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5:05:41 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

I found this email in my inbox. it's funny

The Chaser’s War on Everything – now available everywhere

 
ABC New Media & Digital Services have made The Chaser team’s dubious Friday night comedy show, The Chaser’s War on Everything, available for download each week via a video podcast (vodcast).

Combined with a portable video player (mp4 player), the new service, available from abc.net.au/chaser, allows viewers to watch and complain about the show anywhere.

“All year long, people have been telling us that they’d love to watch our show, really they would, but that their social life just doesn’t allow them to be watch TV on a Friday night,” Chaser Executive Producer Julian Morrow said.

“So we’ve come up with a way that they can watch it anytime they like. Now the only excuse is that they just don’t like it.”

Many rugby league fans have recently clarified for the team that it’s the latter.

One of the show’s stars, the Crazy Warehouse Clearance Guy, was typically excited by the new service.

“The Chaser team’s gone completely insane and they’re giving away content that other shows only flog off on DVD,” he said. “That’s right, this new video podcast is free, absolutely free. This price is never to be repeated. It’s free.”

“Bring your truck, bring your trailer, bring your mp4 player or just watch it on your computer,” he said.

But the Guy warned fans that they absolutely must download the video podcast “by midnight tonight”. However he later admitted that if they didn’t, they could also download the podcast by midnight on any subsequent night.

 

The Chaser’s War on Everything vodcast will be available at

abc.net.au/chaser from 10pm on Friday 28 July.

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Catch the latest Chaser episode by clicking here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/vodcast/
 
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11:07:01 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests • TV

So So cool !!!

As listed on http://tvshowsondvd.com, the first 25 episodes are:

1. De-Zanitized, The Monkey Song, Nighty Night Toon
2. Yakko's World, Cookies For Einstein, Win Big
3. HMS Yakko, Slappy Goes Walnuts, Yakko's Universe Song
4. Hooked on a Ceiling, Good Feathers (pilot episode)
5. Taming of the Screwy
6. Flipper Parody, Temporary Insanity, Operation Lollipop, What are We?
7. Piano Rag, When Rita Met Runt
8. The Warner's Lot Song, The Big Candy Store, Bumbie's Mom
9. Wally Llama, Where Rodents Dare
10. King Yakko
11. No Pain, No Painting, Les Miseranimals
12. Garage Sale of the Century, West Side Pigeons
13. Hello Nice Warners, La Behemoth, Little Old Slappy From Pasadena
14. La La Law, Cat On a Hot Steel Beam
15. Space Probed, Battle For the Planet
16. Chalkboard Bungle, Hooray for Slappy, The Great Wakkoroti: The Master & His Music
17. Roll over Beethoven, The Cat and the Fiddle
18. Pavlov's Mice, Chicken Boo-Rhyshnikov, Nothing But the Tooth
19. Meatballs or Consequences, A Moving Experience
20. Hitchcock Opening, Hearts of Twilight; The Boids
21. The Flame, Wakko's America Song, Davey Omelette, Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago
22. Guardin' the Garden, Plane Pals
23. Be Careful What You Eat, Up the Crazy River, Ta Da Dump
24. Yakko's World of Baldness, Oppurtunity Knox, Wings Take Heart
25. Disasterpiece Theatre, Hercule Yakko, Home On The Nile, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pre-ordered!

11:38:23 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests • TV

Over my little holiday, I spotted the following book - Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter"

As I am a big fan of popular culture, I just had to get it.

So, what is it about :

Drawing from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and literary theory, Johnson argues that the junk culture we're so eager to dismiss is in fact making us more intelligent. A video game will never be a book, Johnson acknowledges, nor should it aspire to be -- and, in fact, video games, from Tetris to The Sims to Grand Theft Auto, have been shown to raise IQ scores and develop cognitive abilities that can't be learned from books. Likewise, successful television, when examined closely and taken seriously, reveals surprising narrative sophistication and intellectual demands.

I found it a quck, easy to read, well argued little book.

But not everyone agrees

Oh, I've started reading the author's blog too - http://stevenberlinjohnson.com/. An interesting character

[listening to: I Lost on Jeopardy - Weird Al Yankovic ]
7:45:54 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Interests

Wonderful singing by Molly, as payback to our recent bet.

Classic!!!

AFL Podcast - Molly's Monday Machinations - Special Edition - Paying out my Bet with Frank Arrigo

Hi Guys,

In this Special Episode, I come through on payment for my bet with Frank Arrigo, a St. Kilda Saints support. Sorry about the sound quality, recorded it on my iRiver (been rushed the last week or so) and the quality was back to its poor level. Last time I record one like this (well actually I have last weeks in the can and will listen to it before releasing it).

