HBO has been running George Carlin stand-up specials for the last few days. I love this:
The FCC, an appointed body, not elected, answerable only to the president, decided on its own that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Why did they do that? Because they got a letter from a minister in Mississippi. A Reverend Donald Wildman in Mississippi heard something on the Radio that he didn’t like. Well, Reverend, did anyone ever tell you there are two knobs on the radio? Two knobs on the radio!! Of course, I’m sure the Reverend isn’t that comfortable with anything that has two knobs on it. But hey, Reverend, there are two knobs on the radio. One of them turns the radio off, and the other one changes the station! Imagine that, Reverend, you can actually change the station! It’s called freedom of choice, and it’s one of the principles this country was founded upon! Look it up in the library, Reverend, if you have any of them left when you’re finished burning all the books.
And by day… I mean five minutes. Tracy and I hit the beach today at Kohler-Andrae Park near Sheboygan - literally five minutes after we arrived, the clouds started rolling in. Ten minutes later, it was pouring.
The other day, I got an e-mail from the Air National Guard asking if I would like to come aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker to witness a mid-air refueling of an F-16. Uhm… HELL YES!!!! I’ve always been in love with anything to do with military planes/jets. This is going to be friggin’ awesome!
For the second time in less than a week, I am in the basement of my house. As a kid, I always thought that Dodge County was Wisconsin’s version of Tornado Alley. In my three years here in Mayville, though, Saturday and today are the only two times that I have heard the tornado sirens going off. Racine and Kenosha seem to get the brunt of the storms, nowadays, but nobody has been safe in the last week or so.
I took this yesterday while Tracy and I were driving through the Horicon Marsh. I was driving, Tracy had the wheel, and we were driving at speed with the ducks in flight.
My congratulations to Fuzz on his graduation! I remember when Fuzz was just a guy who would crash at our Fraternity House every once in a while…then he joined…then I graduated and moved to Chicago…then he moved to Milwaukee…then I moved to Milwaukee…then I moved to Madison…then we became best of friends…then I moved to Minneapolis…then Fuzz graduated!
So here’s to you, Fuzz! When I would DJ in college, I used to play this song and dedicate it to the Seniors and to the Freshmen. I am guessing you have heard it both times!
My daughter and I decided to order pizza in tonight. For the first time ever, I ordered online at dominos.com. After being able to browse the coupons and easily make my order online, up popped this really cool “Pizza Tracker.” It is so cool. It tells you what stage of the process your pizza is in. How cool is that?
Tracy and I aren’t looking for cake-cutting services for our wedding. Our plan is to get married in Italy. As I sit here, though, looking for catering prices for a business project I am working on, I found that cake-cutting costs are an average of 75-cents per person through most companies. That’s not the price of a slice of cake - that’s how much per person they charge you to actually slice the fucking thing.
That’s pretty fucking ridiculous if you ask me. I know you didn’t - but it is.
Jimmy Fallon is going to take over for Conan O’Brien when Conan takes over for Leno next year. I don’t think it will be all that bad. I would have rather seen Will Forte get the job - but I’m biased (read: he’s a Lambda Chi).
(Here’s Will in “I Drink Your Milkshake” - He’s the old man that says, “Please tell your wife to stop bothering me.”)
I called Fuzz this morning to talk about ridiculous gas prices, only to learn that Milwaukee’s prices are much higher than they are in the Twin Cities (where I work). Here is a quick suggestion to all of you who are complaining about high gas prices (I am complaining, too).
CAR POOL.
Remember when our mothers/fathers would car pool with people to work in the 80’s? Try it. My wife and I are fortunate enough to be able to commute to work together. Car pooling saves a LOT of money. But most won’t participate because most of us like the sanctity of our own private ride to work…or it’s just too much of a hassle to find someone to car pool with…or we might have to make sacrifices, like leaving 30 minutes earlier for work. But the next time someone starts in about the price of gas, ask what they are doing to curb that gouge, other than complaining about it.
I love how Fisher Price called they’re exercise bike/video game machine the “Smart Cycle.” I just think the name is ironic considering the design is not very “smart” at all.
The Smart Cycle has no internal memory, so no matter how well your child does at one of the games, she or he will always have to start over from the beginning.
My biggest gripe - the thing only takes D-cell batteries. There is no place to plug in an AC adapter. You just have to keep feeding the hungry beast batteries. It’s obnoxious.
It’s a really cool concept - but it’s not as “smart” as they’d have you believe. It’s really time for a redesign.
Jimmy Fallon is going to 
I love how Fisher Price called they’re exercise bike/video game machine the “Smart Cycle.” I just think the name is ironic considering the design is not very “smart” at all.
