Super Bowl Ads
If you would like to review the Super Bowl commercials to see which of the subpar group was the best, go here.
If you would like to review the Super Bowl commercials to see which of the subpar group was the best, go here.
If you were looking to see the video from the controversial Janet Jackson boob scandal, here is a clip of what was broadcast on TV. (removed due to reports it had pop ups and junk with it)
The past 3 nights we have let Nicki sleep on the floor in our bedroom. It was a proactive move in anticipation of us starting to have company stay at our place again. When crated, Nicki would start wimpering between 5 and 6 am everyday, even weekends. Since her crate is right outside the guest bedrooms this would make for a very unpleasant alarm clock for our guests. So far it has been going well, last night she didn’t make a peep and I slept straight through the night.
Last night I returned for week 2 of my volleyball follies. After week 1 my knee felt some little twinges of pain but nothing horrible. Last night my hitting shoulder went dead. It is a typical problem for me when I haven’t played for awhile. Something in my shoulder pinches and it deadens my arm. After 4 games I could hardly even lift the arm so I bagged it. My hitting was pathetic as a result. Other aspects were ok but if I can’t hit, I am not having any fun. I’ll keep pressing on and hope that it gets better. Normally after a few weeks of the aches and pains it tends to settle down. Towards the end of the night, one of the mexican guys had a collision that left him lying on the floor for an extended period of time. It was a bit scary, he said something around his neck hurt real bad. He usually walks to the gym but we stopped him in the parking lot and then I drove him home. I felt like a dope, I asked him if he spoke english and he said yah yah. I immediately realized that I heard him speaking english during the games so I felt stupid for asking him that. I dropped him off and wished him well.
Has there ever been an actor that has been in more movies in a 5 year period than Samulel L Jackson? It is incredible how many flicks he is in. I don’t quite understand why. He is a decent actor but not anywhere good enough to explain why his face is in so many films. I mean look at this list, incredible!
My letter to the editor hit the paper on Saturday. Evidently a lot of people here at work read that section with regularity. Within my first 15 minutes at work I had gotten a half dozen comments about it. Some were supportive, some thought it was cheap that I would get free tickets in the first place, oh well.
In contrast to last weekend where everything felt right with the world, Friday and Saturday felt like everything was a mess. I don’t know if it was the rainy weather we had those 2 days but I just felt antsy and anxious. I felt like the house was a mess, the outside was a mess, and there were a million things that need to be done. I spent a good part of the day trying to create an automated process to roll the numerous steps I have to take to update the Tivo into one batch file. I almost have it, but not quite. Saturday night we watched Bruce Almighty. Although it has several laugh out loud, real funny moments, in general I found it to be overly average and non-memorable.
On Sunday I loaded up the truck with the tractor and other lawn maintenance equipment and trucked over to mom’s place to clean up her yard. It took about an hour and a half. It normally would take less time but I had to chop up a huge fallen branch that was in her back yard. Mom said the branch was no wider than 6 inches in diameter. Hah! It was about 10 at it’s widest spot and a good 25 feet long. Mom never was good at estimating stuff.
The Super Bowl looked to be super boring during the first half. It was scoreless for a long time. I was already drifting off from being very tired from a night of bad sleep. The halftime show woke me up. Good performances and then the boob shot. Since I was watching this through the Tivo I was able to rewind and pause to verify what I just saw. Yep, it looks like her boob, imagine that. They acted after the fact that it was accident but I don’t understand how it could have been. Justin clearly pulled it off and it came off like it was designed to do so. I’m no stick in the mud but that was definitely inappropriate. I’d hate to have a kid and explain to them what that was all about. Then as the second half is ready to begin, somehow a person dressed as a ref manages to walk right into the middle of the field, strip and dance around. It is amazing that he was able to pull that off in our new airtight security environment that is SUPPOSED to be in place for an event like this.
The second half was like a totally different game. The teams marched up and down the field making big play after big play. It turned out to be one of the best Super Bowl games ever with a dramatic finish which enabled the Patriots to win their 2nd SB in 3 years. I tried to imagine how the Eagles would have performed in a game like that. I think they would have sucked. Thankfully this year they did not do a post game concert to go along with the pregame and halftime shows. Instead I hung on and watched All-Star survivor.
I am too tired to go into a lot of detail about it but it looks like it is going to be a GREAT show. They are making it way tough on the contestants. Rudy, Rupert, Colby and Richard Hatch are going to be the ones that make this very interesting, at least for me. So far, 3 days, and they can’t for the life of them get fire going. As a result they have no way to boil the contaminated water. They are hurting already and it looks to be getting worse.
SB commercial notes, there weren’t very many memorable commercials for me. The volleyball in the snow one was a personal fav of mine. The explosive horse fart one made me laugh. The Gilette Mach 3 one was ridiculous. How does being on top of your game, with imagery from Muhammad Ali and other sporting events equate with shaving? Shaving makes you feel like you are in the zone? Silly.
It’s been awhile since I fired off a letter to the editor but last night I was motivated to do so. We are big and popular now so f u.
“As a resident of the northeast estates, my wife and I always look forward to the county fair. One of the benefits of living right next to the fairgrounds has been the fair organizers offering free tickets to the residents that live next door. They did this as a courtesy for the increased traffic and noise that is generated by the fair during the 10 days it is running. I stopped by the fair office last night to pick up my tickets for this year.
