By Jeff Lyons on Nov 12, 2008 in Daily Distractions, Tech, Television | 0 Comments
30 Rock is a great show, fabulous! But it seems to be on the trajectory that has doomed many a fine comedy: “Let’s jam pack it with Big Name Guest Stars every week! Seinfeld! Oprah! Aniston! Jonas Brothers! The Pope! Awesome!” No, not awesome.
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By Jeff Lyons on Sep 30, 2008 in Daily Distractions | 0 Comments
Portable Car Jump Start System - My old VW’s battery goes dead quite often, so I bought one of these bad boys after waiting an interminable amount of time for AAA on a freezing winter night two years ago. The small unit is very easy to use and can jump your car in about two [...]
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By Russ Starke on Aug 21, 2008 in Podcast, Tech | 2 Comments
Dear loyal UsedWigs Radio listeners,
This posting is to apologize sincerely for the delay of Podcast 51, which you are no doubt highly anticipating since you know that CBS3’s Nicole Brewer and the fabulous El Vez are our guests! You know that it’s “in the can” and you’re probably wondering WHERE THE HELL IT IS. I [...]
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By Jeff Lyons on Aug 1, 2008 in Daily Distractions | 0 Comments
No, This is Not a Kidnapping: The lovely Nicole Brewer of CBS3 Philly chats with Geekadelphia’s Tim and Eric and gets exclusive bonus footage of a super-fast chinchilla! Check out the video. Nice job fellas!
Blind Painter: Esref Armagan cannot see, but he sure can paint. {via boingboing.net}
Colossal Waste of Time: But I still watched the [...]
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By Jeff Lyons on Jul 7, 2008 in Art, Tech | 1 Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djJDvgUOL7E
More: Momoyo Torimitsu
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By Jeff Lyons on Jul 2, 2008 in Art, Lists, Movies, Music, Time Wasters, Videos | 2 Comments
Hungry for some tasty, low-cal distractions before the big holiday? Here’s a bowl of some cheese-filled trivia nuggets to feed your ever-expanding pop culture belly.
Longest Running TV Shows
“Quarterlife” just missed by 632 episodes.
The 20 Most Expensive Domain Names
On a related note: “flooz.com” is now the cheapest.
All Time Worldwide Movie Box Office
Sorry, that dumb boat [...]
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By Jeff Lyons on May 2, 2008 in Events, Television | 1 Comment
Attention all Skinjobs, Toasters and Humans: Geekadelphia is hosting a Battlestar Galactica Party on May 10th (in conjunction with the fine folks at the Hacktory and Indy Hall) at Independents Hall in Old City, Philadelphia.
I will be there dressed as Klingon with a lightsaber (peace-bonded, of course) just to disrupt the party’s space-time continuum. Hope [...]
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By Jeff Lyons on Apr 1, 2008 in Daily Distractions, Tech, Television | 0 Comments
CBS Green-lights My Secret Public Journal! We’re big fans of comedian Mike Birbiglia (that’s “Birbigs” to those in the know) and his secret public journal.
He’s got himself a big network show, hopefully he’ll say no to the laugh track and won’t have ancient comedians guest star as his parents… at least until season 4. [...]
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By Jeff Lyons on Feb 8, 2008 in News, Office Humor | 0 Comments
“Wendy works from home quite a lot, and she sends emails every couple of hours to prove she’s actually being productive. Must be a pain typing in the old iPhone while you’re on the stair climber at the gym, driving to the shore or hitting the sale racks at Bloomingdales?”
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