My crowd.

Do any of you who read my LJ actually watch TV?

It seems the crowd I gather seems to not even have cable.  Many of them, both in and out of town, have small TV's buried in the corner of their living room.

I don't mean in the sense of having one or two series that you're following, or maybe you own a season of a TV show on DVD.  I mean watching TV the way the common man does, flipping channels and even following a reality show or two.

TV Guide's 100 Greatest TV Moments is on TV right now.  I thought, this would be the perfect thing to watch with a group of friends.  It would be a great conversation-starter; we'd all talk about where we were when the OJ verdict came down, whether we'd even seen that I Love Lucy episode, etc.  Then I realized that most of my friends would think that watching TV about watching TV would be seen as the dumbest activity I could possibly suggest to them.

So who among you can think down to my level without getting a headache?

Crackpot analogy #9992

You know that slimy, icky feeling you get whenever some financial institution tells you you're "pre-approved" for some line of credit that you didn't ask for, you don't need, and that would probably bog you down in debt in the long run?

Well, sometimes men pre-approve women, and it gives them the exact same feeling.

Pre-approval might work in college, when you're naïve and confused and a little hung over, and the offers are coming at you from all sides, and you figure you'll take one just to see what the fuss is about.  But to anyone else, it's like a turd in your cereal.

Only eight more and I'll hit 10,000!

Germans who say nice things

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The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show would like to present: Germans who say nice things.

German Guy Who Says Nice Things

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Since so many of you hated the Dana Carvey clip, I thought I'd use this clip to place the blame where it belongs, as Steve Carrell has kept the character. In retrospect, I think I posted the original clip not because it was funny, but because I was so giddy about finally finding Dana Carvey Show clips, after a fruitless search of at least seven years.

Atari 800XL

I feel really dumb for yet another reason.

I bought an old Atari 800XL on eBay, figuring I was getting a decent deal because I was getting both the machine and the disk drive for like $50.  Good deal, right?

Then I took a closer look at the picture, and noticed a key was missing.  DOH.

Oh well,  I think I have a broken version of the same machine that I can swipe the keyboard from.