JBot Mania

Very few things are cooler than the idea of brand new monorails at Disneyland. They say they’ll be there around February, so I’ll be purchasing tickets for… around February. It’s perfectly reasonable to spend a day just circling the park.

Until then, some gooey wholesomeness:

I don’t know if you’ve run into this, but it drives me CRAZY when IE’s Autocomplete stores entries I have made in error and keeps popping them up for forms that I regularly use. Through no fault of the Autocomplete (am I really saying that?), this makes the process longer than just simply entering the information directly.

So, I decided to look up ways to manhandle IE’s Autocomplete and low and behold, I found it!

The clipping below describes exactly what to do and it couldn’t be easier.

Special thanks to the article which led me to this source.

clipped from support.microsoft.com

To clear individual items from the list of form or password suggestions, click the item in the list of suggestions for that field and then press DELETE.

In an email to Sora, I explained a new genre of music:

I have come up with a new classification: turtleneck music. Turtleneck music is any music you could conceivably picture some guy in a turtleneck listening to and, oh, say, tapping his foot or swagging his finger (that would be a combination of wagging and swaying). Some pretentious, smug guy who might even wear a beret. It’s not an indictment of the music, per se. It’s an indictment of most of the listeners… besides myself, of course, as I am listening to turtleneck music right now and I like it. It has jazz flute! I’d say Starbucks is ensconced in turtleneck.

I’m pretty sure that it started when I saw an ad for “Over Your Head” on HGTV. I said, wait a minute, that’s the guy from “Clean Sweep“. As you can see from this fairly outdated picture, I was right. I then saw an episode of “I Want That Kitchens” on HGTV and again, I said, wait, that’s Tava Smiley from the same TLC show.

So I started looking around and I started noticing how many people from TLC are now on HGTV. Kind of made me wonder if there was some mass exodus, strategic poaching, or both. Eiither way, gone are the days of TLC’s reign over home improvement. Alot was riding on “Trading Spaces” and once that went downhill (not soon enough) it became clear that TLC didn’t have alot to fall back on in that area.

But it’s The Learning Channel after all. How much learning can you do from second rate design shows? And how much learning is encompassed in home decorating? With that in mind, I suspect they set their sights on other reality based shows that would hopefully have something to do with learning. Or maybe TLC broke up with home improvement entirely and it was bitter which would explain why they’ve basically given up completely on the genre.

This is where HGTV comes in. Instead of just having a few disparate shows about design or organization, they throw the entirety of their budget to it. This affords them the wherewithal to design 20 of the same show with say one different angle. “We do the usual design thing but we do it… blindfolded.”

I’m not complaining. I like it. It really only matters that there is a before and an after. The dribble in between is really just window dressing.

For what I think is a complete list, check out the table below:

I’m sure that after more watching I’ll find more turncoats, but until then, this is what I’ve got to show for my inordinate amount of HGTV watching.