Geeky Drunk

A recent study conducted by Harvard University found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year.

Another study by the American Medical Association found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.

This means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.

This makes me proud to be a geeky drunk American. Considering there is no way I walk 900 miles a year, I figure I’m getting about 80 miles to the gallon!

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This basically seals the deal. Just like the original iPhone, the new 3G iPhone is claimed to not be able to record video, which is basically stupid. I was just wondering last night if someone would write an app to allow video recording, and someone outdid themselves big time. QIK has just announced that they will also support the iPhone which is huge. It will not only record video, it will stream it live on the internet and also record it for later viewing.

QIK has become very popular in the past year in the wake of Yahoo Live!, Justin TV, Blog TV and other live video streaming sites. Compared to other streaming video sites where you have to use a computer and web cam or camcorder, QIK allows you to use a mobile phone.

It has kind of been an exclusive website as originally it was only designed for high end Nokia phones with fast connections. Live streaming video for the cell phone has just been brought to the masses.

This video shows a demo of QIK on a supposedly jailbroken iPhone, but we expect to see it on a 3G iPhone very soon.

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This is really, really hard to write. I hate to admit it, even to myself. I’ve been watching David Letterman religiously for nearly 20 years. I would keep the TV volume low in my bedroom during 9th grade so I could stay up every night until 1:30 AM to watch Late Nite with David Letterman. My love and affection for David Letterman goes much deeper than you will even know due to meeting him and what he did for me, which I’ll get to in a later post I guess, but let me explain why I’m mad.

David Letterman had Scott McClellan on tonight, President Bush’s former Press Secretary who wrote the book “What Happened” which was negative against the current administration. First of all, it wasn’t a big surprise that Scott McClellan was on David Letterman. I never had any idea what political party David Letterman favored until just the past couple of years. And I liked it that way.

Sure, he has good interviews with politicians and other related guests, but professionals can have a good interview without letting their personal view or agenda get in the way. Dave has had a very hard time doing that, which gets in the way of the comedy and fun of the show. I don’t care what side you’re on, if any, but you would rather hear Dave tell a funny joke than give his 2 cents about something he doesn’t specialize in.

Geeky Drunk isn’t a political site, we’re supposed to get geeky and drunk on here, but this is what David Letterman said tonight:

My feeling about Cheney and also Bush, but especially Cheney, is that he just couldn’t care less about Americans. And the same is true for George Bush. And all they really want to do is somehow kiss up to the oil people so they can get some great annuity when they’re out of office. ‘There you go Dick, nice job! There’s a couple of billion for your trouble.’

I mean he pretty much put Halliburton in business, and the outsourcing of the military resources to private mercenary groups and so forth. Is there any humanity in either of these guys?

Again, we’re not looking to talk politics here, but come on Dave. Get a grip. Bush and Cheney could care less about Americans?!? I don’t care what you think about the war, but the President and Vice President care about Americans. The whole idea that they’re making all of these decisions for money is just rediculous. They already have a lot of money, they are set for life . . . why care less about Americans and “ruin this country” as you would probably allude, just to add more millions to the millions they already had?

It’s unmaginable that my favorite comedian David Letterman could say these things . . . if it was just another comment on Digg I could understand. But this is the 2nd King of Late Nite we’re talking about here! Dave please stick to funny - you’re no good at politics.

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So the new iPhone only costs $199. Well, plus the new increased AT&T $30 unlimited download plan, versus their previous $20 plan, and you have an extra $240 for your two year contract. $240 + $199 = 439 American dollars.

If you want fast Internet on your iPhone it will cost you an extra $120 a year, or $240 for the life of the two-year contract. The $199 is not as cheap as it seems.

Was your new 3G iPhone really subsidized?

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Well, today is the day most of you have been waiting for. The announcement of the iPhone 2, or 3G iPhone, that has been talked and rumored and drooled at for months. 3G, GPS, 2nd video cam on front for video conferencing, thinner / thicker design, and a rumored $199 subsidized price tag from AT&T. What else could you want?

Oh, copy and paste? Well, check out Mac Rumors Live for live updates from the keynote, and it looks like The Digital Lifestyle may be broadcasting live video coverage. You may just get your copy and paste.

We’ll update this post when we find out. 90 minutes and counting . . .

Update: no copy and paste . . . hard to believe, isn’t it?

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Yes, I’m a gaywad, gayford, sittin’ down fairy. But I don’t piss everywhere!

I am proud to admit that when I am home, I piss sitting down. I do . . . I swear to god man. It’s just easier. No complaints from the Mrs. about urine everywhere and I can just sit down and relax, pet the cat that always follows me, and shake my pally while sitting down. Easy as . . . well, easy as sitting down.

