Jesus loves geeks
…because someone needs to.
You Are Doing It Wrong – Peeling a Banana
Jul 9th
Every now and then you experience a moment where you say to yourself, “Why didn’t I think of that”… In this case it’s because I (among others) was outsmarted by a monkey. watch:
So now that you feel as dumb as I do think about this, what have you made complicated in your life that you could do much simpler? Past that, who can you learn from that you don’t expect to?
Facebook Vanity Names
Jun 13th
Anyone else get a cool facebook vanity name?
I was hoping to get aaron but sadly it was already taken, so I decided to take a different route and instead got imawesome. No real significant Marketing or SEO advantage like some other names I’ve seen people get, but mine is a whole lot cooler. Given I probably should have gotten aaronwesterman, just because I use it in a lot of other ways including twitter, but oh well.
The other thing that I have found to be pretty cool about the facebook names, much like gmail addresses if you wanted to know is that you get all variations of the name. For example, not only is imawesome mine, but im.awesome, i.m.awesome, i.m.aw.e.some or i.m.a.w.e.s.o.m.e. Confusing sure, nice….yes.
Either way, anyone else get a cool name?
Scrubs s8e18 – My Finale
May 6th
It’s so rare that a show Finale* (note: for the rest of this review let * represent a potentially true statement) actually leaves you satisfied. I was skeptical at first of Bill Lawrence and Zach Braff’s assurance the finale would be good. I hereby renounce my skepticism and admit that they are genius. I’m extremely glad that ABC gave Scrubs the ending it deserved. It actually left me feeling resolved in a way. Sure I would love to see more Scrubs, but if I don’t ever get it then fine. The finale* was happy, funny, sad, entertaining and was the perfect testament to a show that through 8 seasons was the perfect balance of drama and comedy.
Dr. Cox was sufficiently humanized yet remained very…errr…Cox-ish? Kelso’s role was ended well and Ted got to keep his girl. Very cool. Turk was amazing the whole episode. And I so wish I had a copy of the book that JD made for Dr. Cox. Sheer brilliance. JD not only herd the praise from Dr. Cox that he always wanted but also got that hug. Maybe he didn’t get it back but he didn’t get punched for it either.
I have to admit something else, first I knew the janitor’s name (Glenn Matthews) and was right. So nah nah nah na na. But after that, I will admit that despite going into the season an anti-JD/Elliot enthusiast, I was turned. During JD’s fantasy/future sequence I was cool with what he visualized. Especially the sort of ode to Will and Grace part with Turk and JD’s kids. The kicker to it all though is it was still left undetermined. JD’s fantasy was just that. You decide for yourself. The Janitors name, well right after that someone called him Tony, so even that wasn’t certain, decide for yourself.
There was so much nostalgia in this episode and I loved every minute of it. The random callbacks such as Dr. Cox’s rant to Sunny that he had used on JD long ago, the reference to wanting a “sitcom ending” (Cheers?), and I’m sure a few other things that I’ll find the next time I watch it. The string of guest stars in his fantasy walk out were delightful. My favorites were Lonnie, Hooch (who is crazy), Dan, Collin Hay (who I expected music from) and Ms. Tanner (the old lady who told him to just lay in the grass, which I do often now in honor of Scrubs). I wish we could have had seen a few others like Michal J. Fox (Dr. Kevin Casey) and Brendan Frazier (Ben), but what we got was more than satisfying. However I am disappointed there was no cameo by Hugh Jackman.
In the end though, change is hurts more than you expect. JD wanted a grand send off and though he had some moments with people, he eventually walked out alone to get in his car one last time and drive away from Sacred Heart. Luckily though, since some much was implied, given alternatives, or fantasized it’s easy for a fan to draw their own conclusion, or even come back if they wanted to in some fashion.
Thanks to Scrubs for a great final* season and a spectacular 8 years. Scrubs was easily one of the best shows on television and despite it feeling like I’m losing a friend, I’ll still have my DVD’s. In my opinion, Scrubs has set a standard for television that’s is near impossible to match. Some shows may get the drama right or the comedy, but I doubt any show will ever do as well as Scrubs all around. Farewell Scrubs… Goodbye five?
Also, sorry if I went a little picture happy, but it was awesome.
What did everyone else think?
My Music (Scrubs Music):
- Snow [Hey Oh] by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- The Book Of Love by Peter Gabriel
(playes during JD’s walk down the hall.)
- Two versions of Superman
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Scrubs s8e17 – My Chief Concern
May 6th
Sorry all. Totally missed this. I’ll have a review up as soon as I mow, eat, watch it and various other things. Plus the Finale is in a few hours! Why Scrubs Why?
Thoughts on the episode? Discuss?
My Music:
– Winter Song by Sara Bareilles with Ingrid Michaelson
I Write: Scrubs & How I Met Your Mother
Apr 30th
So as many of you know I devote quite a bit of time to the shows How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs. I try to write reviews of the weekly episode and they get quite a few visits. I enjoy writing them and have tried to put a lot of thought into it. I break things down and even used to try and recap the whole show in addition but found that it was cutting into my nightly nap times so I cut back, for now at least. I even started taking the music sections of each show review and putting them on devoted pages for Scrubs Music and How I Met Your Mother Music. Still in progress with the music pages but I’ve got at least all of the current seasons up.
I never knew that the review world was such a hard cookie to crack (by the way I’m really Jones’in for some Oreos and talk of cookies only makes it worse). I get quite a few unique visits to the reviews each week but I’m struggling to get discussion started. I’ve tried taking notes from some of my favorite review sites, asked them questions about generating discussion and implemented a lot of their advice. But Now I just have to wait and see if it works out. I get a quite a few comments from friends about the reviews, just more in person and not on the articles. Oh well.
