the Dailey blog

Tis Cold!

andrewdailey — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:32:05 +0000

This is my office desktop this morning. Note the New Albany temperature on the right hand side just under the clock! Click the picture!

I’m just sayin . . .

andrewdailey — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:32:57 +0000

For you fruit company loyalists, R2D2 never knew you!

Perspective

andrewdailey — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:33:01 +0000

It is interesting to watch something, or read something, or visit some place in life, that gives you perspective. You never would have thought of things in certain ways if you weren’t given some perspective. This isn’t Al Gore’s take or anything, I’m not trying to get you to change what kind of light bulb you use. If you have some time, watch Manufactured Landscapes, a documentary that gives some perspective on how we carve out of this planet we live in, but do it when you aren’t sleepy, because the music is very relaxing. It is on Netflix instant if you have Netflix. This photographer from Canada documents humanity’s impact on the earth. Here is his TED talk for the 2005 TED prize. And here is some youtube stuff with his work. The kids digging in the mud for metal from shipwrecks or the women climbing the mountains of motherboards from computer graveyards to pry off the tiny bits of metal is disturbing. I drive a car that needs that oil from those tanker shipwrecks, and I own/use many computers. Mental note, never move to China.

Pilot Week

andrewdailey — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:32:38 +0000

Shannon and I selected four new shows as candidates to our DVR lineup! Here are the reviews!
The Event
“Too soon?” Is it too soon to delve in to another series that is fueled by creating mystery and an onslaught of new questions each week? I can’t rightly say yet. Maybe after I have decided to rewatch LOST in its entirety, and have nothing else to watch.

Don’t judge a show by its pilot. But we must judge a show by its pilot. This show’s pilot succeeded in peeking my interest enough to a second episode, and I wasn’t pointing to the screen saying that was stupid, even when there was a plane “crashing” in the pilot episode. The only character in The Event that mattered to me was John Ritter’s son Jason (Sean Walker), who is obviously one of the central characters, and he did very well. The plot line was interesting, not the new African-American president wanting to close the doors of a secret prison facility-WHATTHEWHAT! I am a sucker for these types of shows, but I know they will usually rise to greatness, especially after season 2, if they ever make it that far, more than likely they will tank, i.e. FlashForward. FF had a great debut, but it became a lame duck. Whomever these folks are, that have been detained in Alaska, I’m ready for more. DVR Letter Grade at bottom of post!

Hawaii Five-O
Shannon and I kept saying it, its almost like a movie, a 44 minute movie, that tries to pack in entirely too much, albeit still entertaining. We liked this pilot, we just hope CBS doesn’t screw with the characters too much, too early. We are afraid the original CSI, which we are a good season behind, has “jumped the shark“. Hawaii shows are good, LOST, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Charlie’s Angels, Magnum P.I., I can go on . . .Lilo & Stitch: The Series – jk. Just don’t make Hawaii the main character, we don’t have cable anymore, so no more travel shows for us, World’s Best Beaches! C’mon!

All four main characters worked for me, they all played their roles to where you wanted more. Plot, well I don’t want to ring in the Irish weapons smuggler in Hawaii was a joke as a bad guy in a pilot, but it was. I will say, from beginning to the last 2 minutes, was so freaking fun to watch. Action + Comedic Wit = JJ Abrams new show UnderCovers, oh wait. Oh yea, the last 2 minutes, never end pilots where you are on the edge of your seat the whole episode, then the four main characters who just met, are acting like they have been together for years drinking a beer, laughing it up. It didn’t leave us hanging on to what could be next. DVR Letter Grade at bottom of post!

UnderCovers
It was Mr. & Mrs. Smith. And not that they’re just both super spies, its that they are both spies, and they don’t know about each other’s separate spy careers, the only difference is they met at “the farm” and know their spouse’s real occupation. All that said, I really like Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and I like UnderCovers. Yes, they spanned the globe in the pilot, Madrid, Paris, Russia, but it worked. It was funny to see Tom Haverford’s buddy from Parks & Rec play the CIA back-up nerd. BTW Parks & Rec isn’t cancelled yet! I liked that they get to keep their “day job” as caterers. I want the next few episodes to delve out some back story, because it was just too clean and convenient for me. Shannon and I thoroughly enjoyed it! DVR Letter Grade at bottom of post!

