So, weeks ago, I got tickets to this afternoon’s taping of the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which is my new favorite talk show, by a country mile, thanks to the wonders of TiVo.
Weeeeeell, so much for that idea: I got a call about a gun found in a local high school. The inestimable Gretchen Losi at the Daily Press won’t be back in until tomorrow, so this one falls on my shoulders.
Eh, I didn’t really need to see Shannen Doherty anyway. Amy Smart on Wednesday would have been awesome, though.
Damned selfish accused criminals …
Seriously though, this was an easy decision to make, and my inconvenience is nothing compared to the importance of this news, but it was ironic that one of the few scenarios that would have kept me in the office this afternoon (the taping begins at 3 in Hollywood) happened.
- Update: OK, I’m now on for Monday, September 25. Let’s try this again …
After languishing in the black hole of “not releasing any songs in the iTunes era,” Material Issue now has albums available via iTunes.
Go download “What Girls Want” now. I command it!
Since this is the second time this year I’ve had to set up my podcasts, Firefox and World of Warcraft, I’m going to take a moment to jot down the podcast selections, Firefox extensions and WoW mods I’m using, just in case this happens again at some point, so I can be back up and running faster.
Podcasts
Firefox extensions
World of Warcraft mods
When we went to Disneyland this past weekend, the crowds were pretty mild (except for literal bumper-to-bumper traffic on the reopened Pirates of the Caribbean ride), but it got me thinking: Surely there were even better days to go to the park.
And that’s what the Internet is for: Average Temperatures and Attendance Trends for Disneyland. Clearly, this is what the Internet is for. (Thanks, Al Gore!)
Going the week after Thanksgiving, or in January, sounds pretty good to me.
Wired has a neat article about how Survivor is a well-designed videogame played with living characters and a real world environment:
“Nobody talks about it on this level, but that’s what I do,” said Burnett, nattily dressed in a tieless pinstriped suit. I met him at Trump International Hotel when he came through town to talk about Gold Rush.
While tweaking Survivor, he closely studied John Nash’s game theory in order to better engineer the hysteria and emotional blowouts of each season’s finale.
The 13th season of Survivor debuts on September 14.
