LifeHacker has an interesting story about how Jerry Seinfeld motivates himself to act daily. His advice is simple: get a yearly calendar that has a box for every day, and make a big red X with magic marker every day you make a positive step towards your goal.
“After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain.”
“Don’t break the chain.” He said again for emphasis.
“But Archangel,” you say, “calendars are so expensive!” Well, I’ve got two solutions for you.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Internet Time Service has a little program you can run to sync your computer’s clock with the national atomic clock. It’s just an executable (no installation), but of course you need to be connected to the Internet.
“3:10 to Yuma” is currently sitting at the #1 spot for movies I’ve liked this year.� This could possibly be because I don’t recall all that many movies but this seriously was one awesome movie.� There was some great dialog, some great action, and some great acting.� I’ll leave the real review to Agent Archangel but in case anyone was on the fence about this one… go see it!
I am really curious to see the original now as I hear that was also good.
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia premiered Thursday (9/13) with two new episodes. You gotta love a show not afraid to tackle sensitive subjects like dumpster babies. I’ve added it to the fall television schedule along with Reaper, which might not suck (Kevin Smith directed the pilot).
Updated the fall television schedule to add Curb Your Enthusiasm (so now it’s not just network television). If anyone knows of a good guide to cable shows premiering this fall, please post a link.
I grew up a PC guy. Any time anyone mentions Mac or Apple I have a built in vomit response and a look of disgust. That didn’t go over well with my girlfriend when she got her shiny new Macbook. I began to try to figure out why I had all this inner hatred. After all, even though I don’t own anything made by apple, all my friends have iPods and they look pretty darn cool.� Even the aforementioned Macbook seemed pretty good. I even have a friend with an iPhone and that’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Maybe I had this Apple thing all wrong. Was it time for a new paradigm?
Wait a minute. I just read the letter posted to the apple website by CEO Steve Jobs. I’ve been bitten by the early adopter curse in the past as have many of the people who undoubtedly purchased an iPhone. That’s more or less par for the course, although, most people prefer if price drops happen more than 66 days after a product is released. What surprised me the most was the attitude in the letter. Maybe it’s just me but it seems like Apple just sent out a big “Tough Shit” letter to some of their most loyal customers. The best part is that the $100 they are giving everyone back is a store credit to the Apple store. Since most items there cost over $100 they are asking people to spend even more money at Apple.
Maybe I will stick to not owning any Apple products for a while longer. It hasn’t caused me any grief so far. In fact, I am probably stronger carrying my ancient brick MP3 player than I would be if I “carried” an iPod around.
The fall television schedule is out, and I have done you a big favor and listed the shows you will be watching. I do this out of love.
Sunday
8:00
The Simpsons
(9/23)
8:30
King of the Hill
(9/23)
9:00
The Family Guy
(9/23)
9:30
American Dad
(9/30)
10:00
Curb Your Enthusiasm
(9/9)
The only reason not to cancel HBO, but it’s a pretty great reason. The last season finale looked like a series finale, so this was a pleasant surprise. And the season premier had Larry in top form.
Monday
8:00
Chuck
(9/24)
Looks like The 40 Year Old Virgin meets Alias, but could be a big lump of crap. Not sure yet.
8:30
The Big Bang Theory
(9/24)
2 geeks and a hottie. My guess is that the geek humor won’t be true geek humor, but what an English major with no geeky friends thinks geek humor is. In other words, a vehicle for "normal" people to laugh at geeks. Maybe I’m wrong, but I doubt it.
9:00
Heroes
(9/24)
9:30
Rules of Engagement
(9/24)
Two couples and their single friend (David Spade). Looks kinda funny; hopefully it’s another Just Shoot Me. If you don’t have a way of watching/recording two shows, obviously you’ll have to drop this for Heroes.
10:00
Journeyman
(9/24)
This looks seriously cool, if only because it stars Lucius Vorenus from Rome. And if you haven’t seen Rome, get it on DVD. An incredible $100M+ production, with no shortage of sex, violence, and damn good writing and acting.
Tuesday
8:00
Bones
(9/25)
If you’re short on time, you can skip this. It’s not as cool as X-Files, or as well written as House, but it’s alright.
9:00
House
(9/25)
The season finale was a big "WTF???" so this is highly anticipated. I’m hoping the new staff is filled by any number of out of work TV hotties: Elisha Cuthbert, Catherine Bell, Eliza Dushku, Jeri Ryan, Jolene Blaylock, Lucy Liu, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mila Kunis (voice work doesn’t count), or Laura Prepon. With David Cross playing an analyst-therapist (or analrapist, as they’re known in the medical field).
9:00
Reaper
(9/25)
I initially wrote this off after reading the synopsis: a comedy about a guy who’s parents sold his soul to the devil, so he now has to work for him as a bounty hunter. It’s on the CW, and I was never into Buffy or Angel or Supernatural. But I just found out the pilot is being directed by Kevin Smith, so at least the first episode will be worth watching.
Wednesday
8:00
Pushing Daisies
(10/3)
Jury’s out on this, too. I do like the concept of a guy who can bring back the dead, but only uses that power to pick up some extra cash. It just screams underachiever.
9:00
Bionic Woman
(9/26)
Thursday
8:00
Smallville
(9/27)
Is Lana alive?!? Wait, don’t answer that!
8:00
Scrubs
(10/25)
Final season 🙁
8:30
30 Rock
(10/4)
If you weren’t impressed at the start of last season, this got way funnier as the season progressed. And Catrina Bowden is crazy hot.
Produced and written (the scripted parts, at least) by The Crack Team’s own Agent Mystery! Destined to be the best show on television, winning multiple Emmys and getting all team members of The Crack Team totally laid (details pending, but it will probably involve groupies, mistaken identities, and shenanigans). Click the link to check out the Agent Hulagun-designed MySpace page.
9:00
Moonlight
(9/28)
Alternate title: Count Dracula, Private Eye. Eh, it’s vampires, so I’m in it for the goth chicks.
