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Bueno bueno

2008-05-07T21:10:00+02:00

Bien, pues después del puente festivo con mi hermana y la mudanza, esta semana ha sido bastante de relax (?)...En el curro bien, he acabado la aplicación esa con la que estaba y esta tarde el jefe ha estado echándole un vistazo al asunto, parece que va todo bien, sólo unos mínimos cambios en la interfaz.Pero la gran noticia es que acaba de llegar mi compañero de piso y ya tenemos tele!!Ahora todo será no verla, claro, porque entre que hay que estudiar, que llego con ganas de cenar y poco más, etc etc, pues no quedará mucho tiempo...Ahora toca llevar el colchón aquél que me prestaron a casa de la gente que me lo prestó, total, que otra vez con el colchón parriba y pabajo por el metro y el tranvía, menudo festival, menudo show...Hoy nada de fotos, ya habrá tiempo para ello cuando no se me olvide la cámara y me la lleve al trabajo ^^Saludosps. os habéis fijado las cosas chungas que pone la gente en los blogs cuando no tiene nada que contar pero tampoco quiere dejar tirado el blog?? Yo acabo de descubrir, según escribía esto, cómo se sienten exactamente. Así que cuando veáis algo en la categoría "A Diario", pues seguramente no será muy interesante ^^

House (TV)

2008-03-13T16:00:00+01:00

Hate Hugh Laurie's 'American' accent but love the Fox TV show 'House' he stars in. It's a medical show, but really more of a detective show, as House and his interns hunt for the right diagnosis for baffling symptoms, and a character-driven soap opera, combined with quick, witty dialogue and an unrelenting engagement with truth and lies.

You can watch whole episodes, and clips, online, at Hulu -- excellent quality but only a few episodes; I watched the season 4 Christmas show, "What A Wonderful Lie," last night, before that episode 'expired' (why??) -- ~~or at TV.com if you have iTunes~~ (oops -- since Dec., the episodes are no longer available via iTunes), or HouseMDvideos (some have Japanese subtitles and the quality is middling). You can also rent the first three seasons through your local or non-local dvd rental store.

Each episode is reviewed in detail for medical correctness here -- don't look if you have illusions about it -- and they also rate the show's soap opera quality (i.e., how compelling the narrative is, depth of character development, etc.).

If you haven't seen the show, I recommend "Don't Ever Change," still up at Hulu. ("It's A Wonderful Lie" was better, though, IMO.)

This user-created clip at YouTube, pairing The Fray's "How to Save A Life" with shots of House doping and Wilson wanting to help, unable to help, is also worth the watch if you're already a fan.

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is connected with House clips by several users, including one about House and Stacy and one about House and Wilson (both with Rufus Wainwright singing).

(Dr James) Wilson: What's with the Secret Santa? You trying to bring them together?

(Dr Gregory) House: I want to drive them apart.

Wilson: With gift-giving?

House: Conflict's built right into the name -- Santa's about sharing, secret's about withholding.

House: Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person, and nothing pisses off a person more than being shoved into the wrong pigeon hole.

(Have I mentioned how fab Hugh is singing 'Mystery'?)

Wilson: "You can be a real jerk sometimes, you know that?"
House: "Yeah. And you're the good guy."
Wilson: "At least I try."
House: "As long as you're trying to be good, you can do whatever you want."
Wilson: "And as long as you're not trying, you can say whatever you want."
House: "So between us, we can do anything. We can rule the world!"

Wilson: "You're my friend."
House: "Oh, jeez. Have some backbone. If you think I'm wrong, do something."
Wilson: "Wait, you're getting mad at me for sticking up for you?"
House: "You value our friendship more than your ethical responsibilities."
Wilson: "Our friendship is an ethical responsibility."

< Photo c. 2005, Dean Headner/FOX >

Happy Birthday, Craig T. Nelson

2007-04-04T14:56:20+02:00

Comic and dramatic actor Craig Nelson was born on 4 April 1944 in Spokane, WA. I haven't watched him in dramatic shows of late (as Chief Jack Mannion in The District, 2000-04), but I still watch our VHS tapes of Coach (1989-1997), which is IMO the funniest American sitcom ever to air, largely because of his "deadpan slow-burning" characterisation of Coach Hayden Fox, head coach of the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles football team. His chemistry with Jerry Van Dyke (Dick's brother), who played Asst. Coach Luther Van Dam, was also genius. The crew later moves to Orlando, FL to coach an expansion professional team, but those shows aren't as good. The series re-airs on the USA Network now.

