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The movie about 2 guys who crossed America using just a Segway just released their movie trailer.

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I used to remember seeing this show on PBS and never understood the facination. Then one day a friend of mine said that there was going to a new series with the ninth Doctor. So I started to watch it. And I quickly joined the cult of Doctor Who. So it never surprised me when an article had showed up regarding stolen Dalek parts.

Now someone has sent back the plunger with a ransom note. They want to talk to the Doctor.

I’ve been a TIVO owner now for almost 5 years. I loved the idea of being able to set it record every show for a given a season. I’ve ’season passed’ a great number of shows and quite a few on the NBC network. Some of my favorite shows are on that network. As this blogger states:

After a couple years of NBC tweaking start and end show times to push their advertising dollars (and tweak PVR owners in the process), it seems they’re abandoning the practice of starting early and ending late.

NBC has finally realized the problems they caused all DVR owners out there less than conventional ending/starting show times. Usually my TIVO had no problem accomdating the 1-minute deviatoin to the the normally scheduled broadcast time of on the hour or on the half-hour. I only had issues when I wanted to record something else right after, which normally would start on the hour. So I would miss the show because of a scheduling conflict.

I would hope other networks (broadcast and cable) will learn from NBC’s switch back to starting shows on the hour/half-hour. Unfortunately, as one of the commenter’s stated, Discovery is starting to end their shows 1-minute after the hour. I, too, am starting to miss the last minute of Mythbusters.

busy busy busy… thats what its been like the past few weeks. But I did take a little time off from work to do something fun…..

I just got back from my (now) yearly trip up north to the garlic festival. Last year was my first year going. However, I’ve been wanting to go for a few years. So when I got an invite from my brother & sister-in-law, I jumped at the chance. It was a win-win situation for me. I get to spend some time with my sister-in-law (& brother), and I get to go to the festival.

Well the festival was one of the highlights of the weekend. I got up to the San Jose area fairly early on Friday morning, so we decided we were going to go shopping (after our Starbucks fix of course). After visiting my brother at his work, we stopped for a yummy lunch at a little mexican restaurant close to my my brother’s work. They make some strong margaritas, which were quite good. Then we decided to shop. I picked up a bunch of little goodies for the house and a cute pair of pants and a new top. Had a nice dinner, and just relaxed at the house for the rest of the evening (we were going to have to get up early the next morning for the festival .

We drove down early for the festival, arriving there before the doors (or the ticket booth) even opened. We were practically the first peeps in line. Once we got in, we made a bee line for the food. Among some of the things we munched on are: garlic ice cream, garlic fries, stuffed mushrooms (with garlic, parmesean cheese and parsley), garlic sausage sandwhich, shrimp scampi and a buffalo kabob. Many of the foods we split between us 3 and we were so stuffed when left. Then we shopped for all things garlic (and since I didn’t write everything down I may of missed a few purchases). One of my favorite purchases this year, is my garlic bobble head (click here to view). I’m going to try and get one every year (well maybe). One of the yummier things I picked up was the garlic kettle corn. It is very good, so much so I had a couple of orders from a few co-workers. That pretty much sums up my the festival. The rest of the weekend consisted of a little pampering (mani/pedi), a little drinking (some yummy drink recipe from the Mirage in LV) and dinner with my sister-in-law’s mom. All in all, it was a busy and fun weekend.

For photos of the weekend, check out Garlic Festival Photos

Ciao!