Silly Bush Image of the Week #2

Posted on May 25 2004 by Mickey
    This is an older picture (from PBS.org) but I’m posting it anyway before I forget and because I’m bored.
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“WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!”

Posted on May 25 2004 by Mickey
    It’s 24 Day, and, according to Fox’s new schedule, the last 24 Day of 2004 (until the Season 3 DVDs come out, I expect). As I wait for the remaining hours to fuh-chink fuh-chunk fuh-chink their way to 9 PM EDT, let’s steal some links from the Television Without Pity forum:

    Whiny MSNBC article (Yeah, we all know Kim’s annoying. It’s been three years: get over it.)
    USA Today: “‘24’ fans can count on a better finale”
    NY Post interview with Carlos Bernard
    TV Guide finale review
    Rocky Mountain News column
    Canoe.ca column
    (Misguided) Sherry Palmer love from the Baltimore Sun
and three links I can’t access while here at work:
http://www.fox.com/24/video/24_finale_1_hi.ram
http://www.fox.com/24/video/24_finale_2_hi.ram
http://www.fox.com/24/video/24_finale_3_hi.ram

    Note: all articles should be relatively spoiler-free (except for this Zap2It.com article on who might be back for Season 4)
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Instructions for the Instructions

Posted on May 24 2004 by Mickey
    We are in the midst of some giant two-week project at work, requiring us to follow some web-based tutorials and take some quizzes. One tutorial started off with a tutorial on how to use tutorials, including this helpful screen [below] which shows a text block on the page explaining where it would show a text block on the page.
    Believe it or not, my company actually created a slide with a text area on the left side of the page which reads “The text area on the left side of the page contains the words which explain concepts and steps, as well as other special notes and tips.”
    Gosh. Thank you. But when I read to the end of a line am I supposed to move my eyes and read the next line under too? Please help.

Instructions for the instructions
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Quote Bag

Posted on May 24 2004 by Mickey
    Movie Quote of the Day: Harry Knowles, discussing John Williams’s music for Prizoner of Azkaban: “This is the source inspiration for some great Williams’ phrasings and my favorite score of his since CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.” (That statement might have had bigger impact if it weren’t for the fact there were no other Williams scores released between Catch Me if You Can and Prisoner of Azkaban!)
    Political Quote of the Day: Bob Herbert, of the New York Times, discussing Bush’s speech tonight: “There’s a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it’s not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It’s more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”
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Grab Bag

Posted on May 22 2004 by Mickey
    Diet Blog: Day One Hundred Something-something. I’ve reached a plateau. A few weeks ago I made it to 205. I went on vacation and ballooned up as high as 206½. I’m back down to 205, but I can’t get any lower. This is a mental plateau more than a physical one, since, as I said before, the diet is feeling so monotonous it’s getting hard to stop the snacking.
    • I know most cars have CD players now, but a lot still have cassette decks — so why is it so difficult to find a head-cleaning tape?
    • Headline: Michael Moore’s film Farenheit 911 wins the Palme D’Or at Cannes. US lawmakers uncertain whether to boycot the word “palm” or “door”.
    • I came to the painful realization today that in a hot dog eating contest my limit would be a paltry four. I had four today while at my niece’s graduation party and then had to spend some of the afternoon sitting in a quiet corner and sighing. This would be quite a humiliation for my stomach, Ed, if it weren’t his fault to begin with.
    • Speaking of Heather’s graduation party, my Aunt Grace illustrates, below, the perils of eating a maize and blue frosted cake…
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Sacred Update 2004-05-24 1.0

Posted on May 21 2004 by Mickey
    Those OS X users attempting to patch a recent security flaw discovered in Safari might risk profaning their software. It turns out, according to Mac Central, the vulnerability is actually a “venerability”.
    Behold the perils of relying on spell-check…

Trying to fill that God-shaped hole
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Today in Food (2004/05/18)

Posted on May 18 2004 by Mickey
      Ad Aware actually believed my choice of using “about: blank” as my IE homepage was a registry hack! It removed that modification and restored MSN as my homepage. I mention this only because I normally don’t check out the MSN page, but today I found an article there titled “Famous Songs About Food”. Unsurprisingly, the article is a sparsely researched fluff piece, and for every song about food or eating there’s a stretch to include something like “Strawberry Fields Forever”. And nobody even mentioned “Cheeseburger in Paradise”!
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“WHAT IS THE RELEASE DATE!”

Posted on May 18 2004 by Mickey
    It’s 24 Day. Two more episodes to go in Season 3, including tonight’s hour. The last several episodes have been so gripping, so nailbitingly good that I’m already eager to see them again on DVD, the same way I first experienced Seasons 1 & 2.
    The release date for the UK box set is July 26. I’ve seen this posted on various sites so I assume it’s a lock. Extras appear to be similar to the Season 2 box set: commentaries and branched deleted scenes. Unfortunately, I haven’t found anything nearly as definite for the US release. September 14 has been mentioned, and this seems a strong possibility since the first two seasons were released in September; but as yet TCFHE has not made an official announcement. Keep an eye on this page as things develop.

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Eat It!

Posted on May 18 2004 by Mickey
    Exactly what does McDonald’s mean by their new “salad with attitude” campaign? [I can’t find any links for it, but I pass a McDonald’s “salad with attitude” billboard on my way to work.] Making a benign meal like a salad confrontational seems like an oxymoron. What did they do, add broken glass to it? Stubbed-out cigarettes? If my coworker Jeremy orders one, will he be served tomatoes and nothing but tomatoes? And will the servers there yell “You’ll eat it and you’ll like it!”?
    Speaking of attitude, Monty Python‘s Eric Idle sums up my current attitude in a succinct two-and-a-half-minute, uncensored MP3 offering over at Pythonline. “It’’s a new song,” he writes, by way of introduction. “It’’s dedicated to the FCC; and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars.”
    This might also be a good time to mention my own Eric Idle audio files.
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The Short and Long of It

Posted on May 17 2004 by Mickey
    Don’t have much to write about today; I wasn’t able to visit a lot of sites, since I spent so much time delving into the hidden intricacies of JK Rowling’s official site. It looks like it might have appeared back in February*, but oddly I only found out about it today. Reading all that “Potterania” really has me eager for book six.
    P.S.: I listened to all thirty-seven minutes of The Polyphonic Spree‘s dull and droning “A Long Day”. I think the record company owes me some kind of medal or certificate for such perseverance.
    *Some of Ms Rowling’s comments date from February that is. The Leaky Cauldron seems to suggest the site was recently unveiled although the content was reportedly being worked on for a year. Regardless, it’s an addictive, informative, and fun site — especially for an official site!
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