bad news – automatic flushing toilets

angry guyAt least half the automatic toilets do not work properly. And why do they not have a manual over-ride?

I recently had a bad experience: the toilet did not flush, the sink not turn on, and the auto blow dryer failed. OUCH.

These days I fear to step into a public washroom.

The Trouble with Technology: Automatic-flush Toilets

Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner

ColbertPresident Not Amused.

Despite a shaky start, Stephen Colbert’s spin-off late night Comedy Central TV show is now more essential viewing than The Daily Show with John Stewart.

Colbert pretends to be a rabid right wing pro-Bush TV talk show host. And he is hilarious.

George Bush has probably never seen Colbert’s show. But he knows the routine now after being nuked by Colbert at the annual dinner for political correspondents dinner.

Highlights on the Editor&Publisher website.

Cobb portable grill and barbecue

BBQ

I finally got to see the amazing Cobb portable BBQ in action. It can roast, bake, smoke and fry. Highest quality materials, the class of it’s field, I highly recommend it.

500F — yet cool enough to pick up and carry across the room.

It’s time for me to upgrade from my older model.

discount barbecue

video – everyone is a Rock Star

warning — this home music video was certainly not approved by the parents of the girls who put it together. Don’t watch it if you are easily offended.

Another example of where internet content will come from in future.

From you.

TV – Family Guy

familyIt’s amazing — the success of late night adult cartoons.

Family Guy reruns can out draw Letterman and Leno at times.

I was initially negative about South Park and Family Guy. It seemed dishonest to disguise adult material in a show that looks like children’s content.

I got past that.

South Park and (the comparatively tame) Simpsons often have a warped moral to the story. But Family Guy has only one goal — to make you laugh. Or, perhaps to make the writers laugh. Their pop culture references and absurd cutaways work for me.

Is Family Guy immoral? The Parents Television Council ranked only WWF Smackdown and The War at Home worse TV over the past 2 years.