The Protagonist

Jay Leno The Movie Critic:
Workaholic Tonight Show host Jay Leno will shift from late night talk to movie reviews as the guest critic for Buena Vista’s Ebert & Roeper. Leno will fill in for regular co-host Roger Ebert, who is currently recuperating in Chicago from surgery last month.

Along the summer theme we have going today…I have been spending some time out in the yard in the evenings and its the only time I can be outside all day. (Its so hot during the day) In the midwest we’re a bit nuts about our yards and making them our own, lots of people [...]

US Weekly Magazine has developed an almost scary-weird site that predicts the way that celebrity babies will look like in 20 years. Check it out here. (the site has a lot of traffic and is down sometimes, but check back later if it doesn’t load)

I have had my air contitioner running for 3 weeks straight because its that hot this time of year. I also curse owning a black car with dark grey leather seats this time of year. (it seemed like a good idea at the time) I can’t sit in it or touch the steering wheel for a while [...]

I just rented Mind of Mencia season 1 disk 1 through netflix last night. Its pretty good. I dig his energy on that show and some of his stuff is pretty clever.
 Also, I don’t have cable, but I saw some of Dane Cook’s Tourgasm on YouTube and it looks pretty funny too.

Its time for me to start looking at new TVs for a few reasons.
1. My current one wigs out from time to time. Its days are numbered.
2. The HDTV digital thing is coming in 2009.
I was at Best Buy the other day looking into it and noticed that almost all the TVs they sell now are [...]

YouTube took down all the TopGear videos…bummer.
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I still think YouTube is a great site and will survive even if they don’t have this kind of content. It does attract new people, but once you’re hooked you don’t care whether its regular people’s videos or the network stuff as long as its funny & entertaining.

I have relatives that moved out to Arizona when I was a kid. We thought they were a little nuts to go live where its so hot that you can’t touch the door handle on your car in the summer, but things ahve changed a bit since then. The Scottsdale real estate market has gone [...]

This week in TIME they have the regular recap of world and national events happening…plus they have a 10 question interview with Morgan Spurlock, the guy that did the mdconalds documentary (supersize me) and now has a cable show called “30 days”. check it out online….

I have had some good managers and some not-so-good ones. I think we all get the gamut really.
I don’t think its an easy job though. Its tough to not only produce work on your own, but to manage the work of a group of others as well. There are always multiple things going on and there [...]

Some new sites I have come across this morning that I like…
1. Flickrshow – a site that takes a set of your photos (or anyone’s) and creates a slide show that you can embed in your site. Pretty cool.
2. Snapbits – for all the little things you keep forgetting.
3. Technorati – well this site isn’t new at all, [...]

If you ahven’t already seen Ze Frank’s video casts daily, you should. They are informative and funny at the same time. They are usually posted at around 1:30 pm cst every week day. I think they should give him a job on comedy central with the daily show. He is always funny.

Summertime is the time for tan. And suprisingly its very popular here since I’m in the midwest and not everyone gets sun here, not even in the summer. Its been raining a lot latley. So, here’s a good site that specializes in all the stuff you would need to tan at home any time of [...]

This is an interesting article I found about Wikipedia. Its a good history of how it was founded and how it works now. They also go into some detail about the interesting bits of information that are in the entries. Its really is interesting to search and read up on information there. I know I’ve [...]

I’ve been known to enjoy a good magazine or two on the train. My favorites are TIME and WIRED. But there are so many more out there and quite a few are tailored to fit the needs of very specific interests that you may have. How do you find out if there is a magazine [...]