Did you know you could get these at Walmart?
If you are one of those who gets annoyed when I stop shticking for a moment, then this post is probably not for you. I promise we’ll get back to the safe, fuzzy world of boobs and giggles in a moment, but…
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Candace Crawford, rumored to be Romo’s new squeeze, throws it to the always petable Mickey Spagnola for an awkward interview with Jerrah. Listen and cry with laughter as Jerry gets creative with the pronunciation of “Bono.”
The Steve Phillips mess: With plenty of links
In other sad marital news
Congrats to our small Gordon Keith Show crew for taking home a few more Emmys this year. Our show was on the air for two years before the economy put a bullet in our head behind the barn. We garnered seven nominations and five wins in those two years, despite my involvement. Guess what Kerri and I did to each other right after this photo.
The purpose of my trip was to interview John Cusack and Amanda Peet for the film 2012 and that was great (Amanda Peet was extremely playful with me- on Channel 8 soon), but I really wanted to see God’s handiwork and get lost in the National Parks. Traveling home today, happy.
“I’ve just recently realized how powerful picture books are before you can read.” – Spike Jonze
Awhile back I posted the trailer to Where the Wild Things Are, and I spoke of how it moved me. The book royally creeped me out as a kid, but somehow murmurs to me in strange ways as an adult. Here is a good article on the film.
Another thing on my mind- the preservation of the irrelevant. Nik Cubrilovic writes a piece on TechCrunch.com about our obsession with preserving artifacts of diminishing importance.
Here is my favorite part:
The biggest problem is that we hoard data. We produce more data and information than we ever have, and we are all vain enough to believe that the data we create is so fantastic that it should live on for eternity. Losing the contact list on your phone shouldn’t be a problem – you should know who your friends are anyway. If you are losing sleep because you can’t find an old email you wrote, you likely have deeper issues to address.
Technology has spoiled us to the point where we feel nostalgic when we lose data that didn’t really matter in the first place. If it did matter, a primal instinct would have driven us to do more to preserve, rather than rely on a sleep deprived sysadmin on the other side of the country. If you didn’t care enough to take care of it yourself, then you didn’t really need it. It is our misguided expectation of technology that causes us to panic when we lose data. The only people who have a larger incentive to preserve your data are those who are using it to target an advertisement at you, or sell you something.
Not only is a lot of this data not important, but do we really want to keep it? I certainly would not want a full account of everything I did in my youth sitting on a server somewhere. I am also certain that we do not want the record of our as a society time being documented and discovered by future civilizations based on Twitter messages.
Data experiences its own form of natural selection. What is important will survive, the remainder will thankfully fade away.
Hopefully I will be back at work tomorrow on the air. Got a few plane rides between now and then.
Oh yeah, nurse those babies real hard
Norm needs to read this: He was wrong today