Category: Uncategorized

Did Twin Peaks drag on for too long without any resolution? Was the worthwhile portion of the show over once Laura Palmer’s murder was solved? What the hell was up with the dancing dwarf? These are the questions you may ask yourself after watching 29 episodes of the early 90’s TV hit, Twin Peaks, and…

What do you guys think of the new site layout? I previewed it a few weeks ago, but now it’s the default theme. The big change is the fixed width layout. It took me a while to get Odd Man In working properly with it. In fact, Odd Man In almost has it’s own entire…

Ever wondered what would happen if every superhero and villain fought each other in a huge ultimate showdown? Wonder no more.

I saw this over on The 700 Level and I had to repost it. Great story. Update: Unfortunately, YouTube had to take the video down.

The 12th and final episode of the Ricky Gervais Show was posted yesterday. Unfortunately, they’ll be charging a fee for future podcasts. The easiest way to check it out is through iTunes or other podcast software.

I’ve been playing around with a fixed width format for the site. To see the progress, head here and change your theme to “gelt” and let me know what you think. A lot of things might not work properly yet, but if you get stuck just go here and switch your theme back to “Boxed.”

Last night Jeanne and I hit up the famed Philadelphia eatery, Astral Plane. The food was great although many of the menu items didn’t make it to our 9:15PM reservation. The lesson here is eat earlier! But MAN, our walk from 16th & Locust to the restaurant was ridiculously freaking cold. I think my body…

While preparing for a few hours of snow shoveling this morning, I noticed my whole sidewalk and walkway were already clear. One of my neighbors went through with a snowblower.

Another near victory for me last month in Jason Zahn’s GameShow. I didn’t do too well through most of the month, but a late string of natural doubles got me close to the top. If I hadn’t sucked so bad at the start of the month I might have made it. The new game starts…

This is unbelievable to me. Richard Hatch, winner of the first season of Survivor, neglected to pay the taxes on his $1 Million prize and other income he earned as a result of his newfound celebrity. The jury on the first Survivor didn?t take long to deliberate and came up with a closely split decision…

No good way to download it yet, but Built to Spill’s myspace site has a new song from their new album due out in April. It’s called Going Against Your Mind and it’s pretty good.

The guys from Wasted Apples are also in a rap group that put together this video. DJ Skeleton is entertaining enough by himself.

Wow, most of the podcasts available through iTunes are awful. The only two I’ve found so far that I like are The Ricky Gervais Show (of The Office fame) and Mark Johnson’s BoardGamesToGo. Anyone know of any other good ones?

The Odd Man In forum is back online for now. There may be some trouble using your account in both Odd Man In and the message board as I had to copy over some of my mods. It’s better than nothing though. OMI Message Board

Attention owners of the new video iPod: You can now enjoy the magic of Cutie Theater wherever you go. Cutie Theater has now been especially formulated for the iPod using a great, free piece of Software called Videora Converter. Enjoy!

In trying to figure out a good formula for ranking my albums I wanted to balance between the average rating of each song, the number of times I’ve played it, and the sum of all the ratings in the album. The first thing I did was throw out any mixes like my Beck Random Stuff…

The FTP problem I mentioned a few days ago still exists, which is pretty annoying. At first they didn’t know what was causing it, but now they said it’s affecting everyone on my server. I must be the only one still using it. ha. I know I’m on one of their older ones and I…

I did some playing around again with the iTunes library data and made some Excel charts. Which years had the most of my top 100 albums? Find out! Also, here’s a huge list of my top 50 albums according to my iTunes algorithm. I don’t agree with all of it, but it’s not bad.

You can export an XML file from iTunes that contains all the data from your music library. Today I’ve been playing around with this perl script that can read the file and export it into an HTML page. What I really wanted to do was use it as a starting point to help me crunch…

I know I am way late on this, but if you haven’t seen the hilarious Lazy Sunday digital short from SNL, check it out here. It’s a rap about two guys catching a Sunday showing of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. You can also get it on iTunes for free.