Short Skirt/Long Jacket

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond
I want a girl who knows what's best
I want a girl with shoes that cut
And eyes that burn like cigarettes
I want a girl with the right allocations
Who is fast and thorough, and sharp as a tack
She's playing with her jewelery
She's putting up her hair
She's touring the facility and picking up slack
I want a girl with a short skirt
And a loooooong jacket

I want a girl who gets up early
I want a girl who stays up late
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
Who uses the machete to cut through red tape
With fingernails that shine like justice
And a voice that is dark like tinted glass
She is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack
She is touring the facility and picking up slack
I want a girl with a short skirt
And a looooong, long jacket

Na-na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na...

I want a girl with a smooth liquidation
I want a girl with good dividends
At Citibank we will meet accidentally
We'll start to talk when she borrows my pen
She wants a car with a cup holder armrest
She wants a car that will get her there
She's changing her name from Kitty to Karen
She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron
I want a girl with a short skirt
And a loooooong jacket

Na-na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na...

Katie Couric

Muppet Scat

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"By the way, if you Google search 'muppet' and 'scat,' that may not be what comes up. Try it, try it. You know what? Pause the TV right now. I'll wait."

Do you like fishsticks?

So this week's episode of South Park made fun of Kanye West's infamously large ego, and Kanye has posted on his blog that he's working on curbing his ego. Later, he mentions that he was at a Cheesecake Factory, and the manager brought him a plate of fishsticks.

If a TV show makes fun of me with a joke about fishsticks, and then a restaurant manager brings me a plate of fishsticks, I'm gonna get some pictures of me with that manager, chomping down on those fishsticks.

Twilight

If you like fast cars...

I'm gonna drive around to Oak St...

...because I can't spell "eucalyptus," the name of the street that I live on. Brilliant.

Friday the 13th... again...?

You might think that this blog entry is about the new remake of the original Friday the 13th movie. And you'd be wrong, although the title does seem fitting for it, as well.

Anyway, stuff happened last Friday, which happened to be the 13th. Mostly, I'd say they're all good news, depending on how you look at it. The very good news was that my sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy last Friday. That is all good news there.

The bad news for me, though, was that my car broke down while I was on the freeway last Friday. Although, in a way, it's also good news... because if it hadn't broke down on Friday (i.e. if I didn't drive it at all on Friday), it would have broke down on Saturday, when I'd be out to visit my sister at the hospital, and that would have been much more troublesome.

So I guess the only bad news for me is that I'll have to spent $1400+ on the repairs.

Two "and" movies in the same week

So today the DVD (and Blu-Ray) for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Zack and Miri Make a Porno was released. It's somewhat interesting that both movies share a similar naming scheme, and are released on the same day...

It was to me, anyway. And as I happen to be interested in both movies, I picked them up. I actually didn't plan on getting the Blu-Ray version of either movie, but the store I went to didn't get the standard DVD version of Zack and Miri in yet, while they did have the Blu-Ray version, so I picked that up, rather than drive elsewhere or wait.

Cake

The show must go on

A scene from Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice.

Time Warner DVR sucks

After moving from an area covered by Charter to an area covered by Time Warner, I had no choice but to switch my cable provider. Right off the bat, I found many things lacking in the Motorola DVR that TW provided me. Most of it, I've learned to live with, but the most recent offense... there's just no excuse.

What's bad to begin with:

• Search. Having to scroll through each letter instead of letting us use the arrow keys for an on-screen keypad.
• Program Guide. Time Warner's program guide rarely has sufficient information on programs more than a couple of days ahead of time. If it's going to be three days before the program airs, chances are it doesn't have anything in the description for it. If it's more than a week, you might not even get the program's title. Some programs never get any useful information, even when it's airing. Why is this important? Well, without having any info about the program, it doesn't know if the program is new or not.
  
• After setting a "series recording" (TW's version of TiVo's "season pass"), if you delete a program you've just finished watching, and the same episode is aired again a few hours later (this happens a lot on HBO/Showtime shows), it will try to record it again. Why? These re-airing are not new anymore! Ugh. I constantly have to look through my "future recordings" list to remove shows I know I've already watched.
• Have too many upcoming shows set to not record? If you set one more to not record, something else you've previously set to not record will want to record again. WTF?
• Just added a new series to your DVR? Better check your upcoming recordings again, because guess what? The episodes you've told it not to record all think they need to be recorded again.

The worst thing it just did? This week alone, two of the shows I've set to always record new episodes were not recorded. And there were no scheduling conflicts, either. One was on Monday, for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I've set to record along with Chuck, but there was nothing else on that it needed to record. Strangely enough, it recorded Prison Break just fine. So I was forced to download the episode from online.

Just a few hours ago, it failed to record Dirty Sexy Money, when there was nothing else on that I wanted to record. This episode had the return of Samaire Armstrong, the whole reason I started watching this show to begin with, and what does it do? It didn't record it. Instead, it recorded a rerun True Blood, which I've already watched on Sunday. What a piece of crap this DVR is.

Peter Griffin is a Ballchinian

Okay, so a while back, they were airing Men in Black II on cable, and I decided to watch it again. In one scene, as part of the punchline, they had aliens who had weaknesses that could be easily exploited, and one such alien was a "Ballchinian."

When I saw him, I immediately thought of Peter Griffin of Family Guy. See the resemblance?

Finally

After nearly a week without [HD]TV (I still have a TV in my bedroom, but it's not HD, and I don't have DVR in there), my new TV finally arrived today. It's a lot lighter than the other one, and the menu system is better. I'll have to check the setup for my DVD player later.

Good Night, Sweet Prince

The HDTV I bought about 22 months ago stopped working last night.

Last summer, we found out that this model had overheating issues. Basically, when it got too hot, it will shut down by itself, even though the LED indicator will show it as still on, and the power switch will not respond. Luckily, all you had to do in this instance was to use the power switch in the back, and it will work again.

I thought I wouldn't have to deal with this problem again, after moving closer to the beach, since it was generally cooler here than in the valley. But about a month ago, there were a few heatwaves where the temperature got up to 90°, and I had to place a fan behind the TV to keep it cool. After the heatwave ended, however, it would still turn itself off randomly, much to my annoyance, and last night, it did so for the last time. It would not turn back on again.

I suppose a TV repair shop might be able to fix it, so I'll probably try that when I get a chance.

Before that happens, I still need a TV, so I've order a new one from NewEgg. Of course, this being the weekend, the earliest they will ship it would be Monday, but since they're based in City of Industry, hopefully it will arrive on Tuesday...