Top 5 Posts of the Year

5. Great DVD's
Posted January 24th, 2007
The great thing about this post is the fact that Freaks and Geeks is a great show, and so are all the other dvd's I highlighted....I rule.

4. Transformers: The Summer Movie To End All Summer Movies
Posted July 4th, 2007
Megan Fox is hot!!!!

3. I Drive a German Car
Posted February 16th, 2007
Ah yes, this is the post that will forever remind me of the price of driving a vehicle. That and the 50 grit sand paper that could have been used when they were about to stick a dildo up my ass. Lucky for me it was covered under warranty, so no ass-raping for me.

2. 300
Posted March 9th, 2007
In this post I get kicked in the balls with kickassness. Just read it yourself and you too will get kicked in the balls.

1. Look What I Saw On The Road Today
Posted August 6th, 2007
Miata = Fucktard.....any questions?

A Quantitave Analysis of Ones Ability to Wrap Christmas Presents

The image above is showing a direct correlation to what level of skills it requires to properly wrap a present. If you'll notice the "magic number" is 6. Anything less than this number and you fail! Anything more than this and, well, I don't want to talk to you, you pompous present wrapping demi-god / asshole. So for example, I myself might only be a 1 in wrapping, but I am a 5 in taping, so therefore I reach the magical number of 6 and can properly wrap a gift. So how good are you?

RIP "The 4400"

The 4400 has been cancelled. May she rest in peace.

Employment

For all that don't know, I have been employed now for 1 week, so my unemployment didn't last too long. In other news, tv is going to suck after the new year. Lets see, we're going to get new episodes of Lost at the end of January....thats pretty much it until April when we see the return of Battlestar Galactica. But even still neither of these shows has all there episodes completed, so unless this WGA strike gets resolved we're going to be in a huge hurt.

Deadliest Catch Season 4

I found an interesting blog over on the discovery channels website, check it out for all the latest on whats happening in the next season of the Deadliest Catch. By the way, it'll premiere sometime in April of 2008.

Unemployment

Its official, I am unemployed. My time with Dakota County has come to an end. I'm thinking of going on welfare, I mean how hard can it be?

March Madness? BCS Madness!

Ah yes, another year and another BCS controversy. Lets break this down, we have 11-1 Ohio State vs 11-2 LSU for the National Championship, this will probably be a good game, but I still have to ask. Why LSU and why Ohio State? Last I checked USC was 10-2, and won there game on Saturday just like LSU did, so why no love for USC? Georgia also 10-2, but they didn't win there conference so I can understand them not being considered. Now this might come as a surprise but what about the only undefeated team in the country, Hawaii (12-0). I know what you're thinking, Hawaii is part of the WAC conference where they basically play high school football teams every week so no wonder they won all there games. Now I completely agree with you.....in 2006, but what Boise State did last year in the Fiesta Bowl proved that even the non-BCS teams can hang with the big dogs. So why no love for Hawaii? I'm not saying that a playoff system would be better, I'm not saying that the current system isn't flawed, but there must be a happy medium that can be found. Either that or we need to have 2 BCS teams go undefeated every year and have them play for the title. Either way it was an exciting college football season with lots of upsets (Michigan vs Appalachian State, USC vs Standford, etc.) and I for one am looking forward to the college football bowl season.

Hair Cuts by Asians

Why is it that every time I go in to get a haircut an Asian women always does it. Now I have no issue with this what-so-ever in the cutting department. Its in the English department I have a problem. You know how they try and make conversation, well I can't understand half of what shes saying which results in a lot of "yea", "yep", etc. For example she was asking me if I'd done my Christmas shopping yet, to which I responded "no", and then she talked for about 5 minutes on I have no idea what and then gave me an inquisitive look, to which I responded, "yep, I know what you mean".......what I should have said was "you're English sucks, why don't you just stick with cutting the hair, and I'll just sit here quietly."

Top Gear Series 10 Episode 7

700 mb release.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Writers Strike, How Many Episodes Left

Here's a list as of last week.

