really have no idea who's nominated for what this year and, like usual, I don't think I've seen many (any?) of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

On a semi-related Jon Stewart note: I think I had a dream last night where I was at a convention (which was weird since I had a dream about Comic-Con a week ago) and I was going around trying to get autographs from all the Daily Show correspondents.  I was carrying around America: The Book and I remember getting Stephen Colbert and Rob Coddry to sign it but I'm not sure if I got Ed Helms to sign it.  It was a pretty weird and random dream.

Thanks to the university giving my apartment complex free(!) Showtime, I'm going to be disappointed when I have to move back home in March.

I happened to see the 5th season premiere of "The L Word", caught up on the previous four seasons, and fell in love with the show (even though I  wouldn't mind if two of the characters left and never came back).  Now, thanks to CBS showing the pilot of "Dexter", I have fallen in love with that show.  I just finished watching the entire first season thanks to Netflix's Watch Now feature.  The show was awesome and I didn't even really care that I saw some plot twists coming a mile away.  My only complaint is that the second season isn't out on DVD yet (although that's probably because it just finished airing a couple months ago) but I think I'll buy the book the TV series is based on to keep me busy until that happens.  And of course, there's "The Tudors".  I'm a little mad the second season doesn't start until March 30th because that means I'm going to miss the entire thing.  I just hope Hulu, Fancast, or Showtime.com itself streams the episodes online because I'd rather not use the other method of getting them on my parents' internet connection.

The only downside to watching all these shows on Showtime is that the university spoiled me so now when I get my own apartment & cable connection, I'm going to have to spring for the package that includes Showtime.  Hopefully it won't cost too much.

I woke up this morning with a weird urge to listen to The B-52's.  (Of course, I'm going to have these songs stuck in my head for the rest of the day but who cares?)

What, if anything, did you put off all weekend?

Finishing my unit plan and some homework for my Reading in the Content Field class (although I did do some other productive stuff like buying new clothes).  However, I still have tomorrow to do all that and they aren't due until Wednesday & Thursday.  Thank goodness for 3-day weekends.

One of the most awesome shirts ever.

Can be purchased here.  If I had the money, I'd probably buy it.

I love their little blurb about the shirt on the main page:

The Ironic Sans blog brings you clothing with a name tag that says, "Hello, my name is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt." Then when you meet someone wearing the same shirt, you can shout, "Hey! His name is my name, too!"

Da da da da da da da.

Who or what do you really love?

The WGA strike is officially over.  92.5% of the guild voted to end the strike.  This is awesome!

The above link contains a link to a list which tells you which shows are coming back with new episodes when.  Some of my favorites ("Chuck", "Heroes", and "Dirty Sexy Money") won't be coming back until Fall but others ("Grey's Anatomy", "The Big Bang Theory", and "The Office") should be back in late April/early May.  And, of course, the writers for "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" should be back within days (although they were doing pretty good without their writers).

This day has just been a good one all around.  (Even if it did make me nervous at times.)

Edit: CBS has put out a chart detailing which of its shows are coming back when.  NBC has information about the return of "Chuck", "Life", and "Heroes" in the Fall and its Thursday night line-up in April.