Chip is propagating a meme started by Jeremiah Owyang. Looks like fun! Basically, you enumerate where and how much you consume media from most consumed to least. Let's go!

1. Email: When I wake up, I check my email (Gmail). Then I have coffee and check my email again. Then I shower and check my email again. This pattern continues until I check my email and fall asleep. But then, I always wake in the middle of the night and check my email, just in case.
2. Rmail: I read 800+ RSS feeds in my email. They are delivered via a website I created called Rmail, which simply converts RSS feeds into emails.
3. Web: This is kinda like a chain. I check my email, which includes Rmails. Then, I see an Rmail I like and I click thru to the blog or website. In reality, this is all one process that begins with me checking my email 100 times per day. Outside of Rmail, I often check my website stats; AdSense, AdWords, Analytics, FeedBurner and Amazon.
4. Family: Beyond the above, most of my life revolves around my family, as you will see below. I talk about hockey with my son and girly stuff with my two daughters.
5. TV: I watch TV all day, all the time, but it's simply background noise as I work on my computer. During the day, I'll watch CNN, Star Trek, movies, Simpsons, hockey and other sports. But most of the time, the TV is actually on kid shows as the TV is controlled by my three kids, 3-9 yrs old. A lot of Dora and Diego and Toopy and Binoo. Other than CNN in the early morning, I rarely watch news programs.
6. IM: As I work all day, I often chat with friends who send me cool links and news. Even my cell phone has MSN Messenger built-in.
7. Telephone: I do a little bit of business on the phone.
8. Radio: As I drive my kids to school in the morning, I listen to sports radio from both Toronto and Buffalo.
9. Movies: From time-to-time, I watch movies, but very rarely. About 2-3 times per year at the theatre and 2-3 times per year at the drive-in. Always with the three kids to watch mostly kid movies. This is up considerably from years past. I think I went about 9 years without watching a movie in a theatre. Which is odd, because I invented the Automated Box Office.
10. Newspapers, Books, Magazines, Music: I rarely ever read or listen.

I'm passing the stick to YOU my readers.

And of course, there had to be a ZunePhone parody ad.

A great iPhone commercial from Apple.

This is cool! A giant computer key seat.

http://www.duende.jp/PRODUCT/command-sit/index.html
http://greatbigstuff.com/keystool.html

This is the trailer for a Star Wars fan film.

You can watch the entire film online.
http://download.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/pathways/pathways_qt7.mov

There's also a trailer for the unreleased part II.

Now there's 2 reason why? First, I've never been American. Second, I passed this test. I'm surprised I got 7 since I've never studied American history and was mostly guessing.

You Are Not a Dumb American

You got 7/10 correct. You know a good deal about American history, but there's some basic facts you have wrong. Time to go back to history class!

This guys claims he was fired two days after performing this comedy routine at the Apple company talent show. The routine itself doesn't seem all that bad, but there may have been a PC (politically correct) whiner in his audience.

And who know what the real truth is, he may have shit on his boss' car the same day and left that part out.

It's simply amazing the creativity capable of today's youth.

If the embed doesn't work, try this link. Break.com seems to be broken ;-)
http://www.studio8.net/TV/JediTrash.html

I would feel uncomfortable showering with...

• Rogers Cadenhead? YES
• Michael Medved? YES
• My Wife? MAYBE
• Everybody else? YES

iM surprised I rank so high. I hate everything about the big city (almost). But I have spent a few days of my life there. I liked it, but only the touristy part.

You Are 20% NYC

At best, you're a tourist. At worst, you're a poseur.

Turns out, iM NOT as homophobic as I thought. Actually, the survey has nothing to do with homophobia, rather it's about gay hatred. That's an entirely different matter. I don't hate gays, but I only let females cut my hair. That's a form of homophobia. On the other hand, the best man at my wedding was gay, but he was also a longtime childhood friend.

You Are 3% Homophobic

You're open minded, tolerant, and accepting. And you're not homophobic in the least :-)

I just received an apology email from JetBlue. I'm a valued customer. I flew roundtrip using JetBlue exactly once (last week to New York). My flight was exceptional. Likely the best I've ever had. Nice guys!

I assume this is in response to Britney's recent fame over shaving her head. Paris Hilton shaved her pussy bald and video taped it.