Back to You -- On hiatus.
Big Bang Theory -- On hiatus.
Big Shots -- Nine episodes completed out of 13.
Bionic Woman -- 9 of 13 episodes completed filming.
Bones -- 12 of 22 episodes in the can. Episode 9 will air Nov. 27.
Boston Legal -- 15 episodes completed out of 22.
Brothers and Sisters -- Six episodes left including this week.
Cane -- Entire 13 episode season filmed and expected to air.
Carpoolers -- Entire 13 episode season completed filming.
Cashmere Mafia -- Premiere moved to 2008.
Cavemen -- 12 of 13 season episode season completed filming.
Chuck -- Six completed episodes left.
The Colbert Report -- On hiatus, airing repeats.
Cold Case -- 10 of 24 episodes completed filming.
Criminal Minds -- Six more episodes completed, then ... 12 out of 22 eps filmed.
C.S.I. -- Ten out of 24 episodes filmed.
C.S.I.: Miami -- 13 out of 24 episodes filmed.
C.S.I.: New York -- 14 out of 24 episodes filmed.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- On hiatus, running repeats.
Desperate Housewives -- 9th episode will air December 2, then on hiatus holding back the last show filmed.
Dirt -- Season expected to be truncated.
Dirty Sexy Money -- Six episodes left before zilch, 12 of the 13 episodes completed filming.
Ellen DeGeneres -- New shows after a one-day hiatus.
Everybody Hates Chris -- Full 22 episode season completed and ready to air.
Family Guy -- Production shut down.
Ghost Whisperer -- 9 episodes out of 22 filmed.
Gossip Girl -- Six episodes to go before shutdown, 13 of 22 episodes completed.
Grey's Anatomy -- 11 of 22 episodes completed, production shut down.
Heroes -- Scripts written through the 11th episode which might serve as season finale December 3.
House -- Five or six completed episodes in can before none.
How I Met Your Mother -- On hiatus.
Jericho -- Seven episode season ready to air.
Jimmy Kimmel Live -- On hiatus, airing repeats.
Journeyman -- Entire 13 episode season filmed.
K-Ville -- 10 of 13 episodes completed, production shut down.
Late Show with David Letterman -- On hiatus, repeats expected throughout strike.
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit -- 14 of 22 episodes completed, production shut down.
Lost -- 8 of 16 episodes completed, still scheduled for a February premiere.
Medium -- Nine of 22 episodes completed filming.
Men in Trees -- 19 episodes filmed, some held back from last season.
My Name is Earl -- Season completed filming
NCIS -- Ten out of 24 episodes filmed.
The New Adventures of Old Christine -- Production shut down.
Nip/Tuck -- 14 episodes filmed, filming on next 8 postponed.
Numb3rs -- 12 out of 24 episodes filmed -- Nov. 23 marks episode 9.
The Office -- On hiatus after cast didn't show up to work. Two or three completed episodes left to air.
Prison Break -- On hiatus until January 14.
Private Practice -- Eleven episodes filmed, production shut down.
Rescue Me -- Production had been scheduled in 2008 for a 22 episode season, status in limbo.
Rules of Engagement -- On hiatus.
Samantha Who? -- Twelve episodes filmed out of 22-ep season.
Saturday Night Live -- On hiatus.
Scrubs -- 11 episodes shot, 12th worked non-WGA, brouhaha as NBC wants that to be finale and creator Bill Lawrence doesn't want to end early.
Shark -- 11 of 22 episodes completed filming.
The Simpsons -- Sitting pretty with 17 completed episodes to go.
Smallville -- 15 of 22 episodes completed.
South Park -- Not WGA, production continues.
Supernatural -- 11 episodes completed filming, five more scripts ready.
'Til Death -- On hiatus.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno -- On hiatus, repeats expected throughout strike.
Two and A Half Men -- On hiatus as of November 26, production shut down.
Ugly Betty -- 13 out of 24 episodes filmed.

The Writers Strike Sucks

So lets see here, most tv shows have completely shut down production due to writer/producers not willing to go back and finish the semi completed episodes. So what does this mean.......we have new shows through November sweeps, then most shows go into reruns in December and January so no change there, but come February sweeps guess what, no new tv, its going to be either reruns or reality tv. So what can we do about this, nothing, we are fucked. Unless talks between the WGA and the Producers starts up again we are screwed. About the only thing we can do is play video games, watch old tv shows, watch tv shows that have come out on dvd or and I hesitate to say this, pick up a book.

On the plus side the best comedy in the past 5 years, Superbad comes out on December 4th.

Rochester

I had an interview with the DNR today down in Rochester, I'm pretty sure I didn't get the job, but on the plus side I listened to some Pink Floyd on the way home so how bad could it possibly have been.

Top Gear Series 10 Episode 4

700 mb release.

Also, BSG Razor has appeared online, I haven't downloaded it so I have no idea if it truly is legit. But here it is anyways.

