The Comedy Life of Brian

I watched Obama's inauguration today in a packed conference room at work. It was amazing. Something really interesting happened outside all of us fining hope in our future. Every time George W Bush appeared on screen, the entire room burst out laughing. Under the covers I think that is pretty amazing. One of three things could be causing this break in tension:

1) We've been so conditioned to laugh at Bush that we will do so under any circumstances.
2) A room of people with varied backgrounds recognized this as a hightened moment of Bush being forced to accept his monumental failures in front of millions.
3) He really did have a goofy look on his face

Or maybe all of the above. An interesting study in laughter in any case.

You might have noticed that there is a pretty huge gap in the timeline on this blog. For the curious, there was a period of time where I was using a specific content management system that shall remain nameless. For security reasons I had to take it down and lost months worth of live content as a result. I have a backup and intend to fill in the blanks here, but it will be a horrible manual process. So while hopefully you will see old content trickle in, it is going to take a long long time. And in the meantime I still need to redesign my super ugly bare bones site anyway. But I've got blogging to do - and for now I'm going to do it for an audience of one. Me!

Today the Wall Street Journal ran an article about how the PS3 is unlikely to make a comeback in this console generation. I'd buy that. My prediction is that during the next generation we see the same thing about Nintendo's next console (WiiII?). Mark my words. I'm a huge Nintendo fan, but I think the big N is making some mistakes now that are going to hurt them years and years into the future.

Labels: video games

This is a test post to help me do some testing as I try to migrate my blog over to its new home, and also use some new publishing tools.

Watch as I break shit!

I think I've decided on a whim today that I'm going to tear my whole website down and install Drupal in its place. I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather focus on filling my site with tons of content rather than spending time (or not spending time in this case) on making it look good. Plus, I think that getting some skill with Drupal will help me with a few other projects I'm working on right now.

So bottom line, you might see my whole site go down this weekend and come back up in a very incomplete, experimental state. To the future!

Labels: computers, personal

It is tough to take all of those online campaign songs seriously but I've finally found two videos that accurately sum up today's political climate.





I think one of these is intentionally funny, and one is not. Readers - can you guess which one is which?

Labels: comedy, election

Wading through my Google alerts this morning I came across some mega-praise for 'The Raw Harold' a UCB NY class show featuring friend, associate, and regular Smash Brothers opponent Greg DeSantis. Wish I could have made it out to one of these shows, but alas - such activity is not in the cards for me right now.

Labels: comedy