I also loved watching Nelson as Col. Raynor Sarnac in Call to Glory, which aired in 1984 and 1985, but I was apparently the only one.

Besides being an actor -- first noticed in film in 1979, as Frank Bowers in And Justice For All, which starred Al Pacino -- Nelson is or has also been a producer, comedy writer (for The Tim Conway Show and The John Byner Comedy Hour), stand-up comedian (performing with Barry Levinson), director, documentary writer (writing about "artists who chucked the urban grind for a rural lifestyle," as he did for 5 years in the 1970s, for part of the time receiving food stamps and welfare), screenwriter, teacher, carpenter, lumberjack, janitor, plumber, and surveyor (per Hollywood.com). He was the father in the "first, best Poltergeist," and was "a high school football coach in the early Tom Cruise film All the Right Moves." He's also the voice of Mr. Incredible in The Incredibles (2004).

Asked in a 2004 interview what super power he would choose if he could have only one, he chose compassion: "Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life -- an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment."

Watch Hayden and Luther destroy Christine's white-carpeted apartment on YouTube: Christine to Hayden: "What I do care about is you telling me the truth. That's what makes us close. That's what makes a relationship." Hayden replies: "I don't know why I can't learn that!"

Sources:

CTN at IMDB

CTN at NNDB

CTN interviewed at The Reel Deal (in 2004)

CTN at Hollywood.com

CTN at Wikipedia ; Coach at Wikipedia

CTN at Everything2

House Commentary

2007-03-24T01:15:00+01:00

Jay Black at TV Squad has intelligent commentary on "House" (which I don't watch, partly because I don't have time and mostly because I like Hugh Laurie too much to listen to his loathsome American accent) and more generally on human nature and pop culture, speaking of shows that become popular featuring lovable characters who are "unapologetic racists and/or sexists who deliver some hard truths mixed with a good amount of ignorance."

Black explores what he calls the "House Dilemma," that is, the central problem with the show being that House (the Hugh Laurie character) just doesn't change, not matter what happens:

"After all that we've invested in the character (and if you've been with the show since season one, it's inching up on 60 hours over the last three years, which is more time than I've spent with any of my living relatives), you can't help but feel cheated every time the producers hint at some real change only to pull their hand back and go 'psych!'

"If House were one of your friends, you'd be less concerned at this point by his self-destructive behavior than you would be his static character development. 'Greg,' you'd say, 'What the Hell, dude? You've been the same person for the last three years. You would have thought after you had that Vanilla Sky-type self-revelatory dream a few months ago you'd be at least slightly different. But, uh, no...'"

Actually, that does seem pretty true to life ...

Pop Maven Update

2007-03-15T18:30:00+01:00

Love pop culture.

Here's what I'm grooving to lately:

Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars ... "Let's waste time Chasing cars Around our heads // I need your grace To remind me To find my own // If I lay here, If I just lay here, Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"

The Fray's Over My Head (Cable Car) ... "I wish you were a stranger I could disengage, say that we agree and then never change ... " Also: How To Save A Life -- powerful video

Green Day's Holiday

Daniel Powter's Bad Day ... Just this: "Where is the passion when you need it the most ... "

Kelly Clarkson's Because of You

Usher's Great live performance of 'Caught Up', along with James Brown's Sex Machine

The Gin Blossoms' Hey Jealousy: "The past is gone but something might be found, To take its place... If you don't expect too much from me, You might not be let down. Cause all I really want is to be with you." Also Allison Road. OK, and Found Out About You.

Rihanna's SOS ... My kind of dance music. [video starts with brief ad]. And Will Smith's Switch.

Pussycat Dolls' Don't Cha

Gnarls Barkley's Crazy ... "Ha ha ha, bless your soul, You really think you're in control! Well, I think you're crazy... I think you're crazy... I think you're crazy...Just like me."

Pink's U + Ur Hand: "I'm not here for your entertainment, You don't really want to mess with me tonight."

The Killers' Mr Brightside: "I just can't look, it's killing me, And taking control ... Jealousy, turning saints into the sea."

The Perishers' Pills (with Sarah McLachlan): "One may think we're doing fine, But if I had to lay it on the line, We're losing ground with every passing day We're not ok. But that's one thing I would never, One thing I would never, that's one thing I would never say to you."

