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July 25, 2006
Trivial Tuesday #29
1. What popular stage production will be ending it's 18 year American tour through 151 cities this week? (Hint: Another company finished their 16 year Broadway production in 2003)
2. What popular band is rumored to be building a 35-floor skyscraper in Dublin?
3. Late August is the target for the next shuttle launch. Which shuttle will it be?
4. The newest British Monopoly game gives up the paper cash for what?
5. What popular Indy Racing League driver announced today that their would be no switch to NASCAR?
Answers for last week:
1. Kevin Weisman (Bonus: Scott Mosier)
2. The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Who. Others include: Killers, the Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley, Keane, Drive-By Truckers
3. Cyprus
4. Intel Core 2 Duo
5. 8 (Bonus: 5 - Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong, David Zabriskie, George Hincapie, and Floyd Landis)
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July 18, 2006
Trivial Tuesday #28 & DLM Plug
1. Clerks II comes out Friday. Which co-star of "Alias" makes a cameo appearance? (Bonus: Who is the long time producer for Kevin Smith?)
2. The Virgin festival to be held in Baltimore September 23 will be headlined by whom?
3. Thousands of Americans are trying to flee Lebanon. Where are the evacuees being taken?
4. The NDA's are over and the info on the new Intel processors are out. What are the new processors called?
5. Today was Stage 15 of Le Tour de France. To date 7 riders have worn the Yellow Jersey this year. What is the most riders to wear the Yellow Jersey in one Tour? (Bonus: How many Americans have worn the Maillot Jaune? - Can you name them?)
/end of trivia
"Dead Like Me" starts on Sci-Fi tonight @7:00..If you haven't seen it, you should tune in. It airs Tuesday's @8:00 starting next week. It ran for two seasons on Showtime before it was replaced by 'Fat Actress' Kirstie Alley. It's one of the few shows I actually own on DVD..
Answers for last week's trivia:
1. Stephen Colbert
2. Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright. Bob Klose would probably also be acceptable.
3. Canada
4. XP and ME
5. Italy
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July 14, 2006
Picture Friday
Happy Wooden Fifth!
&
Happy belated Birthday!
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July 12, 2006
There Is No....Friction
Yikes! Nine out of my last ten entries have been either trivia or pictures. Perhaps I should come up with something to say.
So I can be cool and feel that I'm part of the blogosphere for the day, I'll mention the RocketBoom drama which seems to have taken hold of the blog/vlog-osphere for the past week. If you haven't heard about it, you probably have a life. It's been the #2 searched term on Technorati (go there for info on the feud) for most of the past week. First I'll say that I watch RocketBoom every day mostly because it's only 3 minutes and often has some entertaining /'educational' content that I don't want to seek out for myself. That said, I'm not a fan of Andrew Baron (the guy that started it) from what little I've seen/heard of him and I don't really have a strong opinion about Amanda Congdon (the original host). Sometimes she's great, other times not so much.
Today the show launched version 2.0 (I'm getting tired of version numbers for everything) with a new 'interim' host, Joanne Colan (who's actually got some experience, btw). Like many things in RB's history the episode was plagued by lateness (still waiting for the promised results of the t-shirt contest, for example). The show came out 2 days and about 4 hours late..which was great fuel for all the blogs out there. The new episode had a good beginning and end..but the content in the middle didn't do anything for me (much like many older episodes of RB). The one thing that disappointed me most with the 2.0 launch was that it wasn't very different sans the new host. But..The great thing about the show is that tomorrow is a new day and there's no telling what they'll do. JoCo needs to read some news.
For another daily [tech] news fix, visit MoBuzzTV, which makes me wish all the daily vlogs would move to Europe so they can be ready to watch when I get out of bed..of course then I might be late for work. Now we have an American hosting a popular European vlog, and a European hosting a popular US vlog. hmm..
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July 11, 2006
Trivial Tuesday #27
1. 'Strangers with Candy' hits theatres this Friday. Which native South Carolinian helped write (and stars in) this film?
2. Syd Barrett, a co-founder of Pink Floyd, passed away recently. Name another founding member.
3. The US Senate just approved the importation of personal drugs from what country?
4. Microsoft announced today that they would no longer support what two operation systems?
5. Who won the World Cup?
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July 4, 2006
Trivial Tuesday #26
Independence day or not, there must be trivia! This week flavored by some US history...
1. Which of the current major broadcasting networks (tv/radio) was the first to form in the US?
2. Which Siberian-born immigrant wrote "God Bless America"?
3. Which President was born on July 4th?
4. Which American Inventors created the computer mouse?
5. Which President proposed a bill to ban Football?
Answers for last week:
1. Joanne Rowling. The 'K' comes from her grandmother, Kathleen. 'Jo' Rowling doesn't have a middle name.
2. Tracii Guns
3. Berkshire Hathaway
4. x.com
5. 2002
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July 2, 2006
Picture..Sunday
The Internet didn't work most of Friday, so I'm a little late. This is the new bridge with some remnants of the old in the background. Picture taken Feb 19, 2006.
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