My daughter, 4, was upset that I put a McCain sign in the front yard, so she drew up her own Obama sign and taped it up for the neighborhood to see.

From Iowahawk:

Congrats to friends of the show, Garrett and Laurie, on the birth of their baby girl, Kaitlyn Rose, today! 7lbs 9oz and 19-inches. Both mom and baby are doing great. Congratulations on the new family!

Here are three of my all-time Beastie Boys favs:

SeeqPod - Playable Search

All my dreams are dead.

A forwarded e-mail from Big Daddy Martin:

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would
now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have
$44.00 left.
If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank
all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling refund,
you would have $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink
heavily and recycle.
This is called the 401-Keg Plan.

Twenty minutes into today’s remodeling project. Ouch!

For some reason, I like this song:

I just went to a marketing firm’s website and I was astonished by their terrible website:

1. The title on every page is, “Untitled Document.”
2. The horrendous flash open is 38 seconds long.
3. The horrendous flash open has obnoxious music that you can’t turn off.
4. The “skip intro” feature is impossible to see without scrolling down and rolling over a 25px wide graphic.
5. The header image creates rollover text in the body field that disappears (blank body area) upon rollout.
6. There is no phone number, address, email address, nada in the header/footer. You have to physically click on the “contact” link in order to get any info.
7. The portfolio page features a static flash document for each and every piece of their portfolio.
8. Each page in their portfolio is located in the root directory of the site. I’d hate to be their web guy (furthermore, I’d hate for them to be my web guy.)
9. Their services page just has a bunch of bullet points.
10. Their about us page has a bunch of text. (they should talk about more of what they can do for their client in the services page than what they do themselves in the about us page — in my humble opinion)

This company seems to have a lot of huge clients… which leads me to ask, “how big could they be if they did it right?”

Awesome news! The Milwaukee Brewers have signed a deal with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, making the Low ‘A’ minor league ball club a Milwaukee Brewers affiliate through 2012! I have been a huge fan of watching the Timber Rattlers for a few years, now, but I always thought it was counter-productive cheering for a team that fed the Seattle Mariners. Now I can cheer knowing that the boys who play for the T-Rats may become Brewers someday.

One thing (of many) that I miss about living in the Mukwonago area is the Elegant Farmer. The Elegant Farmer is a combination of a farmer’s market, deli, and a bakery. As a kid we used to go pick strawberries there in the summer and pumpkins in the fall.

Their apple pie in a brown paper bag is by far the best apple pie that you will ever buy in a store - EVER. It turns out that the Food Network feels the same way, as they recently sent Bobbie Flay there to do a show on it (link has photos)! *tear*.

Yesterday I had what you could call, “a day.” After not sleeping all night, I did my show, and then I had a very long and intense meeting. Once my meeting was finished, I went to go pick my daughter up from preschool. I noticed that my left front tire was a little low on air. So, I bought a $9 can of fix-a-flat, sprayed it in, and filled my tire up the proper pressure. I got on the freeway and about five minutes later, the tire blew. I put the spare on and noticed that the spare was low. The first gas station that I drove to didn’t have an air hose!?! The second one did, but it didn’t work correctly and didn’t really put any air in. Luckily, I managed to limp into the tire shop. $200 later the tires were fixed and I went home to sleep off the rest of the day.

Today has been about 100 times better.

…or at least that’s what he wants you to believe.

This morning, my news guy was talking about Michelle Obama’s trip to Wisconsin. I asked him, rhetorically, “Is she going to tell everybody how she hates America?” Whoa boy. My VP/GM had a complaint call as soon as he walked in the door.

The listener, who says he listens every morning in his basement when he’s polishing his guns (no lie), exclaimed, “you guys are a bunch of right-wing radicals. I don’t know who that Fuzz guy is, but he doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about. I am going to go to all of your advertisers and tell them that Fuzz is a right-wing radical and that they shouldn’t advertise with you anymore.”

My GM’s response: “when you read a left-leaning editorial in the newspaper, do you drive around telling all of the newspaper’s advertisers to stop advertising?”

The complainer said, “Well, I live in the town of West Bend, and I don’t get to drive around that much.”

Priceless.

*straps on Kevlar*

Good luck with the new gig. Bastard.

Everybody keeps talking about the Emmy Award winning show, Mad Men. I’ve watched one episode and thought it was alright, but I was lost. Somebody fill me in on the characters, the premise, and what I need to look for.

Congrats to Jeremy Piven on his Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series last night at the Emmy’s. If you’re not watching Entourage, you’re missing out on a hilariously funny series.

John Adams was the first miniseries that I have watched since I was a kid. It was excellent. Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney were wonderful. They were completely deserving of their awards. Hopefully, Generation Kill will win one next year. HBO never fails to pump out great shows.

Though I didn’t watch them, it seems that the Emmy Awards is the only awards show that ever seems to get it right. So, somebody give them the Emmy for Outstanding Awards Show.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA… Forgive me, this will be my last post on this subject. It turns out that the new Microsoft “I’m a PC” television campaign was produced (wait for it) on a Mac!!!

Metadata found on Microsoft’s creative copy used in its ‘I’m a PC’ ad reveals that the graphics were actually produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3. After the details were published on the Flickr photo sharing site, Microsoft scrambled to polish off the embarrassing details last night.

That’s ridiculously silly. I love it!

The coolest part about Barack Obama’s new two-minute television commercial is that I can get up, run to the bathroom, change laundry loads, and get a beer before he gets through explaining how he’s going to spend all of our money! And, it’s draining his campaign account. I love it!

Beastie Boys: Paul Revere

Between work and football games, this weekend, I’ve been landscaping my yard. The flower beds have needed to be edged, weeded, and refilled since about day one. Since yesterday, I’ve thrown down probably a-yard-and-a-quarter worth of stone. It looks like I’ll need to put down about three-quarters more to finish the back and the small side. At least now it’s finally starting to look nice and presentable.

What I don’t get is why I make a quarter of my living shooting photos, yet I ALWAYS forget to take before photos of my work? (see: kitchen remodel, removing carpet to reveal hardwood floors, and now my landscaping project.) Oi.