Several times per day, readers posts immature comments on my blogs. That's not so bad, because I usually delete them right away. Once a month or so, I receive requests from people to take down reader comments for various reasons. I usually do what they say mostly to avoid confrontation. At least once or twice per year, the person responds that the comments are still in the Google cache and if I could take down the cached copy too. I'll respond that I don't own google.com nor do I have much control of their cache and that it'll disappear in time. This usually leads to them threatening or harrassing me about removing the webpage from cache. I've tried explaining how the Google cache works, but picture in your head a geek trying to explain the Google cache to a non-techie. This process is really exhausting!

These days, I'm extremely stressed because I'm in the middle of a really big project. The most stressful part is when you've completed a project and you're on the apex just waiting for the entire thing to just happen.

This sounds exactly like a million conversations that I had in the 80s. I was usually drunk, not stoned. The difference is that I'm not a hot blonde female and we didn't have video cams in our cell phones back then. Britney is a normal young healthy adult! Forget the pedestal.

Over the years, I've complained from time-to-time about how pathetic service is from Revenue Canada (Canada's IRS).

In particular, I remember a time when I first applied for a GST number. It was a new tax and the process was to call a phone number, which I called for days on end, stayed on hold for hours at-a-time and never heard from a human being. Then, I discovered the office I was calling was within 1 km of my apartment and the next day I showed up at their office. After submitting my application, I sat in the waiting area and watched as the employees chatted in the halls between their cubicles while the phones rang off the hook. Nobody was answering the phone, which explained my earlier frustration. After waiting for an hour, I confronted a clerk and asked why my application has been sitting in the in-tray for an hour. The clerk took my application and handed it to another. This second clerk took the application, put it on her desk, then proceeded to very slowly walk to the washroom. She intentionally took a longer route that went passed me and staired me down as she passed. Her actions translated to "how dare you make me work." After another 30 minutes of washroom time and 30 minutes at her desk, I had my GST number.

Today, I experienced the American version. I'm trying to get an IRS ITIN. I've called countless numbers and been on hold all morning. At one point, after being on hold for 10 minutes, a clerk answered and asked what I wanted. I told her and she said I need the ITIN department and that she would transfer my call. I was happy, because I did want that ITIN department. In fact, that's who I thought I called. I then waited on hold for another 10 minutes and another clerk answered. I told her what I wanted and she said I need the ITIN department and that she would transfer my call.  I told her that this wasn't the first time I was transferred to the said ITIN department. Another 10 minutes on hold and another clerk wanted to tranfer me to the ITIN department. I told her about this cycle and she said she would look into it. She put me on hold for 10 minutes and then told me to call the direct phone number and she gave me the number. I called the number and it rang busy. I called again. Busy. Call. Busy. Call. Busy. .... Finallly after numerous calls, I got thru to a message that said the clerks were all too busy to take my call at this time. Bye!

With Google now reporting readers to FeedBurner, my readership has finally broken 1000 gazillion.

A little bit less eye candy can only help my readership.

Shaved Britney, originally uploaded by gabelittle.

The Simpsons! The Movie! The Trailer!

iM suing the weatherman. The snow on the east side has drastically affected my daily AdSense earnings.

Ever wonder why they invented automatic transmissions?

KaJe: OMG Randy just discovered a serious glitch in TechCrunch, I better go post this on newsvine.

Chip thinks we have to stop linking like this. I (dis)agree. Oops!

http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=757

Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy, points us to all the GoDaddy Super Bowl commercials. Check them all out!

http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/media/lounge.asp?tab=gdcom

Sterling says "Randy thinks I’m buying his crap, and even accuses me of linking to it!"

http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=755

WestJet is having a one day sale on flight from now till March 10th.

• Calgary to Edmonton: $51
• Halifax to St. John’s: $79
• Montreal to Toronto: $73
• Toronto to Ottawa: $66
• Winnipeg to Thunder Bay: $76

I liked GM's Friends with Benefits campaign so much, that I've started my own.

Chip links to my post where I say to him "there's people who sell crap like candy". Thus proving me correct. I really do blog crap and you guys buy my linking like candy ;-)

http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=752

Sometimes the best blog posts are simply copy/pastes of our online chats.