So what is my point? I’m not too sure. I love doing what I do on the site, so I have no plans of stopping. Even with Scrubs “potentially” ending the series this year, I’ll probably go back to Season 1 and do reviews too. Anyways. I’ve been meaning to start talking more on this my personal site, so it was a good excuses to talk.
Cheers.
Join a Real Band
Apr 29th
I enjoy punishing myself through fruitless side projects. One that I truly love and thought was going to be far more popular than it turned out was my Rock Band/Guitar Hero parody (real band) site joinarealband.com.
I made it because I am an actual drummer and the game kind of annoyed me at first… let me take that back, the people who loved the game annoyed me. The games are actually quite fun, despite the lag of where actual notes and beat should be played (I’m not alone). But I found it annoying how proud people were to be great at this game when with probably just a little work they could have been good at the real thing.
Despite it’s current un-popularity, it was pretty enjoyable to make. Especially some of the little subtle comments and graphics. I wanted it to be humorous, but fairly PG rated, which if you know a lot about about the rock star lifestyle isn’t really that easy. Either way, my parody hero Darren Barefoot inspired the idea with his ever so clever parodies iCryptex and Get a First Life. Now sure this isn’t the only parody of the game in town, possibly just the worst publicized one. Rock band jokes like college humor’s roadie hero,and the accordion hero game made me laugh endlessly in fact. Then my favorite web comic XKDC chimed in on the Rock Band situation and I knew for sure I wasn’t alone.
But honestly, what did I expect… once people start making t-shirts making fun of the situation it usually means the market is flooded.
Case in Point:
Scrubs Season 9 still up in the air?
Apr 29th
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According to thrfeed.com, Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence is in talks with NBC about renewing Scrubs for a 9th Season.
from the article:
ABC is in talks to renew the veteran comedy "Scrubs" for a ninth season with some or all of the original cast members coming back full or part-time.
We have heard for sure that Zach Braff is leaving, while some places say for sure, others say probably…honestly, I don’t even think he knows. Lawrence and Judy Reeve have both said something similar at points. Add that to the fact that Donald Faison, John C. McGinley and Neil Flynn are starring in piolts next year and you end up with even more confusion.
I’m not sure that the new interns have been developed enough to carry the show, but I would probably watch anyways. Zach has mentioned at times that if Scrubs continues he would make various guest appearances. However, if there is no Carla what about Turk, etc, etc, etc.
I love Scrubs and hate to see it go, but don’t do it unless it can be done right. The whole thing reminds me of how NBC eventually screwed up the West Wing.
But I digress… thoughts?
Scrubs s8e16 – My Cuz
Apr 22nd
Synopsis:
Things get weird for J.D. when he discovers the identity of Kim’s new man as he plans to reach out to her in order to move closer to Sam. Meanwhile, Turk starts a campaign for a promotion.
My Thoughts:
Well, with only 3 episodes (including this one) left in series, I sincerely wish I only had to say season there, you can start to see things wrapping up. Turk moving up in his career, Kelso taking stock in some ways, the Todd looking for a high five from the Janitor, JD thinking about his future and family… who knows what will happen next year, I would say spin off but other than a few episodes and the webisodes the interns are seldom seen. Anyone else feel like they are trying to make JD & Elliot’s direction a little too obvious?
This week was good. The couples bickering was quite funny and welcome back to Scott Foley. Shawn (S.F.) always was one of my favorites from Elliot’s boyfriend list. Anyone else watch the Unit? I digress. The hook-up between Shawn and Kim (Elizabeth Banks) was a great idea (side note…I know I do that a lot, sorry, but I wonder what it’s like to be a writer for a show like Scrubs.)
Turk is always good when he is confident. The many ways he annoys Dr. Cox for the Chief of Surgery job seemed typical of Turk and very entertaining. The newly married Janitor is comedy gold as always, whether it’s delivery or he comes up with the rants who knows. Either way it’s always awesome to watch.
It was also nice to see Kelso get a little bit of focus. Since he retired it’s been a hit and miss with an actually story line from him. And this week may have some future applications, anyone think he will go back to work at Sacred Heart or will Scrubs pull a patented funny/sad episode?
For now, on the the music, quotes and moments after the jump. What did everyone else think?
My Music (scrubs music listing):
Goodnight Song by Tammany Hall
Scrubs s8e15 – My Soul on Fire Part II
Apr 15th
I can not stress enough why Scrubs is the best show on TV at present. Scrubs is better than any other show shows the perfect mix of comedy and emotion in my opinion. This episode was much more dramatic that Part I, but the comedy was great and well placed. Dr. Cox came clean about how he felt with Jordan, the Janitor came up with a non-evil and sincere thought, Carla was a wife first for once, and JD did find a way to tell Elliot he loved her… By the way, I almost felt like he was going to propose to Elliot, close I suppose, he did give her a $436 replica Brady Bunch tiki necklace.
I’ve got so many quotes and moment I don’t feel like I have much else to say here for now. So read on. As far as the episode, what did everyone else think?
My Music:
The song that Ted (Sam Llyod aka Mr. Musical Genius) at the wedding was Hey Ya and it is originally done by Outkast, however there is an acoustic version made famous by Mr. Matt Weddle of Obidiah Parker (try this for the mp3 ). Either way Ted version was awesome, definitely one of my favorite songs ever on Scrubs and that’s saying something because the music is awesome.
side note: for a soon to be complete listing of all Scrubs Music look no further!
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