It’s All Right 2.0

Too bad.  This TV show has totally jumped the shark.   It was never really good television, but i kept an eye on it over the years.  It had two hot female leads, a fat guy good at physical comedy, and Jim Belushi conveys echoes of sibling John Belushi’s performing genius.  Its no Seinfield, but it was predictable and diverting, and thankfully, the kids in the sitcom family were usually not very prominent in the plot.   Good lord, this show has been on the air since 2001 and has outlived its contemporaries 8 Simple Rules, and Life with Bonnie.

Now in 2009, the writers are scraping bottom.  They devoted the last season to wife Cheryl’s (Courtney Thorne-Smith) expectancy of twins, and now Dana (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) has left the show.   The last episode I saw this past weekend was about Jim casting his twin babies in a movie with Steve Guttenberg and it was just awful.

BTW, I learned on wikipedia that Kimberly Williams-Paisley is married to singer Brad Paisley, is featured in some of his music videos, and is sister of uber-cutie Ashley Williams who was easily the most memorable thing from the shortlived sitcom Good Morning, Miami and more recently featured in How I Met Your Mother.

Monday morning, back to the grind in 2009!   I’ve started the week with the routine 2 mile run to the Y for a workout and shower, walked the dog, chlorinated the pool, and picked and squeezed a couple dozen oranges before heading for work. Our tree is groaning with fruit this winter.  Gina was still in bed when I left, but she’s back to school today.

I’ve been out several times this holiday break, but catching has been really poor.  Christmas eve, I made an early morning surf trip, and the highlight was spotting these feral pigs on the road when leaving the Canaveral Wildlife area.

On the 27th I spent a half day fighting winds down in Sebastian area, and the day was saved by a sailcat I landed on my final cast prior to heading in.  I was never so happy to catch a catfish.

On the 28th, Linda joined me for a half day launching from Long Point park, and the weather was beautiful, but it was maybe the worst fishing I’ve ever had down there - totally skunked.

On the 30th I took the day off to go to New Smyrna.  Another gorgeous day, and I did find some action and had one good fight with a bluefish in the currents of Ponce Inlet.   Here’s a nice sunset shot across from the boat ramp just before I called it a day.

Its been a few weeks now that I’ve been playing with my new LG Dare cell phone. Its a touchscreen iphone competitor with a built in GPS navigator and a web browser. It will attempt to render any web page that’s out there, but some web sites are specifically designed for viewing on a small cell phone screen and work a whole lot better. So these are the four best mobile sites that I’ve found and bookmarked on my device:

http://m.google.com/?dc=gbackstop
This is the gateway to google.com mobile apps, including email, news, search, maps, youtube and more. This is my home page.

http://wapedia.mobi/en/
A mobile interface for wikipedia.  nuff said.

http://ww2.gomoviesapp.com:8080/main.php
Local movie times! just enter your zip code and press GO.

http://mobile.srh.noaa.gov/
The best weather lookup for mobile phones. Just enter a zip code and get current conditions, forecasts even radar pictures.

There are lots more such sites including special mobile versions of amazon.com and the NY Times.  Beware, they may look a little odd if you view them in your fullsized computer browser window.

The irony of the LG device is that although it has excellent call quality, it is not as convenient nor ergonomic a phone as any of my previous models.

see more pwn and owned pictures

Here’s the congenial group we had for a 3 hr stroll at Winter Park village last night.   Very pleasant way to spend the evening.

Sorry for the blur.   Its camera shake from the low light shutter speed on the cell phone.  The next tech objective in phone cameras should be image stabilization (IS).

Suggested by Linda, its a little long but worthwhile:

from http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/12/17/a-christmas-poem-the-year-of-the-grinch/

’Twas the Night Before Christmas
(The Year of the Grinch)
By David H. Resler

’Twas the night before Christmas, my shopping was done
I’d gotten great bargains, gee, aren’t low prices fun!
But less costly gifts are but small consolation
For my four-o-one K’s brutal devastation.

This year of o-eight ranks surely one of the worst!
It all started when the housing bubble did burst.
How could such a mess happen? And, who should we blame?
The fault lies with culprits far too many to name.

(Read More)

Linda forwarded to me this thread from a legal discussion:

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 From: Lawyer John
Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Subject: RE:  Homestead Petition
To: discussion list

Elaine - no special training; it apparently figured it out all on its own.

-----Original Message-----

From: Lawyer Elaine
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 8:17 PM
To: discussion list
Subject: Re: Homestead Petition

We all understand that. My cell keeps making unrequested phone calls to
random people. but I don't recall emails being sent. This is a new twist.
Have you sent your devise for special training?
Elaine

In a message dated 12/13/2008 6:28:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Lawyer John writes:

My  pocket apologizes for the last email...
Sent via BlackBerry by  AT&T

-----Original Message-----

From:   Lawyer John
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:47:50
To:  discussion list
Subject: Re:Homestead  Petition

GGGGgGGH

------Message d'origine------
From: lawyer Sam
Envoyé: 13 déc 2008 10:21
Objet:   Homestead Petition

Listmates,

Does anyone have a current  FL Bar form Petition to Determine Homestead
Status of Real Property that  they can share?

Thanks.
Sam