Oh Apple You're So Crazy

Currently I'm taking a course about product design, so Apple comes up in our class....A LOT, like excessively so sometimes. I understand completely why, but it still gets old after having to hear about how "amazing" Apple is sometimes. Anyway, in class the other day we were talking about whether or not we thought the new iPhone prototype that was found in a bar was accidentally lost or was left there on purpose in order to stir up hype for the new iPhone that's coming out this summer. So I had heard about Gizmodo opening it up and explaining its inner workings. The next day in class some kid mentions how the cops busted down Jason Chen's (of Gizmodo) door after he gave the phone back.

I really thought that this must've been some kind of joke so I looked into it. Turns out it was completely true. You can hear more of the story in this hilarious Jon Stewart video below. He talks about how he thought Apple was so cool and how he found this excessive, which I'm sure everyone can agree with. Jon Stewart had a pretty good point too, that if Apple wants to be mad at anyone, then they should be mad at AT&T for having such crappy service. I mean, Apple was denying that the phone was even theirs at first and Jason Chen gave it back after he was done with it. So what possible reason could they have for busting down his door during dinner? Also, the guy that found the phone originally had "Apple representatives" show up at his house and try to search the premises. If I were him, I'd probably move so Steve Jobs didn't try to kill me with a giant iPad or something lol.

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The "Jam" Story

Ok so first off, I haven't updated in like a month which I usually try to avoid. I blame the holidays/my computer getting a virus and the related terrible events that happened because of said virus. But, now that the holidays are over and I'm back at school, I've been looking forward to new tv episodes. Since the latest episode of The Office aired on the 10th of December, I figured they might have a special new years episode or just start airing new episodes a week or so after. Wrong! They aren't airing new episodes until the 21st! I find this to be incredibly bogus. Just because your show is popular and people will wait over a month for new episodes, doesn't mean you should make them wait! I mean just last week ABC showed 3 new episodes of the new Scrubs (which is surprisingly awesome, especially if you liked the old Scrubs) and Better Off Ted (also awesome, seriously Veronica is crazy...in a good way? haha) within 4 days of each other. Anyway, the next episode of The Office is called The Banker, which doesn't particularly seem exciting since everyone that watched the episode on the 10th knows that Scranton branch is safe from being fired.

Today though, The Office twitter announced that "Jim & Pam will experience the birth of their baby in a special two part episode of The Office on March 4 and 11". That's pretty cool, but seeing as how they're hyping it over a month before it's gonna happen, it had better be a good episode. I'm not really sure why it's happening on 2 different days though considering the fact that they were able to get a nice 1-hour slot for the wedding episode. Also, The Office website on NBC has decided to devote an entire mini site to Jim and Pam's story. There's dorky little pictures from each of the parts of their relationship going from "Just Friends" to "The Baby". Most of the site is coming soon still though. It's pretty cheesy if you ask me. But, if it's between girls going googoo over Jim and Pam or Twilight, then I'm all for this dorky little website. Also the pictures from "Just Friends" seem so strange sometimes that they just crack me up (seriously how weird is the picture at the top of this post?).

Zach Braff Isn't Dead and Neither is Scrubs

On Monday there was a pretty big internet rumor (originally found here, but now it's gone due to the massive bad publicity) going around that Zach Braff was found dead in his home. Zach Braff decided to clear it up by posting this on his facebook. Turns out the whole thing was supposedly a joke that someone had tried to play on their friends 2 years ago and just hadn't removed from his website. Anyways, somehow the link resurfaced and made crazy news that even made it's way to Zach Braff's mom; which caused Zach to give the creator of this "joke" the douchebag of the day award.

Anyway, putting this prank gone horribly wrong aside, Zach mentioned something very interesting on his video on facebook. He talked about shooting the new Scrubs intro and and this made me confused. I mean everyone knows that Scrubs had it's series finale this year and that it wasn't supposed to be making anymore episodes right? Wrong, turns out Scrubs is headed for it's "9th" season. That is, if you consider the new Scrubs the same show as the old one. The new show is supposed to take a deeper look into the medical campus joined to the hospital (which I'm pretty sure the original show only revealed once during a morbidity and morality conference that Elliot had to present). It centers around 3 new interns that Dr. Cox and Turk are supposed to be teaching. I hope they keep the old new interns as residents now too, since they were pretty good characters imo. According to Wikipedia Eliza Coupe (aka "Joe") will be returning along with the 3 new interns Michael Mosley (aka Drew), Dave Franco (aka Cole), and Kerry Bishé (aka Lucy), who is supposed to be the new narrator of the show. Sadly J.D. and Elliot are only supposed to be in 6 episodes before leaving the show for good. Also the Janitor might not be in the new show either after the opening episode because of his role in The Middle. All in all Scrubs could still be a good show considering they're keeping Turk, Dr. Cox, and supposedly Joe. But, I feel a little like it could start to suck too, like when Eric left That 70's Show.

