L.O.V.E. in Digital Format ~ DJ Ness

Current Mood: nostalgic

I just love this article i read, and it really rings pretty true! If you’ve ever worked in ANY customer service environment really, it is true

from The Cranking Widgets Blog

“We’ve all been there. Something’s dreadfully wrong with your trusty computer - you can’t print, you can’t get on the web, you can’t play Bejeweled. For whatever reason, the problem is major enough to warrant one of the most desperate acts you can imagine - a phone call to tech support…”

Current Mood: geeky

I saw this video @ GEEKOLOGIE.com(Geek & Technology). It is by far one of my favorite sites on the internet, along with sister sites The SUPERFICIAL.com (celebrity gossip) and IWATCHSTUFF.com (Movies/Television). Whoever the writer(s) are of this site have some pretty great commentary, tongue-in-cheek yet still suitable for work (as long as no one is looking over you shoulder, they curse a bit and stuff sometimes).

Anyway, if you’re a nerd like me and you enjoy old school video games and just weird stuff in general, check out this Game Over Stop Animation Video.

Current Mood: enthralled & giggly & nostalgic

NOFX : Backstage Passport

HELL YES!!!! Above is a preview for NOFX new show starting in April on FUSE TV. Its eight episodes and depicts their most recent tour which if you’ve been following, has been all over the world and back. I cannot WAIT until this starts. Here’s my official reminder to set my DVR in April!

From NOFX’s MySpace Blog:

Thursday, March 06, 2008

NOFX : BACKSTAGE PASSPORT

Fuse TV is going to be airing a documentary series on NOFX starting on April 15th at 10pm EST. Here is a statement from the band…

So we got the bright idea to take two camera dudes on this sketchy tour we booked and make a documentary. We went to Singapore, Peru, Israel, South Africa, Korea; you get the idea…countries where maybe punk music isn’t too popular.

After a few weeks we realized there’s way too much semi-interesting, sorta funny, kind of embarrassing stuff going on. How are we gonna fit all this on a DVD? So we thought maybe TV? Nah, that’s never gonna happen—we’re not nearly as funny as Travis Barker. But we made a little trailer anyhow and showed it to some of our friends at Fuse. They loved it and showed it to some of their bosses. Their bosses didn’t get it at all and told us they would call. We knew what that meant, so it was back to the DVD idea.

We kept the camera dudes on tour with us for the next year and some pretty cool stuff happened. Well…not cool for us, but cool for the DVD. Stuff like not getting paid, cops shutting down shows, Muslims getting pissed at us, Jews getting pissed at us, scoring the wrong drugs, getting beat up by Japanese women in latex, getting beat up by a Russian man in a pointy hat and basically having a super great time.

We finished the tour in South Africa and came home. We figured we might as well show it to the Fuse people again. (We showed it to HBO too, and they told us that maybe if we were U2 they would consider it…diss.) By this time Fuse had hired new people and the new folks loved it. They said they wanted to make it into a documentary series. Coolage! We signed the papers and now we have a TV show.

After months and months of editing and fighting amongst ourselves, we have 8 episodes of a show, but after you account for commercials it’s only about the length of a really long movie. Think Titanic meets Spinal Tap. NOFX never had a video on MTV, but now we have a documentary on TV. Weird how things work out. Anyhow, it comes out in April sometime. My neighbors are never going to speak to me again.

I came home from an extremely long day at work today to read this in my Myspace inbox. This story touched me, I thought it was pretty cool and wanted to share:

Jon S. Lewis
myspace.com/jonslewis

Date:
Feb 7, 2008 6:43 AM

Subject:
A fellow Potter fan in AZ

Body:
I live in AZ like you and am a Potter fan (in fact, my editor sits right next to JK Rowling’s editor in the Scholastic corporate offices).

Inspired by a young man with cancer who is trying to get 1 million MySpace friends, I am now striving to get 1000 MySpace friends by Feb 15.

James is getting care from St. Jude’s Hospital, and he’s trying to get one million MySpace friends. His page is >> myspace.com/bizwiz68. Could you help him out?

With a portion of the proceeds from the third book in the Grey Griffins series (published by Scholastic, Inc.), I am supporting the research of St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital while we try and stamp out cancer.

All the best,

Jon (J.S.) Lewis
www.greygriffins.com

P.S. If you could forward James’ link, or post it on your blog, that would be incredible. Thank you!

So won’t you please add him?

i found this article to be extremely hilarious, esp with the number of Dave’s I know, and that are exes of my close friends. I find it funny that people even do studies such as this!! For Real?

Men with the name ‘Dave’ are in for a pleasant surprise, for a poll has revealed that Brit women think that blokes with the title are the best endowed.
But sad news for the name ‘Ray’, as it conjures up the most disappointing visions in the trouser department.John Sewell, boss of onepoll.com, which questioned 1,000 British women to list the monikers, which sounded most, and least, likely to belong to a well-packaged man.

“It is interesting to see women’s pre-conceptions revealed,” The Sun quoted Swell, as saying.

