Time to spin “East Bound and Down” one more time for the road: Jerry Reed, also known as Snowman from Smokey and the Bandit, has died.

I’m trying to book an AirTran flight to visit my company’s midwest office. I was just finishing my seat selections when the online reservation system errored out. Boom! Now I get to start all over. Thanks AirTran!
Ironically, AirTran’s slogan at the top of the page reads: “Go. There’s Nothing Stopping You.”
QUIT STOPPING [...]

Headline on CNN just now: “What if a hurricane hits… gas skyrockets to $10 a gallon and everything collapses? CNN investigates tonight, 8 ET.” I dunno…I’ll shoot myself? The media in this country is enough to inspire suicide as it is.

In case you’ve somehow forgotten, the all-new Knight Rider TV movie that all of us at Oddball Update have been waiting for is airing tonight on NBC at 9PM EST.
Part of me is intrigued, but another part of me is dreading it. Still, it can’t be as bad as Knight Rider 2000, right?
Right?

It’s a quarter after one in the morning, and we’ve finally finished launching and testing our new company websites. There were a couple of minor hiccups, and some nitpicking that needed attending to, but I think we are finally done. Of course, the DNS hasn’t fully propagated yet, so I’ll check it out [...]

Comcast missed my third CableCARD service call today. This is the second appointment in a row where the tech just plain hasn’t shown up, despite assurances to the contrary. Last time I had the 5pm-9pm window. Today I had the 1pm-5pm window. For my newly-rescheduled appointment, set for Wednesday the 9th, [...]

I swear, GM, sometimes you make it very hard for me to love you. Ahem…did anyone else see Pontiac’s new slogan? Yes, that’s it:
“Pontiac is CAR.”
That’s precious. What next? “GMC is TRUCK”?

The cable guy never showed up for my CableCARD reinstallation appointment yesterday, so I had to call up and reschedule for later. The soonest I could get was Saturday. At first they offered me the damned 5pm-9pm slot again, but I demanded something else and they immediately gave me 1pm-5pm on the same [...]

Comcast just launched Sci-Fi Channel HD in our area. On the surface, this is awesome because it means I can catch the final season of Battlestar Galactica in glorious high-def. However, it doesn’t look like this channel actually airs anything in HD — it’s all upconverted SD. What the hell is the [...]

We now return to our regularly scheduled blogging — sorry for the delay. To begin, I’ve posted details of our excellent trip to Michigan, and there will be more entries in the coming days. I’ve also posted up my official Christmas list for 2007, this time powered entirely by Amazon. Which reminds [...]