Reruns of "Laugh In"

So, going back in time to when TV was a beautiful age. See, there aren't that many shows on from the 60's or 70's. They don't circulate ALOT of them first of all, but I don't think you could even air the campy sketch-com program in this day and age.

I wonder, but I bet Laugh In eventually showed the image of Mohammad.
Take that MacFarlen. Arte Johnson had similar view point in an interview with him on one of the released DVD's of Laugh-In. It is good that they are selling some of it after so long, but there are some real gems available on Youtube. Almost, definitely constantly changing, but none the less you're guaranteed a prime clip each visit. It's like the campy form of videolistic heroine.

You can't resist because you realize that this was HUGE. It had 200 000 000 viewers easily - that is to say it was as American as apple pie and Scouts. It was the "Killer App" for color TV in the 70's. But sadly it was not left to stay. It was the big bang and TV evolution since has been drifting further from this intuitive form of comedy.

Any intelligent civilization from beyond our sun would look at our TV writing since as the residue from the time the networks were first created - a continued build up of slime on a once crystal clear window.

It's only going to continue to drift further and further towards hell, too.
Corporate control of media is totally realistic, it does but the emphasis on quality. But you know what I noticed about Laugh In?

1) There are no ad's running over everything.
2) The network ran the credits without cutting to a news anchor and this and that.

I feel that running promo's and ad's OVER TOP of a TV show is insulting. Any show that started in the 90's knows what I'm talking about. Greed is consuming TV at a exponential rate and the circle keeps it that way. The circle of life? The circle of death? The hamster wheel?

It doesn't matter, I was born in '88. This gives me no real advantage, by the time I was watching TV it had already been transformed from a world stage in your living room to a cheap vice.

I love TV. Without the median, there would be no message. We needed the message to evolve more. We are closer to God because of the TV. We are more connected with each other, mostly because of the TV. God Bless Technology. And God Bless Goldie Hawn.

Without my car

Without my car,
I'd go crazy.

I'd have no place to be.
It's not that I'm here,
it's not that I'm there.
It's the fact that I'm moving
that's me.

I like that it signals.
And no one else does.
I like that fluid sprays
over the side.

I like that I go fast
I like that I go slow,
but mostly I like the sound.

So never take my car.
I'll offer my wallet,
which would jacked on the
anyday in a minute.

TCS, ABS and that's all
it's got, but if I ever get
stuck I'm out in a rush.

Winter tires are for losers.

Tediusness

I spoke yesterday about my audio playback choice program?
Ok, I might as well break the truth. I don't have any music. I do, and I had a DVD collection. You move around like any normal family (Colin) and stuff gets lost and miss placed. So what do you do?

Anyway, I have started with the basics in my collection of new. I have Michael Franti and Spearhead in the very top, followed by some Weezer.
That's all for now.

An Unprepared Review of Songbird and Justification for iTunes

Ok, so I have been excited about iTunes since I got my first iPod when I was in Grade 10 high school in 2003. I was ready for a change after using Windows Media Player for much of my life. I started with version 5 when we got our brand new Windows ME machine where this new Media Player skin was considered a major upgrade from what was available to users since '98.


Ooooh, visualizations. That was what won me over. Anyway, here I am, 5 years of iTunes, a collection devastation twice, requiring a full reconstruction and a few iPods. Here I am yearning for a change. There is nothing technically wrong with iTunes. There are some very minor usability issues: It doesn't like FLAC or ORG file formats and more often than not I am using MP3's to keep things simple, but as time goes on I am wanting to start encoding in a more robust compression since hard drives drop in price by the second.

Songbird was the first choice.
It only takes a very small issue with technical reliability to put me off of thinking the advantages are superior.
1) The time-bar doesn't work for some songs.
2) I can't rely on doubleclick song starts from the library.
3) Album artwork is a slow process, with my hardware configuration I can mass write id3 tags much faster using iTunes.

I just installed iTunes, not looking back.
There are add-ins for iTunes that solve these problems. Open source can't win here.

Gunther in the spot light

I fear some of you may be like, who the hell is this Gunther person this author is talking about?
He's not real, so think of me what you will.
He was, however, on TV which is close to being real.
Here's a picture I stole!



This is a direct frame from the episode 'Mars University'.
Another website writer for www.tvsquad.com named Joel Keller took the time of getting the farnsworth quote in there correctly. Or at least I will take the strangers word.

"Oh, please! That's preposterous science-fiction mumbo-jumbo. Gunther's intelligence actually lies in his electronium hat which harnesses the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation."

Sunspots are good

Sunspots are starting to reappear as mentioned in an article on the NASA website published on the 7th this month.
This is good - Gunter from Futurama is probably going to start doing better.
Prof. Farnsworth said his consciousness was simply harnessed energy from sunspots.
Anyway, what is a sunspot. A region on the suns surface that acts much differently than its surrounding.
Characteristics that make a sunspot include:
1) Decreased temperature
2) Increased EM activity.

So, these spots are like the size of our little planet or bigger, and release equal or more em energy in our direction, so my guess is that Gunter the monkey was 'down' for the period of the solar minimum.
But I would attribute that there's a possibility that bounds in human consciousness (discovering gravity and relativity and Tony Starck - you know the exceptional human example) are directly linked to periods of solar activity.
It's a bummer we didn't record the first sunset till sometime in the 19th century. The solar minimum/maximum frequency is close to 7 years.
We are just getting out of a solar minimum - one that worried many scientists as it was looking to last slightly longer than 7 years.
Five days ago the American populace and media corporations decided to out Bush after a lengthy couple terms.
I don't think it's a coincidence that these lengths of history occur at the same time as solar cycle changes - but we can't really prove a link between EM fields and our brain function unless we further record both what occurs in Humanity and link it to what happens in our biggest and most fruitful power plant - The Sun.

This means it's a matter of time until the study of solar cycle affect on human... capability? No, perhaps take a group of 9th graders and test them (they already do).
Build a DB of the results and compare it over time with NASA sunspot observations.
Do that for education systems over the world and look specifically at overall performance.
Realize cultural influence and try and subtract it to make the results support the idea more and there you go, a whole new discipline in both psychology and physics?