Presidents Day

Some non specified amount of time ago people used to celebrate both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln's birthdays.  Then along came MLK day (not a fan), which relegated Lincoln and Washington's birthday to Presidents Day.  

Presidents Day was meant for Washington and Lincoln, not all the rest of the pretender presidents out there.  There is no way i would celebrate economic domestic terrorists like FDR and Obama.  i said in an email once that would be like celebrating hitting the Titanic hitting the iceberg when you don't have any life boats.

To be a little more fair though, Washington falls in the lucky not good category (as a general).  i view Lincoln as a colossal hypocrite (the Civil War was an act of violent hypocrisy) especially given where the US came from.


The MLK stuff: Lincoln freed the slaves (to destroy the economy of the South). MLK talked a lot, cheated on his wife, directly profited off of the disillusionment of his own race, etc (the only thing he really accomplished was getting shot).  

Is This Not a Good Omen

I went to Safeway today to buy a lottery ticket (actually lottery and MegaMillions) and heard the song "Should Have Know Better" playing in the background while I was purchasing them.

When did supermarkets start playing good songs? 

Super Bowl L Predictions

Strangely, the NFL didn't want to stick with their usual Roman numeral scheme this year.  For some reason they don't want it called Super Bowl L.  Too bad, I had to learn Roman numerals in school so I might as well use them (for things other than movie/TV release years).

This year's prediction:
* Carolina Panthers: 31
* Denver Broncos: 17

The real championship game was probably between the Seahawks (Russell Wilson you suck) and the Panthers. 

The Super Bowl ads will suck once again (I watched part of a top 10 Super Bowl ads of all time and they picked a bunch of really stupid ads).  Things were so much better when lizards and frogs could sell beer. 


edit: Well at least I got one thing right, the Super Bowl ads sucked. The Super Bowl was boring (with Cam Newton doing his best Russell Wilson impression and paying a penance for those awful pants). 

Did I mention how much the Edge browser sucks.  It is unrelated to this post sort of (other than inputting text was difficult because Edge loves to hang when you are trying to type anything when using the browser). Yeah, another stupid spinning blue circle. 

My Newest Blu-Ray

So, i got a new Blu-Ray today.  It is something i thought would never come to Blu-Ray (it was only released as a manufacture on demand disc in 2011, not a real DVD release).  i could tell you, but maybe someone wants to guess.  It was released by Orion in 1984 and allegedly filmed in Bend, Oregon.

Galavant, ABC Please Release it all on Blu Ray

Well, I finally finished watching most of Season 2 (despite what ABC insinuates, they won't let you watch it all from the beginning - even On Demand.  They don't have the first episode).  Sorry cancellation bear, I can't see you sucking it.  I didn't know there was a second season when it started.

I started watching the series due to the promos. A medieval hero quest with musical numbers (and the theme song was annoyingly catchy).  They weren't just musical numbers they were strange musical numbers (bordering on ridiculous).  Also, it was surreal to watch TVs Carlton Lassiter singing. 

Overall, I think the first season was better (even the songs).  The second season did have a few moments though.  Tad Cooper, Dwarves vs Giants, etc.  There is no way that there will be a season 3 though (unless there is another surprise renewal). 

What I would really like is a complete series Blu-Ray release.  Supposedly there are a bunch of shortened/cut songs that could be added as bonus features.  I know they have overpriced video at places like Amazon, but a physical release would be far better.   

My Windows 10 Adventure

So, i'm not what you would call a fan of the crappy OS Windows 10 and the awful Edge browser. 

I had finally had enough of hangs and stuff not loading so I decided to use back up discs and revert the computer back to a factory state (with the vastly superior Windows 7).  However, nothing ever goes easy (why is that).  I got the computer back up and running - however, there was one little problem - Windows Update would not work at all (perpetually stuck at "looking for updates".)  Well, that won't do (especially since I couldn't update anything).  So, I begrudgingly had to install Windows 10 again.

I kind of hate Windows 10 and I definitely hate Edge (up there among Netscape Navigator as the worst browser I have ever used), but I guess i'm stuck with it.

Is AdSense a browser killer?  Sites with that tend to run like utter garbage.