October 2003 Archives

They keep coming up with cooler stuff for cable TV. Eventually, I will have to capitulate to the strength of their product, and buy me some cable.

Specifically, the newest thing to tempt me is The Gambling Channel. Watching poker on TV (especially the World Poker Tour) has been revelatory. Now, a channel dedicated to twenty-four hours a day of gambling!

Other channels currently enticing me to the land of cable include ESPN Classic, NBA League Pass, Bloomberg, G4, & IFC. Man, that just spells out my personal marketing profile, doesn't it? Spooky.

A lot of couples are keeping their individual last names when they marry. I approve of this, and would not ask a woman to take my last name when we got married. But it does present a problem. What do you name the kids?

Why not give them the last names of historical figures? Caitlin Lincoln. Sandy Oppenheimer. Andrew Hirohito. Chris Voltaire.

See, it's fun!

They'd still be your kids. It's not like "having your name" was proof that they're your offspring.

I don't think we should exclude reviled historical figures either. Little Jenny Mussolini. Dennis Idi Amin. Derek Ivan the Terrible. Tracy Mobutu.

Quickie candy review here. I snuck Butterfinger Popcorn and Inside-Out Reese's Peanut Butter Cups into the movies. Butterfinger Popcorn claimed to have chunks of Butterfinger, which it did not. At least, eating it in the dark, I saw none. Inside-Out Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are really cute, and I think they should have a massive ad campaign for them, involving aliens & laser beams (how else did they get inside-out?), but their fatal flaw is that they don't taste very good. Straight up.

A friend of mine is collecting pictures of people "sidetalkin'". Talking on the new Nokia N-Gage game-phone-taco. I think that this is a brilliant project, and if you have one of these playphones, you should send in a picture. Please, and thank you. Now, start Sidetalkin'.