Category: General Musings

By:

The Dude on the Right
Who knew that buying a new TV would send my life into a remote control meltdown,

but for this podcast, as much as I’m happy I have my new HDTV, all of a
sudden I have realized that my way-cool Philips Pronto remote control, that
works through walls, needs to be reprogrammed, and if any of you know a good
location to get hex remote codes (I used to have a link through Premise Systems,
but I guess they are gone), I would greatly appreciate an e-mail with where to
go.  Sure, this last sentence probably means absolutely nothing to most of
you, but to us remote control programming nuts, trust me, it makes total sense.

But my lame remote control woes aside, TV is starting to kick into high gear,
especially with "Survivor: Gabon" starting tonight, and yes, I’m still watching
Survivor, much to the worrisome of my BFF.  I have to say I haven’t gotten
sucked back into "Dancing With the Stars," but I am back on board for "The
Biggest Loser: Families" and "Heroes."  The tricky part about T.V., though,
right now, is that The Chicago Cubs have secured a playoff spot, the Chicago
White Sox are letting the end of this season be a nail-biter, and even though I
now have five ways to record shows, sports are always best watched live. 
And I don’t have my programmable remote set up to help me with any of this yet.

Lastly, there’s also some blame to go around for a change in my weekend plans,
and who better to blame than a country.

Thanks for listening!

That’s it for this one!  I’m The Dude on the Right!!  L8R!!!

By:

The Dude on the Right
Yup,
I’m totally on my game.  Not. 

I open this podcast simply stating "The Buddy Christ is back where he
belongs, and Stu Gotz, isn’t here.", and do I explain?  Maybe I explain a
little about Stu, but other than during the opening there is no other mention of
"The Buddy Christ," who is now back, where he belongs, after a "leaning over"
issue that sent a candle, speaker, mouse charger, and The Buddy Christ careening
to the floor.  Things were picked up, though something seemed to be
missing, and all of a sudden I realized my Buddy was missing.  There he
was, on the floor, behind the podcast computer, so I used my "Bull Penis" putter
to wrangle him out of a mess of cables, and now, The Buddy Christ, is back where
he belongs!  This is such a longer story than I can relate in a preamble to
a podcast summary.

But enough about something I don’t talk about during this
podcast, I lonely-ing talk about my disgruntleness with The Chicago Bears, how
The Emmy’s still suck, and as this TV season begins, and my BFF only knows me
from my summer, mostly miscellaneous T.V. viewing, she might just be in for the
shock of her life come this Fall Season.  Yup, I’ve got a new TV, one of
those newfangled HDTV’s, and now I might need another new TiVo, which might not
be bad a bad idea so I can actually record all of the shows I want to, in HD, or
move my computer bunker, but for now I’m just torn what Monday night shows
should end up on my TiVo Season Pass, between "Heroes," "The Big Bang Theory,"
"How I Met Your Mother," "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Dancing
With the Stars," and next week "Chuck" comes back to really throw a
monkey-wrench into the mix.

I’ve got three, boring, normal, TiVo tuners, so
I’m still studying the TV schedule as I type this, but it looks like "Dancing
With the Stars" will get the boot, for now, because if Cloris Leachman does fall
down, I know it will be on YouTube.  And don’t get me started about my
Thursday TiVo-ing, with the premiers of "Survivor: Gabon," "My Name is Earl,"
and, to be able to talk with my BFF, I might have to fit "Grey’s Anatomy" in my
TiVo-ing!

A blog might come later about TiVo-ing "The Biggest Loser:
Families," but maybe I should watch that when I wake up and groggily get on my
exercise bike.

What I would almost give for another writer’s strike right now.

Thanks for listening!

That’s it for this one!  I’m The Dude on the Right!!  L8R!!!