The Soprano’s is all new tonight and i’m betting money that this is the week that Vido gets whacked for blowing dudes and such. The goombah’s can only put up with that for so long. UPDATE: Dammit i’m always wrong w/ my predictions for this show.
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
The Lakers and Kobe Bryant put on one of the best basketball games I have seen since Michael Jordan and the Bulls. I was going ape shit in my apartment during the game and now fear that my european neighbors think I’m certifiable.
so as i begrudgingly drove into lab on a beautiful socal sunday, i stopped at the minimart to stock up on caffeine and noticed a guy washing his windshield with those gas-station-squeegees.
everytime i see someone using one of these things i’m shocked and to make matters worse, this guy was really going to town and workin’ the squeege love.
i mean, dude, why dont you save yourself some time and just wash your windows with sandpaper? what does sandpaper lack the scrubbing power of the gas station squeege?
Promising new research on the interaction of the brain and the immune system is coming out of the neuroAIDS division of Scripp’s. More and more we are finding that the bi-directional communication/interaction of the brain and immune system are key in treating disease.
the “jeff who?” section is up and ready for mass consumption.
aren’t you thrilled?
ben harper was so bad ass tonight at the “last call” taping. for some reason, nbc decided to tape two seperate shows, so we got to watch a total of 3 performances.
this, however, did not come without a price.
since they were taping 2 shows, that meant 2x as much carson daly. ok i’m sure he’s a nice enough guy in real life, but when he’s on stage everyone in the room can feel that this guy has no discernable talent and/or skill. i have no doubt that hosting a talk show is difficult, but there’s just nothing great about this guy. jokes were lame. guest interviews were mind numbing. worst of all the two bit comic they had to “prep” the audience was the most annoying person on the planet.
“no sir! i will not clap like a trained seal for one of your shitty “last call” tshirts. fuck you! i know that you dont have all kinds of great prizes to give the audience if we’re ‘the best audience you’ve seen’. fuck you. bring out ben. no more fucking dance offs between audience members. we didnt come here to basque in the glow of nbc. the only reason this place is filled with people is to see ben harper, we could all care less about your shitty show that comes on at 130am. bring him out and until then shut up.”
one interesting sidenote, every last word carson said was on a cue card. i dont mean just the monologue, i mean all the “impromptu banter” between him and the house band, the off the cuff desk comments, everything. cards were flipping the entire time and homeboy was reading away. oh and in between segments he was highlighting his note cards like a college student the night before his english lit final.
to his credit, he did make a couple of funny comments. when he came out to “greet” the audience, they instructed us to stand and applaud for him, but when he came out he asked us to save all the fake love for the taping. nice.
then once during the monologue of the “tuesday” show, he was talking about hanging out with ben harper and said, “…yeah like you guys need another reason to hate me.” alright, so at least the guy knows where he stands. this makes him less of a tool in my book.
ben harper and the innocent criminals did not disappoint and played, “morning yearning“, “waiting for you” and “black rain” all from the new album. there’s one more taping tomorrow night in burbank, so if you’re local to socal and have nothing going on you might want to make the trip. otherwise, set your tivo for 1:35 on NBC next Mon-Thurs for some incredible live performances.
oh yeah and sarah chalke from scrubs was smoking hot. mandy however did not get a chance to kiss her…oh how i wish she could have tried.
so tomorrow evening, mandy, leanne, brandon and i are driving into burbank to watch two tapings of last call w/ carson daily. (yes that carson daly). why the fuck would you purposely travel someplace to see carson daly, you may ask?
ben’s going to be the musical guest all next week on last call and the tapings are being held over two-days this week. in the past, ben’s performances on last call have been pretty amazing. we’re hoping to hear what amounts to a 4-6 song setlist in a very small venue (100 people max).
how bad ass is that?
how much do i love google calendar? they basically copied iCal and gave it a few google esque tweaks. i use it as my primary calendar app and subscribe to the google calendars from within iCal. essentially, iCal becomes a feed reader for my online calendars. This is exactly what needs to happen in technology. Data available everywhere while your OS is just one big dumb client.
no maury! say it ain’t so!
so in the past i’ve written about my neighbor and his propensity for music from the genre of “shit“. well apparently, i ran him off and for a short time i lived in blissful-neighbor-freedom.
about a month ago, a couple moved into the once vacant apartment and i was naturally apprehensive. (this is afterall my territory.)
well it turns out that they are fucking rad. originally from south africa, they’ve brought a touch of international flare to our little neighborhood that was so desperately lacking. so now we hang out on our respective porches and talk about the craziness that is america.
i’ve promised to teach them the intricacies of american culture if they can teach me how to speak with an accent. i’m so done with my socal-vernacular. so if you run into me and i’m speaking with an african/british/socal accent, it is of no fault of my own.
i am a product of my environment.
cheers…
i’m so buying into the spin about pearl jam’s new studio album. you cant buy it until may 2nd, but you can d/l the first single and a bonus track for a buck off of itunes. or if you’re a cheap bastard, you can watch a studio video for free on amazon.com
So the new system let’s you subscribe to just about everything. You can subscribe to entries, the comments for a particular entry, the Page Six stuff or the Flickr feed. To subscribe, just copy the URL from each of the orange RSS icons and paste it into your favorite reader.
