A Radio Legend Dies

I heard the news today, oh boy...my friend Michey broke it to me...

michey: did you hear about scott
michey: from q104.3
Chuck: scott muni
Chuck: dead?
michey: yeah
Chuck: he was like 80
michey: well he passed away just the same
Chuck: that sux
michey: i swear the woman on the news kept saying SCOTT MULROONEY
Chuck: oooh job opening in NY
michey: chuck!

E-Bay

Ok, I am a Pack Rat! I have so many pieces of music memorabilia from 10 years of working in radio including a set list from one of Joe Ramone's birthday parties! I have this Jessica Simpson Book...and being taht I am not a fan I have decided to put it on EBAY!


Autographed Jessica Simpson Book and DVD.

Buy it...I have a ravenous rabbit to feed!

Iceland

It makes me feel good that Iceland is on National Geographic's "Photo of the Day" a lot.



I have a few dozen of these shots. Lake Myvatn is wild!

Conversations With Peggy (part 1)

You can learn a lot about Andrew and Myself from our conversations with El Presidente. This is from 9/26/04 at 11:45 AM (Screen names changed to protect the innocent.)

Chuck: good morning
Peggy: hey
Chuck: whats up?
Peggy: did you just get up:?
Chuck: no
Chuck: been up since 9:30
Chuck: remember I get up about about 8 hours before your husband
Peggy: haha
Peggy: he just got up
Chuck: and go to bed like 5 or 6 hours before him
Chuck: NO WAY
Peggy: yes
Chuck: did you wake him?
Peggy: i hear him in the shower
Peggy: no
Chuck: sure he's not sleep showering
Peggy: haha
Chuck: Go by the door and listen for "thats what I'm talking about"
Peggy: haha
Peggy: haha
Peggy: the night before last he wouldnt let me have the comforter
Peggy: he took it off the bed
Peggy: he said it was too hot for it
Chuck: you need to tie him up at night
Peggy: so we slept with the door open
Peggy: i woke up freezing cold and said....
Peggy: i am freezing and he said to me "i am refreshed"
Peggy: WHO SAYS THAT?
Peggy: he is nuts
Chuck: hahaha
Chuck: you married him
Peggy: haha
Peggy: yes
Chuck: what does that make you?
Chuck: Mrs. Nuts?

El Presidente!

Why can't our president look this good. If you looked at the photo gallery you saw Andrew's "virtual model." Peggy made one too, but made various ethnicities. This is our favorite. Latino Peggy!

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

NJ, NY

I got a promotional mailing today from Microsoft. It’s for an executive mini-camp showing you some of their new cool technologies. They’re going to hold it at Giant’s Stadium and give you an inside tour of the stadium when it’s done.

So you’re thinking, ok, where is he going with this? Could it be a rant about Linux, or about the Giants, or junk mail? None of the above – it’s about people who seem to forget about New Jersey.

The entire promotion mentions New York. It proudly presents “Giant’s Stadium – New York”.

People need to put New Jersey back on the map. I’ve been all around the country, and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. We've got everything you would want. Sports, history, the beach, mountains, full-serve gas.... you name it.

Besides, we have the best thing at all. Peggy is here.

Sony - Finally!

Now, I might just have to consider buying something from Sony ever again. They are finally REALLY supporting mp3's, not requiring wacky conversions -- Read the story.

You can read below my rant about Sony's "mp3 players" -- I still don't think I'll buy a music player from them. But some playstation games....

Wedding Songs

I’m super sensitive to weddings lately because of how many I’ve been to. First Peg and I, then Ted (and my new sister in law) Janice, and just this weekend Eric and Erica. Next January Stan (whom I advised to buy stannana.com) and Andrea will get married.

All these weddings have made me think about wedding music. There are some songs that are inappropriate for weddings that I continue to hear at them.

#1 in my book – Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights”. If you’ve never listened to it, it’s about a man who is looking to get some action, and the girl makes him promise to be with her forever. He gives in, and the rest of the song he’s begging for the end of time so he can get away from her.

I know people love to sing Meatloaf after drinking a dozen or so drinks, but this is one I think we can do without at a wedding.

What song do you not want to hear at Weddings? We can email our list to stan@stannana.com

mXc

If you get Spike TV you should check out MXC, one of the best shows on tv right now. They took video footage from an 80s Japanese game show involving insane stunts and dubed English "hosts" and "contestants" with insane comments.

I took one of those online quizes and I turned out to be Captain Tenneal ("General Lee" in the orignal) on the show.




Which Takeshi's Castle Character are you?

Unemployment

Well its just more proof that Bush is full of shit when he goes on an on about what a great economy we have. My position was eliminated today. I was the production director for three radio stations. Its funny, eliminate the position that really makes the "product" you sell advertisers. Smart idea.

Anyway, I heard there was some chick named Karen that like spent a lot of money on her credit cards and maxed them out and got random strangers to save her, then the bitch turns around and writes a book about it and makes even more cash. Well, if yuh want...e-mail me @ needmoreritalin@aol.com and I'll tell you how you can make a little donation to the "lots of awesome stuff for strong bad fund..." I mean errr, to pay my rent and stuff.

Music

I thought this mp3 thing was supposed to revolutionize music. Bring new bands to my attention, break down the corporate empires to give me more choice. So now it looks like just another way to pay for bands the record companies want you to buy.

