open access for all

it’s round 17 of the spectrum auction by the FCC and yes the $4.6 billion mark has been reached for access to block ‘c’.  what does this mean to you and me?  well that means in the auction for the 700mhz spectrum (the one that can actually penetrate walls and office buildings), a portion of that will be forced to be open to any device on any platform.  this is a great day.  schweet!!!

greatness vs madness

watching the recap of last year’s (or was it last century’s) episode of lost i was hit with a notion.  and no, before you say anything i only had 2 beers.  i realized that profound people, either real or fake, are driven by either greatness or madness.  the most intriguing part of this realization is that neither party is far off from one another.  okay, follow me here: both are driven by a vision of an outcome and are willing to risk everything to achieve it and both don’t care whom they have to sacrifice to get the desired result.  some of the greatest visionaries ever are quite mad if you think about it.  they are the writers, directors, physicists, scientists, c.e.o.s, doctors and inventors that have helped shape the landscape of our lives.  the line between greatness and madness is very gray and very thin.

it’s 4:15am again and i can’t sleep

sometimes there’s just too much running through your brain to process and try to get to sleep.  for the untold number of times recently i woke at 3 something in the morning and for whatever reason my brain decides that it’s going to hit the ground running.

my mind begins by recalling portions of my life as though they are blog entries or chapters in a book hopping from one tangent to another as the pace picks up.  it’s like being in an italian sportscar when someone punches the gas: your head is pinned against the seat and you accelerate at a tremendous velocity.  before i know it  i can’t remember where i started and there is no end in sight.  this continues for, no lie, like 2 hours.

another oddity seems to be that i can wake up with a song in my head that i may not have heard in years.  mostly the ones that are ingrained in my cerebellum are the ones that i used to have to listen to when driving in the car with my parents growing up.  the ones that during the 80’s were considered ‘oldies‘ which now makes them ancient music.  sorry ma.  i could recite them in a coma if i had to yet for some reason ‘you’ve lost that lovin’ feelin‘ seems quite right to wake up to this morning.

maybe i should consider the ‘sleep number‘ beds that i see lindsay wagner hocking on television infomercials.   perhaps a ‘craftmatic 2 adjustable bed‘, they seem to do wonders for the geriatric crowd.  maybe i’ll just do like i used to in college and chug a bottle of nyquil.  that usually solves it……….

i am the great destroyer

it’s cold here.  cold as in snow, ice, and wind that hits you like a ton of bricks as you come around the corner downtown.  i have decided today that i am either crazy insane or insanely crazy.  pick whichever one you want, but they both have the words crazy and insane in them.

heroes never die, they just reload

subtitle: an open letter to sylvester stallone.

stop. stop making films. stop remaking the great characters of the 80’s. stop ruining great franchises. i’m referring to your feeble attempts (in the past 2 years) to show that “you really can act”. ultimately you have nothing new to show us as an audience.

my predictions for 2008

the following are my predictions for what will happen in 2008 in no particular order.

• barack obama wins presidential election proving it is truly ‘bros before hos’
• starbucks adds more food items to their menu incroaching even further on mcdonalds. ronald mcdonald seen taking orders from yuppies for ‘extra shot venti non-fat latte with 2 splenda’.
• microsoft offers to give away copies of windows vista in hopes of gaining new customers. public responds by noting that they needed to be paid a large sum of money to use the software. settlement talks have since ceased.
• anthony bourdain is arrested and charged with the murder of rachel ray. evidence alleges bourdain’s clothing was splattered in e.v.o.o. and dunkin donuts coffee and there was his bloody fingerprint on one of her signature furi knives used in the killing.
• facebook flops after massive devaluation. steve ballmer sends goons to make mark zuckerberg personally payback the $240M investment from microsoft. in related news zuckerberg has been missing for weeks with unconfirmed sightings in denver, phuket thailand, and jaurez mexico. his location is still unknown.
• google unveils its new ‘embedded search technology’. the premise is to embed a chip in your brain that indexes your thoughts and feelings to help you easily find them, while serving up ‘discreetly placed targeted advertising’ right in your frontal lobe. privacy experts expected to be outraged.
• new study suggests that eating bacon will in fact increase your life expectancy. pork belly prices have never been higher. study later found to be paid for by national pork producers of america.
• red bull found to cause impotence. sales of striped shirts everywhere decline.
• wal-mart secretly found to be run by satan. yes, that satan. sources closes to the evil tyrant say that he is in talks with dr. phil to do a special “sharing his side of the story”.
• apple unveils the ipod poquito. the smallest device ever sporting music, video and wifi. measuring just .1mm x .1mm x .0001mm. consumers scratching head as to how they will watch or listen to anything on the device.
• aol apologizes for sending out billions of cds over the years trying to get the public to sign up for their service. they have video-taped an apology from ceo randy falco and are expected to send it out on cd to every household to ensure the nation sees the apology.