Simplify Your TV Obsession

Many of us are watching all sorts of TV shows lately. Its so hard to keep track of what episode we've missed or find the time to watch it. Now you can just download them to watch whenever you want with no commercials.

TV shows are now easier to watch off the internet because its on-demand and there's zero commercials. Unfortunately this can be confusing, especially if your wife tries to download Friday Night Lights Season 3 Episode 6 and cripples your computer with a virus (ask Alex.)

I have perfected the process for you. You won't get any viruses if you stick to my guide (don't get creative.) This will work for Mac's and PC's.

You should be using Firefox no matter what your operating system (you Internet Explorer users, now is your time to repent.) This guide is written assuming you do.


Step One: Install This

• PC users: Click utorrent.com to download necessary software
• Mac users: Click transmissionbt.com to download the necessary software

Install/Run the program.


Step Two: Add Shortcut

Right-click the picture to your right and choose "Bookmark This Link".
Make sure you choose to add the bookmark to your "Bookmarks Toolbar" (its the folder option in the 2nd drop-down box.) If you don't, you'll never remember where you put this bookmark.


Step Three: Search Your Show

Click your freshly made link to eztv.it. Type the show you want see in the search bar.

This is important: The shows are coded in season and episode format. (Ex: Heroes S03E02 stands for season 3, episode 2). Typically there may be 2 listings of the same episode. You want the one that is smaller in size. There's a bunch of columns on the right-hand side of your screen. Look at the column labeled "Size" to figure this out.

Click the title of the episode you want to download.

Make sure you choose to open the file, not save it. After you push "OK," your computer will start downloading the episode with the program you installed earlier (either uTorrent or Transmission.)


Step Four: Watch Your Show

Depending on how new the episode is, your episode will download faster.

Once the progress bar hits 100%:

• PC users: Right-click the episode and click "Open Containing Folder"
• Mac users: Click the magnifying glass on the far right of the episode

You have successfully found your downloaded episode. Now watch it!

This is important: right-click the episode in uTorrent/Transmission and choose "Remove". This will stop you from sharing this file with others. If you skip this part, you will dramatically slow down your internet connection.
In fact, when you're not downloading any episodes, shut down uTorrent/Transmission completely:

• PC users: if the green U next to your clock is still there, uTorrent is still running. Right-click it and choose "Exit"
  
• Mac users: to quit, press Apple+Q
  

Notes:

1. If this doesn't work for you, repeat the steps and read them more carefully.
2. If you don't like this method, you can always visit Hulu or the actual broadcasting website (like ABC) and watch it there.
   
3. Shows typically show up on eztv.it within 2 hours of airing.
4. If you watch some dumb show that isn't on eztv.it, go to thepiratebay.org and type this in the search box: "Show Name S01E01" (obviously you need to edit the search terms appropriately). You want to download the episode that has the highest number of "SE" on the right-hand side of the page.
   
5. If you don't get video (just audio), you need to install this (PC users: XviD/Mac users: DivX)
6. If this still doesn't work for you, go buy a DVR!
   

Triumphant Failure

It is like something from "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Two prisoners, handcuffed together and blinded by pepper spray, tried to escape outside a New Zealand courthouse. Their escape was quickly haulted as they each ran on opposite sides of a lamppost!

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The Luckiest Sports Fan in America

I read this article and found myself in smiling the whole time. It's like every sentence I can't believe that it is actually happening. This is more amazing then the 14yr old cop! If you are a sports fan, you'll enjoy it.

Shark ATTACK!

Not much to say besides this was very impressive move by the shark! Wait for the slow motion to see how many twist he does. Is there a biological reason for a shark doing that? Is he drying off or showing off?

14yr old Impersonates Police Offer

I love this story because it actually happened. I mean, did this kid watch Leonardo DiCaprio's stirring performance in Catch Me If You Can and then just say: "Hey, I could do this... All I need is a Uniform." Again, I said the same thing after the movie but this kid actually did and does it. (Another article informs us that this is his 3rd arrest for the same offense)

So, he pulled it off multiple times which I find amazing, but what is more amazing is that this kid is 14 YEARS OLD!!! If a 14 year old walked into any office not named McDonald's, wouldn't someone say something in like .0005 secs? I guess the Chicago police officer is right: "He (the 14yr old) identified a major security breach within the system" Thanks Sherlock...

Pole for the Soul

So I am clicking through some business for a campaign that we are running at my new job. The campaign is called 'Just Pay Half.' (This comes into play) Every other business is a beauty spa or a restaurant and then I come across this 50% coupon.


Think Kevin from the office when I say" "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!"

A few things should stick out to you, for example:

1. Pole dancing is good for a confidence boost????? I mean, don't girls with no self esteem become 'pole dancers'
2. The wording here is incredible - peel away ANY LAYERS of self-doubt
3. And then they finish it up with this....

