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58... (sigh).

He's predicted this twice before (2001 & 2006). I'm more confident he's wrong than I was the Lakers would win last night. Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend.

The FX site doesn't seem to offer episodes. There are some short videos there, but not the whole show. I guess they're actually trying to sell DVDs. I don't think I could pick just one episode as my favorite, but if you put a gun to my head I'd go with "Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare". When the twins are strung out and Mac and Charlie come by in the limo wearing top hots... well you get the picture.

That clip is actually from about a year ago. Fred Savage directly the first few episodes of the 3rd season. It's one of my favorite shows and has a Season Pass distinction on my Tivo. They made Sweet Dee a bit meaner last year and I'm not sure if I like it or not. On one hand, she was sort of a nice foil to the nastiness of the others, but it was cool to see her mix it up a bit last season. My favorite part of the show is always at the beginning just before the title card. The joke always sets up the title of the episode like in the second season when Charlie declared that he was "Going to go America all over everyone's a$$!" and the title was "Charlie goes America all over everybody's a$$". Good stuff.

Perhaps "stole" was poor syntax. My point was that Apple was not the originator of GUI. On the same trip he was shown OOP. PARC was full of geniuses. No one at Xerox had the foresight to exploit it and that's a shame.

Here's a short of Steve Jobs talking about Microsoft in a PBS documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" from 1996. It's pretty funny, IMHO. Now we know Jobs stole the GUI from Xerox's PARC, but at least the Mac was classy (and arrived in 1984). I've been waiting for the 3G before taking the plunge, but since I've never considered myself an early adopter I'll wait a bit.

#1 Katherine Heigl #2 Scarlett Johansson #3 Amanda Tannen Bonus points if you know #3 without the use of Google.

You're such a hater, dev. I really want to see a horse pull this off. Smarty Jones or Funny Cide would have been better for me (went to school in Philly, from NY), but Big Brown looked like a champion in the FL Derby, the KY Derby and the Preakness. I want to believe the jock that the horse was hurtin', but I'm cynical by nature and I see Michael Johnson pulling up lame against Donovan Bailey. (Sigh)

Quick check-in with Chuck Klosterman Michael Cooper =

Dwight Schrute: I have a song. Attention, everyone! That I want to sing. That I wrote especially for this occasion when I was up there among the flames. Ready? [sings to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"] Ryan started the fire! It was always burning since the world's been turning! Dwight Schrute and Michael Scott: [singing] Ryan started the fire! It was always burning--- Dwight Schrute: Everybody! Michael Scott: [singing] ...since the world was turning. Ryan Howard: I can't believe I started the fire.

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they're gonna murder you in your sleep. -- Frank Zappa, quoted from Whole Grains, an early 1970's book of quotations Then you can say, "You know how cool Trent Reznor is? He's pretty cool right? Well, back in the 70s then entire country thought this guy was at least 100 times cooler. At least. The entire country had lost its collective mind." So there you go.

I'm thinking this one is real. Was that a sledgehammer? Anyway, looks like new flat-panels for everyone! If I had stayed at my job in FL, I was pretty close to going off like this. I had broken a few headsets. Some people do not possess the ability to put up with stupidity as others. Now I work from home. I'm much better now.

Congrats Simon. You've done a great job. Too bad your reward is that she'll now want to go out and change the world. Can't do that from your house. Hope you were able to tape that. You'll watch it more than 'The Comeback'. You actually had a hand in this big win. Feel free to write a book on parenting. I'll buy a copy.

I didn't see this posted, so here it is. Nice.

One of tonight's Barney Millers is the one with the werewolf. "It's a beard. Haven't you ever seen one?" "Not in my family."

Narrator: Tyler, you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I've ever met... see I have this thing: everything on a plane is single-serving... Tyler Durden: Oh I get it, it's very clever. Narrator: Thank you. Tyler Durden: How's that working out for you? Narrator: What? Tyler Durden: Being clever. Narrator: Great. Tyler Durden: Keep it up then... Right up.

Max von Sydow, now there's a guy with range. He played both Jesus ("The Greatest Story Ever Told") and the Devil (sort of as Leland Gaunt in "Needful Things").

You don't really think I was comparing the comedic talents of Harvey Korman to Jimmy Fallon, do you Mike? You do? Really? Jimmy Fallon? Really? Really? Fallon? Really? No. I was mentioning the fact that they both tended to lose their composure during skits. See Fallon in 'Cowbell' with Farrell, Fallon in 'Hot tub' with (again) Farrell. Any old Carol Burnett skit that had Korman with Tim Conway was similar. That's all I'm saying. Really? Really.

Great in "Blazing Saddles", but I'm going to have to call him on the "Carol Burnett Show". Not unlike Jimmy Fallon, he absolutely could not keep it together when working with Tim Conway. Then again, I'm not sure who could. It might have made it even funnier.

I just moved to Charlotte from South Florida, yet there's a guy here with a PFCT72 plate in a Fish frame. My question is, with the price of gas so high what should I use to torch this thing? Dave - is that at the Quarterdeck on University?

HBD, Focker.

One of the better finals games of the last few years. It came down to a few "bounces" (off of Osgood's rear end, off the post, the rebound right to Crosby). Detroit is playing tough, but the Pens are still alive. Then there's the NBA...

After reading the article, two things Kurt Vonnegut wrote came to mind. First when Taibbi talked about how he started to develop the skin of a Christian: But the whole damn thing reminded me of this: Religious Joke I heard: Did you hear the one about the Buddhist that told the hot dog vendor to "make me one with everything?" Wait, there's more: He gave the vendor a $10 bill. He waited a bit then asked, "Where's my change?" The vendor replied, "C'mon. You know that change can only come from within."

While this is a good example of comedic style (nice building of the A or B set up with a C punch-line), it's definitely an "Oldie". Yup, I'm that guy.

Excellent! My high school calc teacher used to hand out lemon drops for exceptional work. That was his version of the gold star. (Brag: I once got a 15 lemon drop bonus. ) These guys would have broken the lemon drop bank.