Maroon 5's She Will Be Loved and Sunday Morning

Rufus (Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk) and Loudon Wainwright (White Winos)

Club Y Radio

and NPR news

And watching on TV:

ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, a couple of nights per week. Love Mike, like Tony. But now that it's mostly basketball, I watch a lot less than during baseball and football seasons. Also catch Around the Horn from time to time.

NASCAR races on the weekends -- the season has begun! Wouldn't say I'm a NASCAR fan -- I don't know much or care much about the competitors -- bu I like to watch the cars go round and round.

Golf on the weekends

HGTV's House Hunters once or twice a week. Usually the re-run at 7:30.

TLC's What Not To Wear. It's kind of a sick show.

Bad stuff that happens:

Tons -- maybe literally -- of perfectly good clothes are thrown out. Hopefully, they're actually given away, but because the clothes are stuffed and thrown into a metal trash can, I'm not confident that they are donating these clothes so others can reuse them.

Women who look perfectly fine are told they're lacking somehow because they're not wearing trendy clothes or clothes that are feminine enough. As a good friend taught me long ago, whatever a woman does is feminine, because she's female. Period. Pointy-toed shoes and flouncy skirts are optional.

No woman is told not to wear makeup; all are made up with cosmetics to some extent. For whose benefit is this?

The good stuff is that sometimes women learn how to dress their particular bodies, how to emphasise what they like, how to live with their bodies so that every trip to buy clothes doesn't end in tears and self-recrimination -- and that can be empowering.

The show featuring Seattle gal Rita Marshall (Mitchell?), 34, was an example of the good stuff and some of the bad. She looked perfectly fine before they transformed her; she was beautiful and somewhat androgynous in clothing, shoewear, hairstyle, and minimal makeup.( Her newlywed husband apparently nominated her because he was "eager to draw out her feminine side." Hello! She's a woman -- she's all feminine!) She didn't need a makeover, IMO, but she in the process of being made over, she seemed to learn a lot about how to fit clothes to her body, which increased her pleasure in finding clothes and in wearing them. And they didn't do anything too elaborate to her hair or face, nothing that required much everyday maintenance, whew.

And watching on DVD:

Bob Newhart, season 4
BallyK, season 3
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (just finished the series)

Into online:

Technorati
Bloglines
Flickr
Live 365 Internet Radio - lounge music, exotica, Caribbean, and beach music:

MusicFromTheBlueLight

Paris on the Air

Chillout.fm

Vegas Vics Tiki Lounge

Coconut Groove Lounge

Scotia Surfer

Permanent Vacation

Parrot Island Radio

Island Time

DcCaribbeanConnection

Old School Beach Jam

Shaggin' Time

Hot 100 Beach Music USA

The Morning News headlines (3 times each weekday)
CNN Internatonal Edition
Cryptic Crosswords (premium NYT service)
Godblogs like open source theology, Velveteen Rabbi, Preaching Peace, Coming to the Quiet, scott... diagonally parked in a parallel universe, James Alison, Bending the Rule, Priestcraft, Experimental Theology, Young Anabaptist Radicals, Ekklesia blogs, Ktismatics. (All links available here under 'Faith')
whatever James Alison offers (in English, that is)

Reading

Books and articles: The usual crime novels, either the latest series titles or re-reads. James Alison. Re-reading Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for bookgroup. Not much else offline.
Magazines and newspapers: Only two offline: The Economist and Living Etc. A Wall St. Journal when I can find one lying around the coffee shop.

More Bounty Hunter

2006-09-06T05:25:00+02:00

Oh lord, the TV was on tuned in to A&E and we witnessed more episodes of Dog the Fucking Dork...oops Dog The Bounty Hunter. I'm sorry but guys who are going bald in the back of the head shouldn't wear a mullet. BWAHAHAHAHA. Christ. One of my friends who grew up in a rather rough neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY said he'd love to see old Dawg go in there and act like a badass. They'd probably find his corpse floating in the East river. We got a big laugh out of that. I think the one thing that really rivets everyone to the TV is that broad named Beth. Good lord, she looks like a fucking hooker. My friends figure if one of the bad guys gets away she can always pummel them with her hideous overinflated tits, kick them in the shins with her spike heels, and bounce them off her fat ass while she brushes her hair. Of course, we couldn't figure out why she paints her face with makeup because it doesn't help her any. She's still ugly as shit. What was so funny is they were in some trailer park in Colorado laughing about it. Good lord, that had to be where they came from. We got a laugh at that bust in Hawaii where some indigenous Hawaiian called her white trash and she was practically in tears. Then sits in her gas guzzling SUV calling this woman an icehead and sounding like a five year old. And that nutty whore actually threatens to arrest this woman. For what? Calling a spade a spade? LOL!!! This is the most comical show on TV. Tune in and watch this shit. You'll die laughing. Oh and by the way, these are gay ass people hunting lame ass wannabe criminals. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.

crikey! where's the love for the croc hunter?

