Jammer's Blog

Faithful readers know that I can’t stand Fox News, and Bill O’Reilly in particular. But the recently released 1990s-era video of the O’Reilly meltdown on “Inside Edition” is the most awesome viral video in recent memory. I love this video. It’s hilarious. (Read more…)

The Internet is the future of video, as has been proven by the WGA strike (which looks to be officially ending this week). But watching movies on the Internet is still not a particularly good option, in my opinion. It can provide a substitute in a pinch, but with current technology and bandwidth, it’s not a way I would ever choose to watch a movie, given the alternative. (Read more…)

Check this beating the shit out of each other out (Fig. 1).

Although I’m of the opinion that someone is, in some way, helping to write late-night TV despite the supposition that there are no writers during the strike (I simply have a hard time buying that everything is improvised, or that the hosts are writing all their material with no help), there is a certain amusement in seeing what zaniness can become possible when one is forced to put on a TV show while hamstrung without one’s WGA-card-carrying staffers.

Specifically, I’m talking about the mock feud between Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, and Jon Stewart that started a few weeks ago and eventually took on a life of its own. It centers on the question of who “made” Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, with each late-night talk-show host taking credit for the success of Huckabee’s campaign, and leading to a battle of goofy one-upmanship. (Read more…)

The tree in the lobby of my workplace is no longer rotating at 1 rpm. It has been unplugged and now just sits there like a normal Christmas tree, probably because they are about to take it down.

As an Illini fan, watching the Rose Bowl was brutal.

Pointless random rotating tree updates mixed with equally pointless and random sports comments: It do what it do.

Spam is one of the scourges of the Internet. (How’s that for the most obvious statement of the year?) There was a time not long ago, before I eliminated one of my constantly-spammed e-mail addresses, that I was getting upwards of 250 spam messages a day. I’m sure that number is low by some people’s standards, but it was absurd by mine. (Read more…)

In the reception area of my workplace, there’s a Christmas tree. It is in one of those rotating stands. It sits there, all day and all night, slowly rotating at approximately 1 rpm. (Read more…)

Here you go. Proof that anything and everything is available for sale. I don’t know how many of these will be sold, but one figures that if they are putting in the time to build and market it, they expect that someone will buy it. (Read more…)

A couple months ago on a Friday or Saturday night when I didn’t have to work the next day, I was wired, so I decided to go out for a late-night walk. And by late-night, I mean really late — as in early; it was 3 or 4 in the morning. I was probably so wired because of all the Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke (not caffeine-free) I had been drinking. (Read more…)

For those wondering where my blog has been, here’s a break from the silence. I was on vacation last week. In addition to driving about 1,100 miles, I finally got seriously cracking on a certain project that includes the word “Generation.” (Read more…)

I remember how, when I first started paying attention to the Internet my freshman year of college — way back a long time ago in 1994 — the Usenet newsgroups where I first started posting my Trek reviews were filled with threads devoted to “versus” scenarios between various aspects of sci-fi. (Read more…)