Technically speaking...

So, for any of you wondering what happened to the blog (all zero of you), it turns out that our internet was down for about a week and I was unavailable to post any new information. Then I wrote much of this blog and the site was down that day and I waited till now to post anything. The saddest thing is that I seriously doubt that I would have had much of anything to say, but once I got writing I realized there were several topics to touch on, so I broke things up into a few blogs as I commonly do. Sorry the blogs haven’t been what they once were, I’ll eventually try harder to make them better, but lately I just don’t care. You know you’re having a bad run of blogs when Adam Cole tells you to your face that your blogs have lost their previous appeal, and that they’re beginning to sound like something he’d write. Makes me think that I need to have more about drinking in here…

Hmmmm…so what’s new? Well, maybe some other recent Comcast subscribers know what I’m talking about when I report that we have received our free web cam in the mail this week. Mike and I have a history with web cams, and things haven’t changed in the past few days. Basically, the web cam scene is kinda like this: 95 dudes running around saying “hey, any ladies out there wanna chat with a hot dude with a huge cock?” with 5 actual girls using cams, and all of these girls are sexual deviants who are not available to talk because they’re watching one of the 95 dudes stroke their cock on the cam. You sit there and get IMs from about 10 dudes asking asl? asl?, then they run when they realize you’re a dude. The weirdest part is that we often use a name like say… scottie2hottie, which to me infers male (I know no woman named Scott), but these guys must be desperate or incredibly stupid because they just keep on asking. To summarize, in spite of all the inequalities in terms of sexual representation on web cam chat rooms, it turns out that you can still have fun if you decide to pretend to be a woman among the 95% dudes out there. Mike and I have laughed long long hours at the expense of these pour pathetic (and probably naked from the waste down) dudes online. I guess some could argue we’re just as pathetic for pranking the people (and if you knew exactly what we did…maybe even worse), but really, it’s funny to us, so who cares?

Actually, I can kinda make this blog into a tech report, because now that I think about it I have made 3 technological breakthroughs in the past week alone. In addition to receiving the web cam, I have also purchased a new phone recently. One day my friend Kenny called me and my phone died after about 20 seconds of talk, and this after a full charge. That led me to the Cingular place where that afternoon I left with one of those new $50 camera phones, as well as a plan for $29.99 where I get 1000 minutes to use anytime (call me day or night, it makes no difference, and I talk on the phone little {about 500 minutes, and yes, I parenthesized within parenthesis}, so don’t restrict me to after 9 PM). Anyway, I like my new phone, and it stays charged for days at a time, so hurray beer! Also, as is the standard, same phone number and all.

Finally, and this may be the biggest of all, Mike, Rabbs, and I invested in a TiVo this past weekend. Surprisingly, many people are not aware what it is, so let me explain briefly. TiVo is a ditigal recording device, so it can tape 40 hours of TV onto a hard-drive with no need for VHS tapes or anything. Also, it always tapes whatever you watch live, so you can rewind, pause, slow motion, or instant replay as you view. The features are really too many to actually list, so come over and see it for yourself. It has changed the way we watch television – no exaggeration. We just watch whatever whenever, rewind for funny parts, good plays, to hear a line we didn’t catch, TV is just plain better with TiVo.

So there’s a pretty long tech report for all of you. I’m also kinda interested in writing a tiny blurp about Michigan football and maybe a few funny things that happened to me the past couple weeks, so those will be included in separate blogs…possibly to be written right now. Hell, I just remembered that we also now have a PS2 around the apartment, meaning that I can once again hook up Dance Dance Revolution for some good exercise. To try any of our new toys, just call me or come over…the door is always open. Bye for now.