2006-09-05T06:47:07+02:00

Like most of you who turned on the tube this morning, I was (dare I say) shocked to find out that the beloved Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, had been killed. In fact, I had to do a double-take and rewind TiVo a bit just to make sure I had heard correctly. Could it be? Steve Irwin, the man who had earned his fame and fortune by surviving deadly snake bites, dodging angry crocodiles, and petting aggressive sharks, had been killed? Seriously?

I thought back to all the rumors I had heard over the years that the obviously crazy man (Who else is going to taunt a deadly python jumping out of a toilet??) had been killed by a beast of the desert or river or ocean. It's kind of like the rumors that the original Blues Clues host (oddly enough, his name was also Steve) had died of a heroin overdose. Then, they would just keep coming back.

Only, the Crocodile Hunter won't be coming back anymore. I kept waiting this morning for a punchline. I kept waiting to hear, "Fooled again, right?" but sadly, those words didn't come from the Today Show this morning.

And something else began to occur to me as I watched the news throughout the day: the Media didn't appear to have much to say in the way of sympathy either. Certainly, they informed the public, but the tone seemed to be more of a mother's I-Told-You-So response, "Well, what have we learned, boys and girls? This is what happens when you play with fire!"

Let's not forget the Steve Irwin that entertained us American folk for nearly a decade (and Aussie folks even longer) with his always-entertaining stunts with larger-than-life spiders, angry rattlesnakes, and, of course, the always deadly snap of the croc. Most of us can remember the first time we flipped through the channels only to find a crazy bloke in the Austrailian outback waving for us on the other side of the camera to come closer and get a look at the angry rattler inside the open Jeep engine! "Croikey! Almost got me there!" He would say as he jumped back while holding a large stick above the snake that continued to jump out at him. "And boy, does he look mad, too!" It was kind of like a train wreck that you can't quite turn your head from. You have to see just what this man is capable of.

Irwin, while often seen as controversial (especially after a dangerous stunt involving his son three years ago), was an animal lover. Pure and simple. And as sad as it is that he left a wife and young family (two small kids) behind, he did die doing what he loved. I hope the Media will give him a proper goodbye in its People Magazines and TV Guide Magazines and that, even in its unconventional way, it will be known that Irwin was a man who was at peace with nature, no matter how deadly or unrealistic that may seem.

Rest in peace, Sir Irwin. Rest in peace.

Television has shown us the world and what it is not - Part 3

2006-08-28T04:32:50+02:00

Part Three: Be Careful Little EyesOh be careful little eyes what you seeOh be careful little eyes what you seeFor the Father up above is looking down in loveSo be careful little eyes what you see - Children’s songPlease take the following quiz.1. If you lived in a neighborhood where what you see on television actually happened, would you continue to live there?2. Would you allow people to come into your home and be as filthy mouthed as they are on television? Would you allow real people to stand in your home and speak the same words in front of your children and spouse as what they hear coming from the television?3. Would you get annoyed to have visitors six to seven hours a day?4. If you knew someone who watched countless hours of hard-core pornography would you think that person needed help?5. If you knew someone who watched countless hours of violence, without the least pang of conscience, would you think that person needed help?6. How many human bodies have you seen destroyed on your television this past month?7. How many shootings have there been on your television this month? 8. How many fist fights have you witnessed this month on your television? 9. How many car wrecks have you seen on the television this month? 10. How many people have you watched die in fires this month on your television? 11. How many times has the Lord’s name been taken in vain in your home, this month, from the speaker of the television?12. Would you agree or disagree with the following statement: In terms of searing a piece of flesh beyond feeling, our tolerance for violence and murder has gone about as far as it can go. 13. Are God’s children supposed to be emotionally and spiritually numbed to pornography or the death of other human beings? 14. How many human bodies do we get to see destroyed before we “get it” and no longer find it interesting? 15. Would you let people come into your home and act out their adulterous affairs in front of your family?16. In terms of guns and giving children the wrong impression, would you stand behind a piece of plywood or drywall when being shot at from very close range?17. How come nobody on the television is a faithful member of a scriptural New Testament church?18. How come nobody on the television ever studies the Bible? 19. How come nobody on the television ever spends time in prayer?20. How come the angels on television never testify that the shed blood of Jesus Christ is the only way to God in heaven? 21. Since the angels of television don’t testify that the shed blood of Jesus Christ is the only way to God in heaven, do you classify them as having the spirit of an anti-Christ?22. Would you be proud of your children if they grew up and acted like any character on a current situation comedy?