Pole dance classes are an empowering workout that GRADUALLY INCREASES your strength, flexibility and confidence as you explore your INNER BEAUTY and sensual soul through MEDITATIVE MOVEMENT and exotic dance.

I had no idea that strip dancing would gradually increase my strength, help my inner beauty, and allow me to meditate after a long days work! And you get paid in cash! I'm just saying....

How to De-plane Faster

[Consumerist.com] "Here's a little advice for all you impatient people out there. We know its really annoying when you're towards the middle of the plane and have to wait for all the stupid, slow people in front of you to pick up their crap and get off the plane — but don't think that you can just open the emergency exit and walk around on the wing of the plane.

That's what one mad man at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport did — and now he's in police custody. [Police spokesman Sgt. Tommy] Thompson says the flight taxied into the gate at Sky Harbor Terminal 3. As people were getting off the plane, the man opened an emergency door and walked out on the plane's wing. Police and federal authorities questioned the man. Thompson says charges are pending."

If you read the manlog, its your responsibility not to be a stupid man. This story should help that.

The one, the only, the HOFF!

There has been one shot wonders in music. There was the 80s which was classic and cheezy at the same time. There was the 90s when RAP was introduced and all a good video needed was gang signs and scantily clad women everywhere. And then there is the ever so famous American born, german famous David Hasseloff. This video will blow you away. I mean how does a man this ridiculous judge America's 'Talent' and how was he chosen to be the male star in a bikini based beach soap opera for so many years?!?! Oh and the Germans actually like this?

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The Real Iron Men

I think we have all seen something like this on the Warren Miller type shows but seriously, watch this if you are in need of an adrenaline rush!

Pay attention to the question: "How far away from the wall will you get?" The psycho Norwegian then put his hand out and says, "about this far!" Ridiculous. Ohh and its at about 100mph. So, please put your arms out, duct tape your suit jacket to your legs and jump off your office building....



wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Jim Rome in his Prime

For those of you who are not Romies! You MUST watch this interview Jim Rome gave to Jim Everett. I was trying to find his radio show here in Seattle and look through Wikipedia to find the answer. In Jim Rome's Wikipedia page, there's a 'incidents section.' This is a must read:

Rome gained notoriety for an incident in his ESPN2 show Talk2 in 1994 when he repeatedly called NFL quarterback Jim Everett "Chris" (after Chris Evert, the female tennis player), from the argument that Everett shied away from getting hit. Appearing as a guest on the show, Everett warned Rome about repeating the insult and then challenged Rome to do so. When Rome did, Everett overturned the table between them and shoved Rome to the floor while still on the air.
(Needless to say, I looked it up the 'incident' on youtube...absolutely incredible. haha, I'm laughing out loud as I type this. )

In 1997, hockey legend Gordie Howe made an attempt to play a shift with the Detroit Vipers, which would have given "Mr. Hockey" the claim of having played professional hockey in six decades. Rome challenged the 69-year-old ex-hockey star, offering a bounty of $3,000 to any player on the team playing against the Vipers to take Howe out of the game permanently by saying, "Putting this old fool back to reality". Howe and his wife threatened Rome with a lawsuit, and the bounty went away.




Found this in the search.... Do I ever lead you astray? Just watch...

Evolution of Dance

What one is better in your opinion?



I just wanted to notify all of you Evolution of Dance lovers that version 2 is out.

Reviews:

You know how most sequels are hastily put together because there was so much success of the first that they simply would be dumb not to post a 2nd version and make some money off of it. This is not very different in that it seems kind of forced, however around minute 2 it starts to get pretty impressive. For a white guy with tight jeans, he does do some good moves. Enjoy!

Has he been wearing that orange crush shirt everyday since the first video, it looks like homeless guy has been sleeping in it.

New meaning to Eat Your Eye Out!!!

A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant's death.

While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial.

A death-row officer at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice found Thomas in his cell with blood on his face and took him to the infirmary. Thomas said he pulled out his eye and subsequently ingested it," agency spokesman Jason Clark said Friday. He will finally be able to receive the mental health care that we had wanted and begged for from day 1," Bobbie Peterson-Cate, Thomas' trial attorney, told the Sherman Herald Democrat. "He is insane and mentally ill. It is exactly the same reason he pulled out the last one." The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in October upheld his conviction and death sentence for the death of 13-month-old Leyha Marie Hughes. Also killed March 27, 2004, were his wife, Laura Christine Boren, 20, and their son, 4-year-old Andre Lee.

Thomas, from Texoma, walked into the Sherman Police Department and told a dispatcher he had just murdered the three and had stabbed himself in the chest.

Thomas told police how he put his victims' hearts in his pocket and left their apartment, took them home, put them in a plastic bag and threw them in the trash.

Court documents described the three victims as having "large, gaping wounds to their chests."

--- My Thoughts ----

Honestly I’m struggling with words as there are so many questions, so many comments and yet so many one liners flooding my mind….