Top Gear Season 10 Episode 3

Just in case you missed it. 700mb version.

The Simpsons Music

Found this while trying to find "Baby on Board" song. Turns out the site is pretty awesome.

88888

The 888888 picture didn't turn out, but this was pretty close.

New York, New York

Plaque you see when you first walk into the Empire State Building.


View looking east from Empire State building. You can see the Chrysler Building and the Met Life building.


Statue of Liberty from the ferry to Liberty Island.


Lady Liberty with Manhattan in the background.


(Full Res) Closeup of the statue standing at its base.


Panorama of New York with Empire State Building towering over all buildings. Behind boat is where the WTC towers would have stood.

Top Gear News Uncut

Four parts, number four probably the funniest.

Guess what I did today?

Top Gear Series 10 Episode 1

700mb version

Overall TV Ratings Down

According to Yahoo News Hollywood execs are already worried about about the fall tv season as the numbers for new shows is not what it was last year, and the year before, etc.

Well here's an open letter to Hollywood execs. DON'T CANCEL A SHOW SO FUCKING QUICKLY! Thats why ratings are down, because YOU pull the plug on shows too quickly without giving them a chance to find there footing or there niche. Look at this from a viewers point of view, would you want to invest 13 hours of your life into a mystery and then never have it solved. Well thats what YOU do on a consistent basis every season. Maybe its not a mystery all the time, but any show needs time to get in a rhythm and so do us viewers. But if you're just going to cancel a show on us, then why do I want to tune in when its on the air. On top of all of that, why don't you just.....wait a second, this open letter isn't getting the best ratings, I'll just cancel it.

Staff Meeting Fun

We had a staff meeting today, so I did what every person does at meetings, zoned out.

Top Gear Series 10 Trailer

http://files.phyrefile.com/file/2007/09/30/TG10.flv

More Premiere's

Dexter's second season starts tonight and the BBC version of Robin Hood starts its second season October 6th.

Top Gear

All the rumors have been confirmed, Top Gear will return October 7th and will be 10 episodes long. Even better here's whats going on in the first episode.

"Top Gear revs back into action for a new series. In the opening episode, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May revisit their attempt to build amphibious cars and face up to one of their biggest – and choppiest – challenges to date.

The Audi R8 attacks the Top Gear track and Dame Helen Mirren is the Star In A Reasonably Priced Car."

Duluth 07

A fox we saw at Gooseberry Falls.


Gooseberry Falls, middle falls.


Split Rock Lighthouse.


Lutsen panoramic.


Fall colors at Lutsen.


Dan on Alpine Slide.


Kenny on Alpine Slide.


Lutsen Resort.


Cascade Falls, or at least one of them.


Duluth Panoramic


Canal Park Bridge.

Top Gear

Rumor has it that Top Gear will return to the airwaves on October 7th and will be 10 episodes long!!!

Wanna Watch The Series Premiere of Bionic Woman?

Its Free. And in excellent quality. And totally legal.


Click image for link.

Richard Hammond In Another CRASH!!!!!!

Wow, talk about a non story.

My favorite part is "The host was not injured and continued the race once his vehicle - a BMW 330 DTi Sport - was repaired."

I mean honestly, the 4 of them are in a race, they'll all (except the Stig) get in an accident at some point during it. Talk about trying to capitalize on Hammond's name and crashes. For shame BBC, for shame.

Fall TV Premiere Dates

With the fall tv season just around the corner I thought I'd tell you when you're favorite tv show premieres.

Family Guy (Fox) Sept. 23
Simpsons (Fox) Sept. 23
Heroes (NBC) Sept. 24
Bionic Woman (NBC) Sept. 26
My Name Is Earl (NBC) Sept. 27
Office (NBC) Sept. 27
Smallville (CW) Sept. 27
Stargate Atlantis (SciFi) Sept. 28
Dexter (Showtime) Sept. 30
American Dad (Fox) Sept. 30
30 Rock (NBC) Oct. 4

And for those reality tv fans.

Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? (Fox) Sept. 6
Deal Or No Deal (NBC) Sept. 17
Survivor (CBS) Sept. 20

Richard Hammond in a Veyron?!?

Wearing this helmet

School

Ah yes, another year of school has started and you can just tell that all the new freshman girls are......wait a second.....I'm not in school......hmm, I'm not sure what to say......well, um, "Thats my momma" -Peter Griffin.

The It Crowd Series 2 Episode 2

Torrent.