What an evening...

2006-08-23T08:25:00+02:00

We're watching television and it's amusing some of the shit we see.

Tonight we were watching Dallas SWAT. The reason I watch shows like that and COPS is because it's fascinating at how we're being brainwashed into believing that the police can talk to people any way they feel like. I mean my jaw drops sometimes. Tonight's episode was with SWAT basically ripping someone's damn house apart. It was commented on that wouldn't it be hilarious if they hit the wrong house and tore it up. It was noted that the property owner might be shit out of luck getting that paid for. I can see busting a crack house but damn, do you have to rip the damn porch off the house?

Then we watched Dog The Bounty Hunter. It's humorous watching that show. I'm glad Dog wears his Native American gear because I wouldn't notice his Indianess any other way. My dad is Cherokee and he definitely isn't blue eyed and blonde haired. Neither am I for that matter. Blonde haired blue eyed Cherokees. Hilarious. After having watched several episodes of this show I am convinced these people have a pretty ineffective bail bond company. It seems like they spring for clients who are bond jumpers most of the time. It's so funny watching this guy running after some dude with a can of Mace. We're wondering when he's actually going to run into a real hardened criminal who actually wields a weapon. Should be interesting.

Then we watched a program about skinheads and how the racist movement is looking towards kids to do their dirty work for them. Seems to me like kids are normally used for anybody's dirty work so why is this so surprising? Of course I can understand why these racists and white power people are so pissed off all the time. If I looked in the mirror and saw some butt ugly face staring back at me, I'd be a bit upset too. You listen to some of these guys talk and they sound like utter morons. I seriously doubt anyone from some other race would even entertain the thought of mating with those guys. I don't think they have anything to worry about. One guy said he'd like a homeland to go to. Well dude, I'll be happy to find you one. I'll be glad to get you out of my homeland. One idiot who runs a record label called Resistance Records said he wants politicians to represent white people. Well dude, politicians are supposed to represent all of us. But the Republicans do represent wealthy white people. Of course, I think people should express themselves and voice their opinions but why on earth do these people kill their parents or someone's dog or some stranger? How wacked.

Now we're watching a documentary about Heaven's Gate. How on earth do people fall for stupid shit like this? The aliens are going to come down and take us up in their space ships and we'll all have lobotomies and sexual exploration and yadda yadda. I think people are getting loonier by the minute.