Outsourced
We have watched the commercials all summer with the Dream Team Indian call center guy giving us his best southern dialect as he explains what grits are. And still to my mind, the actual show wasn’t as funny as those commercials. I will give it another watch or two. And I must be fair, we watched 30 Rock before we watched Outsourced, and we both laughed loudly as usual at our favorite comedy. Outsourced hardly delivered chuckle as the soft soft spoken call center girl made a sale.

DVR Report Card on the Pilots:
The Event – B
Hawaii Five-O – B+
UnderCovers – B+
Outsourced – C

Where is ABC in this new show rigmarole? I caught about half of Detroit 187, with its shocking ending, and I will give it a shot, especially on a Tuesday night. But I didn’t see the whole episode, and I’m one of those guys that needs the whole deal, to make a judgement call. Their grade is an ‘I’ for incomplete. As far as those other new shows, we weren’t interested. Am I missing something, shout it out in the comments!

I will give a rundown, at some point on all of our other DVR worthy shows, and how they are fairing. Some we have given up to Netflix, because we have either missed them, or wained in our interest a bit.

MACU Google ad, hmm

andrewdailey — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:48:15 +0000

I was catching up on Jesus Creed, McKnight moved again, sidenote: my Bloglines reader is closing its doors October 1, they were the way to aggregate back in the day, now my Google Reader is active. Anyhoo, I saw in the Google ads on Jesus Creed an ad for MACU, the CHOG university in Okl. City. Somebody is doing something right, if I am seeing that kind of Google ad, in a well traveled blog like Jesus Creed. I wonder, has anyone seen any AU, WP, or WS ads online similar to this?

UPDATE!! I’m no dummy, I know Google knows me, and I get this ad because of their knowledge of me. I just keep seeing the ad! AU needs to get on the ball!
More sitings!

So just about every site I go to now, that employs Google Ads, now has a MACU ad. And . . I received this in the mail today->

Scored a double on YouTube

I heart football . . .

andrewdailey — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:48:04 +0000

Both versions, the first and more widely recognized in the world version, and the American mega sport that is the NFL. I played soccer from age 5-14, my knees told me it was time to stick to basketball, which didn’t work out much better either. I rooted for various NFL teams growing up, not much to root for locally but WVU football. And my allegiances changed until I went to college in Indiana, where the university I went to hosted the Indianapolis Colts training camp. My room mate and I went to a number of games where “Captain Comeback” Jim Harbaugh QB’d. The training camps last year, until they recently came back to Anderson, was Peyton Manning’s rookie year in 1998. Needless to say, I have been a Colts fan since 1994, and will stay that way.

I realized this past year, that I have never found a football (soccer) club, to follow, mostly for the same reasons of exposure. I guess I have been a Chicago Fire fan, because of Chicago being near to my heart. But really I need a club to follow in one of the best leagues in the world. Sorry MLS, you’re not there yet. I cannot give you specific evidence, only circumstantial, as to why I am now a Liverpool FC fan. I will say though, that I am a proud LFC Reds fan, and find it extremely cool that I have a former youth in ministry now in Birkenhead, Liverpool, England!

Laughing Loudly

andrewdailey — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:13:15 +0000

I don’t laugh out loud much, my brain ticks on, and I guess I laugh on the inside. It takes something outrageous, or my friend Matt, to get me laughing loudly. I watched this movie yesterday with Shannon, and was caught off guard with laughing loudly at this. If you enjoyed Napoleon Dynamite as well as the offerings of the Flight of the Conchords- Jemaine Clement, then netflix this disk! Gentlemen Broncos

How To Be Alone

andrewdailey — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:06:35 +0000

Beautiful!

Fun with PhotoFunia

andrewdailey — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:02:23 +0000

http://www.photofunia.com/

More like “Welcome to Slow’s” or better yet

andrewdailey — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:13:22 +0000

Welcome to blows. That is what I think of Moe’s Southwestern Grill. My wife and I wasted a good bit of our life trying to decide on a restaraunt this evening, only to wait another eternity to get our food. One should never have to wait 15 minutes from burrito inception to payment for said burrito! I would venture to say that a Taco Bell burrito could be superior, and I hate the Bell. I have had much more postive experiences at Qdoba and Chipotle, and even Moe’s for that matter, but Moe’s in Clarksville, Indiana isn’t worth it.