Do I do this at work? Heck no, I stand up like a man. There is a subconscious voice inside me that says, “Don’t pee like a pussy.” And so I stand up for my right not to seem like a pussy, but I think the fact that others are smearing their sweaty asses and facal matter mist up on said toilet seat might encourage my courage.

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Wow, this is a flashback. It’s like I built a flux capacitor and found the 1.21 gigawatts required to go all the way back to 1985! Or was it 1997?
Only 11 years ago . . .

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After spying on customers and threatening to limit bandwidth, these jokers at Comcast probably deserved to be hacked. Now, I’m not saying I like hackers or condone hacking, but Comcast deserves it more than anyone.

As of 2:36 AM ET on Thursday May 29th, www.comcast.net is still down. All you see is a Network Solutions “web page under construction and coming soon” holding page. But several hours ago there was a nice little message from the writers of the Warlok virus:

KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST
sHouTz To VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven and Slacker.

There is also talk about malicious code embedded in the above hacked page (which McAfee wanted to enable!)

It looks they really hacked Network Solutions and changed the DNS settings, but whatever. The all important email is down for many Comcast users and people are pissed. Apparently, the fake mail.comcast.net IP address is listening to ports 25 and 110. The hackers could suck down a lot of Comcast user names and passwords.

Just think of all the bounced incoming email no one will receive! Hopefully this will help Comcast to wake up and realize they are in business for their customers, and not the Bandwidth or Internet Police.

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I just finished upgrading 23 different sites to Wordpress 2.5.1. This was long over due, as many of the sites were running 2.2 or older. It took about 8 hours to backup, delete files, upload new files and upgrade plugins. The new automatic plug in upgrade feature is nice, but man there has to be a better way. 8 hours! There went my Memorial Day … time to get geeky drunk.

I did find 6 different sites that had been hacked. They had an extra directory named “1″ in the /wp-content/ directory. This new directory had tons of gambling pages and a single javascript file. The ip addresses all traced back to Asia and China.

Hey I have an Ancient Chinese Secret for you hackers - I upgraded, so bite me.

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As a long time Price is Right fan and a formerly hopeful wannabe Drew Carey fan, I have to let this out right here and right now. On behalf of America, humanity and loyal The Price is Right fans - it’s time to quit your day job Drew. You’re just not cutting it, not even close.

This isn’t coming from a fly by night observer. My mom still swears that the first words I spoke as a child were “Ba Babar” - yup, I said Bob Barker’s name before “Ma Ma.” I guess mommy shouldn’t have let me watch so much Price is Right. Besides Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, I remember Bob and “The Big Wheel” being my favorite TV show. About thirty years later I visited California just to attend a taping of The Price is Right, the year before Bob retired, and it’s a moment I’ll never forget.

I’ll be honest and admit I removed The Price is Right from my Tivo Season Pass after Bob Barker retired and the re-runs were on for several months. When October of 2007 rolled around, I did watch the first several episodes with new host Drew Carey. I felt it wasn’t the same, but wasn’t as bad as it could be.

Looking back, leaking the news that Rosie O’Donnell could possibly replace Bob Barker on The Price is Right was the best thing that CBS and TPIR could have done. Anyone is better than Rosie. So, after the first episode with Drew your left thinking…well he’s better than that bitch Rosie would have been.

I guess Drew Carey is funny. He is a famous stand-up comedian and I kind of liked his stuff. He did a good job as host of the improv show “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” However, therefore, please do note….

Sitting at a table and making fun of improv performances, or adding a joke or two, is no way even remotely close to hosting The Price is Right. Sure, Bob Barker had many years to improve his craft before the majority of us watched the show for the first time. But it doesn’t matter - Bob Barker is naturally funny. He doesn’t need to think of jokes. Bob can just look at you and you know the joke.  A lot of Drew’s jokes are making fun of the fact he is a game show host! (or apologizing and mumbling like he did tonight)

Bob was the ideal game show host. He could play off of basically any contestant, any mishap, and always come out shining. He is the master of class, the Italian … well a bunch of other boxing phrases, but the two words that come to mind the most are:

SMOOTH

and

CLASSY

Bob Barker will never be replaced. Unfortunately, Drew Carey doesn’t even come 0.01% close to matching the skills of Bob Barker. I just got done watching the Wednesday night prime time “Million Dollar” Price is Right and he was lack luster, un-interested, comatose…you get my point?

I don’t think he’s even trying anymore. So Drew Carey, PLEASE give up your day job. It’s been six months and it’s just getting worse. Hell, even Marc Summers from Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare” would be WAY better… the Producers should have listened to their instincts.

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