Monthly Archives: November 2005

I can’t wait to see the The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe!!!

Posted on November 9, 2005 | 4 comments

Don’t let the number ordering on the books fool you, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is the first one in the Chronicles of Narnia series. They renumbered them a few years ago and made a book written later,The Magician’s Nephew, be the first one because it chronologically took place first. I still think they need to be read in the original order. If you haven’t read the series be sure to read it, I’ve mentioned Narnia many times before.

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Election “News” takes away from REAL news.

Posted on November 9, 2005 | Leave a comment

How many news stories weren’t heard yesterday (and today) because of election “news”. I say “news” that way because most of it was speculation after speculation until all the counts are done. And then they spend all day today talking about how close it was and/or why those guesstimates weren’t correct or why person X didn’t end up winning.

It’s a colossal waste of time until the real counts are done (and it’s not like we have to wait weeks for the results). There is real news they could be telling us. There are people missing, there are wars and disasters. There might even be something nice that happened in the world that they can tell us about. Heck, I’d rather hear the weather or traffic report than election speculation.

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Allison DuBois is a real person

Posted on November 8, 2005 | 90 comments

I never realized that Patricia Arquette’s character on Medium, Allison DuBois, was based on a real person.

She came out with a book called Don’t Kiss Them Goodbye. It looks like she got a 3 book deal (at least Amazon lists two more).

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Boycott Aruba?

Posted on November 8, 2005 | 16 comments

This is different – I just saw this on the news (I rarely watch the news on TV). Natalee Holloway who disappeared in Aruba earlier this year has never been found and her family hasn’t gotten much response from authorities in Aruba. So the Governor of Alabama is requesting that the nation boycott travel to Aruba to hit ’em where it hurts.

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$225 Million

Posted on November 8, 2005 | Leave a comment

MegamillionsTwo-Hundred Twenty-Five Million dollars! The MegaMillions drawing is tonight. I’m off to spend a dollar (or two)…

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Medium 3-D

Posted on November 7, 2005 | 1 comment

Medium3DSo I poked around and found a little more on the Medium episode in 3-D (November 21, 2005). Looks like TV Guide, NBC stations, Sprint and a variety of others will be doing promotions related to this. It still looks a little limited, they’ll have to disburse more if they really want people to watch it. I just saw some this weekend at a store behind the counter (maybe the cell phone counter at Best Buy?). More specific info should be available on or after the 14th.

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So the brain finally misfired…

Posted on November 7, 2005 | Leave a comment

So it finally happened, after being there for days (and days) my buddy’s brain finally misfired. This is a good thing, the whole purpose of him being there is for this to happen and them to observer/record/monitor it so they can “fix him”.

WirebraidThey still want to keep him for a bit more (they want more data). The doctor had noticed some (very) slight activity on the left side of his head earlier in the week and I guess this all centered in that general area (data good!). Not sure how long they’ll keep him, I guess they generally like 3-5 occurrences of the problem before they let you go and he’s nowhere near that. Usually, if it’s a bad one (and I guess this was a kinda bad one) he can feel some after effects (aftershocks) and not so much with this. So we’ll just have to see…

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The West Wing Live

Posted on November 6, 2005 | 2 comments

So what I liked about the live episode of The West Wing was that they referred back to a lot of issues that had come up in old episodes. Actually, I’m thinking Santos referred back to more of them (I think he’ll win the election). Otherwise it was a little boring, I think Ellen should have given us a little more background on the debate. Obviously it was rehearsed to do the free form format. So what was and what wasn’t prepared.

You can vote on who you think won the debate (scroll down the page). It was 65%-34% when I voted (that’s Santos winning).

I did see that the west coast is supposed to get a different episode than we did so that’ll be interesting to watch and see how different it turns out to be. I guess the show just wasn’t busy enough for me, that’s part of what I like about the show…

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