What is more contagious than the 24 hour flu?

Yes...I got it. I never get sick, but when I do, I make it count. Being the positive guy that I am, I asked myself: How can I cope with the 24 hour flu?

The answer was simple: 24 Season 2

OK...I'm a little behind, having just finished watching Season One finally. I never got into it on TV, but bought Season One for $30 at HMV, so I watched it in sequence. That's the way to watch it! No waiting for a week! I found Season Two at Metro Video for $39.99, which is the cheapest out there.

24 hour flu=Full Season of 24

At least I was able to catch up a little. Now, I can't wait to get sick again...for Season 3!

Take a walk down memory game

Remember all those great games you played on your 486, or maybe Pentium I. Hours of fun, blown away by the now archaic graphics. Well...now you can walk down memory game...

Liberated games have found tons of games that their respective owners have converted to freeware. Games such as Civilization II, Descent II, Doom 2, GTA 2, Quake III, Tribes 2 and many more are available for download for free.

Take a look, download some legal games and have fun.

Let me know which are good.

Enjoy :)

Book Worm Report

Here are a few books that I have found outstanding as of late.

The first is called Shantaram from Gregory David Roberts. I was hooked by page 4! A young Australian man enters Bombay with a false passport, having just escaped from a 20 year jail sentence. He befriends a local, Prabaker, who shows him the real India. There is Karla, a beautiful woman who can't love in return, whom adds the tension to the love story. He is named "Linbaba" by the locals and ends up in the slum, helping others with his small knowledge of medicine. The thing about this book, is that you know he is writing from real experiences. It is somewhat biographical, but more than that, you feel, smell, taste India in all its spendor, danger and reality of living with so many neighbors. I'm not quite half way through, but I can't put it down.


The second is The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger.

This guy time travels (without control over when and where he goes) and meets his future wife when she is 6 years old. From the book cover…

“When Henry meets Clare, he is twenty-eight and she is twenty. He is a hip librarian; she is a beautiful art student. Henry has never met Clare before; Clare has known Henry since she was six…”

Intrigued yet?

The last one is 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. It is a riveting minute-to-minute account of exactly what happened inside the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11. If nothing else, it shows shining examples true ordinary folks being extraordinary heroes, and the incompetence of the Police & Firemen in communications (although we will always honor their bravery).

I have bought all these book at the Quality Paperback Book Club for much less than Amazon. If you would like to sign up, let me know, as they will send me a few books for the referral.

Happy reading.

The Sexiest Man in Rock n Roll

Yes, the legendary band The Pogues will be touring the USA in March for 8 dates. I have tickets for 1 of those (and Finny from the Mahones is supposed to put us on the guest list for the Friday show in NYC). Now I don't know how long since they last toured, but it promises to be a fun filled night with The Slackers and William Elliot Whitmore opening up.

We had the pleasure of seeing Terry Woods perform with the Mahones & the Peelers at Club One a while back. Terry being the one who wrote such classics as Streets of Sorrow & Young Ned of the Hill. What a great night and great memories.

Now back to our drunken lazy bastard Shane MacGowan. Given the title as the most Irish person ever, he only lived in Ireland until the age of six (Tied with the worst teeth in rock). If you ever have a chance to see "If I should fall from grace: The Shane MacGowan Story", you can see that this man is the poster boy for Alcoholism. The film document his fall from grace as the young punk who brought us pure Irish tunes, to the slurring, stumbling old man with even less teeth. You will find his bio here.

So come on down and have a few pints. Let's hope he can keep it together for a few good sets of the songs we came to love.

Cheers.

What would you do for a million dollars?

Well...A British Student Alex Tew had a brilliant idea. A web page with 1 million pixels sold adspace on his million pixel site for $1 per pixel to make some money to pay for college.

He did it! 1 Million dollars to fill his space. Don't try to replicate, this only worked because it was the first of its kind. Fame also brings drama. Just as this now rich web guru gets his last 1,000 pixels sold to accomplish his goal, what happens, but a Denial of Service Attack. See the article here. Now he is facing a lawsuit (gotta love the US justice system).

I say let the rich nerd keep it. What would you do with $1,000,000 dolloars?

I would:

-Buy everyone in Montreal a good 18 year old shot of Macallan, but that would probably not leave me with anything, so maybe just whomever is at the hotspot I was in.

-I would go to the dollar store and buy 1 million pieces of junk, just cuz I can.

-I would sue the alphabet to make the letter Z illegal. It's just too confusing. Is it Zee or Zed. Ah, forget it, it's now illegal.

-I would buy a vowel, and not share it.

-I would ask to be paid in looney's, just to piss off my bank.

What would you do???

Can you Digg it?

I love tech news. I eat it up - although it is fattening (causes you to sit at your computer and buy tons of gadgets off eBay, then you have to make 'em work, instead of doing all that athletic activity my wife wants me to do...).

Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht have a great web site called Digg.com. This is a user driven technology news website that lets other users vote on which stories they dig, thus putting them on the front page. Great way to get an overview of what's going down in NerdWorld.

For those of you that prefer a podcast, they also do Diggnation which is available at iTunes every week. It's about 45 minutes and two guys sit on their couch with laptops, drink a few brews and and discuss the most popular Digg stories of the week. It's quite funny, as these are guys you'd love to invite to any get toghether that involves beer...

Can you Digg it? Check it out.

Xmas = Reindeer urine?

So you hate Christmas...who doesn't! Those blasted songs, the overt commercialism, the obvious link to Pagan celebrations of the Sun gods...What is the link between Xmas and Magic Mushrooms (Fly Agaric - Amanita Muscaria).

A Shaman would remove the more potent toxins so that it was safe to eat and would go on a little "trip" with his reindeer guides, and hopefully return with knowledge of the otherworld, and not just a nasty hang-over. His "Ho Ho Ho" laugh was brought on by the euphoric laugh of the shrooms. Coming down the chimney (The door and chimney were the same) in his Yurt, reminds us of that jolly fat man.

Now where does the urine come into play? Reindeer were uncommonly fond of drinking human urine that contained muscimol (the potent stuff). Now the villagers were also quite fond of the yellow snow because the potency of the muscimol was not weakened and was actually safer. It is said (and I don't speak from experience) that the effects of the shroom can pass through 5 or 6 people and still give you a buzz. Most would just stick to reindeer pee and given the option, I would too. Reindeers would eat the funny mushroom and pee out the hallucinogenic part of the drug. This is probably where the expression "get pissed" came from! So the reindeer where not flying, they were just high!

What about Rudolph's red nose? Dipping into the liquor cabinet again? Rudolph's nose being red was probably due to a parasitic infection of his respiratory system (such as Linguatula Arctica, Cephenemyia Trompe, Dictoyvaulus, Elaphostrongylus Rangiferi are among the parasites that might have found a home in that famous snout). Rudolph was apparently also castrated (since he still had antlers during winter), but that is a long story...

So, Santa is a stoner, who drinks reindeer urine which makes him fly around with his reindeer guides. Maybe instead of receiving gifts, we can all do an intervention and get him rehab...

Don't eat yellow snow!