Friday, March 9, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Vinegar
A couple of weeks ago my wife looked at my scooter helmet's visor and asked if I could even see through it, it was so cloudy. I put it on, and, wow, I actually couldn't see through it. It had gradually gotten cloudier and cloudier. So gradually that I hadn't even noticed. But there was a tough film of crud, road tar, exhaust fumes, and you-name-it caked onto the visor. It was pretty disgusting, not to mention dangerous.
I searched the internet in vain for a good cleaner for a visor. Windex? Forget it. Dishwasher detergent? Not hardly. Regular soap? Just caused a smear. High-priced specialty cleaners? No one on the net suggested those, so I didn't even try that. Everything I saw on the net and tried didn't work worth a shit. The internet was NO HELP!!
I had some serious CRUD on my visor.
Finally, my wife said, how about vinegar? We've probably all heard the stories about the 1000's of uses for vinegar. Well, make this 1001. It took a lot of elbow grease, but it turns out that good ol' vinegar is the ONLY thing that got the visor clean. Now, it's good as new. And the solution cost but a few pennies. What a deal.
Funny thing is, I've read through several websites touting the benefits of vinegar for this and that, but not one of them suggested it was a good cleaner for helmet visors. I feel like a pioneer, boldly going where none has gone before. It sure does stink, but it works.
What the hell is vinegar anyway? Go here.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
New CurrentTV shows
Damn, CurrentTV keeps getting better and better. Now if they could just break into most cable TV lineups. They need to get on the basic tier, like FOX "News" has done.
Current TV Launches ‘Voyeuristic’ Morning News Block
Expanding toward a 24/7 progressive news network, Current TV announced on Monday that it is launching a morning news block. “Full Court Press: The Bill Press Show” and “Talking Liberally: The Stephanie Miller Show” — two progressive radio programs — will be simulcast on Current between 6 a.m. and 12 p.m. ET.
Six additional hours of content represent an aggressive expansion for a network that hired Keith Olbermann to build out its primetime programming only a year ago. It triples the amount of content on the network, which currently has prime-time news shows between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET.
There’s a “voyeuristic” appeal in watching a radio program simulcast on television, said David Bohrman, Current TV’s president and the man who put Don Imus’ radio show on MSNBC in a similar style years ago. The new programs will “give voice to our viewers and the radio listeners, and I think it’ll be a really helpful, interesting program for our viewers,” Bohrman told TPM. Current co-founder and CEO Joel Hyatt agrees with Bohrman that the audience participation built-in to the radio programs is key for Current’s brand development. “That’s something that we’ve long believed in at Current,” Hyatt told TPM. The new morning shows are “ready-made for those formats.”
And putting Press and Miller on TV is a “vote of confidence” in their programs, Hyatt said. The hosts will control the content, Hyatt said, but Current will have a “very collaborative and productive relationship” with them.
Bohrman is confident that viewers will enjoy watching a television broadcast of a radio show. People don’t need to be entertained with “glitter” 24-hours a day, he said, adding that viewers use their TVs differently in the morning than at night. It could be on in the background as people move about the house and get ready for the day. A talk radio format complements that approach, Bohrman said.
It’s certainly cheaper, too. But Bohrman insists that putting the radio shows on Current wasn’t a budget decision. “The goal wasn’t to produce the cheapest program,” he said. It’s also faster to put these shows on Current than to produce from scratch a TV-based program. In a fierce election season, time is of the essence, and Current hopes to have the shows on air by the end of March or early April.
Press — a former political commentator for MSNBC and CNN — said hooking up with Current will give his show much wider exposure. There are almost 2,000 right-wing radio networks across the country, and only 60 progressive stations, Press said. Current will bring his show into millions of homes. “It’s a kick ass way to start the day for liberals and progressives,” Press told TPM. “We’re the only ones that provide that.”
Miller — who describes her program as “The Daily Show” on the radio — said the program will be more like a “reality show” than cable news show. “It’s really taking the radio show in its purest form” and putting it on TV, she said.
Press’ studio is in Washington, D.C. and his show airs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET. Miller broadcasts out of Burbank, California, and her show airs between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. ET. Hyatt said that Current is still expanding programming quickly. In a few weeks, he expects the network will make an announcement on a Sunday morning show.
Original. (Go Al Gore, go!)
Cuisinart ICE-21
I was like Oprah.
YOU get an ice cream maker!
And YOU get an ice cream maker!
Everybody gets an ice cream maker!
It was Christmas and I went a little crazy with the ice cream makers. I found a good sale on the Cuisinart ICE-21 on Amazon, so I bought several. It wouldn't have been right if I hadn't gotten one for the wife - or me - so that we could make our own ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet.
This past week we FINALLY got around to making our first batch of sorbet, a recipe we made up, "strawberry/raspberry surprise." And it was FINE! And it's so easy.
Consider this a rave review for the Cuisinart ICE-21. Just freeze the bucket (overnight), mix up your recipe, turn on the machine and pour in the mixture. In 20 minutes, VIOLA! A very fine sorbet.
Check back with me when we make our first batch of ice cream.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Poor Rush!
Oh no! Rush has lost his staunchest supporter!
'We Are Terminating Our Relationship with Rush Limbaugh': Satan
Radio Host Loses Longtime Sponsor
COLUMBUS, OH (The Borowitz Report) – Embattled radio host Rush Limbaugh suffered another major desertion today as he lost the support of one of his longtime sponsors, Satan.
The usually reclusive Prince of Darkness announced his decision at a hastily called press conference in Columbus, Ohio, his unofficial headquarters on Earth.
“Due to remarks of his that we consider unacceptable, we are terminating our relationship with Rush Limbaugh,” Satan said in a tersely worded statement.
According to one advisor to the Lord of Misrule, Satan had stuck by the radio host as long as possible but after he called a young woman a slut on the air Mr. Limbaugh had become “radioactive.”
“After a certain point, the association with Rush became problematic for Satan’s public image,” the aide said. “We went through a similar thing last year with Rupert Murdoch.”
Advertisers continued abandoning Mr. Limbaugh’s program in droves today, including companies who had sponsored it for years, like the online dating site NaziMingle.com™.
The only good news for Mr. Limbaugh today came from GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who offered this muted statement of support: “Look, I wouldn’t have chosen the words he did. But it’s not like he called her a poor person or something.”
Sunday, March 4, 2012
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