In which my hemp and bong jokes don't work as I'd planned

Dilemma. I promised the nice people at "Attack of the Show" -- a much-sharper-than-you'd-expect hour on the G4 channel -- that I'd embed a clip of my appearance this week on my blog. But I'm don't feel right about putting it on my work blog. For reasons of vanity, I think - no other good reason I can think of.

So I'm going to put it up here. Remember that TV does indeed add 10-15 lbs, and if the only part of you that's onscreen is your head, then all of that weight goes directly to your noggin, even if it's already plenty swollen.

Video Games - E3 2009 - Attack of the Show

In other me, me, me news: I have been corresponding, via Twitter, with Sebastian Bach, of Warrant/Gilmore Girls fame.


*That's a cable channel for people who like video games and/or are guys . If you have cable, odds are very good that you have it.

Uh oh.

Periodically I try out those online surveys that pop up on ESPN, or the like, because I want to see if anyone's figured out how to make them comprehensible/completable. They're always fine at the beginning, but then devolve because they ask you to give yes or no answers to questions you don't care or think about, like your favorite brand of auto insurance, and the various attributes you associate with said brand of auto insurance.

But someone pays for this stuff and considers it worthwhile. Which means there is a really good business available for someone who gets this stuff right. Or less bad.

Anyway, before I bailed on this survey on Hulu today, which I believe was on behalf of a vodka company, I completed this page. I think it might be telling me something.

I'm Not Technically Precluded From Giving This Guy Advice, I Think

Just morally precluded. From my inbox this am:

Dear Pete ,

I'm having 1300 stocks of Citigroup "C" at a cost price of 4.30 each . Should I sell it today when it reaches 4.30 , so that I will end up in no loss or no gain.
Or should I wait for tommorrow when Citibank will declare the Q1 report . Is there a chance that C will go to 5.00 tomorrow. I'm not interested in long term investment in Citibank.


Please provide your expert advise.

Thanks and kind Regards

Sree Menon

Back to the Future

2001 debuted 41 years ago, Life.com tells me. (Still liking the Life.com). I was thinking about this movie last week, when I used Skype to talk to (ok, talk at) my son, via the screen on my MacBook. He was in New York, I was in California. In the Kubrick movie, the guy is using a public phone, as I recall. And I think he was on the moon. Or perhaps a space station. Still, you get the picture: After all this time, the future is now. Or something.

Trying something out here

From the newly launched Life.com, which intrigues me.

Liked this one so much I'm double-posting

More details here. For you: Just a great video.

Like watching grass grow

But whiter. Which makes sense, since it's Minneapolis.
[Sorry. Had to strike the embedded video thing, which used to show you a live shot of snow falling in downtown Mpls. Now it's running an endless loop of video the StarTribune shot, which isn't really bad. But it does autoplay, so out it goes.]