Happy Holidays

The holidays are upon us and like most people I have been busy buying other people presents. I no longer understand why I even try anymore since I get them nice things and all people ever get me is a sweater or some other half assed gift. People always use the excuse "it's the thought that counts", but the only thing they think about is how to spend as little money as possible without even trying. Thanks to the presents I had to buy I don't have enough money for what I wanted, a replica of SenbonZakura. For those of you who don't know, it's a katana.

So this holiday season when you get your crappy gifts just remember to get them something even worse next year.

One way which we might kill ourselves off

Something that has been bothering me for a while is why people still use nuclear energy, it's like people never learn their lesson. Have the completely forgotten about the Chernobyl incident or the three mile island? One of the last ways that I would want to die is by a nuclear explosion.

One of the leading providers of energy is nuclear power, so imagine all those nuclear power plants out there. If they were to go off we would all die, there would be no livable locations left on earth due to all the radiation. Now I know I sound like a hippy, but I tend to care about being killed in nuclear explosions.

The president to be on the Daily show

That's right, apparently Barrack Obama is going to be on the Daily show with Jon Stewart this Wednesday.

I now leave you with this video:

Why do sports get priority?

Last week on Sunday instead of playing a new episode of The Simpsons they have a baseball game, and on TBS there was a commercial saying that once the MLB games are done than regular programing will continue. Why is it that sports get priority over other stuff on TV? Why is it that people like me that don't particularly like any sports have to miss show because some game is on. I find that unfair. They should just find a time slot that isn't taken by a new episode of The Simpsons. A rerun of one of their other shows are fine, but not during new shows, that isn't fair.

Sorry

I haven't realized it's been three days since my last update, so I will try to cover a few things on this post.

First, for those of you who can't go to The rally to restore sanity and/or fear, comedy central will be streaming it live.

Second, I can't think of a second thing.

I guess I will leave you with the video "Meticulous analysis of history". It's from a show called pinky and the brain that I use to watch when I was a kid.

My diet so far

I believe it was earlier this month when I said that I would try and improve my life style, and so far I'm doing moderately good. I managed to drop a notch on my belt.

The way I managed to do this is by exercising more and eating less sugar. Now before it comes off as saying I went to the gym I want to say I didn't step a foot in the gym. Why, because I'm lazy. When I said exercise I meant little things in your day to day life. If you take the train, walk to the next station. If you usually take an escalator take the stairs. When you wake up, do a couple of push ups.

I have also been more energetic this month.

I also have one last thing to say before I end this post, I will be having a live call in episode this Saturday at 6:30pm. If you want a link to my talkshoe page, look at one of the earlier posts.

Top five time travel shows/movies

I was looking on the internet for a good movie about time travel. Most of what I found was just a top 10 list, so I decided to make my top 5 list. Let's begin:

5. The girl who leapt through time- Despite that this movie is anime it's still fairly good. It's about a girl who accidentally gets the ability to jump through time by leaping, literally leaping.

4. Back to the future- I don't think I need to describe this movie to anyone.

3. Twelve monkeys- This movie is about a man who is accidentally sent to the wrong time period, and after several jumps attempts to change the past. In doing so, however, he ends up causing the events he was trying to prevent.

2. The time machine (2002)- This is the 2002 remake of the movie about the book. I haven't seen the original movie, but the remake was really good. It's about a man who makes a time machine attempting to save his girlfriend, but no matter what he does she ends up dying anyway. He then goes to the future to learn why he can't change the past, but after one jump he hit's his head and the time machine goes to 8,000,000 A.D.

I'm not going to tell you how it ends.

1. LOST season 5- To me this is the only show that has utilized time travel to satisfaction.

After Ben turns the frozen donkey wheel under the Orchid station the Losties sporadically jumps through time until John Locke turns the wheel again, leaving the group in 1974. The Losties on the island joins the DHARMA Initiative, while those who left the island comes back and some land in 1977 while the rest land in 2007. After learning that the group has returned to the past, Daniel Faraday comes back to the island with a plan to change the past, to detonate Jughead, a hydrogen bomb from 1954, in the pocket of electromagnetism at the Swan site to prevent the incident.

It turns out that they were the ones that caused the incident, and after hitting the plutonium core at the bottom of a well, the group is transported back to 2007.

If any of these interest you, be sure to check them out.

The video

Here is the segment from The daily show with Jon Stewart I told you about yesterday.