Okay, with out any more time wasting, here it is Frank:

DOWNLOAD SHOW HERE

8:59:34 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Friends • My Hobbies • My Interests

The upcoming round sees the Saints meet the Magpies on Sunday 9th at the Dome

I'm going to be in Melbourne that weekend, and we're going to the footy again.

I've got crappy seats up on Level 3 at Telstra Dome, but I don't care. The game will have over 50,000 people in attendance.

The recent record between the two has been interesting

Since 1980		All Games		Last 5 Games		Highest Score		Lowest Score		Biggest Win
St Kilda		14		3		148		28		73
Collingwood		30		2		211		51		104

It would great to score 148 and have the pies score 51. That would be a nice result

Wednesday 05/07/2006

• 11.30p Round 13 St Kilda v Hawthorn

Friday 07/07/2006

• 10.30a Last Time They Met 2005 Rnd 17 St Kilda v Collingwood

Sunday 09/07/2006

• 8.30p Round 14 St Kilda v Collingwood

Monday 10/07/2006

• 6.30p  Classic Quarters 1993 Rd 4 Collingwood v St Kilda

Tuesday 11/07/2006

• 12.30  Round 14 St Kilda v Collingwood
  

8:29:56 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Hobbies • My Interests

Round about 3pm today I was feel pretty confident. I was on track for 6 winners and felt that the other two games would go as expected.

Boy, was I wrong.

6 tips for the weekend, I missed out on the last 2 results, which were the 'upsets' of the round.

Week 13
Home		Draw		Away
Kangaroos (14.12 96)				Bombers (13.11 89)
Saints (18.17 125)				Hawks (8.7 55)
Demons (18.12 120)				Power (12.10 82)
Swans (12.19 91)				Dockers (9.4 58)
Lions (8.23 71)				Blues (7.14 56)
Crows (21.21 147)				Cats (8.7 55)
Tigers (13.14 92)				Magpies (6.9 45)
Eagles (8.16 64)				Bulldogs (10.13 73)

67 Correct tips for season. The good news, I am coming 4th in the tipping comp, trailing by 3.

7:36:42 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Hobbies • My Interests

The Saints thumped the Hawks at the Telstra Dome today.

ST KILDA: 5.7, 10.9, 16.13, 18.17 (125)
HAWTHORN: 0.1, 3.3, 3.6, 8.7 (55)
GOALS - St Kilda: Gehrig 5, Riewoldt 4, Harvey 3, Voss 2, Milne 2, Baker, Fiora
Hawthorn: Dixon 2, Barker, Bateman, Franklin, Croad, Vandenberg, Brennan
BEST - St Kilda: Harvey, Dal Santo, Hudghton, Voss, Maguire, Riewoldt, Gehrig, Milne Hawthorn: Mitchell, Roughead, Hodge, Brown, Birchall, Hodge, Vandenberg
INJURIES - St Kilda: Schwarze (hamstring)
Hawthorn: Guerra (gashed head)
CHANGES: Nil
REPORTS - Guerra (Hawthorn) reported by umpire Ryan for unduly rough play against Dal Santo (St Kilda) in the first quarter
UMPIRES - Margetts, Donlon, Ryan
CROWD - 33,869 at Telstra Dome

A 100+ point thrashing was on the cards, but the Saints took their foot off the pedal in the last 5 minutes which allowed the Hawks to score a few easy goals.

Still a 70 point win is a nice result.

This post on Saintsational sums it all up

Fiora was good. made one blue but played his role well and ran and created.
Harvey a freak.
Riewoldt brilliant
Goddard just keeps on getting better.
Gram, both Fishers, Max and Goose gave us great drive from defence.
Ackers and Rix won the hit outs.
Milne was lively, Voss back in form.
A good day at the office

Molly, I look forward to your rendition of the Saints Theme Song

sportal.com.au

Riewoldt stars in St Kilda AFL win The Age, Australia - 38 minutes ago ... Hawthorn's lack of a dangerous target up forward made it look directionless, with Saints key defenders ... and defensive pressure applied by St Kilda, which Thomas ... Saints annihilate hapless Hawks ABC Online Saints scorch Hawks sportal.com.au Riewoldt dominates against Hawthorn FOX SPORTS Border Mail - all 14 related ?

6:37:17 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Hobbies • My Interests

Saints commit to future sportal.com.au, Australia - 19 hours ago With St Kilda perched on six wins, six losses and inside the eight by percentage only, coach Grant Thomas is wary of his club's predicament.

3:21:52 PM    comment []  trackback []  G!   • My Hobbies • My Interests