One of the only good Superbowl Commercials

By now you've hopefully seen the official Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen preview that premiered during the Superbowl. The high quality version is pretty amazing looking, even though not much of the actual plot of the movie is given away. I think I mentioned awhile back that there was a ring on Megan Fox's finger and there's a close up shot of it now (at about 17s in) as she's clutching her hand to her mouth. This means that Sam and Mikaela are most likely engaged *vomit*. Anyway, it looks like that army guy from the first movie is returning and there's also a random guy standing next to Mikaela while she's screaming "SAM!" I found something odd on imdb though. Jazz appears to be back even though he was "killed" in the first movie. He is being voiced by Darius McCrary again so I'm not sure if he's really coming back or if imdb is just being crazy and forgot he died. I guess it is called "Revenge of the Fallen" so it's possible Jazz comes back somehow since I'm sure that Megatron will also make a reappearance because every transformers fan knows that Megatron never stays dead.

But, the good news is that there is a really cool cat-looking transformer (around 10s in) in the trailer that's like leaping/stalking through the water. It's probably Ravage seeing as how his form was a black panther in Beast Wars. Hopefully Ravage will be somewhat of a bounty hunter like he was in Beast Wars. That would make the movie very entertaining, and it would make a lot of sense since he came after Megatron in Beast Wars. Currently Transformers 2 scheduled for release on June 26, so I'm sure more and more news about it will be leaking out now that it's only about 4 months away.

Dwight and Andy fight to the death!

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Well, I'm sure neither Dwight or Andy will actually die but "The Duel" should definitely be an exciting episode of the Office when it airs next week. I'm not really sure why it didn't air this week considering the fact that NBC's Thursday lineup was all new besides the Office. Anyway for those of you that watched the Moroccan Christmas episode (for those of you that haven't go ahead and check out the 2-minute replay from NBC below) you know why Dwight and Andy are gonna throw-down in the next episode. Basically Angela pissed off Phyllis for the final time and Phyllis told everyone (besides Andy because he was off playing his weird instrument somewhere) that Angela and Dwight were sleeping together.


This Office episode is probably going to be the best one of the season and I'm really happy about that considering how funny "The Surplus" episode was.



There's also more good news for the Office seeing as how they're starting to get guest stars on the show during the post-Super Bowl episode called "Stress Relief". Jack Black and Jessica Alba are going to be starring in a bootlegged movie that the Office watches during the day (no doubt Michael brought back Movie Day now that nobody actually comes to make sure he's doing his job). Also, according to Wikipedia, the Office spinoff is supposed to air February 1, 2009.

[Edit: Now Wikipedia says that the spinoff is airing in April :( , no doubt due to the 2nd newest video on the Widget above. It talks about how there's going to be a 1-hour Office episode airing immediately after the Superbowl :) . That's awesome! Also, this is the episode that Jack Black and Jessica Alba are gonna be in.]

Tim Burton <3 Johnny Depp for sure

So there are some big rumors flying around about the 4th Pirates of the Caribbean movie which might have it's own trilogy. I hope they don't push for the trilogy personally because that will probably lead to forcing out another 3 Pirates movies without trying to make them good. But this might not be the case if one of the rumors is true. Supposedly Gore Verbinski (the guy who directed the first 3 Pirates movies if you didn't know) is returning to direct this movie but there's whisperings about Tim Burton maybe taking over as director. If this is true, then Burton and Depp are going to be spending a lot of time together since Johnny Depp is playing the Mad Hatter (like I mentioned here) in Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie. Seriously I always knew they had a thing for each other lol ;) .

