LIVE @ the New York Giants Superbowl parade!

Okay, Team Jones Johnson is live at the New York Giants Superbowl parade! I'm using my brand new MacBook Air and my brand new Wireless Charging Kit (power with no cords!) in order to update you on the parade. I can't show you any photographs of the Wireless Charging Kit (WCK) because it is extremely top secret.

Unfortunately, my iPhone has been acting funny for sometime, especially the camera. So I met up with Team GotPips and they're allowing me to use their pics, and coincidentally, they were taken using an iPhone (the now obsolete 8GB version).

GotPip's commander in chief, Kevin Yen, has graciously uploaded his pictures onto my MacBook Air. He has given us exclusive rights to use the photos and we appreciate that very much!

Because of GotPips' cooperation, we want you guys to visit http://gotpips.blogspot.com to check out Kevin's blog, and read about his thoughts on the foreign exchange market. If you are so inclined, you can even copy the moves he makes and perhaps be as successful as he has been (remember, he is the big honcho over at GotPips). However, I must state that I am in no way responsible for any losses that you may have. But I'll need to take a 25% cut on any profits, thank you.

Enough advertising, Kev? Okay good.

Below are two more pics from the Giants Superbowl parade.
As always, click for the larger version.




Again, I'd like to thank Kevin and the folks over at GotPips for allowing us to use their photos. I owe you a drink, Kev!

I Love Sports / Moving Pictures

The Giants won the Superbowl. On his radio show, Michael Kay says that a game like the one we all saw on Sunday is the reason we keep coming back to sports. We go through all the BS like steroids, criminal accusations, gambling, and so on ... for a day like Sunday. He compares the 2007 Patriots to my beloved Yankees. The Patriots are now the "Evil Empire" and everyone rooted for them to fail just like everyone roots for the Yankees to go down. The Patriots are now part of a small group of teams where anything but winning is failure. The only way they can improve from this season is to win it all next year.

As for the Giants, I'd like to thank them for a few things like entertaining me during this very tough time. Without all my favorite shows on TV anymore, it was thoughtful of Eli and the gang to compensate for the big void in my life. Thank you for Week 17's thriller where they proved to us -- and especially to themselves -- that they can go toe-to-toe with the Pats. And those games against the Cowboys and the Packers? Fughetaboudit! Thank you for reminding me why I love sports. Although I didn't like all the Jessica Simpson bullshit. That was just annoying.


Anyways, let's post some videos!



My friend Ahmed finally posted some videos on Youtube. The first one is hilarious. It's a video of a strange girl who does amazing things on a snowboard ... by accident. Check it out! For my iPhone readers, click this.




A few days ago, I was looking at a Facebook invite to compete in an eating competition, and it had a video posted on the invite. The video has a special someone in it. Those of you who know him will instantly recognize his face. He's a good friend of mine, and he loves Allen Iverson. By the way, the people in this video are all weaksauce. I can down 8 in 1 minute easily (without agua, obvi). For my iPhone thugs, click this.




This last one is an extremely strange video that has one dude rapping and it's apparently all improvised. However, a reliable source has told me that only the audio portion was improvsed. It was recorded during a freestyle session with two unknown wannabe's. Then one of them attempted to lipsync both parts and made a video out of it. Obviously it was too difficult for him to lipsync the entire song, so he went all PowerPoint on us. Enjoy! For my iPhone gangstaz, click this.

Update: Okay, it's 9:02AM and I just viewed this post from my iPhone to test the iPhone-specific links that I made. I lowered the volume on my phone first. Then I tried the video from Ahmed. After it loaded, Ahmed's "Here comes Anna Lai!" was heard by at least 3 other people, including my boss! But I managed to stop it before it kept going. Phew!

Remember, lowering your ringer volume doesn't mean it'll lower the iPod volume.

Dumb.

=O

18-1 must feel really yucky.

Uber Excited! w00t! Yes! HAHA!!!

It's 5:50AM on Superbowl Sunday and I was just about to go to bed.

But first, I had to check Digg - being the lonely nerdboy that I am - to see if there was anything good to read before I doze off.
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Then I saw the most popular story at the moment, titled Jason Bateman Confirms Arrested Development Movie Talks, and my jaw dropped. It hit my belly on the way before finally reaching the floor.

As I've always told people, Arrested Development is my favorite show of all time. Of all time. It has a 9.7 out 10 rating on IMDB.com! I'm not sure how much more I can stress that. If you watch it from the pilot episode all the way through to the end, it's just perfect.

It's the perfect show.

Excellent writing, an amazing cast, blah blah blah (as the character Bob Loblaw would say in his Bob Loblaw Blog). All the cliche things that people thank for when they're on stage accepting an Emmy for Best Comedy Series. Yeah, that's this series. And they also won a Golden Globes, and garnered countless rave reviews by critics. Baby had its bling.

The only area where it didn't succeed - but where it mattered most - is in the ratings department.

Arrested Development never drew the large audience that Cheers, Seinfeld or Friends did in their heyday. It was never a juggernaut in the weekly Nielsen ratings like American Idol gobbling up 30 million pairs of eyes for every episode. Hell, they barely got 5 million viewers a week.

But those 5 million were hardcore fans. I was one of them. I was a cult member of the utmost extreme. We loved the show and we held strong during the rough times: the schedule changes, the cancellation rumors, and worst of all the utter lack of decency for its final episodes.

That is the case with any show struggling with ratings. Especially if it's a show on Fox. If you don't get ratings, you don't get chances.

