My friends at Team Awesome who made that great Punch Out Trailer are back!

I found this ad in the back of this month’s Smithsonian magazine.

Look at that face. So confident. So sure of himself. A true playboy. He’s seen his share of wine and women, and he’s always ready for more.

Does anyone even wear berets anymore? Women 30-somethings posing in winter J. Crew catalogs might wear them, but they do look pretty dorky in today’s modern world. Kind of like wearing black socks with shorts. Or a beard without a mustache.

I’m not into fashion so I could be way off base here. Feel free to wear a beret and prove me wrong!

I just got an exciting call from Tammy on her layover at the Denver airport.

She saw and met Jason Momoa, the guy who plays Ronon on Stargate Atlantis.

She mustered up the courage to talk to him and noticed that under his big dreadlock hat there was no hair at all. It was shaved off! He told her she was the first person ‘in the know’ to see him like that.

So you read it here. This is a Stargate exclusive! Internets, do your thing! Ronon probably won’t have much hair at all when season 5 rolls around.

We’re both big Stargate fans, having watched all 10 seasons of SG-1, and having just finished Nexflixing the first three seasons of Atlantis. This is pretty big news to me! Of course if you’re not a Stargate fan you probably don’t care. But that’s why you can’t post here, ha ha!

Growing up along the coast I never really thought much of the Santa Ana winds. While the local news was always covering the crazy wind conditions all over Southern California, the south bay’s coastline was mostly spared from anything more than a light breeze. Naturally, I suspected some kind of conspiracy.

Having moved inland in 2003, however, I can attest that the Santa Ana winds are REAL, and not the fabrication of an overreacting media. I live IN the Santa Ana Canyon and we get some of the biggest hurricane-strength gusts (74mph+) as a result. Anaheim Hills is on the southern side of the canyon.

Here’s some cellphone video I took in my backyard Monday night. I was struggling a little to stay on two feet.

Those palm trees are practically sideways. It’s a miracle they’re still in the ground.

I can handle thunder and lightning. They just make a lot of noise and flashing light and they don’t scare me at all. But wind is another story. Wind scares the hell out of me and keeps me up at night. Wind can destroy things. Wind rips roofs off of houses. Wind can carry a burning ember two miles to spread fires.

Luckily none of the dozen or so fires raging in Southern California are near my house. The closest one is in Irvine and that’s mostly contained by now. There’s still ash and smoke everywhere, though.

On the positive side we’re having some beautiful sunsets.

Craig T. Nelson was playing Guitar Hero III on My Name Is Earl two weeks ago. How did he get his copy so early?

Well he probably downloaded the demo! You can download the five-song demo, burn it to a CD or DVD, and run it in any 360 – no illicit console modifications required!

Sweet!

The Wall Street Journal broke the story on DCA’s expansion plans today. It’s actually 1.1 billion over five years.

Even with these changes I can’t help feeling that Westcot would have been so much cooler.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is probably the funniest thing on TV right now.

Last night I watched the latest episode, “Sweet Dee’s Dating A Retarded Person” and could not stop laughing.

If you missed it, here’s a highlight! Charlie’s song, “Night Man”-

He followed it up with “Day Man.”

Since it opened in 2001, Disney’s California Adventure has been nothing but trouble. It opened with very few big-budget audience-wowing attractions, suffered from poor word of mouth, and generally represented a new cheapified way of building Disney theme parks.

DCA’s attendance numbers have always been low, even now – six years after opening. On days when Disneyland hits 20,000 (that’s a slow day) DCA is lucky to hit 7,000 people.

Well. DCA is about to get fixed!

It cost $1.4 Billion to build DCA in 2001. Disney’s board has just allocated $1.2 billion dollars over the next ten years to renew, remodel, and retheme the entire park. Al Lutz explains what to expect in the makeover.

Disney’s fiscal new year started October 1st, so expect those construction walls to start popping up all over the place any day now…

I’ve always considered Lunarpages to be our hosting bruthas. Their offices are only 15 minutes away from ours and their datacenter is only a few blocks from ours. They offer a similar service for a similar price and seem to share our friendly attitude and are fairly open with their customers. We’re competitors, sure, but I like them! I always thought if I met a Lunarpagian in real life we’d nod heads at each other and be like “‘Sup?” then we’d do the secret web hosting handshake and that’d be that.

Then they sent us that whole cease and desist and I sort of soured on them a little bit. Then they completely ignored our basketball challenge without so much as a “You so crazy!” or a “No thank you,” or a “Haha! Go fuck yourselves, DreamHost!”

Somewhere along the line they ditched their toll-free support number, junked up their company’s blog with posts that in no way relate the company or its operations, retroactively changed their affiliate program to require more sales before payouts, and most recently they’ve hijacked their customers’ 404 pages to include some kind of domain-squatting SEO reacharound scheme. Customers can override this default behavior if they can figure out how, but man. This is the default? We would never do any of this.

So I’ve decided that Lunarpages is no longer cool. This is a great loss to an industry where coolness is as rare as a hand-held unicorn.

Oh look, there’s one now.

If you can’t find humor in a bridge collapse, you are probably a better person than I.