Anyway, Burton would probably do a good job with the Pirates movies especially since they're supposed to be focusing on the past (at least that's what I've heard) when Captain Jack and Barbossa were looking for the Fountain of Youth. I think it's very plausible that this is what the 4th movie is going to be about because another one of the rumors is that Geoffrey Rush has signed on for the 4th movie as well. I do think it would be a better idea for Orlando and Keira to return in this movie seeing as how Will Turner is now immortal and Elizabeth isn't. They could even make it a few years after the end of the last movie so Will's son could be older and go looking for Jack's help or something. But currently I've heard no rumors talking about Keira or Orlando returning so that probably isn't going to happen.

Captain Jack's brother (when did he ever mention having a brother and where was he in the last movie when all the pirates faced off?) is also rumored to show up in this movie. From what I've heard, it's either going to be Sacha Baron Cohen or Russell Brand (you know that crazy guy with the biggest white guy fro I've ever seen that scared people at the MTV award show lol). Sacha's played in a movie with Johnny Depp before (he was Pirelli in Sweeney Todd which I still need to see!) but I haven't really seen anything of either comedian's work. I do think it would be good to have someone with a sense of humor playing Jack's brother though :D . That's all for the current rumors though.

Don't miss The Office episode called "Business Ethics" tonight at 9 on NBC and don't click here unless you want to read a summary of the plot. Also check out this very cool Nightmare Before Christmas theme for Firefox that I just downloaded today. It's a very cool theme for Halloween.

Meet the Graysons

So just when Smallville finally isn't sucking so bad (or so I've heard from people that actually still watch it) the CW decides to add some competition for it (ultimately probably replacing it seeing as how they both have the same executive producers). Yesterday they announced "The Graysons" and if you can't guess what it's about you fail at life ;) . Anyway it's about Robin (a.k.a Dick Grayson still) and his family (before they were killed obviously). It's going to be set in modern times and I'm sure Dick (or DJ as he's being called seeing as how people are immature) will probably be highschool age so lots of girls can oggle whoever plays him (even though he's supposed to be pretty young when his parents are killed).

Lots of people are saying how this show is going to suck because supposedly the only thing that made Smallville great was the fact that Superman already had super powers. I don't even like Superman and I used to watch Smallville. It was a good drama in the beginning. I think it's major flaw was the fact that the CW tried to keep playing on that drama without moving the Superman story forward fast enough. But, seeing as how the CW has a lot of really popular dramas, I'm sure they're going to have a plan for making this show successful. I mean the executive producers of Smallville will have had time to learn from their mistakes and the CW will probably cast someone hot to play Robin (I mean that's all Supernatural has going for it and those guys aren't really that hot and has anyone noticed that they're really gay for each other?). I'm guessing that will fix most of people's concerns about the show and if not they can just turn it into a weird circus family drama.

I hope that (not to sound vindictive and creepy) the Graysons get offed early personally. That way Dick can be emo and get adopted by Batman and whine to his schoolmates about how he has no personal life and how his parents are dead ect. ect. Then he can turn into Robin and start prowling the streets at night in order to avenge his family. I mean even a Batman show from the Robin perspective would be pretty interesting to me. So I'm looking forward to this show as another thing I can watch in case they end up killing Reaper too :( .

In other news, there's no Office tonight because of the stupid debate, but it's perfectly ok for NBC to show 2 crappy "My Name is Earls" instead of one of each. I'm angry seeing as how I've been looking forward to it all week :P that and the fact that "My Name is Earl" sucks hardcore.

Jim and Pam are back tomorrow

Hooray the Office premieres tomorrow at 9 with a 1-hour episode. The episode is supposed to be called "Weight Loss" according to NBC. It says that all of the branch members become obsessed with their weight (although I wouldn't think Jim would get into the craze, he'd probably just make fun of the rest of them as well as trying to psych out Dwight of course) and start to diet like crazy because of a weight loss initiative from Dunder Mifflin. That sounds like a really entertaining episode full of Kevin goodness haha. I can't wait to see how crazy Dwight gets over trying to lose weight either. Angela is already tiny enough so I'm sure she'll just be snooty to everyone else (especially Phyllis) and I'm sure Stanley will be as sarcastic as ever. Hopefully Michael doesn't try and make everyone go anorexic but that would be something he would actually do. Oh yeah, in other Office news; Amy Poehler confirmed that she was going to be starring on the Office spin-off last week, as soon as she returns from her maternity leave that is. I hope it ends up being just as good as the Office but I hope none of the current cast have to leave the show for the spin-off.



Also in other news, I got my new motherboard, so here I am crossing my fingers that my computer will be fixed tonight. I'm seriously going to be sad if it's not, //wrists sad lol jk :P .

