John Turner

I agree with the judges…Fanny Pak KILLED it this week on ABDC. But, I was just as amazed by A.S.I.I.D. The way they busted out the ballet moves combined with the hip hop moves was just top notch. SoReal Cru rocked it, too, but I think they lost it a bit on the fast part. I had a problem with a lot of of the routines the crews put out this week. The theme was “speed up challenge”. I thought that for most of the crews, the fast part of their routines just turned into crazy superfast cheerleader moves instead of dance moves. I can’t wait for next week!!

I upgraded my iPod Touch to 2.0 today. I am in heaven. The first app I downloaded from the App Store was Remote. I absolutely LOVE being able to control my iTunes Library over WiFi using my iPod Touch. And for FREE no less. So now I can be anywhere in my house and switch tunes whenever I want without having to be where my computer is. And I don’t need to run wires or deal with crazy hacked up smart home or X10 setups, either. So simple…LOVE it! There are a lot of Apple haters out there…that’s a shame, because Apple simply gets it. There’s no other way to say it…if you ask me, they are the only true IT company around. They do the whole thing, soup to nuts, they do it well, and they make it seamless. It took me all of 10 seconds to get Remote working and playing anything in my Library. There’s no way that would have happened on Windows, from any vendor, and certainly wouldn’t happen with Linux.

I have a confession to make…I’m hooked on America’s Best Dance Crew. I’m not sure what it is about the show, but I like it. A lot. Not the judges so much (except Shane Sparks), but the crews.

My favorite crews right now are Super Cr3w, Fanny Pak and Supreme Soul. I gotta give props to A.S.I.I.D, too, because they’re from the D but I like the other crews better. Super Cr3w absolutely killed it this week, as did Supreme Soul. Man, I like this show a lot. Silly, I know, but it is what it is.

Basically, I’m an old guy. I tell people I am 42% hip. People who are more hip than me (like 52% and up) get it and laugh. People who are less hip than me don’t get it and give me a goofy look. I try and avoid those people if possible. In other words, I get some of the pop culture stuff going on these days, but most of it goes right over my head. For example, I needed a 5 minute explanation of what rickrolling was…I didn’t get it, even though the main tool used in rickrolling someone happened when I was in college.

Anyway, there’s this thing called “LOLCats”. People upload pictures of their cats in cute/funny situations, and then overlay funny captions on the pictures. They’re cute and funny, for sure. But, I’m a dog guy. Cats are OK, but dogs are way better.

So the dog version of LOLCats is LOLDogs. Like this site: I Has A Hot Dog. (disclaimer: if English is not your first language please note that “I Has A Hot Dog” is grammatically incorrect which, apparently, is part of the joke but again I am only 42% hip so I’m just guessing) I found this picture today and just cracked up laughing. I’m still laughing two days later:

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Seamless upgrade to WP 2.5. Yay!

I dropped my Netflix account yesterday. When I started with Netflix 3-4 years ago, I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. Then, I ran into the throttle. Basically, Netflix felt I was renting too many movies, causing them to lose money on postage.

I’m all for companies making a profit, but their argument doesn’t make sense. First, even if they were losing money on me, I’m 100% positive they were making money off of someone else, more than likely enough profit to cover both of us and still come out ahead. Second, they specifically use the term “unlimited” in their advertising, and they say I get to pick the movies I want. Well, unlimited means that if I only want to watch new releases, then they better send those puppies out as fast as possible.

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I cashed again in a tournament at Full Tilt. In the last 6 weeks, I’m up almost $2000. Not too bad at all. By “cashed,” I mean “more than $200″. I don’t count the little tournaments or satellites. For this latest, I used 50 FTPs to get into a satellite. I won that, which got me into another satellite where the buy-in was 2500 FTPs. I won that, which got me into the weekly $750K guarantee. Out of 3,974 people playing in that tournament, I ended up 82nd. I wish I could have made it into the top ten…that’s where the serious money was. I think first prize was $134K. Tenth was something like $9K, I think.

On the down side, I went to Motor City the other day to play live in their daily tournament and didn’t cash (last time I played there I cashed for $400). So, playing live I’m 1-1 (.500). If I was a professional baseball player and that was my batting average, I’d be making $15 million a year.

Yet another hypocritical politician goes down the tubes, as NY governor Spitzer resigns from office. Now, if we could only get Kilpatrick to follow suit, we’d be getting somewhere.

Probably the funniest thing about the Spitzer deal (other than laughing in amazement at how stupid some people can be) are the last two Letterman Top Tens a la Spitzer. Here’s Monday’s, and here’s last night’s. I have to say that Monday’s is better, though, especially #5 and #1. Absolutely hilarious. I don’t understand people who like Leno over Letterman. I think it must be like the difference between cat owners and dog owners.

The Detroit News is reporting that the La Shish chain of restaurants is closing for good. While it is bad news to the hundreds of workers that worked in the restaurants and commissary (especially in this economy), I am very happy that this chain is gone.

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GRL has a number of sweet projects. Two I like and wish I had the money to build are the DIY Bullet Time rig and their crazy skyscraper-sized Laser Tagger. I dug the AZ track and video so much I went and bought both the regular track and the instrumental on iTunes. Rock on!