This weekend I’m going to a wedding on the Queen Mary! I’ve been there before, but not for a wedding. I’m excited!

Which reminds me! I have to pick up my one-and-only suit at the cleaners today!

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If you can get past the reporter’s sappiness in this local news story, what you have is some pretty amazing video of an autistic kid scoring SIX three-pointers in the last four minutes of his high school basketball game.

He’s already got a movie deal!

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I don’t really like iTunes and I only use it for two things: to rarely copy music to my iPod and to manage podcasts for me.

It copies music well enough, but it does a pretty lousy job of managing podcasts.

Every week I sync my iPod on Monday morning right after iTunes has downloaded new podcasts from the last seven days.

When I do this, the ‘blue dot’ indicator that goes away when you listen to a podcast GETS RESET and applied to every podcast in my library, so I have no idea what I’ve listened to and what I haven’t. That’s magical.

Other times iTunes will transfer over all but like two or three of the new podcasts for no good reason. It doesn’t throw up an error message or anything so I usually find out mid-week when I’m stuck listening to an episode of Car Talk that I just heard the week before. Syncing again fixes this, but what the christ!

My theory is that iTunes sees Winamp running in the background and it’s jealous. It can’t stand that its competition gets to play all of my SWEET TUNES and it’s protesting by making my iPod as difficult to use as possible.

Thanks!

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Nintendo’s Revolution project has a new official name.

It’s Wii.

I’m not making that up!

It really is Wii!

It rhymes with pee.

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One of these days I’ll hang up my web hosting hat and become a mechanical engineer. I will do this for the sole purpose of inventing the ultimate massage machine thing.

My vision is simple! This device will attach to the top of any high-backed office chair. It will then have two kneady mechanisms that may resemble human hands, but may also just appear to be small metal appendages. These robot hands will rest on the shoulders of whoever’s seated in the chair, and they will deliver the most intense and ergonomically-correct shoulder and neck massage humanity has ever seen. It will be glorious. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

I could probably just hire some Thai lady to come in and stand behind my chair all day long, but her hands would probably get tired after a while and I bet she’d want to take bathroom breaks. Unacceptable.

That’s the beauty of my invention! It’ll never get tired, it won’t fart in my office, and you won’t have to pay it an hourly wage! And the massages it gives will be out of this world.

I’m just puttin’ this idea out there in case, you know, someone reading this is like “Hot damn! What a great idea! I’ve got the skills and I like your moxie, Brett. Let’s make this happen.” I will be an exclusive beta tester, and my new mechanical engineer friend will help me to live my dream of automated, high quality shoulder and neck massages.

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Yahoo! Go is free DVR software from Yahoo!

After all these years, Yahoo has finally released something useful. Yes, I know, it’s crazy. I’m just as shocked as you.

edit: This is actually a free, rebranded version of Medio‘s DVR technology which Yahoo bought a few days ago.

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HDL_Dump now available for OSX! Good news for Mac-using softmodders.

If you haven’t softmodded your ps2 yet, get on the ball! You’ve only got a few months left before God of War II ships. Check out the trailer!

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On my way in to work this morning I actually saw a guy driving a Segway to work. I was so shocked that my monocle popped out!

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Life throws you curves sometimes! Nothing eventful has really happened to me lately, but I’ve been thinking back to how I was a kid and there were some things in my life now that I just never saw coming back in the 80s.

As a child I pretty much thought I’d be a kid forever. I didn’t give much thought to growing up. I never ever thought that I would drive a car, own a house, get married, not go to school anymore, be able to buy anything in the grocery store that I want, go to Disneyland every day of the year if I feel like it, buy any video game or console system whenever, see a vagina, cook things on a grill, watch enough television to make my eyeballs turn to jelly, take naps all Saturday long, take naps all Sunday long, buy things at Home Depot, be responsible for the care and maintenance of one fish two cats and a horse, drink to the point of violent regurgitation, rub Tabasco into my eyes, look at my parents as peers more than parents, buy my own clothes, buy a tree, fly on an airplane by myself, and oh hell the list could go on forever.

The point is that nobody really knows what’ll happen tomorrow, and anyone who says they do is either crazy or doing some insider trading.

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Stargate SG-1 is now in its 10th season and has already been renewed for an 11th.

Next month you’ll be able to buy seasons 1 through 8 in a box set – that’s 174 hour-long episodes – for $49.95. Yes, $49.95. That is CRAZY cheap. In fact, I’m not even sure that’s right. But they claim it’s to celebrate the show’s 10th anniversary, so I guess it’s real!

A single season goes for $39.96 at Amazon, so jump on this when it ships on June 13th.

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