Thank goodness for Panera

Ok so our internet and cable is completely out so here I am at Panera. Boo no internet (also Panera is lame because it wouldn't serve me soup 15 mins before lunch despite the fact that the soup was ready when we picked up our food :P ). We think the line is down behind our garage but currently we're not sure. Hopefully it gets sorted out today but who knows. Until then I must find something to occupy myself instead of the WoW filled day I had originally planned :( . Until I can post, enjoy the picture of Gir missing his cupcake as much as I miss the internet.

Montauk Monster Rumors

[Edit: Since some people can't read and like to jump to conclusions about my thoughts (without reading my other posts on the Montauk Monster I might add) I'd just like to say that I don't whole-heartedly believe all of this. I'm just stating some interesting thoughts and possibilities about the matter.]

So there are a lot of rumors going around that Monty is just part of a big viral marketing campaign. I read an article on www.montauk-monster.com describing how they examined the video with the 3 girls talking to Plum Tv. Anyways Nicky (The owner of montauk-monster.com) seems to think that it has something to do with the Cloverfield sequel. I think that this is semi-viable but it seems like it's been too long. I would've thought that if it was a viral marketing scheme, a few days after it was released there would be teasers on tv or on the internet somewhere easily accessible. There could've even been a camcorder (or whatever they're going to have the 2nd point of view be in the Cloverfield sequel) left with the creature. It all seems very fishy to me but the original Cloverfield had a huge amount of viral marketing. So maybe this is just them building up the excitement very early.

But there is good news. A replica of the Montauk Monster is now available on eBay. lol it's about time! I've been waiting to buy my very own Monty T-shirt but nobody's selling them. Maybe they respect him too much to put him on a T-shirt but I doubt it considering the spoof pictures that have been made using photoshop.



Just look at him, isn't he cute? lol the winning bidder even has the option of adding more blood to him. How fun ;)


Check out my previous Monty update here.

I miss The Office

Yay The Office is coming back with a one-hour season premiere on September 25th. I've really been missing it ever since the "Goodbye, Toby" episode. I want to find out what happens with Jim and Pam, Dwight, Andy and heck, even Angela. If you didn't see what happened I guess I won't spoil it since NBC was having technical difficulties yesterday when I was trying to rewatch last season's episodes. I will say it was both awesome and slightly disappointing but in good ways.

Anyways this year mid-season The Office is supposed to have a spin-off. I was thinking it might be of the Utica branch with Karen but it could also be "The Warehouse" and show Darryl (Craig Robinson is also playing in Pineapple Express) as their "boss". Maybe they'll follow Toby to Jamaica. There's a rumor that seems pretty for sure that Aziz Ansari of MTV’s Human Giant has been cast for a role in the spinoff. Saturday Night Live’s Amy Poehler is also a rumored possibility. She's supposedly leaving SNL after her baby is born sometime around November. Personally I like her the insane way she is but I think she'll need to tone it back a little. Otherwise I think it will be too much for the show. I've heard a lot of rumors about Dwight being in charge of the spin-off but I really think he should stay at Scranton. It just wouldn't be the same without him.

In other related news Rainn Wilson aka Dwight Schrute, is going to be in the new Transformers 2 movie. That just makes me laugh cuz he was an extra in Juno as well. This time he's supposedly a school professor. I think he'd be a hilarious teacher personally.

Other shows that I'm excited to see come back are Reaper which sadly is premiering mid-season (So I'll have to wait :() on The CW. Also Scrubs is making the transfer to ABC mid-season for it's last half of a season. I'll definitely be sad to see Zach Braff go :(. Who knows though, it could come back since it doesn't have to deal with the competition of Grey's Anatomy. Oh if you want to look at the Fall schedule for all of the regular stations check it out here. Now I can't wait for September ;).

Dunna dunna dunna dunna BATMAN!!!

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In honor of Batman The Dark Knight coming out today...I'm gonna post some stuff about my favorite Batman show, Batman Beyond. The Dark Knight was an amazing movie, even though it was preempted by a preview for some dorky DC thing called Watchmen.

Uhm here is Terry...(the successor to Batman sometime in the future) fighting Spiderwoman.

Here he is again fighting some electrodude [Edit:  Actually Derek Powers, not electric but radioactive and the man responsible for killing Terry's father.  I was rewatching the series and realized this.]. It's a cool looking pic though.