FMC 3.0

First off, to stave off any questions - the pic yesterday is of Amanda Tapping. She’s one of the people on Stargate SG-1. If anyone has requests for eye candy, let me know. I know I can’t always fill this space with interesting news. I mean, who really cars how many miles are on Nighthawk now besides me?

Now then. On to the good stuff.

Apparently somebody out there gives out awards for “Family Friendly” television. The concept in and of itself makes me wanna hurl, just because I don’t think anyone should say is friendly for any family because they’re all different. Things that may seem normal in my house may seem abhorrent and immoral and other houses. I mean, we even got my mom to start watching the Sopranos. I’m sure some people take offense to that kind of show. Anyway, that wasn’t really the focus of my rant. Apparently this group gave the award for most family friendly TV drama to “Lost”.

At first thought you may think its a reasonable choice - a group of unfortunate people coming together to bond and survive against ridiculously poor odds. Sure, the message is to be strong and do what you need to survive. But the main characters are a fugitive, a drug addict, a guy who didn’t really want to know his son till it was forced upon him, a crazy guy, an unwed mother (FYI, it just doesn’t seem family friendly, I’m not really against it), a complete slacker that happened to win the lottery, a former cop with serious mental issues, and a slew of others with morally ambiguous pasts. It’s even been hinted at on the show that the ‘Others’ are only taking the good people. That means the remaining survivors are tarnished somehow. The interesting part of this is that there are some castaways that we haven’t seen bad stuff for yet - the married couple, the African guy, Claire, and a few others. Even Jack has to have some bad stuff, and it’s gonna be cool to find out whats worse than the stuff they’ve shown.

Speaking of families, everywhere you go there are warning labels on things to make them safer these days. Luckily, we can all make our own labels, thanks to the Warning Label Generator. I took the liberty of going hog wild:

The IOC is going to award the world’s best athletes with Donuts. Yes, you read that right. Don’t believe me? This is what the new Olympic Metals look like:

On that note, I’m looking forward to the Olympics. I usually get a kick out of them, so long as Bob Costas shuts the hell up. It’s really about the only time I ever watch Hockey, and Curling is just odd enough to be intriguing. At least there’ll be something good on daytime TV for a bit.

Have you seen video.google.com yet? It’s basically like their image search except you get video clips. There are great TV clips, and this gem I happened upon today. It’s good stuff (except that is scary how much people will practice acting like video games. At least its Mario, and not some talent show recreation of the Hot Coffee mod.) For more Mario Madness, see this. Who knew it could be done on guitar.

I guess Google is truly trying to archive the entire planet. I just hope they don’t turn out to be Brainiac and destroy the Earth once they’re done. Of course, everything I search for seems to come up with Long Beach city council meetings. I’m not sure how they fit in with jets and tv shows, but one never really knows. Maybe their meetings are actually more interesting than anyone suspected.

Oh, one last thing. How in the heck did December get here so fast? Seems like November just started.

So apparently Sunny had another one of her ‘mornings’ where she doesn’t eat her breakfast and is generally wonky. Well, as I got home, I watched her put up her front paws on a chair in the kitchen, and pull the leftovers of her breakfast onto the floor and go to town. I suspected that it had happened once before, but I always credited Mousse with the caper. Guess I was wrong.

Winter is finally coming. Hopefully it will stay this time. I’m looking forward to 30 degree sleeping weather.

Oh, and in New Zealand, they’re fighting traffic cameras that detect speeding because the cameras register speeds for a stationary brick wall. Think we can go after the red light cameras claiming they’re color blind.

Oh, and since I’m not much on content today, I thought I’d throw in eye candy. (And this is mostly for Mikey.)

He’s gonna thank me later. I guess my countrymen (well, countrypersons) aren’t all bad afterall.

That’s a whole new record. For sure. That’s total inbound calls on the overnight last night. It was a fun one. Hopefully the rest of the week will be calmer.

Nighthawk rolled over 9k this morning on the way to breakfast. It’ll be over 10 by Christmas. Looks like I need to schedule an oil change.

Oh, anyone got a good idea for a game that can be played via phone, say to kill time on a road trip? I gotta friend needing ways to kill time on long drives.

As you may have noticed, the comics list gets longer and longer. One word of warning - the Comic Flem is pretty off color, so prepare to be offended. I guess they’re all read at your own risk. I think its amazing that some people can be that witty and creative with the same subject matter over time. Oh, one more note - for Something Postitive, I recommend trying it the same way I was told to - start at the first one. If you laugh, or aren’t completely offended, keep reading.

Also, Nighthawk has another cargo credit to its quickly expanding list - a Christmas Tree. It’s also up over 8900 miles. Looks like it will need the first Oil Change before Christmas.

I saw Derailed over the weekend - rather predictable, but Clive Owen made it worth it, as usual. Jennifer Anniston was actually kind of sexy, not an adjective I’d lightly use for a Friends alum.

Also, going to a full week is gonna suck. The last few shortened weeks were damn spiffy. Oh well, guess its the regular grind, although the holiday slow down will be nice. Anytime now.

Lastly, in typical Delaware fasion, Mother Nature can’t decide what season she wants it to be. We’re still flip flopping betweem fall and winter. I wish it would either stay warm, or freeze its ass off. Again, anytime now.

One of the better days of the year. Hope you all had as good a meal as we did. I got asked earlier this week what I was thankful for. I think my answer was “family, television, and legos. And of course, Internet porn.” That’s a pretty dumbed down list. There’s also computers, the Internet in general, and friends. Of course, that’s not necessarily in order.

I think I may be caught up on Lost (Warning: Spoilers). The back story on Ana was fun in a dark kind of way, and the inevitable reunion was finally complete. Well, mostly. I also kind of liked how they gave Maggie Grace a guest star credit for her role of ‘Corpse’. Now that we’ve had an answer that The Others only took the good ones, we need to find out the bad stuff everybody did. I’m really curious about Bernard and his wife. Also, there’s something story wise missing about Jack and Ana. That unspoken interaction tells of more of just an airport bar chat. I’m gonna place my money on the mile high club.

Speaking of TV, did anyone else notice Dr. House’s address?

Other than that, it should be a quiet weekend from here on out. Hopefully.