No posts for over a week — it’s just been too busy! I’ve spent the first part of this week involved in training basketball officials which is always a fun experience! Got to “visit” with some crazy parents (of players) who think that every referee is a cheater — fun stuff!
Also, Ant still sucks — someone tell him that his San Francisco accent joke simply is not funny.
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It’s official, Last Comic Standing is completely bogus. I don’t know if any other show has been this badly rigged since Twenty-One.
Dat Phan, last year’s winner of Last Comic Standing (and also of the Cringe Humor 2003 Hack of the Year ‘Award’, is quite possibly the most unfunny person on the planet — perhaps outdone only by John Kerry. Someone imitating his mother took him to the finals, through the house, and left him as the winner — shocking just about everyone.
This year, without a doubt, Dan Naturman was the funniest guy in the final ten that had a shot of getting to “the house”. Drew Carey and Brett Butler knew it, the rest of the comedians knew it, the audience knew it, even Dan knew it. Apparently the only ones that didn’t know it were the “other voters” (read: the producer). The celebrity judges were shocked to find out that Dan didn’t make it since three of the four voted for him.
I understand that it’s the producer’s final decision (even though they apparently didn’t make this clear to the celebrity judges), but what is not to love about Dan? It’s not like he is boring off camera either — he’s quirky and funny — sure to come up with some great one-liners living in a house with nine other comedians. Of course, he’s not 200-pounds of gayness like Ant-the-attention-whore, so Dan gets the shaft.
It’s not that people don’t think that Ant isn’t funny because he’s gay, it’s that being gay is the only part of his act. It’s akin to a fat comedian only doing fat jokes — it gets old real quick. The funniest thing about Ant’s performance in Vegas were the laugh tracks added in by NBC because he bombed so badly. I do like the show because I love watching the comedy (the “reality” part is not the attraction for this show), but I have a sneaking suspicion that Ant has been pre-crowned by NBC as the next Dat Phan, so I’m not sure that I can bring myself to watch again! Ant is so gay!
I love Firefox — it is simply a great browser. Once you start using it, it is impossible to go back to Internet Explorer. Just the tabbed browsing and integrated pop-up blocker are enough to convince most users.
One feature that I use all the time is the keyword quicksearch capability. This allows you to associate a search URL with a keyword and just enter that in the location bar to search. For example, my Google keyword is simply ‘g’ while my Dictionary.com keyword is ‘d’. To search Google, I enter “g search” in the location bar, where search is what I want to find. Similarly, to lookup a word in the dictionary, I enter “d word“.
Unfortunately, when I upgrade to version 0.9 yesterday I found that the keyword search was not working. It’s still there and they are actually making improvements to it (such as adding a right-click menu to “add new keyword based on this search”). However, in 0.9 the actual search part of it does not function. I tried to stick with it for a while, but in the end I uninstalled 0.9 and reinstalled 0.8 — just so that I could have the quicksearch back. Once you get used to working a certain way it is difficult to adjust back.
I can’t say anything bad about the Firefox team though. They are doing an incredible job and I’m sure that all of the issues will be ironed out by the version 1.0 release.
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Marc, of the office weblog fame, chose my “entry” (read: a quick email I sent him around one in the morning) to his challenge: Tell me about a productivity-enhancing application I haven’t written about. So, thanks for the GMail account Marc!
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A few days ago I posted a quote by Brian Tracy, a self-development coach, on taking risk versus seeking security.
While reading some of President Reagan’s speeches I came across a quote that is similar. However, the way that Reagan, the Great Communicator, phrased it was even better. The quote is from President Reagan’s January 28, 1986 speech regarding the Challenger Disaster:
The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
President Ronald Reagan
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