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There was an awesome underrated sketch on SNL in the 90’s featuring Garth Brooks and Robert Duval on a game show called “Who’s More Grizzled?”. It looks like NBC pulled the video from YouTube, but you can check out the transcript.

Well a sure-winner on that show is newcomer to the 2008 race for the White House: Joad Cressbecker. He’s got my vote! Check it:

Thursday night I saw The Dark Knight for the third time. I am not that obsessed, it just happened. Mary and I got tickets for an opening midnight showing. Mary was tired and had to work super early so she bailed at the last second. I flew solo and showed up for a front row seat just as it began. A week later, Mary wanted to see it, so I went again. It’s definitely worth seeing a second time. Yet another week later, Mary wanted to take a pair of nephews to see it and so I went along and I saw it a third time. I think that the only other movie that I saw three times in the theater was Pulp Fiction. I saw it three times in 1994/95 over a 3 to 4 month period. But now I’ve seen the Dark Knight three times, technically within a two week time span. Yowsa. It’s good … no, it’s great. But not “you should see it three times in a row” great.

One interesting thing that I noticed was that the Gotham license plates looked exactly like Illinois license plates. At first, when the bus backed into the bank at the beginning, I thought that they screwed up and left Illinois plates on the bus. But upon further inspection, they’d replaced the script “Illinois” with a similar script “Gotham”. And the picture of Lincoln from the Illinois plate was replaced with something else. Here’s an Illinois plate:

And here’s the bus plate:

It’s pretty obvious why they designed the Gotham plate to look just like Illinois plates … since it was mostly filmed in Chicago, the license plates on any non-prop cars that sneak into the film will, from a distance, match with the Gotham plates.

I watched them film a few of the big chase scenes in Chicago last summer. Seeing all of the equipment, personnel, security, props, etc. made me just overwhelmed when thinking about planning and project managing a project of this magnitude. Yowsa!

Why do people use the phrase or write “half a dozen” when saying “six” or writing “6″ would suffice? Saying “half a dozen” takes four syllables of breath, saying “six” takes one. Even if you use the phrase because the number of the things that you are talking about is not exactly six, instead of saying “about half a dozen”, you could just as well say “about six”.

Here’s a handy dandy table:

Even Google tries to set you straight. Here’s what Google gives you if you if you search for “half a dozen”:

So save your breath or 11 characters of typing and just go with “6″!

When Mary and I walk the dogs, I am nosey and like to pick up used lottery tickets, receipts and other random pieces of paper that we find on the ground. After studying the item, sometimes I just put it back where I found it. Mary always accuses me of littering. I say that I am not littering, it was already litter! Sure, it would be a nice thing to dispose of the item properly, and sometimes I do, but if I don’t, it’s still not littering. Can anybody back me up?

[BTW, I have cashed in $14 in instant lottery ticket winnings from fools who bought these things and didn’t even know that they won a few bucks and threw them on the ground!]

I put an old Mac to work over the break … hadn’t seen Mac OS 9 in a LONG time.

We had an awkward but friendly “hello” and quickly caught up on old times for 2 or 3 minutes. But then we said goodbye. I doubt we’ll ever see each other again.

Now this old G4 is happily running Ubuntu Linux and performing some mundane tasks for me.

Followup: I needed JDK 5 or 6 on this machine and it took me a while to get it going. For the fellow geeks, here’s how I got it: Java 5 SDK running on an old G4 PPC Mac

Yet another great one from the Onion. But kind of sad at the same time … oh man I hope we don’t attack Iran …

U.S. Intelligence: Iran Possesses Trillions Of Potentially Dangerous Atoms

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I’ve mentioned this before, but one of my favorite parts of the various Onion mediums (print, online, audio, video) is the teaser headlines for articles that don’t really exist. These appear on the top of the print edition and at the end of most video editions. While I often love the details of Onion articles, often the whole joke is in the headline.

I found the end of this video particularly good:

Tired Of Traffic? A New DOT Report Urges Drivers: ‘Honk’

Get a hold of yourself, MySpace is not really down. I kid. I’ve been giving Mary Anne a hard time about spending tons of hours using internet crack: MySpace. She claims, “But there is nothing to DO on MySpace, why would I spend hours a day on it?” Then she runs into the computer room and goes to myspace.com.

HMMMMMMMMM.

just bein’ stupid on a Monday night
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