Here's a list of shows canceled by the douchebags that run Fox:

Futurama
Firefly
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Sliders
Family Guy (they eventually brought it back)
Married with Children

To be fair, all the networks axe shows the way Fox does. It's just that the shows they cancel simply stand out more. Futurama and Family Guy are extremely popular among my group of friends. And a few of us are diehard Arrested Development fanboys. It's just sad that Fox cancels all the best shows but keeps the ones that feature D-list celebs trying to figure skate like Kristi Yamaguchi or sing like Whitney Houston (although it was funny to see the Carlton guy from Fresh Prince battling for singing supremacy against Xena the Princess Warrior). They keep shows where they test to see if you're smarter than a baby, and where you truthfully answer questions in order to win a quarter million.

Arrested Development was a show that just kept getting better as the seasons progressed. The catch was that it required you to watch it from the beginning in order for you to completely get all the jokes in the later episodes. It wasn't a show that you could just jump into at any time and enjoy (like a current favorite of mine How I Met Your Mother). But if you sit back, relax, and experience the show from the first moment, you'd know what I'm talking about.

This show was pure brilliance. I love smart comedies like The Office (both the US and UK versions), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Scrubs and Extras. But only the most recent winner of the Emmy for Best Comedy Series, 30 Rock, comes close to fulfilling the void that was once covered by my darling Arrested Development. That is a testament to the show, its creator, and the actors.

Okay, it's 6:27AM. I should really get to bed. Let's cross our fingers and hope they turn that gem of a show into a solid movie.

And maybe bring back the show? Okay, now I'm asking for too much.

[Article via Digg]

Black History Month

It's Black History Month. So I changed the look of my blog to commemorate and whatnot.

Word.

I think there's a game on Sunday

Giants vs. Patriots.

Blah blah blah.

At this point, I'm sure we all know what's going on with the Superbowl. All the media coverage has everybody talking like he/she is one of ESPN's 3,000 NFL analysts or something. Seriously though, they have too many analysts for the NFL, but they have one guy covering hockey. There should be no hockey coverage at all. Sorry to every hockey fan I know. All two of you.

Anyway, there are plenty of questions heading into this Sunday's game. Will the Pats go undefeated? Will the Giants upset them? Will Plaxico's prediction come true? Will I finally trim my pubes?

My answer to Plaxico is: highly unlikely, dumbass. All I hope for is a great game, awesome commercials, and food. I'm not sure where I'll be watching it, but I have a feeling that there'll be an Unofficial Superbowl Party @ Club 501 (yes, I live at an actual club).

To my readers who are also my friends: If you want to come, bring something. Chips, dip, drinks, real food, cuffs, cups, plates, girls, chairs, hookah, etc.

I also want to announce that I've had a great hair week. How did I come up with that conclusion? Well, I had 2 awesome hair days, and 2 good ones. Today is a pretty good hair day as well. Thus, they all add up to a great hair week.

Oh wait, sorry. Back to the topic. Yeah, below is my prediction. I've studied all the tapes, looked at the numbers, read all the reports, ran hundreds of simulations; I know what I'm talkin' about, baby.

Giants beat Patriots 35-32

Okay fine. That's what I want to happen. I'm sorry if I just want to see an insane upset. I want to witness the Pats cry because the 18 previous games mean nothing unless they win the 19th. I want to see a New York parade so that it messes up Super Tuesday (I accidentally watched The Today Show). I want to see back-to-back Superbowl wins from the Manning brothers. I want Gisele Bundchen.

Here's my actual prediction:

Patriots beat Giants something-something

Edit: Speaking of ESPN NFL analysts, I just found this on Digg. It's a video of Chris Berman flipping out and going nuts on his studio crew. Awesome. I forgot to actually digg it, so someone digg it for me. Thanks.



Clarification: One of our angry readers by the name of mur has left a comment stating that 32 points is an impossibility. I would like to take this opportunity to concede that the 35-32 prediction was a prediction made by a guest on Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio. I simply copied it. I apologize for taking credit for it.

Also, 32 points is NOT impossible:

4 TD's + 2 safeties = 32
4 TD's + 2 point conversion + 1 field goal = 32

I'll stick to the 35-32 prediction, Mr. Gleezy - oops, I meant mur.

Jonesin' for some birthday cake

Today is Coy's 26th and Eric's 25th birthday. I think. As a Facebook addict, I've grown accustomed to birthday notifications. However, neither one of these guys has a Facebook account. So I have been forced to use this thing called memory, and if it's serving me correctly today, then it's their birthday.

Usually, when Facebook tells me it's someone's birthday, I write different variations of "happy birthday" on his/her wall. I try to make it completely different everytime, but I end up recycling a lot.

Here are a few of the birthday greetings I've used in the past:

Congratulations on the anniversary of your birth!

Nice birth.

Yay birthday! Yay!

Birth boy ova heeh.

And my personal favorite (a variation of the first one):

Congrulations on the anniversary of you coming out of your mother's vagina (or vajayjay)!

So I'd like to wish Eric and Coy a sweet birthday today. May all your wishes and dreams come true. And maybe I can help you with those. *winky wink*

I'm too broke to give you guys anything, so here's some effin' cake brought to you by my main man Chuck.


Hmm, I just realized that the last one may not work. Not all of us came out of our mother's vaginas. Some of us needed the jaws of life to be escorted out of the womb. I'm not one of them, just in case you were interested. Nope, came right out my mom's vajohnson.

Edit: Maybe I like this cake better. And no, I don't know why I just wasted my time looking for pictures of birthday cakes. But due to my nerdboy status, here ya go.