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Finding Love

Am I the only one that finds The Bachelor on ABC to be one of the most ridiculous, idiotic, trash shows ever produced for television? I would rather watch Rob and Big then to sit through the pain of watching women with “perfect” bodies (because bodies are obviously more important than anything else) fight over some random guy they saw on a few episodes of a television show.

What happened to bars? Hell, what happened to online dating? At least online dating is filled with normal people (and of course some weird perverts).

On another note, I’m sending in my application for Fat Bachelor. I just hope they understand that only me, THE BACHELOR, should be fat.

Leeroy Out.

Still use Internet Explorer? Let's Talk...

Alright, let me nerd it out for a second.

If you are still using Internet Explorer to browse the web, you seriously need to consider some other (better) options. Why? Because IE is lame! Not enough of an answer?

Let’s start with a history lesson. Microsoft licensed Mosaic, a very early web browser, and morphed it into Internet Explorer as a response to Netscape Navigator, the market leader at the time. The first “browser war” started, and Microsoft ended up the winner - overtaking almost the entire browser market in the process. They were able to win because of two key reasons: they shipped IE with Windows, and, more importantly, they actually made a better product. The key word in that last statement is “made”. Because as soon as Netscape drops to a low second place, Microsoft simply stopped investing energy into their browser project - no competition led to no innovation.

Obviously, at some point, with MS doing nothing to improve the web browsing experience, other companies were going to capitalize. Today, IE has dipped from over 90% of the market to under 75%. Not surprisingly, Microsoft has started to reinvest effort into their browser, but I say why wait for them to get their game together when other current projects are far and ahead better?

You may think that IE is fine, and that it does what you need it to do. I challenge everyone out there to try a competing product for a few weeks and then see if they can still say that IE is okay.

Which product, you ask? Well, I have my favorites, but ANY browser is better than IE - in terms of features, standards support, security, and importantly, speed. We are talking several times faster at rendering pages, and often many times faster at Javascript execution (Javascript is a programming language used on many web sites).

I recommend Google Chrome, but also endorse Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox.

Oh yeah, and if you want an overview of any of these, go to Youtube and search for the name of the product followed by “screencast”.

Jimmy Fallon Has A Good Segment

I’m not a huge Jimmy Fallon fan. I never cared for him on SNL. So when he was announced has the new host of Late Night, I wasn’t too excited or thrilled, but I decided that I had to give him a chance with this new gig. Most segments on the show so far have been subpar - either boring or awkward or both. That’s why it was so nice to see the Billy Crudup interview last night. I enjoyed it so much that I felt a special need to post it up:



I think the show has a ton of potential, and I actually think Fallon is growing on me. I also have to admit that I really miss Conan - his last week of shows was a real reminder of the genius brand of talk show that O’Brien created.

Will Watchmen Be Any Good?

I’ve been watching the Metascore on Metacritic go up from a horrific 39 to the current 53 over the past few days. I’m really surprised at how extreme the reviews seem to be - some reviewers think the film is amazing and other critics think it’s a steaming pile. Go figure.

This may actually increase my movie-going experience on Friday. My expectations have been brought down so much, something even passiablly good will seem amazing.

Perhaps they paid off some critics to give out bad reviews. Interesting… I think Oliver Stone needs to make a movie about this.