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I must be getting old: Television technology has me stumped
The last time we got a television was one my son gave us about six years ago — maybe seven? It’s a nice but very heavy digital television with a 28 or 32 inch diagonal screen, I don’t even recall that much. I do know it’s heavy, and that it takes up a lot of [...]
Howie Mandel and Buy.com — here’s a YouTube video that will crack you up
If Howie Mandel and Buy.com can’t get you great deals on video games, great and fast delivery, AND patch up your faltering relationship with your girlfriend, then who can?? Take a look at this great YouTube video and enjoy yourself.
Can you imagine how much fun that would be? You get home from a shopping trip [...]
Looks like ‘Dr. Phil’ has messed up again — or at least one of his producers did
Remember last year when Britney Spears was doing drug rehabilitation or alcohol rehab or whatever it was, and TV’s famous Dr. Phil went to visit her? Then got himself in a ton of hot water for talking about it on television?
Some folks just don’t seem to “get it,” do they? How he stays on TV [...]
Charlton Heston, wonderful as a man and in movies, lousy in politics, dies at 83
Charlton Heston, the actor who went through life being “typecast” in popular culture as “God,” died last night in his home in Los Angeles. He was a consummate actor to whom the cliche “larger than life” really did seem to apply.
He also was a leader in conservative political movements — and president of the National [...]
Approaching end of analog TV still has many confused
The federal government, in their usual slapstick fashion with just a dash of ironic humor, has decreed that television broadcasters go digital by February 17, 2009 — less than a year.
The reality of this is, if you’ve bought a television in recent years, perhaps one of those fancy, flat-screen beauties complete with a TV wall [...]
Backgammon Masters adds Bulgarian to its 21, blackjack, and poker software
I’ve never played online backgammon, poker, blackjack, or any of the other many online casino and gambling games. But this is a “Useful Website” for those of you out there who want to give it a try — “BackgammonMasters.com.”
If you look around the site, you’ll find the “Masters” part of the name especially appropriate. They [...]
Do you go to casinos? Have you visited any online casinos?
I worked with a woman who might be described as the stereotypical “sweet little old lady” — but she and her husband have one hobby they participate in daily: They’re both avid gamblers. When they stop for coffee and doughnuts on the way to work, they always buy lottery scratcher tickets.
Oddly enough, though they use [...]
Whoopi Goldberg accepts apologies for being left out of Oscars montage
Oh, please, give me a break.
It’s good to know, isn’t it, what with the U.S. economy tanking, people losing their homes and jobs, the war stumbling on in Iraq with U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians suffering and dying, and with the world generally headed downward in the Big Handbasket — good to know that Whoopi [...]
Would Huckabee and McCain agree to settle nomination with hand-to-hand combat?
Nah, just kidding. I’m sure you know we never resolve political contests in America with hand-to-hand combat. Well, not PHYSICAL hand-to-hand, though campaign rhetoric might sometimes seem more vicious than physical blows.
I’m referring in this headline to the ongoing celebrity endorsement battles all candidates get into. On the Democratic side, we’ve got Streisand and Winfrey. [...]
All of you with hearts aflutter over the Oscar nominations, please raise your hands
What?? No hands in the air?? What kind of Americans are you people anyway, if you can’t even get excited about this morning’s Academy Award nomination announcements.
Okay, perhaps I’m being too cynical. Perhaps many of you really are interested in Hollywood’s political and celebrity awards shenanigans. Personally, I haven’t gone to a theater to watch [...]