Does Having a Vagina Make You A Douchebag?

So I was at the local Sams Club to buy 2 things, Cereal and Diced Fruit. 2 things, thats it, and I originally went there for just the cereal but I thought peaches and pears looked good. There were 3 registers open so I went to the one with only 2 people in line. The first was a man with about 20 things things and he was about half checked out. The second was a women whom I shall her-to-for refer to as "fuckface". Fuckface had a cart full of random shit, I'm guessing about 50 items, which if you've been to sams club you know thats a lot of shit considering the "bulk" theme of the store. So a considerate person....a male....would see that I have 2 items and let me go first. But not fuckface, thats just not her thing. So she starts to get her stuff rung up and with about 3 items left she notices that one of her cans of soup has a dent in it, so she says "I'm going to run back and get a different one", which if you translate that really says, "I'm going to hold up the line even more by running to the back of the store". At this point I'm getting pretty pissed off, even the guy behind me who has about 10 items is looking pissed off. So when fuckface eventually returns with her precious soup she goes to pay. And she looks at the credit card machine like its this strange object, so after taking about 10 seconds to figure out what the hell it is the cashier tells her what to do "slide your card here". So fuckface pulls out a visa card and slides it the wrong way, then she sits and waits for it to do nothing, the cashier finally pipes in that they don't accept visa, only discover and mastercard. Then fuckface decides, well I'll just write a check. Dear God!!! Eventually fuckface hands over the check and is on her merry way...or so I thought. I get my 2 items rung up and am gone in under 45 seconds after she has taken 10 minutes. I'm on my way out of the store when I get to the guy at the exit who checks all the items and she has just finished, so he looks at my receipt and I'm walking out the door, when looky here, fuckface has stopped in the middle of the door to tie her shoe or some shit like that, I was tempted to kick her in the ass. So I'll leave you with this, FUCK YOU FUCKFACE!

On a lighter note Jessica Biel is quite good looking.

The Andy Dick Show

Not sure if I was the only one that watched this show but here is a massive video collection of what seems to be every skit they did on the show. Enjoy.

The IT Crowd Season 2 Episode 1

Dan already posted, but for those who wish to download a high quality version.

Get it here.

Top Gear Series 10 Spoiler?

It appears they will be competing in a 24 hour endurance race. Check out car #78.

Its Been A While, Just Thought We Could Use The Reminder

Stuck? No.

So I just got done returning a data logging probe to a well when on my way back I thought, I'll take a slight detour here and go see how high the Vermilion River is. I went to a place that I have been to many times over the past few weeks, of course never after a rain event. And this is what happened.




You can't see it well from the pictures but the trench at its deepest is about 8" deep, which is up to the hubcaps on the truck.

You'll notice grass in the trench, that was placed there by me once I was stuck. The reason I went the way I did was because thats where the path was, had I known it was soft and muddy, I would have gone 5 feet to the west of where I was, the ground there was rock solid.

Top Gear Series 10 in October!?!?

According to the applause store they will be back in October.

Look What I Saw On The Road Today

Four Wheelers

Thats where Trevor got stuck in muck and it took the other 4 wheelers winch to get him out.


This is a location somewhere going down the river.

And this is 2.6 miles from Lake Koronis.

The Big Ticket Goes To Boston

Today is a sad day for Minnesota sports, 4 years ago the Timberwolves were in the western conference finals, the Vikings were favorites to win the Superbowl, the Twins were a strong small ball team with a ton of potential, and the Wild were just coming into there own as a sleeper team coming from the Western Conference. But today looking at that, the Vikings...if they win 6 games this year I'll be amazed, the Twins are in a rough patch with no hope to keep perennial gold glover Torii Hunter after this season, the Wild are the exception, they still are that sleeper team that has a chance. But now that Kevin Garnett, one of the most genuinely nice people in sports has been traded away, I give the wolves a 22-60 season next year.

On the other side, I do wish Kevin Garnett the best with the Celtics and they are now my instant favorites for winning the Eastern Conference, he stuck out the past 3 years here that have been just dreadful, so good luck KG, win one for Minnesota.

Lake Pano in Glorious 1.3 Megapixel

Top Gear Polar Challenge

700mb rip.

Tire Tread

So after watching this, I went outside and checked my tires.

Here's my front tires. (used to be rear tires, ~2/32")



And the rear tires. (~4/32")

Top Gear Series 10 Spoiler

Apparently they've crossed the english channel.

Read all about it here.

