This blog's name and address have been changed to:
weezdumb
New posts are being made there now, but no longer here.. look for a new template and more stupidity and all sorts of dumb stuff..
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Porn Interrupts Arizona Super Bowl Broadcast
from Arizona Daily Star
A short clip of a pornographic movie cut into a Comcast broadcast of the Super Bowl in homes in and around Tucson.
Officials at Comcast confirmed that its signal was interrupted during the Super Bowl, but the company is still working to figure out how porn broke into its cable feed.
Engineers at Comcast will be working throughout the night to determine what happened, said Kelle Maslyn, a Comcast spokeswoman.
The Star newsroom erupted with calls from irate viewers shortly after 7:30 p.m. who said that the porn cut into the broadcast just after Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald scored a touchdown on a pass from Kurt Warner to give the Cardinals the lead with less than two minutes in the game.
Callers said that a clip showing a woman unzipping a man's pants broke into the standard definition feed reaching analog TV sets. Comcast's high definition feed was not affected, and Maslyn did not know how many homes were affected.
[Apparently there was even more scoring than we realized]
A short clip of a pornographic movie cut into a Comcast broadcast of the Super Bowl in homes in and around Tucson.
Officials at Comcast confirmed that its signal was interrupted during the Super Bowl, but the company is still working to figure out how porn broke into its cable feed.
Engineers at Comcast will be working throughout the night to determine what happened, said Kelle Maslyn, a Comcast spokeswoman.
The Star newsroom erupted with calls from irate viewers shortly after 7:30 p.m. who said that the porn cut into the broadcast just after Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald scored a touchdown on a pass from Kurt Warner to give the Cardinals the lead with less than two minutes in the game.
Callers said that a clip showing a woman unzipping a man's pants broke into the standard definition feed reaching analog TV sets. Comcast's high definition feed was not affected, and Maslyn did not know how many homes were affected.
[Apparently there was even more scoring than we realized]
Saturday, January 31, 2009
The Super Bowl in Six Minutes
Before the 2009 Super Bowl, the pre-game show is five hours. The game telecast is four and a half hours, normally they allot three hours.
Someone at ESPN timed the actual plays of a game, while players were in motion, running around: the game’s actual EXCERCISED length with people in action = five minutes, forty seconds!!
Yep – our priorities are in order, 9.5 hrs of broadcast time in a row for six actual minutes of sports action! I don't have the heart to calc the minutes of commercials for all this, that's usually 20 min per hour, likely more tomorrow!
TIVO this sucker, watch it in 15 minutes, taking time to slow-mo the cheerleaders bouncing up and down (the "Man Show" on Spike used to end with slo-mo's of teenage girls on trampolines!)
-- and who said "advertising was dead"?
Well, some guy on CNBC said they give away a lot of time now! NO WAY they're gonna lengthen the shows back again though - better to give the time to the army, a local vocational school, or even the guy from the Ron Howard short film on Lettermen, his brother Clint who was a wino that collected dead rats! he ends up on tv commercials promising "a free dead rat with every tv purchase!"
Time = Money, so this sucker is costing the nation nine hrs x 200 million people, that's 1.8 BILLION hours total. Enough to CURE freakin' cancer!
...I remain The Jman....
Someone at ESPN timed the actual plays of a game, while players were in motion, running around: the game’s actual EXCERCISED length with people in action = five minutes, forty seconds!!
Yep – our priorities are in order, 9.5 hrs of broadcast time in a row for six actual minutes of sports action! I don't have the heart to calc the minutes of commercials for all this, that's usually 20 min per hour, likely more tomorrow!
TIVO this sucker, watch it in 15 minutes, taking time to slow-mo the cheerleaders bouncing up and down (the "Man Show" on Spike used to end with slo-mo's of teenage girls on trampolines!)
-- and who said "advertising was dead"?
Well, some guy on CNBC said they give away a lot of time now! NO WAY they're gonna lengthen the shows back again though - better to give the time to the army, a local vocational school, or even the guy from the Ron Howard short film on Lettermen, his brother Clint who was a wino that collected dead rats! he ends up on tv commercials promising "a free dead rat with every tv purchase!"
Time = Money, so this sucker is costing the nation nine hrs x 200 million people, that's 1.8 BILLION hours total. Enough to CURE freakin' cancer!
...I remain The Jman....
Gaseous Clouds in Space
This is the most awe-inspiring photo of space I've seen, the Orion Nebula photographed from the Hubbell space telescope. The different colors are elements, blue is zinc, so there's a cloud of zinc so large that it encompasses fifty or more stars!This image is my desktop wallpaper off and on, I rotate this with one of the moon above some mission bells out west, perhaps San Xavier du Bac near Tucson.
The San Francisco Astronomical Society had a bumper sticker, which read "Are there clouds of gas around Uranus?"
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Lancelot Encore, the Cloned Dog
[Typical waste of money by americans with too much? or a worthy use of your life savings? - lol.. the Jman]
A Florida couple had their dog (golden retreiver) Lancelot's DNA frozen, then cloned after he died. They now have the 10 wk old clone, named Lancelot Encore -- cost: $150,000! Guy Adami on Fast Money said, "they could've bought 200 dogs for 750 each, kept the one that looked like Lancelot and given away all the others"
Better yet- find one that looked like that and give the other 149k to a local soup kitchen or food relief service for FLA HURRICANE victims.. oh well, my bias is showing... I like th idea of cloning, esp if we find an animal IMMUNE to something like the plague, or a human that can't get AIDS..
Here's the story on MSNBC: Florida Couple Clones Dog
It IS an awfully CUTE dog! who wouldn't want one?
Other good names: Lancelot Redux (like a movie), Lancelot II (like a horse or king), Lanc-a-clone, Looksalot Like Lancelot
ps2 - Geron (GERN)owns the rights to cloning, someone had to pay them royalties I hope - they cloned Dolly the Sheep or their technology did, the first cloned 'famous' animal (they had cloned mice in tests).. not much different than procreation really, since any animal has different memories and experience regardless of their DNA --- but it makes a good PR story -- grab yer kids DNA now in case something happens to one!
A Florida couple had their dog (golden retreiver) Lancelot's DNA frozen, then cloned after he died. They now have the 10 wk old clone, named Lancelot Encore -- cost: $150,000! Guy Adami on Fast Money said, "they could've bought 200 dogs for 750 each, kept the one that looked like Lancelot and given away all the others"
Better yet- find one that looked like that and give the other 149k to a local soup kitchen or food relief service for FLA HURRICANE victims.. oh well, my bias is showing... I like th idea of cloning, esp if we find an animal IMMUNE to something like the plague, or a human that can't get AIDS..
Here's the story on MSNBC: Florida Couple Clones Dog
It IS an awfully CUTE dog! who wouldn't want one?
Other good names: Lancelot Redux (like a movie), Lancelot II (like a horse or king), Lanc-a-clone, Looksalot Like Lancelot
ps2 - Geron (GERN)owns the rights to cloning, someone had to pay them royalties I hope - they cloned Dolly the Sheep or their technology did, the first cloned 'famous' animal (they had cloned mice in tests).. not much different than procreation really, since any animal has different memories and experience regardless of their DNA --- but it makes a good PR story -- grab yer kids DNA now in case something happens to one!
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