I explained to the woman I was there to pick up two tickets. She said that the fair was no longer offering free tickets. She said that the event has become very ?popular? and ?big?. Puzzled, I tried to understand why the fair being popular or big had a correlation with extending this courtesy to the residents that border the property. Disappointed, I left and gave my wife the news.
It?s a shame that the fair officials have decided that the event has become popular enough that they no longer need to be good neighbors. We used to visit the fair two or three times during the 10 days. Although our tickets were free, we spend plenty on food, drink and entertainment. Now we will go no more than once. This apparent greed motivated action, may in reality hurt the fair?s bottom line as the residents that have frequented the fair with greatest regularity now stay away. “
Usually in the evenings I have a have a pushup/situp routine I will do. If Nicki is around when I do these she usually sees it as an invitation to rough house and roll around on the floor. Ali took some pictures of her doing just that the other night. Funny stuff.
I’ve been asked before what I am in charge of down here. Basically 120 workstations, 2 unix servers and around 10 Windows 2000 servers. Here are a couple pictures of our computer room.
I have mentioned many times how my house is “wired” Here is a rough layout of my home network and all devices that are connected to it, at last count I have 8 devices on the network which all talk out on the internet. Here is a diagram.
Recently I did some maintenance for a work associate of my wife. He has issues with the computers on his home network, specifically his kids computers being infested with spyware. I used Spybot to kill most of it. Some I had to remove manually. The 11 or 12 year old daughter’s PC had over 400 items classified as spyware. Some of it was the sort that popped up porn in browser windows, really, really bad stuff. All of these kids have aol buddy lists numbering at 100+ members. These kids have no idea of what they are doing when they install stuff like comet cursor, weatherbug or any of the other junk that comes up when you use many of the popular file sharing programs. It’s easy money for me to come in every month or so and clean up the junk but it’s disturbing to see adult material popping up on a little girl’s computer. If I have a kid I would think twice about allowing them to have their own computer in their bedroom.
After a long hiatus, my tivo(s) have been working overtime snagging the reality tv stuff I am currently watching. For whatever reason, once my mom moved out I got hooked into a bunch all at once. When my mom was here, I spent most of my spare time in the evenings doing stuff on my computer. (is that any better?) Currently I have season passes for My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Average Joe Hawaii, Celebrity Mole, The Apprentice, & American Idol. Survivor All-Stars premieres after the Super Bowl so add that to the list. Having these programs on the tivo allows us to watch them in third less amount of time of watching it live so that is a small consolation. I am not sure how I exactly got pulled back into it so heavy. However I do have to laugh at people that scoff at reality tv that when asked what they watch, come back with Friends, ER, Queer Eye etc… To me, TV is TV regardless if you are watching sports, soaps, sitcoms, movies or documentaries. It’s entertainment, plain and simple. Now if you tell me instead of watching tv you are reading a book, going to the gym, studying or doing a hobby you have one up on me. If you are simply on a different channel, I don’t think you have a leg to stand on. Do most of us need to watch less TV? Sure. It’s a big part of the overall problem our society has with health & fitness. We eat the wrong stuff and way too much of it and then pile into the couch while we rest our full bellies and stare at the tv for hours each night. Not a prescription for health. This could lead into all sorts of other thoughts I have on the subject but suffice it to say we are in trouble , as we reap what we sow, the problem will snowball into all areas of society. So anyway, once these shows are over, I will again vow to cut back my viewing to minimums, honest, I will, I hope….. My name is shawn and I am a TV addict.
Last night I made my return to the sport of volleyball after a 5 month hiatus. Evidently they start earlier than they did before so when I got to the gym, they were just about ready to start so I jumped right into the game without getting a chance to warm up at all. It was ugly. The first 2 or 3 games were really , really ugly. Attempted passes caromed of my forearms like foul balls, attempted hits were into the net or mistimed and hit weakly. We were playing a team entirely made up of mexicans. The tallest one may have been 5’9″ or 5’10” but they were fast, wicked fast. If the ball was in the air they got it. I took a dive on the court that made me literally see stars and took a short serve I didn’t get in the family jewels which froze me for a few secs. We played 5 or 6 games, we lost every one but the last one. By the end I was actually performing the basic skills ok and had more good plays than bad. It was a lot of fun. I am sore today as my body is not used to volleyball movements anymore so I’ll have to work through that. I have 2 matching bruises on my forearms as well.
Last night, Nicki had bad gas. Paint stripping gas. I took her out multiple times but she did not want to do a number 2. Ok, I figure if she had to go, she would so we put her to bed. At 2:15am I hear her crying loudly. I fear the worst and my fears are confirmed as the smell of dog shit hits me as I open the bedroom door. She has shit her crate again. Not as terrible as episode one but plenty nasty. I pull her dog pillow out and lug it outside carefully, trying to not get excrement anywhere else. As I am outside hosing off the pillow case, Alison comes out asking what was up. I didn’t even have to speak, she just had to look at my disgusted face. I hosed it off best I could and we took it inside to throw it in the laundry. As I am coming out of the laundry room Nicki squats in the living room and pisses on the floor! I freak out. WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!!! I scream at her as she scurries away and cowers in fear. So now Alison works on the urine as I take Nicki outside so she can finish up. By the time we are done with the clean up it’s 3 am. Back to bed and attempt to fall back asleep. I may have gotten an hour of sleep the rest of the night.
To top off the sleepless night, the commute to work was horrific. The god damn dump trucks clogged the road as far as I could see. The commute took a shade under under an hour and a half. Every intersection was clogged, there was no way around it. I was a half hour late to work. It can only get better from here, hopefully.