Dexter

Season 2 preair episode 1

Unfortunately you won't be able to watch the rest of the season until October. But it should be enough to wet your appetite and get you psyched for the new season.

FarScape and Galactica News

Oh look! A press release!

Top Gear Polar Challenge July 25th!!!

In Top Gear’s most ambitious and arduous challenge to date Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond attempt to race from Northern Canada to the North Pole, 450 miles away. The terrain in between is some of the toughest on earth - a mix of mountainous land masses and jagged sea ice where temperatures can drop to a mind-numbing minus 65 degrees Celcius (minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit). Jeremy and James will be driving a specially adapted pick up truck whilst Richard will be travelling on something a little less high tech - a sled pulled by a team of ten Canadian Inuit Dogs.

Battlestar Galactica: Razor Preview

NO CHEATING

find your car personality here

Tranformers: The Summer Movie To End All Summer Movies

First let me give you a quick recap of the movie.


Ok, so thats not the real movie, but is quit funny. (Good ole PBF)

Anyways, your liking of this movie is dependent on 1 big criteria.....can you shut off your brain and just enjoy the action. If you can't, then you're going to hate this film, there are moments when logic seems to fail everyone, physics seems to be thrown out the window, and scenes appear rushed. One such example is the death of a certain character I believe the words that Optimus says are "We shall miss our valued friend, but we have made new friends". And thats it, thats all thats said, seems pretty cold, even for a robot.

So if thats the bad, whats the good....EVERYTHING ELSE. THE ACTION IN THIS MOVIE MAKES SPIDERMAN 3 LOOK LIKE WOMENS GOLF! Plus there is a new hot piece of ass in town, her name is (play this when looking at pics) Megan Fox. The basic premise of the movie is that some kickass robots want to get this cube, but these other kickass robots want to stop them from getting this cube. Some action takes place, then Megan Fox (gulp), then more action, followed by more Megan Fox (down boy), then fucktastic action, then Megan Fox (thats it I'm going to polish the one eyed monster), then some even more fucktastic action, followed by an open ending, since they've already given the go ahead for 2 more movies. To put it bluntly the action alone in this movie will give you a chubby, then Megan fox is there just to make sure you have to go change your pants every 20 minutes. This is a movie made for Michael Bay to make, its not going to win any Oscars for its acting (although Shia Lebouf did a very good job), or for its story, but who gives a fuck, ITS ROBOTS KICKING THE SHIT OUT OF OTHER ROBOTS! For a popcorn eating summer movie its a 10 out of 10.

James May Breaks Land Speed Record....at 1/32 Scale

Stargate News

The bad news: no Stargate SG-1 movies until 2008.

The good news: IF the first 2 are successful MGM plans on releasing 2 movies per year!!!

More good news: Atlantis will return to the airwaves in September.

More bad news: Because of this Atlantis will be competing with first run programming on major networks, which might cause a ratings drop which would effectively make season 4 its last.

Even more bad news: It is thought that one of the reasons for the lower ratings has been because both series aired months ago in either Canada or the UK.

Even more good news: SG-1's series finale scored a 1.7 rating which equals about 2.2 million viewers, which is huge considering the back half of season 10 has been averaging about a 1.2.

Also here is Gateworlds SG-1 Farewell.

Could Richard Hammond Be In Trouble?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6240048.stm

Top Gear Filming Series 10?

Tire Rotation Question For You

See if you can tell me which tire just came off the rear axel and which came off the front? (Hint: my car is rear wheel drive)



One final statement, rotating tires while listening to the "Dark Side of the Moon" is kickass.

Knee High By the 4th of July?

Price is Right

I'm posting this ahead of schedule just to make sure I don't forget. But we are about to have a Johnny Carson moment in our lives. A line that divides the generations, yes I'm talking about Bob Barker on the Price is Right. The last episode has already been filmed, but it is put to the airwaves this Friday June 15th at its normal time of 10:00 am and then they're doing a rebroadcast in primetime. So in 10 years ask an 8 year old who hosts the Price is Right, because for everyone over the age of 5 the person you'll think of is Bob Barker. Plinko Rules!


Also

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Top Gear Celebrates Ferrari

http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/1925/

60 posters

The Doobie Brothers

Wikipedia Link

Amazon Link

Top Gear Update

Jeremy Clarkson wrote in his Sun column this last week that the Top Gear special is set to air next month and it will be the polar challenge.

Here's the newspaper clip


And here is proof that they were in the arctic, or at least a cold place.