Year: 2008

Junction City at 600 feet

You know those red lights on radio towers?  Someone has to change those light bulbs.  This is the view of a tower climber at the top of the KJCK-FM (Power Hits 97.5) tower, 600 feet in the air (click for large image).

Gladiators return

American Gladiators showed up on my DVR – new season, baby! Here’s the episode description: A single mother takes on a Chernobyl survivor; a store owner battles with a carpenter. This Chernobyl survivor better be deformed.  Update: No visible deformation. It’s a 2-hour episode.  Is that necessary?  I have no problem completely shutting off my…

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Five Reasons

Five reasons to be pissed: 1. We had a late soccer game against douchebags, and next week’s game is later. 2. One of the sucky episodes from the later seasons of Seinfeld is on. 3. I’m out of hard drive space and need more immediately. 4. My WordPress install runs slow, and it’s probably one…

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My first Animoto

I setup an account at Animoto, pointed it to a photo set on Flickr (you can also upload photos from your computer), picked a song, and five minutes later this came out. You can make 30-second videos like this using your own music or Animoto’s decent selection. Extended length and downloadable videos are three bucks…

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Randomness from Colorado

Mike and I went to PJ’s Bistro in Manitou Springs for lunch Friday. The food was good, but the place was empty. They advertised catering services and had no fountain drinks on tap, so they must specialize in catering. Mike’s $2 can of Coke seemed to disappoint from where I was sitting. Our waitress was…

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She’s going away?!

Celebrate, Hillary Haters! I was following the primaries online tonight. Things were getting intense and I had to violate my “no cable news” rule. “Hillary Clinton will not have any public events Wednesday” is on MSNBC. Big news day Wednesday. Obama did some amazing things in Indiana and North Carolina. By the way, Chris Matthews…

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My drive to Colorado

My drive to Colorado had all kinds of exceptional sights. 1. A portable crapper strapped to a truck I didn’t have much confidence in the strap holding this porta-pottie. I quickly moved into a different lane and passed with vigor. I didn’t want to pick human waste off the front of my car before I…

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Obama paranoia

I’m sick of all the superdelegate talk. Here’s a typical superdelegate Internet or TV conversation: If the superdelegates steal the nomination from Obama, it will destroy the Democratic Party. It’s a fair argument, but this scenario won’t happen unless Obama and his pastor tag-team a 14-year-old at a polygamist compound. Don’t worry paranoid Obama supporters,…

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Internet will kill the radio star

I’ve been playing around with Pandora for the last week or two. Pandora lets you create multiple Internet radio stations. You start by entering an artist or song you like. Pandora will play similar artists and learn your tastes as you “Thumbs Up” or “Thumbs Down” songs. You can add more artists to your station…

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Hold onto your wrappers

The Royals improved to 1-5 in games with me in attendance, thanks to Friday’s Buck Night game. If you aren’t familiar, the Royals sell hot dogs, small sodas and peanuts for a dollar on Buck Nights.  Hot dog wrappers flew onto the field. The grounds crew got to play “Janitor.” Here are some loud jackasses…

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Douche Usher at The K

I went to my third Royals game of the year last night.  The Royals are 0-3 in games with me in attendance.  They’ve lost five in a row. Last night’s game was particularly rough.  Cleveland beat the Royals 15-1. The good news is I have a douchebag usher to tell you about. The Douche Usher…

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Milk dilemma (Updated)

I have a difficult time parting with expired milk. I have about two glasses worth of milk that expired four days ago. Usually, I notice the expiration date approaching and will finish the gallon no later than two days after expiration. I’ve never known this two-day-expired milk to taste/digest questionably. I should have seen this…

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Totino’s scary quality assurance

From my blog in November: Almost five million Totino’s and Jeno’s frozen pizzas with pepperoni toppings are being recalled because the pepperoni may be contaminated with E. coli. Tonight, when I loaded my supreme Totino’s Party Pizza into the oven, I noticed a change on the package. Yes, Totino’s assures the quality of this fine…

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Pope Watch!

I find this banner from washingtonpost.com a bit beyond stupid. “Pope Watch” reminds me of this Onion article on Catholics lining up for Pope John Paul II’s funeral before he was even close to dying. “I don’t know how much longer I’ll have to wait, but whether it’s five days or five months, it’ll be…

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Royals stuff

Royals pitcher Brian Bannister shares AL Player of the Week with former Royal Raul Ibanez. Bannister was the AL’s rookie of the month last year in June and August, but this is his first award as AL player of the week. He is 3-0 overall with an 0.86 ERA. Posnanski reminds us of his hatred…

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Back to the toilet

The last week for this blog has been all about toilets, the Royals, toilets at Royals games, and today it’s about toilets at bars while watching the Royals. Unlike recent years, I’m not in a position to talk about the Royals being in the toilet, so that theme will thankfully have to wait. We went…

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A deuce at The K

I went to my first Royals game of the year tonight.  My goal for the year is 20 games, so if you’re in the KC metro and hankering for some Royals, hit me up. It was a good time. That new HD scoreboard is pretty sweet.  They throw lots of information up there.  It’ll take…

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