Chuck to the CW?

In late January, I posted an entry about the TV show Chuck. The day after the Superbowl, Chuck was broadcast in 3-d. I watched the 3-d episode and it was okay. It was neat to see the show in 3-d, but nothing special.

We probably won't know until May 5th if Chuck is going to be renewed for a third season. The ratings have been average for the show. It has been averaging roughly 6.25 million viewers. The ratings are okay, but not great. Also, NBC has to remove five hours of prime time TV because Jay Leno will be on Weekdays at 9:00(central).

If NBC decides to cancel Chuck, there is a chance that the CW will pick it up. According to this article, the president of entertainment at CW is interested in picking up Chuck. We'll have to wait and see.

Update: NBC has renewed Chuck for 13 episodes. New episodes will air in March. There is also discussion about ordering the back 9 episodes of season 3.

New Sprint Commercial

Sprint has a new commercial to help lauch their new 4g network. I found this commercial to be rather entertaining.

The AIG bailout and other ramblings

As you well know the federal government has repeatably given AIG several bailouts. Basically trying to keep AIG in business, because if they were to fail the economy would crash. So we the taxpayers have given AIG $175 billion. Yesterday while listening to the radio I heard that AIG has given some employees around $165 million in bonuses. That $165 millions is taxpayer money. Giving that money as bonuses to their employees is unacceptable. The $165 million should be rescinded and paid back to the government. Better yet, we should let AIG fail. I'm tired of giving them bailouts.

An example would be giving your friend some money. Your friend begs and says that they need the money so they can pay their bills. A few days later you find out your friend is using your money to make road trips and buying cigarettes and beer. If you knew this before hand, you would have never loaned your friend money.

On another note, I was reading the latest issue of CPU magazine. There is an article about Windows 7. One of the new features of Windows 7 is the calculator. For some reason Microsoft decided to add a mortgage calculator. I'm not really sure why Windows 7 needs a mortgage calculator, but it sounds neat.

Lastly, the Dow ended its 4 day rally today. Today the Dow lost 7 points, to close at 7216.97. The Dow is better than it was 1 week ago, but things could change rapidly. Also, gas prices are on the way down.

Bobby Knight motivational speech

SOLID!

Just for fun I added this one:

Which coach in the NCAA tourney is gonna have a blow up?

Purdue is Big Ten Champions

BOILER'UP

Edit: So I got a few emails asking what this is all about. Well its story time.

Over Xmas, Purdue was considered the top team in the Big Ten, with Illinois projected to be one of the lower teams in the league. My brother a U of I graduate and I made a timely bet at the time. I said Purdue would sweep Illinois, and for added punch I gave him a requirement that Purdue would sweep Iowa. The rules of the bet, loser would have to wear either a rediculous Illini hat (one of those North Dakota winter hats, at least I assume) or a fabulous pink Purdue shirt for 2 weeks.

My brother a key financial broker for a major financial firm required I wear the hat for every game Purdue lost to the four. Well they lost to Illinois, twice.... So to save my pride I reapplied the deal. I said double or nothing. Purdue will do better than U of I in both the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA tournament. Well today, one of the two requirements are complete, and poor Illinois lost their leader to injury. Oh and Purdue beat U of I in the Big Ten Tournament and went ahead and won it for the championship. I'm sure I speak for a small 2-4% of the majority but I have Purdue winning it all in my bracket.

WRONG!

Everything is amazing, nobody is happy...

Louis C.K. was on Conan and has sort of a technology rant. It's pretty entertaining.

Alarm Clock changes time by itself

I was listening to the radio earlier today and I noticed something kind of weird. The host said the time and then I looked at my alarm clock and it was 20 minutes fast. I thought that maybe the radio was wrong, but my cell phone, laptop and watch all had the correct time.

Last night I did play with the alarm clock, I tried changing the radio stations and change the brightness from low to hi. I don't see how any of these things could have changed the time. Maybe my cat changed the time. She now likes to sit on my laptop keyboard.

Update: I checked the alarm clock later in the evening. The time on the alarm clock said 9:32pm. My cell phone said 9:20. I turned the brightness from high back to low and the alarm clock has kept the correct time. I shoudln't buy any more electronics from Meijer.