NEXT... Sony. I can't stand their new "network welcoming". They'll tell you that you can play MP3's, but this isn't true. What Sony does in all their digital music players is have a conversion process to put mp3s (or wmas, etc) into their own format ATRAC. This is the same thing they did when I bought the minidisk for Peg.

Here was the conversion process at the time:

1. Plug the Sony minidisk's "microphone" jack into the "speaker" jack on the computer.
2. Press record on the minidisk.
3. Press play on your mp3 player on the computer.
4. Press stop on the minidisk when the song is done.

I argued with Sony for days on this point. Customer support just did not understand that you can't say it plays mp3's just because you can press record and capture it. I finally got a supervisor that would take it back, but not admit that it could not play mp3s.

The new "network walkman" does have a digital translator, so I'm told it is easier than before, but it's still not playing mp3s.

I know I'm not going to find out.

Rugby?

So, there's this anti-drug commercial.... Don't get me wrong, I've never done drugs, and I don't think you should either, but there are just some really bad ads against it.

In this one the kid describes how you might think he's a druggie, but he's not. The last time he scored “it was on a Rugby Scoreboard”. He's his own anti-drug.

Rugby. Really.

Why wouldn’t they make it something you might possibly be able to relate to?

I’m told there are people who play Rugby, and there is a “Rugby 2004” video game (featuring apparently everyone who plays, over 2,000 characters in the game), but since I bet you didn’t know it existed either, I hope you can agree with me about how popular it is.

Anyway, that’s why this is such a bad commercial, it relates to about 2,000 people worldwide, who already appear in a video game. X-Box can be their anti-drug.

GMail

So, thanks to Eddie, I now have a GMail account. Naturally, I choose the same handle that I use everywhere else. I'm a sucker for a classic.


For Peg, we need a new e-mail address. Please use the comment feature to post your suggestion. The winning suggesting will get the "Latino" version of Peggy emailed to them from her new address!

Governor McGreevey

So i work with the lovely and talented Michele Pilenza and she had to go to allaire Airport today for a press conference with the Gov. Anyway, the guy hasn't been answering questions after press conferences lateley and this time he said "Does Anyone Have Any Questions" and the press went apeshit and instead of talking about the "workforce developement" issue he was there to discuss they were all asking about Golan Cipel. Nobody asked what brand lubricant they use...go figure.

Advice From Andrew

Andrew is a great person to ask for advice. Although after that last post, I'm scared to ask what other things people have ask Andrew for help "extending."

Extend your wireless

People routinely ask me how to extend their wireless coverage. Often they want me to recommend what antenna or a bridge to buy. I don't know why, but I'm a fan of finding out how something works and taking advantage of that rather than buying something new.

Our townhome doesn't require me to do any expending, but one of the best things you can do is build your own antenna. Making it directional not only extends the range, but it also improves security, since it reduces coverage where you don't want it (you tell it where to go).

Keep in mind, wireless is never secure.

Anyway, check out this great site on how to build your own parabolic antenna: Parabolic Template.

It's the perfect way to spend an afternoon.

Wedding Cake

David wants this to be his wedding cake? Too bad that would mean his Bride would probably be a widow shortly after the nuptuals.

Grand Theft Auto

So I went to dump some stuff behind my apartment complex where the dumpster is. I bump into my neighbor Don. He calls himself preacher Don. He's mid to late 70's, sits in his apartment all day..fairly religious guy. We start talking at the dumpster and there is this car by the dumpster that doesn't look familiar. I take a quick look and see it has no plates and it has a new york registration sticker in the window thats been scraped to hell. I look in the back there arent any seats, nothing, can see right into the trunk. No speakers, no stereo in the dash and someone cut through the steering wheel with a saw.

I told Don to call the cops, it was hot. He did...they just picked it up, was stolen in NY in July. Andrew said they don't dump stolen cars where he lives. I told him thats cuz people have a garage there and it would be more obvious ;)

More Disturbing Commercials

I leave my TV on at home almost all the time. It's not that I watch a lot, but I like to have something on. In the course of watching, I see quite a few bad commercials. I'm not sure some products have a way to make a good commercial, so I think we have to come up with something better.

Dulcolax Stool Softener is one of these -- it has a woman relaxing into a chair, and it implies that everything should be soft and easy. I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I’m betting that when I want soft stool, I’m not about to cuddle into a chair.

Charman Toilet Paper is another -- advertises using a family of bears who apparently find Charman the only toilet paper they will use in the woods. This invariably ends with a blushing bear, implying that they just used the product.

The latest version of this commercial reminds them that they don't need to use that many sheets of the paper, because it is more absorbent. I don’t think commercials should tell me how much toilet paper to use.

So I'm asking you, the readers of our blog, to come up with something better. Tell Chuck, because I'll be distracted with another commercial.

Baker

I make Evil Cheesecakes...This One Is Chocolate with Kahlua and Bailleys.

Disturbing Ads

I've seen tons and heard tons more because of the nature of my work, but this just puzzles me...Match.Com has been running lots of ads on this AM station thats part of my company. Our listeners are mostly 65+. Its scarry that the marketing people at Match think that a lot of these people use the internet, even scarrier is the thought of 65+ people posting personal ads.

72 year old widow seeks man who isn't scared of Cobwebs. Or worse yet

80 something Male just got Viagra presecription filled.

That just gives me the Jibblies.

Hockey vs. Football

From an audience perspective, Football offers much less to look at than Hockey.

There may be one or two girls worth looking at, but on a whole, if the game is no good, all you have is the "junior" players at halftime, who could kick the Giant's asses this year.