NBC Today Show

I am probably the only person, as a grad student, who is around and who watches the Today show. I just like having something on in the background. I have noticed many things about the show, which, despite my watching it fairly often, drive me nuts. First of all, why do they always say, "That's what's happening in the rest of the country, now here's what's happening in your neck of the woods." even when they haven't just told us what it happening in the rest of the country? They will say this after discussing some actors love life, or some cake recipe, but often not following the weather or national news...which makes the statement not make much sense. They also say, "This is today on NBC." all the time. Which just annoys me because of course it is....But besides these quirky sign offs, what really gets my goat is that every day they have to have what I can only call, "The freaky accident/nature attacks segment." Watch and you will see that every day they have one of these segments involving an interview with those involved (usually accompanied by stupid props). I have seen several on shark attacks, a truck driving through a living room, and I just saw a teaser for tomorrow morning: a kid who got a deer antler stuck in his head. Now that is what I call important news!! If they did this once in a while fine, but the fact that they do it everyday just puts the nail in the coffin. Mix it up a little, try doing a story on something that matters: environment, poverty, politics...and I am not talking about Mat Lauer interviewing penguins at the North poll.

Moist...

If this word drives you crazy....you are probably a woman. Check out the post about this over at Mollytics. Pretty funny and true.

Dreams of my youth...

Tecmo Super Bowl was the best sports game ever...back when controllers were simple, graphics sub par, and music slightly annoying. I only had about five games for my Nintendo, which I won selling popcorn for the Boy Scouts (over share?), but Tecmo Super Bowl was probably the best. Bo Jackson was unbeatable and the Reverse Fake Z-Post, was the unstoppable play. I spent many a Saturday evening with a hand curled like a hook because of "Nintendo thumb syndrome." Check out the link...it's pretty funny. Any Nintendo memories from your youth?

kind of funny...

"Jesus loves you on vacation."
My brother took this picture.

I am thankful for....

Dog, looking big and asleep.

Dog in a bag.

Well, today being Thanksgiving and all I though I should say that yes I am thankful for many things. I am thankful for Sarah, friends and family. I am thankful for my dog (because I have pictures I will share them), my nephew Hunter, and my niece Noe (OK, technically she's not my niece, but basically the same thing). I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. On Wren's blog you can read about what he does with holiday leftovers. My suggestion, via my uncle, is thanksgiving shepherd's pie...take all the leftovers and make a shepherd's pie.

Seen any funny typos lately?

Ok, fine...here's a post I have been thinking about for a while. Has anyone seen any funny typos, misspellings, or ungrammatical mishaps on signs, in the media, or anywhere lately? (Besides on this blog of course, where I take certain liberties with the English language, sentence structure, etc...I have no copy editor so cut me some slack.) I don't have any good examples right now, but I am sure someone out there has seen something that has made them first shake their head and then laugh.

Answer

Here's the answer to the trivia question that no loyal reader wanted to answer. Publius was the name used by the writers of the "Federalist Papers." They were by the way John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.