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Presenting…Mister Disc!

Wow.  I used to have a blue one of these.

Presenting…Mister Disc!:

In 1983, an enterprising inventor came up with Mister Disc, the “personal portable phono system.”  Considering that I, a major audio geek, had never heard of Mister Disc until 2006, I can only assume that it never caught on with the public. That’s not hard to understand. After all, who wanted to haul an armload of LPs or 45s with them wherever they went?

It was great to be able to share music w/ friends who didn’t have their own turntable.  Sound quality was shitty, but it was a pretty pimp piece of gear back in the day.

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BREAKING: Guillermo Del Toro Confirmed for ‘The Hobbit’ Movies! – Cinematical

It’s not really big news, but it’s news, and that’s really big.

Wait, what?

BREAKING: Guillermo Del Toro Confirmed for ‘The Hobbit’ Movies! – Cinematical:
Posted Apr 24th 2008 8:03PM by Scott Weinberg

Brace yourselves, genre geeks, because here’s some fantastic news: It’s official. Dark fantasy master Guillermo del Toro has been officially signed to direct the Hobbit adaptation(s). Obviously we halfway knew this was coming, but it’s great to have the news confirmed: We have a few years to wait, but the two-movie MGM/New Line adaptation of The Hobbit … will both be “del Toro films.” That’s just awesome.

According to Variety, Guillermo will actually MOVE to New Zealand for four years to work on the two films. How’s that for commitment to a project? Although it’s not a done deal, it’s expected that producers Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Phillippa Boyens will co-adapt the Tolkien tale together. No word yet on which Lord of the Rings cast members will be invited back for the prequels, but I’m betting we’ll soon see Sir Ian donning that wizard’s hat again!

And if I could just editorialize for a quick second: Guillermo del Toro has never made a bad movie. And don’t say Mimic because that’s a really underrated horror flick.

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GTA IV

I’m getting pretty pumped for GTA IV.

I haven’t really been into a GTA game since the first GTA 3, and even that left me kind of meh.

I added a trailer after the jump.

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Having skimmed this headline, I didn’t bother to watch the vid until Deedas and Steve raved a little, I had to check it out :D

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Time to clean some things out

After a bit of thinking, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to start fresh in some of the rooms in my house.

I’ve kept things pretty much the way they were when my ex lived w/ me. This, of course, means that there are a lot more flower-themed items in my kitchen than are reasonable for a bachelor. The objects aren’t particularly sentimental, but they’re nice looking, and it was a simple, pragmatic matter to leave them on the walls where they were. Taking them down would leave the walls quite empty, indeed.

Why make my house empty?

So it was with that reasoning, the flowery vases and decorations stayed.

Having removed most of the items, it’s now time for me to rethink how I want things done.

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Work, work, work.

Work’s been unbelievably busy. I’m working on a huge project and we’re in a natural lull in our main line of business, so there are several smaller improvement projects that’ve sprung up.

Every one of the improvement projects is valid, and five of them involve me in one manner or another. That’s a lot of improving, and of course, a lot of meetings about improving.

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Uh oh…

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Thanks, Peter!

(Original location of the image, here)

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The Cookie Monster engaging in some serious but healthy self… (kottke.org)

The Cookie Monster engaging in some serious but healthy self… (kottke.org):
Kotke comes up w/ some of the most entertaining stuff.

Original post here, and text quoted below.

COOKIE MONSTER
SEARCHES DEEP WITHIN
HIMSELF AND ASKS: IS ME
REALLY MONSTER?
BY ANDY F. BRYAN

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Me know. Me have problem.

Me love cookies. Me tend to get out of control when me see cookies. Me know it not natural to react so strongly to cookies, but me have weakness. Me know me do wrong. Me know it isn’t normal. Me see disapproving looks. Me see stares. Me hurt inside.

When me get back to apartment, after cookie binge, me can’t stand looking in mirror—fur matted with chocolate-chip smears and infested with crumbs. Me try but me never able to wash all of them out. Me don’t think me is monster. Me just furry blue person who love cookies too much. Me no ask for it. Me just born that way.

Me was thinking and me just don’t get it. Why is me a monster? No one else called monster on Sesame Street. Well, no one who isn’t really monster. Two-Headed Monster have two heads, so he real monster. Herry Monster strong and look angry, so he probably real monster, too. But is me really monster?

Me thinks me have serious problem. Me thinks me addicted. But since when it acceptable to call addict monster? It affliction. It disease. It burden. But does it make me monster?

How can they be so callous? Me know there something wrong with me, but who in Sesame Street doesn’t suffer from mental disease or psychological disorder? They don’t call the vampire with math fetish monster, and me pretty sure he undead and drinks blood. No one calls Grover monster, despite frequent delusional episodes and obsessive-compulsive tendencies. And the obnoxious red Grover—oh, what his name?—Elmo! Yes, Elmo live all day in imaginary world and no one call him monster. No, they think he cute. And Big Bird! Don’t get me started on Big Bird! He unnaturally gigantic talking canary! How is that not monster? Snuffleupagus not supposed to exist—woolly mammoths extinct. His very existence monstrous. Me least like monster. Me maybe have unhealthy obsession, but me no monster.

No. Me wrong. Me too hard on self. Me no have unhealthy obsession. Me love cookies, but it no hurt anyone. Me just enthusiast. Everyone has something they like most, something they get excited about. Why not me? Me perfectly normal. Me like cookies. So what? Cookies delicious. Cookies do not make one monster. Everyone loves cookies.

Me no monster. Me OK guy. Me OK guy who eat cookies.

Who me kidding? Me know me never actually eat cookies. Me only crumble cookies in mouth, but me no swallow. Me can’t swallow. Me no have no esophagus. Me no have no trachea. Me only have black fabric throat. Me not supposed to be able to even talk.

Me no eat cookies.

Me destroy cookies.

Me crush cookies.

Me mutilate cookies.

Me make it so no one get cookies.

Everyone right. Me really is cookie monster.

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Brake Job

Photo-1The last time I was at the dealership getting my oil changed, they advised me that my brakes pads were nearly worn out, and that I’d need to have them replaced soon — the next oil change visit was probably a good time to do it.
Calling the local Midas shop, I asked for an estimate on all four sets of pads; the polite man on the other end of the call gave me a number one third as much as the dealer.

Here I sit in that man’s shop — the franchise owner — waiting for my car’s pads to be changed.  Surprisingly enough, Midas offers lifetime replacement on the pads.  I had to ask the owner, John, three times, “I get free pad replacement for the life of the car?”  “Yes.  It’s our way of earning your return business,” he explained.  In most cases, the pads are about half as much as the labor charge on installing them, but in my case, the opposite is true.  In any case, it’s still much, much cheaper than going to the dealer.

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Whoa, brutal. Sorry :)

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Thanks, Jane :)

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