Television has shown us the world and what it is not - Part 2

2006-07-07T18:50:00+02:00

Part Two: The Laugh TrackThe laugh track laughs loudest when the jokes are the most carnal. Solomon compared the laughter of fools to the crackling of thorns in a fire (Ecclesiastes 7:6).The last article was on so-called situation comedies. This one is related by a thing known as the “laugh track.” You may not at first know what one is, but I guarantee you’ve heard one before. The laugh track is the background laughing viewers hear when someone on a situation comedy says something that’s supposed to be funny. It’s a hold-over from when television was done in front of live audiences. But that’s not the case now. The laugh track was kept for reasons that I’ll discuss below. Laugh track laughter is also known as “canned” laughter; meaning it can happen whenever a producer wants it to happen. If you want some laughing on your show, just open the laugh track.The old saying about misery loving company is reversed when it comes to the laugh track. Part of the psychology involved is that a person is less likely to laugh when they think they are laughing alone, or when what’s being said isn’t that funny. But to feel as though an entire studio audience is going over the edge in gut-wrenching laughter at what has to be the most hilarious words spoken all week helps the viewers at home loosen up and laugh, or are at least be amused. After all, if it weren’t funny they wouldn’t be playing the laugh track, right? It’s easy to forget the laughter we hear on the television is pre-recorded and, in some cases, computer generated.If you or I were to say some of the same things we hear on television, even in similar situations, it wouldn’t be nearly as funny. If we don’t laugh during a show we begin to rightly think the show in question isn’t funny. And, in turn, we use the remote control to find something more entertaining. People who pay to have their commercials on the television don’t like low ratings. It is all about making money and laughing on the way to the bank.Here are a few things you can try at home to get the point. First of all, the next time you watch a situation comedy, try to imagine the dialog without the laugh track. Objectively, as though you were listening to someone from your local church say the words, ask yourself, “Would that be funny?” Or, better yet, “Would I allow someone to come into my home and say that in front of my children and wife?” See, you’re smiling already.Secondly, appreciate that laugh tracks are timed. In other words, the frequency that the laughs are released increases the closer the show gets to its final moments. Initially, the laugh track runs about once every 15 to 20 seconds. Towards the end of the show the laughter comes about every 5 to 10 seconds. This helps set the mood for the viewer, so we think that towards the end the show is getting funnier. And then, right at the very end when most situation comedies moralize and teach their “lessons”, the laugh track stops. This helps emulate the seriousness of the conclusions. By the end of the show, we’re supposed to not want it to end so that we’ll tune in again next week. This crescendo of hilarity goes by mostly unnoticed. Get yourself a stop watch, a piece of paper, and a pencil - you’ll see for yourself.Also know there is another track, but I don’t know its name. Once in a while you’ll hear it when something that’s supposed to be particularly emotional happens; like when an unmarried character holds her illegitimate baby in her arms for the first time or when two characters who have known each other for a long time decide to commit fornication for the first time. This is the “aawwws” track. It helps detract us from thinking about things (like how difficult it is in real life for a single mom to raise a child who may or may not know who its father is and how we’re not supposed to play around with our sexuality). But don’t worry; it’s just another day in situation comedy land. The kids will be fine and the sex will be good. Might as well laugh.Thinking back to just this past year, I can count about four or five times when I’ve had a really good laugh. Most of the time I just chuckle or smile. But every night, for every situation comedy, there are phantom audiences roaring with laughter. It’s part of the alternate reality we succumb towards when watching television. The people we watch are far happier than we are. The folks on television can be as carnal as they want and, laugh all the time about it. They are worldly and joyous, their delight comes not of the Lord. Funniness QuizHere’s a little test. For each item listed, take a minute and ask yourself the following three questions:1. Is this funny on television?2. Is this funny in real life?3. Is this pleasing to the true God of the Bible?

Children talking back to their parents
Cursing
Displays of selfishness
Double-entendre about sex
Filthy Innuendo
Insults
Joking about fornication
Lying
Invoking the name of God in vain
Planning to commit fornication
Rudeness
Stupidity
Bodily noises (farts & belches)

Oprah Wants to Know, Too

2006-01-20T03:00:00+01:00

I thought maybe I just had too much time on my hands, but Oprah wanted to know, too! Have you ever wondered how a telephone works? What has to happen for a voice to travel instantaneously from one phone to another? Do you find it mind boggling trying to figure out how Oprah goes from her Harpo studio onto your tv screen? Oprah's show today answered these questions and more. She had Marshall Brain on as a guest. He is the author of How Stuff Works. Email going from "here to there in a matter of seconds" gets me wondering. I often think about how inventors like Alexander Graham Bell managed to figure it all out. Mr. Brain's (yes, that's his real name) explanations just made it all the more awesome. Science is often thought of as a path away from the divine, but I think it's the exact opposite. Did you know that phone conversations and radio shows are always going through our bodies? Even when you know how, it's still an amazing world.Oprah also had Maria Bartiromo explain other mysteries. Did you ever wonder what NASDAQ stands for? Or what stocks are? I had an a-ha moment or two when she defined stocks in less than fifteen seconds and...it all made sense!!!

Ai yo yo!! Not another one!

2005-12-23T19:25:00+01:00

I was browsing through a newspaper (The Star but don’t know what day) just about 5 minutes or so ago and couldn’t stop myself from doing a headslap. There’s something new for Malaysian viewers to watch and guess what….it’s ANOTHER reality show! My goodness, isn’t this an overload…and maybe overkill? Aren’t we all bored with the astronomous number of reality shows we have now.

This time, it’s a ‘football’ reality show. And then that’s not all – there’s another talent search show!

I am bored of watching reality shows and talent searches. I have to admit that I watched a lot of reality shows but when they started creating Millionaire-looking-for-wife reality shows and plastic surgery reality shows, I tuned out. This is WAY overboard. What, wouldn’t you start thinking whether the next type of reality shows would be along the lines of a woman or man testing out how good a person is in bed or something? It’s ridiculous and inconceivable!

And here we are….yet again, with another reality show with only one aim, to bring the advertisers in and lure the consumers to sit down and watch the show….oh, and the ads.

Marsha