Thoughts on history.

We have the ancient Egyptians, they're definitely best known for the pyramids. They did other stuff too and a lot of people can name other stuff they did. They've got their Sphinx (which really isn't that much different in that it's a stone structure, but whatever), mummies, hieroglyphics and enslaving whole peoples to get this shit done.

Then maybe thoughts go to the Greeks. They were pretty big on making weirdassed myths with Zeus fucking all sorts of relatives after slaying his father. They were also pretty huge on architectural advancement. We all love their columns and decorative ways. Philosophy was pretty popular there and we still teach Plato and Socrates in schools.

Moving on we had the Romans. These guys were the original Empire, conquering most of the known world and the places they didn't conquer were still regarded as trading partners. They were pretty big on robbery, too. Stealing and renaming Greek gods. Taking their architecture (and adding the arch, wooo, arch).  Then they went and gave that up and took Christianity. I don't really know about that being a step up, but that's a different topic all together.

Then we've got the Venetians. Known world wide for giving us the Venetian blind. And... ummm. Well, nothing. These people were around for a damned millennium (apparently, I had to look that up) and all we can associate them with are little thingies that you twist around to keep the sun out. Which just goes to prove my point. Ask anyone to name anything the Venetians did besides making their popular window dressing and no one will be able to. Did they sail the seas? I dunno, maybe. Did they make any great strides in astronomy? It's possible. For all I know they could have been the first people to develop cold fusion (yeah, maybe not). But one thing's for sure. These guys knew their shit when it came to windows!

Well, it happened again

And this time it's all my fault. I had a wonderful idea for a blog post and I was even here sitting at my PC at the time and I said to myself "Yes, I will blog about that later. And surely I won't forget what it is I was going to blog about." But then I did just that. All I had to do was click that little button down there to show the desktop, open up my little .txt that sits on my desktop that I try to keep blog ideas in and type out a sentence and I'd have it.

I didn't do that though, so instead you're getting what amounts to a rerun. It's that I had something to post about and I didn't episode all over again. Feel free to switch channels. I probably would if I were you.

Wait, what, you're still here? Well, ok then. Umm, so I want to kill my DVR. It's got this funny habit of switching off for no reason and because of that it only recorded 18 minutes of that new show American Restoration which I was looking forward to watching. No big deal, it's the history channel. It'll be on again soon. Unfortunately the earliest I've managed to find it is Saturday, so unless it pops up in on demand that's when I'll be watching it.

Ok, people, nothing to see here. I'll be back again tomorrow and hopefully by then I will have remembered what I was going to post about this time but forgot. I have a feeling it was either about gaming or music. Probably gaming.

DVR and Pawn Stars

So hey, I bet a bunch of you guys out there have DVRs huh? I'm wondering how many of you use it like me and how many don't. I've got a bunch of shows on mine that I've saved and watch every now and then so they've been on there for a while. Do any of you do this too? I've got the SNL sports special and the last Christopher Walken hosted episode. The sports one I have because of the "That'll move the chains" sketch with the stupid kid working with the color commentators on a football game and for the NFL play60 with Peyton Manning sketch. Spend time with your children so Peyton Manning doesn't! I've also got a few Whitest Kids You Know eps saved and a few music videos too. Two of the things I have saved I've had for at least three or four years. It doesn't tell the year in my DVR so I'm guessing there. I've also got the last 5 episodes of Foster's Home which I swear I will watch one day!

I try to keep my DVR's drive somewhere around 50% full if I can, but lately it's been in the 70s. I need to catch up on everything. And it doesn't help that they've been showing Whitest Kids in like 4 hour blocks. Soon enough I will have seen most of the episodes though so I'll be able to delete them without worry, but for now I still have it set to record every and save every for ever. And I've got a pretty good number of other shows set to record every new episode such as House, Pawn Stars, CSI, CSI:NY, Venture Bros, Metalocalypse, Mythbusters and I know there are more, but I can't think of them.

Speaking of Pawn Stars. Does anyone else watch it? I watched Monday's episode Tuesday morning before I went to sleep. They're giving Rick Dale, the cool dude who restores EVERYTHING his own show. They're calling it American Restoration and the first ep looks like it's going to have him fixing up a classic golf cart for the pawn shop. I'm more excited than I should be for this show I think, but it looks like it could be really good. Rick Dale is just such an interesting person from what I can tell from Pawn Stars and even if the show turns out terrible, which is unlikely, it can't be any worse than Ice Road Truckers or Swamp Rednecks People.

Alrighty I'm off like a prom dress.