I am leaving a link because the embedded code is broken.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-14-2010/rally-to-restore-sanity-and-or-fear-announcement?xrs=eml_tds

The rally to restore sanity and/or fear

On last nights episode of The daily show with Jon Stewart they announced that The rally to restore sanity and The march to keep fear alive has become one. It turns out that Steven Colbert, the person who was leading The march to keep fear alive, didn't get a permit. So Jon just put Colbert's name on the permit as well. This was no doubt planned from the start, but it was still interesting to watch. I will leave a link to the rally's official sit, check it out if you are interested.

http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/

Our President is a celebrity

About two hours ago I was flipping through the channels and saw president Obama on. I can't recall exactly what channel it was, but the credits say it was an MTV production. Mr. President, I know that the future isn't looking bright for the Democrats, but MTV is not the answer. One of the reasons why I hear you being criticized for is for being on TV too much.

I know you have done more for this country than a lot of people understand, but it worries me when the president of the United States is on MTV.

Why I didn't post yesterday

Yesterday I said that I will be doing another post (I think), so I'm going to explain why I didn't. I fell asleep. Guess I was more tired than I thought. Before coming home yesterday I went back to borders to return that book I bought two days ago and to buy a better one. I did that no problem. When I got home I guess I was more tired than I thought because I just laid down on the couch and slept, until 10:30. Yes, somehow I managed to sleep for four and a half hours, before eating dinner even. When I woke up I decided that it was too late to even be bothered to turn on my computer so I decided to leave it until today.

For those of you who are even slightly curious as to what book I bought after returning the last one was "The assault on Reason" by Al Gore. I also bought a book called "Ask a ninja presents: The ninja handbook". Why did I do this, because I have no self control. It seems that whenever I go to borders I end up purchasing twice as much as originally intended.

How I wasted my time and money

Earlier today I went to go pick up a book from borders called "Idiot America". After about an hour of searching (conveniently missing that one shelf every time) I purchased the book and went home. After settling in I picked up the book I started to read and that's when I found out I made a mistake in buying the book, because it sucked. It was a chore to get past the first chapter. I have no idea how it managed to become a bestseller. Tomorrow I plan on going back to the store and return the book. I just hope they allow returns.

This experience has taught me a lesson; be absolutely sure about the book you're going to buy, or else you could end up making a similar mistake that I made.

Bill Maher: New Rules

I was on youtube yesterday when I found this clip from the show Real Time with Bill Maher. It was funny so I'd thought I'd share it with you. Also you will be unable to find it on youtube anymore because of some stupid copyright law. Hopefully this video will be able to be seen here.

Waiting for Superman

Waiting for superman is a new documentary out about America's public school systems. I am not sure if I can recommend this yet since I haven't seen it, but the film is already out so you could at least read a review to learn what it's about. I'm glad that somebody made a film on this subject because I feel this is one of the most important problems in America.

There is also a book out which the documentary is based on. So if you don't want to watch the film at least read the book.

The blister on my foot

I understand this is probably the last thing you want to read about but it finally got too odd I just had to tell someone about it. A couple weeks ago I got a blister on the bottom of my foot and since then it was a mass of dead skin with an air pocket. I popped the air pocket with a hot pin and now there is a mass of dead flesh on the bottom of my foot. Leave a comment telling me what you think I should do.

Free episodes of The Simpsons online

I was just searching on google the other day when I ran into a website that has most of The Simpsons episodes online for free, instead of iTunes that charges you 99 cents an episode. They have all the episodes except for seasons one through four. I will leave a link at the end of this post. The reason for informing you about this is because if you're like me then you will want to watch stuff for free. Enjoy.

http://www.iwatchsimpsonsonline.com/season-4/

I'm cutting back on the poison

The past few months I've been eating a lot of pastries and fast food, but I'm tired of putting all that poison into my body so I'm going to try and cut back a little at a time until I'm off it for good. I may not be particularly over weight, but I'm not exactly what you will call healthy either. I plan to be off of the stuff by the holidays, and by that I mean the holidays after thanksgiving. Nobody can go thanksgiving without some form of pastry. Unless you don't live in America, then it's fairly easy.

The new Family Guy episode

I just watched the new Family Guy episode and it was surprisingly good. I tried watching the series before but I just couldn't get into it. Then today I was on Hulu.com and I saw the new episode on the home page so I decided to give it one last try, and I enjoyed it. I'm not sure if the rest of the season will be any good, but at least I had an enjoyable half hour.

