* Beverly Hills Chihuahua? Seriously?
* Okay, so a simple comment about Roger Dobkowitz - Sorry, but I don't care. And a comment about Steve Beverly - Sorry, but I don't care.
* As you'll see later from the Twitter feed, I just selected my new work cell phone.        *waits for appropriate comment*
* Been playing with Twitter to do microblogging. Not sure if I care, or if I'll stay there. The integration with Facebook sucks. I may be microblogging on Facebook instead. Don't know or care.
* That darned cat has cost me a paycheck recently, and I'm not happy about that...
* I've had two baskets of blueberries in two days. Yum.
* paperbackswap.com rocks the house. If you sign up, use rialtus as a referral.
* I'll be in Rancho Bernardo Wednesday and Thursday. Woo...hoo...
* The Stranger: 30th Anniversary is already mine - 1 day early. Amazon lists this as 3 CDs and 1 DVD, but then mention in the text that it's 2 CDs and 1 DVD for a total of 3 discs. Gugh.
* XP SP3 is (finally) being released to Automatic Updates "shortly", along with a new version of the Automatic Updates client.

The best thing to come out of this show was Neil Patrick Harris. Really a smart player it seems from this one episode.

Watching TPiR right now. Okay, fine. I've never been a fan of this show, and the changes aren't going to make me turn into a viewer now.

...and yes, it was weird hearing "Fremantle Production" at the end.

Have I completely been in the dark? I hadn't heard about this at all, but in viewing the Las Vegas Hilton, I see this...

Three legendary game show hosts, Bob Eubanks of “The Newlywed Game” & “Card Sharks,” Chuck Woolery of “Love Connection,” “Wheel of Fortune,” & “Lingo,” and Jamie Farr of “The Gong Show” and “M*A*S*H,” have come together to bring some of America's Favorite Game Shows all on one stage for the first time right here at the Las Vegas Hilton, beginning October 8!

This show has...MORE WINNERS, MORE CASH AND PRIZES, MORE STAR POWER, AND MORE FUN AND EXCITEMENT!

Over 50 winners will be on stage EVERY SHOW with over $50,000 in guaranteed cash and prizes EVERY WEEK. There will be a chance for someone to win $250,000 EVERY SHOW, and if that person wins the $250,000, EVERY AUDIENCE MEMBER at that show with a valid purchased ticket will win $100! Every audience member has an equal chance to be a winner.

SPECIAL PREMIERE SHOW - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13th
This will be the ONLY show where all three hosts will be on stage together. At only $42, this show will sell out! Book your tickets now while they're still available!

Dates and Times:
Daily Shows: Monday - Saturday, 1:30PM & 3:30PM
Hosts will rotate shows
Price: $42 (plus tax and service charge)
Location: Las Vegas Hilton Theater
Seating: General Admission
Book today! Please call the Las Vegas Hilton Box Office at 800-222-5361 for tickets or book online.

Temptation, you're off the season pass list. My time is too short for that show, especially when I'm in a double run market. It's not geared for me (married male) anyway. Sorry Aaron.

Merv Griffin's Crosswords, you are on the season pass, but will be watched at some point after Jeopardy! The prize budget, well, sucks though. About $3K for the winner, and a watch as a consolidation prize. I mean, c'mon - el cheapo Comedy Central was offering $5K for Ben Stein!

I just made a complaint that there isn't enough money on a game show. Shoot me now.

...no ceramic dalmations.

Spent most of the day yesterday incapacitated with a headache. It was always too bright, so I tried keeping my eyes closed while staying awake. Failed miserably on that last part. Pretty much was sleeping on and off from 11 am to 6:30 pm.Surprisingly, the headache lifted a bit to just a dull pain, and I was able to read the paper and watch TV in the evening. Even more surprising was that I was able to fall asleep at my regular time.

Alas, this morning I woke up early and am fairly grumpy. There's not nearly enough coffee in this building to pep me up. Mind you, I work in a 50-story buliding, with a cafeteria and a Strabucks in it. Nope, not nearly enough coffee. But I'm not like this guy.

I feel like I'm playing stupid. And I'm winning.

Jen finished Harry Potter. Big surprise there.

Got most of our CDs ripped. Using FLAC file format, there were 6,173 individual tracks on 397 CDs, totalling 118 GB of drive space. I still have a stack of CDs that are in Jen's car, and four in mine.

WSoPC was fun again. Pat Kiernan could be the next Alex Trebek. I could give less than a care about who is going to host TPiR, though having this drag out is just an embarrassment.

Microsoft Windows 7 in three years? Not holding my breath. They were saying the same thing for Longhorn, of which the server side *STILL* hasn't been released and isn't expected until early next year.

I think I need to keep a headache journal.

Jen is reading HP, and just blew her nose and wiped her eyes. I looked over, and she said "Dammit." I said, "Huh?" Her reply was something spoilerish.

This day is going to be intolerable.

Oh, best line about "Set for Life" has to go to lambertman -- "I wouldn't watch this crap again even if *I* was the contestant."

So Rosie O'Donnell won't be back on The View.

The first person to suugest that this news has anything to do with her hosting The Price is Right will learn very quickly the power of the Blue Felt Thingee^TM.

When fandoms of rialtus collide: From Blog@Newsarama, Stan Lee on To Tell the Truth.

And from the blogs, "This isn't going to last long". jiggery_pokery should appreciate that... EDIT And indeed, the number is now 227,000 just a few hours later.

Oh, and I think LJ did something funky and logged everyone me out. If you haven't been seeing the normal number of postings, you may have been affected too.

Think how much better Heroes could be if the entire cast was comprised of Deal or No Deal models.

Me now. If you think that was one of the most asinine things you have ever seen, you'd be right.

So I was looking through Rian Hughes' Device website, wherein he has artwork for many things, especially comics. This logo caught my attention. Wouldn't that be an interesting take for the new show...

Monty Hall ... of the U. S. Marines?

Obviously, I know this is a coincidence of names, but I thought I'd share anyway.

"How much money would you pay to get head from Ken Jennings?"

Answer: (link)

I'm rather surprised this link hasn't shown up on Fark yet.

Jeopardy! is doing an online contestant search for Los Angeles viewing area!

... two days of good references.

My friend Dave just looked at me and said "They're playing THAT on IT?" *laugh*

I'm listening to IT on XM Radio, and it's 1959. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that song is on!

EDIT: Song's over and I'm shouting. But that's probably just because the Isley Brothers version of Shout is on.

In case you missed it, Apple announced yesterday that they were going to produce a multi-button mouse called the "Mighty Mouse". Of course, this caused a reaction...

Lotus is at it again, trying to attack Microsoft's "suite" spot... Now I ask you - how long has it been since you've heard from Lotus? I mean really, have you heard anything from this line apart from Notes for the last ... five years? Still, bravo for them for trying to exploit Microsoft's use of standards on file outputs.

And then there's this... Microsoft Office 2003 Word Redaction Add-in Redaction is the careful editing of a document to remove confidential information. The Microsoft Office Word 2003 Redaction Add-in makes it easy for you to mark sections of a document for redaction. You can then redact the document so that the sections you specified are blacked out. You can either print the redacted document or use it electronically. Uhm... yeah, that's why you just don't PUT those comments in an electronic document. HELLLL-LLO!

EDIT: This is one of those rare computer world meets game show geekdom moments... Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to Bill Cullen