B5-TNG

01.29.2007

It's been about 2½ years since I watched the Babylon 5 series on the sweet binary flow at home. I hadn't seen the final 2 seasons before watching them back then, so it was like watching new episodes for me. Although I'm a [out of the closet] Trekkie, I still enjoy a good sci-fi show, and B5 fit the bill.

I'm now passing B5 on to the next generation. Gina's young'un, all 18 years of him, has discovered Babylon 5 thanks to downloading movies on shows on his XBox Three Hundred and Sixty. He enjoyed the pilot episode that he downloaded, so he hit me up for the first season soon afterwards.

Then the second season.

Then the last 3 seasons.

It seems he's hooked.

I feel like I've accomplished something with my life now. I've been pushing him toward nerd-dom for the past 10 years. He's grown from an outside playing, baseball loving, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle playing kid to a staying inside in front of the game console, surfing the net for more than porn, knows more about computers than me, Babylon 5 loving kind of guy. I'm like Darth Vader, pulling him toward the dark side where he'll never have to see the light of day again. Or maybe like James Earl Jones in the first Conan movie with Arnold! As long as I get the cool voice, that's all that matters.

Now the question is how to best induct him into the world of the Trek?

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Camtoon Cometh

01.22.2007

After a long break, the Camtoons are on the cusp of making a comeback.

It's scary to think that 5 years ago I first took webcam to action figure and copied someone else's idea (who has also quit making them). The camtoon episodes were sporadic, at times annual, but most people seem to have enjoyed them. Well, most of them. That last batch wasn't very good, and for those I apologize.

For X-mas, Rynn & Matt gave me a couple of new figures, with the caveat that I would have to make some new camtoons. It only serves me right for making them read them all. So for the past few weeks I've been trying to mull over storylines and pick out something that would be good. Not only that, but it needs to make sense for the non-wrestling figure initiated. So, I think I've got an idea or two that should work. With luck, I'll get everything ironed out over the weekend. With a lot of luck, there will be something worth reading this time next week.

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Happy Chiro

01.19.2007

I just found out some good news. The website I did for my chiropractor is working! More than just being up and running, he's actually gotten a couple of new patients due to the website. One is a co-worker of his wife who went online and got the new patient forms. Another is someone moving from out of state whose current chiropractor got online and fount Trent.

It's a good feeling when you make something [in this case a website] and it turns out to be a helpful and useful tool.

Now I think it's about time to go get my back popped!

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The Big Man's Gil Gerard

01.15.2007

Gil Gerard is best known to the nerds of my generation as Buck Rogers (not to be confused with Greg Evigan or Robert Ulrich. While surfing over the weekend I found out that good old Gil underwent gastric bypasss surgery after hitting 350 lbs, and since the surgery he's dropped 140 lbs! Way to go Gil! If you're really curious, you can find the entire story over on Google's $1.6 billion YouTube as chronicled by a crew from the Discovery Channel.

For me the irony is that today is the day I'm picking back up the hardcore phase of the South Beach diet. I've put on about 15 lbs of the 56 lbs I originally dropped, and with the holidays over it's time to get serious again. Now I've just got to lose 155 lbs to get down to Gil Size!

I don't think I've weighed 190 since... 10th grade? Ok, maybe I won't reach Gil Size. Would be a pretty neat goal, though. But let's be reasonable - I'll still shoot for my high school graduation weight of 238.

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Gas Vs Electricity?

01.11.2007

The 2007 Ford Mustang has a base price of $19,995.

The Ford Racing Arcade Game - Twin Unit from Amazon is normally $21,848.85, but is currently on sale for $18,999.00.

When did an arcade driving game suddenly cost the same as the car you're driving in the game?

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