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Call me crazy, but this is one of the more funnier things that I have seen from Saturday Night Live in a long time.

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I really don’t have anything against Paris Hilton, but I am kind of inclined to agree with this journalist, and say that there is MUCH more important news than Paris getting out of jail. Boo Hoo!

Microsoft has come out with a pretty cool table that can replace the normal computer that is in your living room. They have come out with a whole new way to interact with the table and not use a keyboard or mouse.

Here is a link to the Microsoft site for the table.

A quick video

and of course a parody video, just for fun. Warning – slightly adult language in a few parts of the video.

This is a pretty alarming video of someone sitting in a hotel lobby where there is Free Wireless Internet for their customers, and a “Hacker” or “Hustler” as they are called in England is capturing all of their information. After capturing the information the Hustler uses it to make purchase large ticket items on the Internet.

I can not believe the attitude of TV Executives. If you do not stop your lives, and sit down when they want you to then to hell with what you will watch on TV. They are basically saying that if you want this show brought back, then do not record or Tivo the show, sit there when we tell you to, and watch the show live. Then, you have no way of not watching the commercials.

What would be the difference when people taped the show on VHS? All this shows the public is that you all are a bunch of greedy SOB’s!

CBS exec: Watch Jericho live if you want it to live – TV Squad

Now for the disclaimer: I have not watched this show yet, as I have been caught up with others that I have been watching longer. But, any time that I see this type of bullying, it drives me crazy. I had planned on watch the show on DVD and catching up that way. Now only time will tell…

Another quote I found at Zatz Not Funny!

While I’m pleased to see the show renewed for at least 7 more episodes, I think CBS is a bit misguided on this point. If they need a larger audience, they can help themselves by not scheduling directly opposite American Idol and taking a 2+ month mid-season hiatus. Prior to the nuttiness, I would have also suggested advertising – but they’ve gotten a ton… 25 tons to be exact. And it wouldn’t hurt to figure out how to track time-shifted viewing. DVRs aren’t going away. Quite the opposite: Their penetration and usage will continue to increase.

My favorite cooking show right now has to be Everyday Italian with Giada De Laurentiis. Although, just between you and me, I don’t know if I have ever seen quite so many teeth before…

Everyday Italian – Food Network

Click here to see a directory listing of all of the shows I have downloaded from my Tivo

I haven’t watched this show yet, but I must give it a try. This is incredible, and luckily the network has donated all of the “Protest Peanuts” to charity.

‘Jericho’ fans assail CBS with 25 tons of peanuts – CNN.com

I can not say enough about what happened tonight. There must have a telephone troubles last night or all of the 8-12 year old girls had used up all of their text messages and could not vote for Sanjaya. But whatever the reason, it was a good one, he is gone.

This was a video from the idiot that started all of this non-sense in the first place on Late Night with David Letterman.

Blogs keep ‘Idol’s’ Sanjaya center stage – CNN.com

I do not intend for this to become a “Anti-Sanjaya” blog, but I ran across this other article about this idiot, and found the last paragraph to be of particular interest.

“The result, thus far, is that Sanjaya has kept his spot on the show despite serious flack from the judges. Simon Cowell told “Extra” he would quit the show if Sanjaya won and Randy Jackson called one of his performances “unlistenable.”…”

This is hilarious!!!! What an idiot! He is completely oblivious to the fact that he is a terrible entertainer and the only reason he is there from week to week is that people are making fun of him. Thanks a lot Howard Stern. Good people are not getting votes and this jackass stays every week!

Sanjaya Malakar is Today’s Girl on Maxim

An interesting video clip from The O’Reilly Factor, about a lawyer that wants to consider legal action against Howard Stern and Votefortheworst.com. She claims that they are illegally influencing the show and more over the contestants, because they are calling for people to vote for Sanjaya Malakar. He is clearly the worst performer and lives in dream world. The premise is that good contestants are being kicked off, because Sanjaya Malakar is receiving so many votes and Howard Stern and others are mocking the show.

What do you think?

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Been wanting to get into the HDTV game? Considered getting another HDTV? Fry’s / Outpost.com has the SYNTAX OLEVIA 337H 37″ HD Monitor LCD on sale for $599 and $18.50 s/h. This is a monitor and will need a cable box, which is what most people have these days anyway. So, don’t wait and get on this great deal today or they will all be gone.

Just before Christmas, we ordered a different 37″ HDTV for $697 Free s/h and they sold out quickly. They now have them back in stock and it sells for $1099.99. We have really loved this TV and are looking forward to the new to come in!

Link

Update: They are all sold out! I hope you got yours in time.

Finally some of our favorite shows are back on tv-American Idol, Amazing Race, and for James 24 and Lost. Needless to say our TIVOS and DVRs are working hard all four of them! So far both Idol and Amazing Race look like they will be good runs this year although we don’t have a favorite singer or team yet!

With all of the shows coming back from the Christmas Break, it is very hard to keep up with them all. One of our very favorites is the Amazing Race. It is Season 11, if you can believe it, and we did not start watching until Season 3, but we have been hooked ever since. This season is the All-Stars, and they have picked a lot of the good teams.

We were glad to see that they did not stoop low and pick some the teams that were very abusive to each other. It starts February 18th at 8pm, and it looks like this has the makings for a great race!

For those who are interested. Here is the ringtone for the new Apple iPhone.

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iPhone Ringtone Downloads: 94 times

While on the subject of ringtones. I also found the ring tone for the desk phones used on one of my favorite shows on television right now, “24“.

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CTU MP3 Ringtone Downloads: 139 times

CTU .wav Ringtone Downloads: 86 times

If you are looking for an easy way to get these ringtones on your phone. You can upload the ringtone to this website and then go the website on your phone to download the ringtone. I did it with my phone and it took about 1 minute to do everything.

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