I told you it would be the shit…
so there’s still a lot of construction going on but for the time being the new site is holding together. while today marks the revolution, the evolution of the site will continue slowly over the coming weeks.
For now, click around and see what works and what doesnt. There’s a whole new commenting system complete with shiny AJAX animations and a true “Asides” section in the Sidebar.
The whole redesign took about 3 months and I have to thank the following people for their contributions:
- Mandy, for inspiring the artwork, the about page and for being extremely patient while i asked her to inspect one minor change after another…hit refresh…hit refresh…hit refresh.
- Josh for tweaking the pictures taken from on of our “Addicted” shows that served as the inspiration for the title graphic.
- Leanne for telling me it looked “…very 3D-ish”
- Eric for listening to me ramble on and on about PHP and reminding me just how shitty javascript can be.
OK, now that the site’s up, we can have some fun.
UPDATE: So the trouble with thanking people is that you inevitably leave people out. The very first thank you should have gone out to the crew at Binary Bonsai for putting together the great Wordpress theme called K2. If you’re running Wordpress, K2 makes incorporating plugins a breeze.
so to say that site content has been anemic over the past couple of months is being too kind. the truth is that jcdn has suffered under the weight of one too many educational/professional responsibilities.
Well no more, my little snowflakes!
I’ve taken advantage of this little lull in activity to give the site a complete overhaul. more than just a facelift, more than just an upgrade, and more than shiny new graphics, the new jeffcarter.net will have a revised focus, fresh outlook and loftier goals.
Sounds exciting, eh?
Considering that the past 3-4 months of work comes to a cumulative head this week, I’ve decided to launch jcdn 2006 (as I’m cleverly calling it) on Monday, April 24th.
There’s going to be a huge party complete, with a DJ, spiked punch, and pony rides…but no clowns…i fucking hate clowns.
(when i ran the whole jcdn 2006 moniker past stonebraker, he thought i was referring to a convention or something. now how bad ass would that be? a convention…about me!)
So thanks for your patience while i sort through life and come back on Monday for a clean start.
Same address…same jeff…different jcdn.
so if you’re fortunate enough and/or wise enough to own one of these, these or these then you’ll want this.
i’m very vaguely referring to the Universal Build of Firefox for the new Intel Macs. The mozilla guys took the wraps off the finished product today and it is smokin’ fast. (i’m talking one-dock-bounce-fast. if you have know idea what that means, then please ignore this post and forgive the recent geek-theme here at jcdn.)
if you’re running an intel mac, download the universal version of Firefox here.
so tonight i watched kirk cameron do an interview with bill o’reilly.
my god what a whack job that guy has become, cameron that is, well yeah o’reilly too…take your pick.
it was pretty strange hearing mike seaver talk about how “atheism” is really a lazy belief system that allows one to live anyway one desires without repercussion while not believing in god.
to anyone who may be misinformed, atheism is not a philosophy based upon belief. atheists do not “dis-believe in god”. such a statement, were it to be accurate, would imply an existence of god and the subsequent choice not to believe in said god.
on the contrary, atheist do not believe in the existence of god. it is nonsensical for one to believe or disbelieve in something that is not real.
while the distinction my seem like we’re splitting hairs, the two are actually worlds apart. atheists are proud to make this clarification, while evangelicals, like cameron, are often quick to tell you why we are here and all the details of the after-life.
i really think that the atheists of america should put together some kind of public service announcement about how silly it is to trust what mike seaver or any living person has to say about what happens after we die.
let the hate mail begin!
that is one big fuck rabbit
how about a little light reading for a sunday evening?
today, sean blogged about this npr essay entitled, “there is no god” from the this i believe series.
if reading’s not your thing, you can even listen to an audio version.
see? something for everyone here at jeffcarter.net…that is if you like npr and reading…but not god.
there’s a great post over at 43folders regarding mindfulness.
seems a fitting way to start the weekend or any day for that matter.
Fundamentally mindfulness is a simple concept. Its power lies in its practice and its applications. Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present-moment reality. It wakes us up to the fact that our lives unfold only in moments. If we are not fully present for many of those moments, we may not only miss what is most valuable in our lives but also fail to realize the richness and the depth of our possibilities for growth, and transformation.
— Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn. p.4
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