This past weekend I rode the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster for the first time at Universal Studios Orlando and really enjoyed it. I didn’t know anything about it before riding, so that first experience was really cool. You get to pick your own music from a selection of about 30 tracks and then …
My wife and I were at Disney World for our honeymoon when Epcot held the first International Food & Wine Festival back in 1996. And yet, with all the times we’ve been to Disney World since then (which also was my first time ever), we’ve never been there again during the festival … until this …
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Famous jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie would have have been 93 today … check out Google’s cool Doodle: Being a trumpet player myself, I was a big fan of Dizzy, primarily because of his sweet horn and the cheeks (although try as I might I could never play with my cheeks puffed out like that). When …
This past week TiVo unveiled its online Season Pass Manager, available through your account on tivo.com. Adding to the existing features of being able to view your Now Playing and To Do lists online, the SPM lets you re-order, copy, and delete the Season Passes on your TiVos from your web browser.
While driving home from work this evening I had my iPhone on a random playlist and these two songs played back-to-back: “Pretty Fly for a Rabbi” by Weird Al Yankovic and “Possum Kingdom” by the Toadies. Ok, yes, an interesting combination but that’s to be expected in a random playlist. What caught my eye was …
This evening my wife and I went to Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater to see Harry Connick, Jr. who’s touring in support of his new album, “Your Songs.” This was either the fourth or fifth time we’ve seen Harry in concert (we couldn’t remember exactly) and it was a great show as always. The way …
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We went and saw “Wicked” this afternoon at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, using tickets we purchased about five months ago. It’s an incredible show and I highly recommend you see it if you have the chance! This was the third time for me (once on Broadway with the original cast, here in Tampa …
Ever since I started playing Kingdom of Loathing a few months ago, I’ve been listening to the “120 Minutes of Jick and Mr. Skullhead” podcast/radio show. Through them, I was introduced to Nerdcore hip hop since the Asymmetic crew are friends with MC Frontalot, the artist who coined the term. I’m not actually new to …
A TiVo is much more than just a souped up digital VCR. What separates TiVo from your cable company’s generic DVR (other than the awesome features of TiVo service itself) is the wide range of (mostly free) applications you can use to enhance your TiVo experience. I’ve written about some of these applications here before …
Wow. Michael Jackson was pronounced dead at a hospital Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home, marking a sad end to the life of a man who had been a global pop icon since childhood. “Thriller” was the first album (cassette) I remember buying. My sister and I went in on it …