Death of the Fansite

Formalities on the other side.

Warp already.

Guess Which Movie

20 movies a round, going off of screenshots like this.

Ten Useless Shaving Facts

"4. The Pharaohs of Egypt probably liked a good shave every now and then, of course using nothing less than the best made from gold and silver. Archeologists have found razor relics that date back as far as the fourth century."

Katamari Muse

Fast Films

Classic movies condensed and stripped down to a 1-minute version of just the bare essentials.

Concentration Test for Guys

Also: Playthings.

Rollin's Got a Secret

I was filming a tailgate party last Friday and in the crowd a child caught my attention.


Has Rollin been in the Oklahoma Panhandle? Did this child's mother go on a trip to NYC and meet up with the Rolls and come home with this child?

On Ricky Lake could tell us for sure

--
Charlie Frisby

Shadow Caravan

Click picture for true story.

Centerpiece

Nickelodeon Creates New Stereotype

While being a fan of well written shows, some of the best shows (sadly) are for kids. And some of the best kids shows are found on Nickelodeon.

When I was growing up almost all TV shows had some diversity issues. You had shows with animals and shows that had people with absurd colored skin and hair to also avoid racial stereotypes. You ask me personally, I don't really care about stereotypes. I grew up in a very....diverse neighborhood, so I never had a problem knowing that not all people are the same according to race or gender.

When I came out here to the "Heartland" I discovered majority of the population was White, Republican, loves Fox News, and will kill you for talking bad about George W.

I ended up here some how and my wife confessed that she knew nothing about (in a whisper) black people. I had to explain that "they" do not have a different "culture" as in way of life, but just live life like everyone else. She basically had never really known anyone black. So if she is watching Cop's she may have a misconception, but Nickelodeon has fixed this for us.

BLACK KIDS ARE COMPUTER GENIUSES!!!!
Now three Nick shows I watch regularly via TiVo imitation are...
Danny Phantom
Fairly Odd Parents
and Ned's Declassified.


All well written hilarious shows. But there is one connection. A connection that is quite odd regarding one of the characters on each show.




These three kids are all black (gasp), and are all at least level G7 computer nerds. That's pretty advanced for any child in their age groups but since we know each show has a team of character writers we also know these writers must create characters and in the way of Power Rangers. They must have at least one minority person or more. Now in Power Rangers the black guy was a break dancer...so its been done. We have to come up with a positive stereotype for our shows...hmmm....COMPUTER NERDS..BUT COOL!!!!

Now I am not saying that there are not black nerds, in fact i know a few. But three nick shows, three computer nerds, all three of them black...dammit.

So the question is...will this stereotype get the attention of the NAACP. Will Nick be responsible for creating yet another black stereotype. Please contact your local NAACP rep before people start harassing black people for answers to their computer problems.

Frisby

Macintosh Windows

Circle of Life

Vacation Spot

Root Vernacular

The Miniature Earth

Ronald's Got Mario's Back

So I got on lunch break and me and my wife see a kick ass Nintendo commercial of some kids kicking koopa ass. And then all of a sudden McDonald's kicks in.

Apparently McDonald's has Ninety's back.

We decided to pick up a Happy Meal and a smile for lunch and got a kick ass Donkey Kong fan spinning top thingy.

Pretty kick ass actually.

The Mario Happy Meal bag had a bunch of challenges to trick kids into exercising. The lamest one was get your friends to throw different sized things in the air and you have to run and catch them like Yoshi...

With your tongue???

Eh, go get a happy meal and take the Ronald Challenge and get a kick ass toy.

Sony is on fire...in a bad way

It is no big secret that I am not a Sony fan. Every Sony product I owned (except my $150 studio headphones) has broken and been replaced only to be broken again. I could make a list, but I may have done it before.

I saw on Infendo that Sony's stock has dropped significantly, and the change started around E3, but Sony has a lot more issues right now what an overpriced console and a shortage of blue lasers. I read here that Sony just got hit hard by a 6 million battery recall. Apple and Dell got egg in there faces due to poor product testing on Sony's part. Are Dell and Apple going to look elsewhere for future laptop batteries. I hope so. Why? It's not that I hate Sony, I just have an issue with poor quality products.

The TV I grew up with was a Curtis Mathes. This one to be exact... It came to the Frisby Clan in 1978 as a wedding present for my parents. It lasted all the way until 2004. It was there for me when I watched TMNT and GI Joe, it poped my console playing cherry with Super Mario Brothes and was still there when I beat Ocarina of Time for the first time and even worked when my parents said we should trow it away since they where moving far away and it took up a lot of space.

When I first met my wife's parents in there living room was the exact same TV. Still being used to watch Walker Texas Ranger on the Hallmark channel exclusivly.

I got this TV in my room in 1992 when my parents bought a nice new Sony 21 inch TV from Sears. By 1995 the magnets from the speakers had made the bottom of the screen discolored (poor design 101). The power button was broken by 1996 and it didn't even make it past my dad playing Madden 64. I know not all Sony products suck, and I know not all CURTIS MATHES's last forever. But I do know I will not be burned by Sony again, and I know I am not alone.

Frisby



Edit:

Also, even if all of this does not turn you off to Sony, remember this!

Spam inbreeding

At my job, I deal with hundreds of email messages every day. To be more precise, I deal with upward of two-thousand messages a week of which 75% are spam. I'm willing to accept the fact that being on public mailing lists will result in most of these messages. What disturbs me are the bizarre, nonsensical ramblings that fill my inbox every day.

You've probably seen messages for various enhancement drugs written in pseudo-leetspeak. Maybe you get spamoetry or just the occasional 'hey bro'. My favorites lately include a white GIF with random linty flecks strewn about, making me think it's time to clean my monitor.

Today, however, both MissusInvisible and I received a message from ourselves to ourselves, subject "Hello", message "success". It's creepy ... and completely pointless.

Junk mail has become non-neutered pets running in the streets and breeding to the point of mutation. We are fully submerged in an ocean of inbred spam.

The time has come, the chip is going out

Got this from Mac World. It has begun

"IBM has begun shipping millions of microprocessors to Nintendo, keeping the gaming company on track to launch its Wii gaming console as early as November.

The news comes two days after Nintendo competitor Sony revealed it would deliver only half the number of PlayStation 3 video game consoles by the holiday shopping season that its customers had expected.

IBM has been shipping chips through the third quarter, and has reached high-volume production, the company said Thursday."

Go on, hit the warp and read on.

Screaming into the wind

Does anyone else ever feel like blogging is very similar to screaming into the wind? It feels good, very few people can hear you, and most think you're nuts for doing it.

Anyway, hit the warp for an article that made me spray lukewarm coffee onto my now-beige Apple keyboard.

Back to Basics

Today I had the displeasure of finally listening to Christina Aguilera's Back To Basics album. One thing everyone can agree on is the girl woman can sing. The styling of many of the tracks are to show off her vocal skills but that is not enough for me. The few kitschy tracks that she has are targeting her proclaimed Back To Basics - 20's, 30's and 40's style of music (Ain't No Other Man, Candyman). Then there she gives us a couple of tracks that seemed more 70's R&B (Back In the Day, Understand, F.U.S.S.) and 2000 Pop/R&B (Slow Down Baby, Oh Mother). I did like the Stevie Wonder-esque track (Without You). It's definately a "blue-eyed" soul album.

Personally, I felt that album is so overdone, extremely kitschy and somewhat boring. It is an overproduced waste of $20. I am glad someone loaned me the CD. Otherwise, I would have to post it on half.com to try and get some money back.