The decline in quality of television

Is it just me, or does it seem that every new show, and most returning shows, seem to not be as good as previous shows? Hawaii Five-0 and Castle were a let down for me, even The Simpsons and The Office wasn't as good as they use to be. It seems to me that most show writers no longer care about the quality of their shows.

Truth be told if it wasn't for The daily show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, and Real time with Bill Maher I wouldn't be watching television anymore. If there is one thing that I want the upcoming winter season to give me is at least one decent show.

A slight delay

I'm sorry for the two of you that listen to my podcast, but I have been caught in some unexpected business and will have to delay the podcast till 8pm tomorrow.

Bad Weather, podcast update, and a video

It's been raining all week here in New York. Fortunately it seems that today was supposedly the last day of this horrid storm. I don't know how it's been like in other states, but be happy you don't live in New York right now (unless if your weather was worse than ours).

I have an announcement pertaining to the podcast that I feel important to say now, and repeat on the podcast tomorrow. If I stay on a schedule the podcast will be unable to reach it's full potential and just die off. So I will only be having an episode whenever I have a topic that I feel like discussing, or if a subject was requested by a listener. You can be notified of upcoming episodes by following it's twitter The_Geekcast. For those of you that want to suggest an episode topic you can email me at faradayspodcast@gmail.com, or at the facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Faradays-Blog/155740044444836?ref=ts.

Finally I leave you with this video I found on youtube. Enjoy.

Just a reminder

I just wanted to remind you that I have a new episode of the podcast this Saturday. The subject is time travel in movies, t.v., and games. Anyone who wants is free to call in or listen. You can find it on talkshoe called "Faraday's Geekcast".

Attention LOST fans

If you are a fan of LOST and miss the show I have good news for you. Every Tuesday night at 9 o' clock EDT, Station 7 has a LOST rewatch. The podcast acts as an audio commentary for the episode and all are encouraged to call in. If you are interested to learn more about the podcast go to talkshoe and search Station 7; or you can check out the forum at http://losttv-forum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=79.

The Simpsons too?

I can't believe it. They managed to make a bad Simpsons episode, they made a musical. I'm not kidding. Last nights episode of The Simpsons was a musical, and not even a full musical. Only Lisa's story was a musical, making this episode half assed. Not only do they have the audacity to make a musical, but they don't even make the entire Lisa story a musical. I'm not saying I wanted it to be a full musical, but you shouldn't do anything half assed. I sure hope the season only gets better from here.

I take it back

I know this post probably should have been posted five days ago, but better late then never. On my podcast I recommended that people checked out Hawaii Five-0 and the new season of Castle, what a mistake that was. Hawaii Five-0 turned out to be exactly what I thought it wouldn't be, your typical cop show. It was a chore just to sit through the pilot, and if Flash Forward taught us anything the pilot is usually the best episode.

Even Castle faired worse than I thought it would. By the time the episode was half over I already figured out the greater part of what was going on, and when I can do that it is usually a bad sign.

So far the only shows that are still standing are The Good guys, The Office, and The Simpsons. Let's hope that The Simpsons don't screw up too. If they do I'll be super pissed.

Earth (The book)

I went to borders today to pick up Jon Stewart's new book "Earth (the book)", and I have to say I wasn't disappointed. Before you go out and buy it I want to let you know it isn't written like a regular book. At the begining of each chapter Jon opens with a couple of paragraphs discussing the topic of the chapter and at the end of the chapter has an alien Q & A session discussing the chapters topic. In the body of each chapter there are pictures and paragraphs.

Some of the chapters in the book are about Life , Society, Commerce, and culture. The book is beautifully crafted satire on the subjects and I recommend this book to everyone. The book is 239 pages of entertainment that I recommend that everyone at least reads.

The Office is back!

That's right everybody the best comedy on NBC has returned yesterday for it's new season, but it's not all good news. This season is the last one where Steve Carell stars as the character Micheal Scott. I don't know what the show will be like without Steve but I know it will probably go into a downward spiral until it gets canceled. Showing The Office without Micheal Scott is like taking away..., I can't come up with a good comparison but you get the point. It's not like me to drop a show, but once Steve Carell leaves I might just drop it. Until that time comes let us just enjoy the new season.

Rally to restore sanity

Just in case you've been living under a rock the past week I want to fill you in on Jon Stuarts "Rally to restore sanity". He announced it Monday night on his show and it has been a popular subject. I'll leave you a link to the official site but I'll still give you the gist of it. On October 30, 2010 Jon Stuart will be hosting a rally in Washington D.C. from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. On the same night that Jon announced his rally Steven Colbert announced his "March to keep fear alive" that will be taking place at the same place at the same time, so chances are it's the same event going on in a different name. If you are interested click on the link below.

http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/

This weeks weather...