* Why does the State of Texas even feed and clothe this guy with tax dollars?

* If this doesn’t get you the death penalty in Texas I’m honestly in fear of what it takes to do so.

* At 25 what more can he do in life to top what he’s already done?

* Indeed Ryan Seacrest at times makes me want to rip my eyes out too.

* Did it taste like chicken?

New Macbook Wheel

Apple has announced its latest Macbook: The Macbook Wheel. Based off the design of the ever-popular iPod, the Macbook Wheel has simplified laptop design forever. If you are an Apple enthusiast, don't hold out anymore, get yourself this Macbook when it is released. The following video gives you a better understanding how it works.


Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

The Economy Has Reached its Bottom: Porn Bailout?

Please read this article with the following thoughts:

- Is this a joke, or can anyone just say their profits are down and ask for a bailout?

- Car companies need more money to sell costly cars, but how does the cost of filming, actors, and motel rooms really compare in the porn industry? Like a meal at McDonalds?

- Doesn't the picture of Larry Flynt on the left look like Jabba the Hut!?!

Just thought that I should bring this to your attention.
Read the full article on the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Winter Sandals

Here's a little story I've got to tell about one lonely brother that didn't go to well... (stolen from Beastie Boys - Paul Revere)

Megan was coming home from SLC on Sunday night around 9:30 (That is until Mother Nature showed up) So with her not coming in till at least 12:00, I throw a movie on. That means I have now gotten 'comfy' by putting on sweatpants, taking off my tie, and also took my socks off to really get in the comfy mood. (This is important to the story, I swear) It's now time to go, so I throw on jacket and since I have already taken off my socks, I make the lazy decision to wear sandals. SANDALS people, in the middle of winter. (It's snowing which is why the plane has been delayed) I thought I could get away with this because you know, I'll just be in the car. Fatal decision...

I go to Safeway to buy some flowers for Megan upon here return and as I come back to the 'reliable' car, it won't even turn over. Nothing. I'm pissed. I get this guy who just got off his shift to drive me home, but apparently he didn't want to drive the last 200 yards as he made me walk the last 200 yards. What am I going to do, make this guy drive me? I can't, so I look down the dark alley with too much snow for my sandals to handle and make the walk. Feet are numb and my pride is shot as I jump into my crappy Corolla. So at this point the tally is 1 broken car and 2 yards in the snow with Sandals on.

Stay with me, it gets better.

I then get a call from Megan who lets me know she is even more delayed causing me to pull over to the side of the road right before the Airport. I turn the keys to radio only, (see where this is going) and start listening to Soft Sunday Sounds with Delilah. Right when I am starting to sing along with Christina Auguleira's 'Beautfiul', my car shuts off. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My 2nd car broken within 20 minutes of each other. I then realize that I have to walk in the SNOW (did I mention I was wearing sandals?) I then proceed to walk to about 20 cars spread up and down the road, knocking on windows looking for jumper cables. Really, it was about 15 mins and trying to beg for help before I found the cables.... I felt like Bear Grylls trapped in Antarctica... (ok, not that bad but seriously I felt that 2 broken cars and walking about a 3/4's of a mile in the snow practically bare footed)

Oh, is now a good time to mention that we had jumper cables in the Corolla from when Megan and I were dating but they were in the tire well so I had no idea!

Hope you enjoyed my misery....

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After time, geeky things become cool

So I clicked on the link of MSN's viral videos of 2008. Among the top 5 videos was this link. My experience played out like this. Good luck on your journey....

0 - 45 secs - What the heck is this guy doing? Is he serious? Why do I still watch this? But for some reason, I continue I trudge forward.

52 secs - Alright, more then just him dancing... he's got my attention.... let's see where he goes from here.

2 minutes plus - The dance begins to grow on me, no longer am I annoyed but I am picturing how I could pull this off at my next dance party. I am enthralled with what's happening before my eyes. (Is this all it takes to become famous)

3 minutes 20 secs - By this time I am stuck on thought that this guy obviously comes from money or won the lotto. Therefore he can do whatever he wants while traveling the world? And this is what he chooses?

3 minutes 21 secs - I am jealous of this rich nerd.

4 minutes - I am currently looking at expedia and google maps. I am planning my worldwide dance party. Who wants in?

Random Notes/Trivia -

Places Visited - 62 (That's ridiculous, if you know how far he traveled and how distinct the cultures are... amazing)

* 1 minute 9 secs - Please turn your attention to the far right! (Australia's finest)

** Please fast forward to Min 3:20 and wait for Atlanta, GA. And there is American's finest. Is this all we American's can think of? I'm embarrassed.

*** I like his originality of his dance, but what if he had hundreds of people doing the robot? The moonwalk? MC Hammer? Is there a cooler dance he could have done.

I'm spent.


If you click through and watch this video on youtube, there's a link to watch the video in HD just on the bottom right of the video.