Randy: http://www.kbcafe.com/myspace/?guid=20070207145757
Chip: bizarre
Randy: funny! I bet it works
Randy: you can earn $1000 if you buy a $20,000 car from us and get 10 of your friends to buy one too
Chip: Yeah, and they probably don't negotiate that $20,000 which they would have discounted otherwise, so they lose nothing
Randy: and you only get the awards if your friends buy not when you buy
Chip: "a market for hope"
Randy: there's a rather large market for hope
Chip: that's what hugh mcleod says
Randy: this website sells hope like candy and somehow I'm a member http://www.vatican.va/
Chip: heh, they've been at it for a long time, too
Randy: while others sell dispair like candy https://www.gop.com/Secure/Splash.aspx
Chip: you know it
Randy: and then there's people who sell crap like candy http://www.kbcafe.com/

Rogers Cadenhead: A three-member panel of arbitrators denied MGM's claim on the grounds that I established my legitimate interest in selling wargames at the domain.

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3119/victory-declared-battle

Randy: Rogers wins one for the little guys and tells you how he did it. This is likely a good case to review for anybody whose domains are threatened by trademark holders. The lesson? Make certain you are doing something with the domain, unrelated to the trademark.

Red Flag Deals: Today only, eBay.ca is offering 10 cent listings.

http://www.qksrv.net/click-749547-5062572

A selection of Super Bowl commercials. I'm a little disappointed. Nothing all that good.

I can't believe a silicon girl would degrade themselves like this. Careful, some may not appreciate this in Seattle.

I still owe my dedicated readers three books for sending me links over the last three months. I'm going to nominate a few blog entries and allow the readers to vote. I'll put together a poll and later attach it to this blog entry. Here we go.

• Wii Sex from Jason Schramm.
• McKinney Fab Five from oemperor.
• iM Going to Mars from Sterling Camdem.
• Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder from Marjolein Hoekstra.
• RSS Usage Survey Results from Oleg.
• Do Bloggers make Money from AdSense? from Scott Kingery.

Please vote for your favorite blog entries above. Top three win a book from Amazon (<$20). Voting ends Feb 9th.

uTAGthere4uWON

Which of the following to you think should win? For whatever reason. Wii Sex McKinney Fab Five iM Going to Mars Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder RSS Usage Survey Results Do Bloggers make Money from AdSense? Current Results

This is the last month that I'm running this contest. There will be three more winners for November, December and January and that's it. Sorry to end it, but some of the participants were complaining that del.icio.us for tag wasn't working anymore and they aren't responding to support requests either. You can't be surprised, they were purchased by Yahoo! whom seem capable of killing just about everything they purchase. You can bet I won't be selling Rmail to Yahoo!

I'm going to take two months off, February and March, as I'm RVing to California. I'll still be blogging and all sorts of things, but from my RV. When I return, I'll start up a new contest. Also, I might not get around to buying these books till I return from California in late March, so don't pick something that won't be of interest next month.

At the request of Viacom, YouTube deleted a home video upload from Jim Moore. It was a home video. Jim guesses that "It looks like what Viacom has done to YouTube is simply search every Viacom trademarked and copyrighted term against every Tube name, and then asked YouTube to pull down the videos, under the terms of the onerous and notorious DMCA.  YouTube has now pulled the videos.  Unfortunately, I suspect that tens of thousands of these videos are completely legitimate".

John Palfrey picks up the conversation.

I wonder how many Nokia executives sat around a table and thought this was cool.

http://pjotrovsdjeffex.com/

How about...

• $100 off an Inspiron 6400 ($650 laptop).
• $150 off a PowerEdge ($450 server).

I'm so busy these days that I can't focus long enough to write a great blog entry. Today, I'm...

• meeting my dad,
• a friend for lunch,
• servicing the car,
• talking patents,
• confirm and organize trip tomorrow to New York,
• removing another massive blog comment spam attack,
• blogging about blogTV,
• setting up my new Webcam (Thanks blogTV),
• I wanted to see Cory's book launch, but I'll simply have to miss it,
• no time to focus on writing code for Rmail either.
• Most important, I need to give my readers (uTAGthere4uWIN) 3 books for the last 3 months worth of links. That's priority #1.

I need a smaller TODO list.