Awesome Video

The Intro is a little long but the video is hilarious!

Fuck Planet Earth

NSFW in case you ignored the title.

Too bad

I was really looking forward to Mitt Romney getting the Republican party's nomination. Oh I never would have voted him, I was just looking forward to see him answer questions about the Mormon faith in the middle of a debate. Maybe he could have brought a hat to read his answers from.

Also, I like John McCain and I don't want to watch him go down in flames against Obama or Billary.

Reading about John McCain and the Hanoi Hilton led me to James Stockdale. He was also a prisoner of war along with McCain and later server as Perot's running mate in his failed 1992 Presidential bid. That reminded me of one of Dennis Miller's greatest statements.

"Now I know (Stockdale's name has) become a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let's look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including our present President, did not want to dirty their hands with. The reason he had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate is because those fucking animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn't spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television."

Accountants suck

The worst thing that can happen to a company is to be controlled by a bunch of accountants. The first thing the accountants do is kill of any product or service that is deemed unprofitable or unnecessary. They don't care about any intrinsic value that product may have, they don't care if the product is unique and beloved. They only care about focusing synergies on core products or some other bullshit. Which brings me to the latest kill that can be attributed to the bean-counters.

R.I.P. Dodge Viper

I liken it to killing a beloved mascot. Would Disney kill of Mickey Mouse? The Chrysler faithful and employees have little to be happy about these days...taking away one of the company's few bright spots seems awfully short-sighted, even for accountants.

Lost is back

In case you're a hermit that has wondered into a public library and found my blog....LOST IS BACK!

So far Season 4 as been good enough for me to forget the sleepy nap time parts of season 3. If you're one of those losers that couldn't stick it out and gave up on Lost then you should start watching again.

My only WTF from this week was the polar bear they were excavating in Tunisia...wearing a Darma collar. That's still bugging me....

The truth shall set you free

First, I must say that Monster Cable products are generally better quality than "generic" cables that you buy some where like Monoprice. That being said, Monster branded products are one of the greatest rip-offs in the history of marketing.

There was a time that you could argue that cable quality made a huge impact on sound and picture quality. I even saw the evidence of this first hand on several occasions. But that was when the majority of information was being transmitted in an analog form. Analog transmission was very dependent on the characteristics of the cable and you could benefit from good quality products. However, today most data transmitted between electronic components is digital and transmission of digital information is much less effected by cable quality compared to analog. So now you don't get a improvement you can hear or see because a digital cable either works and transmits data....or it doesn't.

The HDMI standard is really the death knell for a company like Monster. What is the difference between this Monster Cable product and this "generic" cable from Monoprice? NOTHING! There is no difference based on today's standards, except for the $87.47 price difference.

There is one cable that is overlooked though, and even in a "modern" digital home theater system the cable still transmits its data in an analog fashion. Speaker cable is often overlooked in a system and often times people use poor quality speaker wire or wire that is undersized for the wattage they are driving.

Save you money for good speaker cable by buying cheap HDMI cables.

Styling for the blind.

If you haven't seen a new Pontiac G6 GXP on the road yet then you should definitely have a look at this. I say this because it will prepare you for the moment that you DO see one on the road. I nearly drove into the side of a Jiffy Lube after craning my neck to see if the ass end was as fugly as the front end. Why would you buy a car that has a chin like Jay Leno?

It's sad that Pontiac as screwed this up so bad. I rented a G6 last year while in Florida and it was the best AMERICAN car I've driven in years.

Pontiac has good designers, look at the G8. Maybe they not only stole the car from the Aussies but let them style it as well. For you Top Gear watchers out there the G8 is essentially the Vauxhall VXR8 with a Pontiac grill on it.

The Tesla.

Well they are finally shipping the Tesla Roadster. The first reviews sound decidedly ho-hum and quite underwhelming. How is it that the gearbox is the weakest link in this whole system? I mean gears are as old as time, you'd think that they could have come up with something reliable. It sounds like they were trying to please to many customer demands which is a risk you always run when you start taking money from people before the car is acutally finished.

If I were a religious man....

.....this would be my church. I've read the article twice and I still can't believe it. I've never wanted anything this bad in my entire life.