My New Year’s Celebration consisted of my two kids, a fireplace burning all night long, dinner, then hot chocolate, then popcorn, all over the top of a 4-movie blockbuster night consisting of Batman vs. Dracula, Spy Kids, The Fantastic Four, and the 342nd showing of Scooby-Doo the movie. I’ll just have to hold off on the Brothers Grimm until tomorrow night. By the time Scooby ends it will be time for the count down shows from The City. And this ranks as one of my best NYE nights in many a year. I’m guessing the kids are not likely to make it through the Scooby movie, leaving me to count down the final minutes of 2005 acting as a pillow for a couple of snoring bodies.

MacNN reports that Steve Jobs has been named the “Radio Person of the Year” by RadioDailyNews. A little like naming Howard Dean Republican of the Year, don’t you think?

The devil has possessed me for hours on end, late into the night. It steals my brainpower, smashes my ego, distracts me from more important things. It is the devil’s own best tool and it is SuDoKu.

On December 31, the powers that be have decreed that an extra second will be added to realign offical time with astronomical time. Of course I’m sure that all of you can recall exactly where you were the last time this happened back in 1998. I know it was magical for me. So what are you going to do with that extra second?

I wish a very merry Christmas to all who find their way to this page. I know that 2006 will be a great year for me. Lets all make that list of things we’ve always wanted in life and make it happen!

I have seen more than one episode of exactly one reality show, and I forget its name. It was the one where everybody was an actor except for the one really nice schmuck who they set up. I thought it had just the right sneery tone.

Well, check out this link in the Big Brother forums about the GB reality show that’s airing now called Space Cadet. They convinced some idiots that they were going into space and put them through hell and a simulator. Or maybe this thread is just a put on, because that somehow seems more believable.

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.

Benjamin Franklin

Lets just get the caveats out of the way first. I talk and drive. I sometimes text while waiting at stoplights. So hate me.

My main computer is a Powerbook which is the best computer I’ve ever had. When looking for a Smartphone one of my main goals was to secure one with:

I started out two and-a-half months ago with the goal to lose 50 pounds….yep I was/am a big guy. My plan included several steps. I bought a scale. I bought a body fat monitor. I got a little program that runs on my Treo 650 (Palm) called Diet & Exercise Assistant from Keyoe, Inc. to help in setting calorie goals and monitoring my food intake (more on this below). And I started walking, both for the exercise and as a stress reliever. I learned from experience that stress is a huge factor for me in weight gain/loss/maintenance. I also learned that exercise helps this.

I’ve never been able to suffer the Stewart Smalley positive affirmations of the if I just say it while looking myself in th eye then it will happen kind. So in honor of the season, here are the…

Radical Careering: 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life by Sally Hogshead is one of those simple-yet-complex, obvious-yet-insightful, raucous-yet-sublime, Little Books that you should be stuffing in the stocking this Christmas of all your 9-to-5 drone friends who need a kick in the ass to get their life and their career back on track. I’ll pause now while you reread that sentence and try to truly absorb its magnificence. Damn, while I was waiting on you there it hit me full-force that I’m THAT guy.

Candace Millard’s debut is the engrossing story of Theodore Roosevelt’s journey, along with Brazil’s most famous explorer, down the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt). It brought Roosevelt to the brink of death, nearly by his own hand. In the end, the result was that the 1000 mile long newly named Rio Roosevelt was added to the map of the interior of the Amazonian Rain Forest.