It is fall and yet we are having August temperatures. It has been in the 80's to 90's most of the week and from what I hear tomorrow is worse still. If this, along with the melting of the polar ice caps, doesn't prove global warming I don't know what will. I just hope it rains soon because I don't know how much longer I can take this.

On an unrelated subject the blogs facebook page is up. Go ahead and join the facebook group if you feel like.

NBC picks up pilot for Terry and Emerson's new show

For those of you who were hoping that Terry o'Quinn and Micheal Emerson would work on a show together again I have good news, NBC picked up the pilot for that very show. It was originally going to be called Odd Jobs, but is now officially untitled. Seeing how the pilot isn't even shot yet it will still be a while until it airs, but at least we know that we are getting it.

Happy LOST day

On September 22, 2004 the TV phenomenon LOST started. To commemorate LOST's sixth anniversary I will link you to the best LOST inspired song entitled "I'll Never Be LOST Again" made by the Injustice -league.

On behalf of the DeGroots, Alvar Hanso, and all of us here at the DHARMA Initiative; Thank you, Namaste, and good luck.

Ouch!

I have no idea how I managed to do this but somehow I hit myself on the head with a window, I'm not joking. I was trying to open it a little more when it came out of it's track, bounced of my head and knocked everything I had on my dresser off. If I didn't still have my hands on the window when it came off I would probably have a concussion right now. Thankfully there was minimal damage. All that broke was a picture frame and the base to the statue of liberty I got two years ago. From now on I'm going to be much more cautious when opening that window.

Woo Hoo!

Just a quick reminder to all Simpsons fans, the new season of The Simpsons starts this Sunday at 8pm EDT.

Theories on time travel

Since next episode will be discussing time travel in television, movies and games, I feel that I should review a couple of theories on time travel.

The first one I'm going to discuss is referred to as "Whatever happened, happened", or WHH for short. What this theory says is that no matter what you do you can't change the past. Everything that you are doing you have always done. Let me clarify by using the example used in the movie "Twelve Monkeys".

A man is sent to the past to collect spiders but is accidentally sent too far into the past. He has a couple of more time travel journey and is soon convinced he has imagined the whole thing. He is met by his friend and is told he has to assassinate somebody transporting a highly dangerous virus, which caused the few remaining humans to live underground. While rushing at the man with the gun the police shoot him down, cause the events he witnessed in his past.

Another theory is that you can change the past. The popular "Back to the future" trilogy took this approach. The problem that I have with this theory when used in science fiction is that they always give you an alloted time period to fix things, which in the real world would have an instant effect. This theory is referred to as "The butterfly effect".

The next theory that I will be discussing is the multiply timelines theory. What this says is that you can go to the past and cause a different set of events to occur, but that isn't changing your universe. Instead it is creating a parallel universe. So the popular "grandfather paradox" is irrelevant since you won't be preventing your birth, just the birth of an alternate version of your self.

The final theory that I will be touching on is "Course correction". This theory says that even is you change one thing the universe will have it so that you're change has minimum effect. For example if you kill Bill Gates another man will open a successful computer and software company.

That's all I have for today. Come back tomorrow for the next post, and be sure to tune into my podcast on October 2 at 7:30pm. Link to the podcast page is below. Thank you for reading.

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=88306&cmd=tc

Website update

I am having a little difficulty coming up with an idea about what to put on the website besides links to the podcast and blog. Since you will be the ones going to the website I feel that it should have something that you want. If you have any suggestions please email me at faradayspodcast@gmail.com.

Welcome

Hi everybody. This is the official blog of my podcast "Faradays Geekcast" on talkshoe. I will hopefully be updating this blog frequently, and I'm even working on an official site for the podcast as well. The website is still in the early stages of production so it may be a while until I make it public. I will be keeping the website simple but I believe that it will still be a nice website.

For those of you interested the podcast is about almost anything that I, or the callers, wish to talk about. Some subjects that I already plan on talking about are science fiction in movies, games and television, new shows coming out this season, and much more. The podcast will be a bi-monthly podcast, and anyone that wishes can call in, or just email the show at faradayspodcast@gmail.com. Well that's all I have for now, I'll be leaving a link to the podcast's talkshoe page below. I hope to see you there.

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=88306&cmd=tc