The list of ‘big names’:

1. Dave
2. Paul
3. Steve
4. James
5. Mark
6. Robert
7. Chris
8. Andy
9. Richard
10. Dan

The list of ‘small names’:

1. Ray
2. Brian
3. Nigel
4. Frank
5. Keith
6. Jeremy
7. Josh
8. Barry
9. Dennis
10. Nick

from MedIndia.Com

Yeah, and you can definitely feel it in the air. The airport is getting packed and there are some pretty crazy parties going on. Here is an excerpt from the East Valley Tribune about all the hoopla:

“The Super Bowl this year is this explosion of events and parties. That’s different from 1996,” Phillips said. “The Internet was brand new. Now, it’s kind of been this integration of news and entertainment.”

Indeed, besides setting up broadcast booths in Scottsdale, some sports news outlets will be holding their own celebrations. Rapper Ludacris - who will entertain with Jenny McCarthy on Thursday at Fox Sports’ Best Damn Super Bowl Party Period - will also headline ESPN The Magazine’s Next event on Friday.

The ESPN event - which will highlight future trends in sports, technology and lifestyle - also has rapper Soulja Boy Tell’em holding a dance challenge featuring athletes.

Maxim magazine will stage its invitation-only soiree Friday inside the new Stone Rose Lounge at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess resort. Athletes and celebrities will be greeted by media on an 80-foot red carpet.

There will also be a makeshift dance floor on a swimming pool surrounded by 12 VIP cabanas. Heidi Montag (”The Hills”), the current cover model, is among the expected guests. DJ AM and DJ Vice will entertain, along with 40 Maxim models and dancers. Like last year’s party, when Fergie made a surprise performance, there will be a hush-hush musical guest.

For Maxim, the Super Bowl has been an ideal way to reaffirm its brand recognition with its target audience of males age 18 to 34.

“The party is a way to bring the magazine to life,” said James Kaminsky, Maxim’s editorial director. “I think there’s a great strength in the fact that we’re doing it on a Friday night. We sort of own the night. We set the agenda for those who are there to party.”

Playboy will take over the Rawhide Pavilion at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler on Saturday. The event will include 26 Playmates clad in traditional bunny costumes. Actor Nick Cannon will be a guest DJ. The Playboy party will somehow incorporate elements of the Arizona locale in its theme, said Donna Tavoso, vice president of Playboy’s special projects.

But more importantly, guests should walk away feeling like VIPs, Tavoso added.

“Playboy represents the good life and living the good life. The mission of the party is to bring that to life for people,” Tavoso said.

Penthouse magazine will have its Penthouse Desire SuperParty on Saturday at the Venue of Scottsdale. Snoop Dogg will be the headliner. Penthouse Pets will mingle with guests.

Other A-list highlights include a live performance from music mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs outside the Axis/Radius nightclub on Thursday. While the block party rocks the outdoors, the VIP Super Skins Celebrity Golf Classic Bash will be going on indoors with hosts Nick Lachey and Jimmie Johnson. The list of expected guests includes Justin Timberlake, Peyton Manning, Matt Leinart, Tony Romo, Terrell Owens and Carmen Electra.

Electra will co-host the Leather & Laces party with actresses Roselyn Sanchez and Catherine Bell at the Galleria Centre in Scottsdale. Sugar Ray with frontman Mark McGrath will perform.

The Galleria will also be the backdrop Saturday for the Saturday Night Spectacular, hosted by John Travolta and former NFL great Marshall Faulk.

The 944 Super Village, which will take over the Scottsdale Waterfront for Super Bowl week, will have festivities practically day and night including food vendors, a mini Las Vegas strip and music. The evening entertainment throughout the week includes Wyclef Jean, Velvet Revolver and Paris Hilton.

We may have some free tickets to one of these very expensive parties, that would be cool!!! I have been soooo not going out lately, of no fault but my own of course. But yeah for some reason I’m tempted to join the festivities. Now there’s somewhere I could wear my new shoes!

Current Mood: nerdy

So I am finally beta testing the On Demand service at my house, and it is truly awesome! There is definatley some good free content on there, and if you already subscribe to HBO or ShowTime (et. al.), then you get access to their On Demand channels included for free. This includes both current movies and also series episodes too, like Weeds and Dexter. And this early on in the game, there are very minimal bugs in the software as well! I do wish it was a bit more…oh, whats the word–MANUVERABLE! Its like menu after menu after menu after submenu blah blah. I feel it could have been a bit simpler. The good thing though there will be TONS of content and it will be changing weekly!

So basically if you have a digital settop box of any model, you will be able to recieve access to On Demand without any special equipment or fees. Yes, you gotta pay for new releases and porn! But you will have access to the movie for 24 hours and be able to ffw/rew/pause/stop. Its pretty much like renting a dvd without having to pick it up/return it. There is a decent search function and menu to find the movies that are up your alley.

Since we have been upgrading our network valley-wide (and will continue to do so), VOD service should be available in a few areas within the next few months. I lucked out and reside in the first network to be fully upgraded and operational! So NE. Scottsdale, congratulations! VOD should be released w/i the next week for you. They are hoping to have it nearly valley-wide by mid-summer.