Have you been watching Breaking Bad? I love that show.

Brian Cranston plays a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. His HMO won’t cover his chemo, so in an act of desperation he reluctantly hooks up with a former student who is now a small-time drug dealer. The two of them start cooking up crystal meth out in the New Mexico desert to pay for his cancer treatments, and hilarity ensues. That’s just the first episode.

It’s kind of a dark comedy.

Season 1 was only seven episodes long, so if you’re looking to get into a new show without having to invest a whole lot of time, now’s your chance. It’s on iTunes, Unbox, and of course The Pirate Bay. Or, you can go old school like me and just watch it when it airs on AMC. Season 2 starts this fall.

And hey, thanks to the power of Facebook and IMDB I just discovered that one of my old high school pals was the post-production supervisor on four of those first seven episodes! Go Andy!

Portal without GLaDOS is like Christmas without presents. Please do not buy the XBLA version of Portal.

Just suck it up and get The Orange Box. You probably won’t ever touch the other four games that come with it, but it’s worth it just to play Portal – one of the most unique and engaging puzzle games you’ll ever play!

Doot doot doot doot doo…

Oh hey, what’s this in my mailbox?

A present? For me? Oh city of Anaheim, you shouldn’t have. It’s not even my birthday! I wonder what it could be!

Two free CFLS! Neato!

Thanks, Anaheim Public Utilities!

If fonts were people.

The teaser for Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica spinoff series, is now online. There is a boob in it.

Caprica takes places a half-century before the events of BSG. It’ll explain how and why the Cylons were created, among other things.

The second half of the final season of BSG isn’t set to air until 2009! Cripes.

I had a good time in high school. In fact, the only bad memories I have are of the constant struggle for good grades. This was difficult because I was an average student in a school full of geniuses.

So there’s this girl, Andrea Wachner. She went to my high school. I was class of 96, she was class of 95. I didn’t know her then and I don’t know her now.

She hated high school. She hated it so much that when her 10-year reunion rolled around she hired a stripper named Cricket to attend it and pretend to be her. Cricket wore an earpiece and a hidden microphone while a camera crew followed her around. The real Andrea Wachner was upstairs in a hotel room feeding her information all night long.

She’s documented everything and turned it into an indie film – “I Remember Andrea”. There’s a long trailer on YouTube. She’s submitting it to Sundance.

She’s probably a nice person and all, but this was kind of mean.

People go to reunions to reconnect with old friends and have a good time, not to be the butt of jokes…that’s the kind of stunt high school kids would pull! Oh snap!

I found a house I’d like to buy.

Unfortunately it’s a little out of my price range! $23 million.

I bought a lottery ticket yesterday so we’ll see how that goes. If I don’t win it, it wasn’t meant to be.

Kate’s turning out to be a real trooper. She had two back-to-back days of overstimulation this weekend and she took it all in stride – barely putting up a fuss at all!

Saturday night we went to the Orange County Fair. I ate and ate and ate some more.

The poster advertising this hot dog did not do it justice. It was roughly twice the size of what I was expecting. I did not realize this until they handed it to me.

I ate it all! I could have done without the toppings though.

Kate stayed up until 11:30 that night, despite our attempts to get her to sleep in her stroller. It worked out for the best, because she didn’t wake up until 10 the next morning!

Sunday we did DCA and Disneyland.

The reports you may have read are true – Toy Story Midway Mania makes Buzz Lightyear look like a rusty old relic. It’s tons of fun and the shooting accuracy is spot-on.

I’ve lost count of how many times Kate’s been to Disneyland, but she always manages to fall asleep before the fireworks start. This time she managed to stay up to see some of Fantasmic, but she lost interest after the first five minutes. You’d think she saw pyrotechnics every day or something. Kate fell asleep before Fantasmic was over and slept through the fireworks. She’s so brave!

Anyhoo, I’m exhausted this morning.

The Japanese Office from SNL. Old, but still funny!

So there’s this thing called the iPhone 3G and people are all excited about it.

I’m 12 months into a 24 month contract with AT&T.

You know what that means? That means the $199 iPhone becomes a $399 iPhone.

What happens if I pay the pro-rated early termination fee? My ETF becomes $115, and my total cost to renew to a two year contract with an iPhone becomes $314. That’s $85 cheaper!

That’s still a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a mobile phone. So it can play Bomberman…big deal!

The ideal solution would just be to buy the phone flat-out and not be chained to a contract. Unfortunately that option costs SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.