September 13th, 2010 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Day 13
I am not a normal person. I think we can all agree on that. I’m a pretty odd duck sometimes. Fortunately I seem to surround myself with fellow odd ducks, and that leads to amusing conversations like this one I had with my pal Grace on Facebook the other day…
Grace Hi there!
Tim hello
Grace Something weird happened today…I saw a guy I thought was you at my garage sale.
Tim lol I promise it was not me in disguise
Grace lol He looked @ me w/ his glasses down and he looked just like you. So strange lol
Tim Yikes..I have a twin? Lord help us!
Grace Maybe you’ll meet him in 2012! lol Then the world will end OR it is you after getting out of the Delorian to go to Disneyland and you got lost! Ending up at my garage sale!
Tim lol …or maybe something in your garage sale holds the key to the future. I hope I got it before SkyNet did.
Grace No. you looked and drove away on your cell phone. lol You missed the broken old wheelchair of doom, that has run over many a teenager foot.
Tim lol darn it
Grace …or the boxes of naked barbie dolls
Tim It must have sold before I got there
Grace Nope, it’s still there now.
Tim I meant whatever was going to save the future must have sold.
Grace Oh, maybe. The kissing bears of death?
Tim lol That sounds like it could save the world
Ha! Thanks, Grace. How did you know I was in the mood to talk about time traveling adventures to save the world? (Oh, maybe because I always am)
September 11th, 2010 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Day 11
Today is the 9 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America. I started to write a blog about it but I don’t have the perspective to make it somber with out making it cliche. I also don’t have the comedic talents to make some witty comment to help us laugh at our pain. So instead, here’s something completely different…
Today I was out looking for plaid pants (unsuccessfully, I might add…don’t ask) and I saw this sign at my local Goodwill store…
Um, okay…what? Why else would I shop at Goodwill but for low prices? This store is just introducing this concept? Were they charging a premium for second hand pants that had some other dude’s farts in them before this?
“How much for this 1980’s style jacked?”
“$500”
“What?! That’s outrageous! This is somebody’s old crap they gave away for free. I’m outta here!”
“Hmmmmmm maybe we should introduce some everyday low prices.”
September 10th, 2010 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Day 10
So I’m in the doctor’s office the other day (don’t worry, I’m fine, I was just having my enlarged ego looked at…doctors say it’s inoperable) and I saw this poster:
Can’t see it? Well that’s because I did not get a very good shot with my cell phone camera. So I found a larger version on the interwebs: Read the rest of this entry »
September 9th, 2010 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Day 9
As a general rule, guys don’t like to buy flowers. Not that we don’t like them or don’t think they’re pretty, but we know they’re dead and are just going to slowly rot in front of us. But women like the flowers. So occasionally you just gotta make the ladies happy. But I had a brilliant idea…Instead of getting dead flowers, I decided to get some roses that were still alive, and in a pot with soil so that she could enjoy them for a long while. Here’s what they look like a few weeks later…
September 7th, 2010 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Day 7
So I FINALLY saw Avatar in glorious 3D! Now…I’m sure the movie has been discussed to death so I’ll save that for another day. (Although when the lady Smurf turns out to be the chief’s daughter, I was like, “WOW this really IS ‘Blue Pocahontas in Space'”)
But here’s what I do want to say, I’m done with 3D. This is supposedly the best 3D movie ever and yet again, less than half an hour in, I stopped even noticing it was in 3D. Look Hollywood, if you’re not going to making it dramatic I’m not going to bother. I’m not paying a sir charge* just to stop noticing that I’m watching a 3D flick 20 minutes into it. If it’s not Captain EO or Muppet Vision 3D, I don’t have time for it.
In fact if you wanna see Avatar in 3D, let me save you some time, just cross your eyes and look at this:
*”sir charge” is like a surcharge, but for people who have been knighted (like myself) sorry for the confusion.
September 7th, 2010 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
This week Andy and Noah talk video games and heath tests…then the show starts and Tim talks about recording a comedy CD, the boys get bowled over by a listener from Norway, there’s more video game talk, you’ll learn the joys of destroying an inanimate object, and Tim will never mention that he’s blogging everyday in the month of September (30 Days and 30 Blogs 2: Blog Harder)
[CONTENT WARNING]TANcast features mature language and immature hosts but is NOT a representation of the stand up act of Tim Babb. Listener discretion is advised.
September 6th, 2010 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Day 6
I’ve just finished editing the new TANcast and I forgot to mention two things…
1) That I’m doing these blogs every day this month and
2) I’m finally getting a new laptop!
If you don’t know, my laptop suddenly died on me while at a show in Hollywood a month or so ago. (It was very sad) I Googled some stuff on my own and couldn’t get it to turn on. Then I took it to Noah who tried a few things and inspected it as best he could but he couldn’t get it to turn on either. So I finally decided to take it to the “Geek Squad” at Best Buy…my “Geek” barely touched the thing and told me he wasn’t sure what the problem was…probably needed a new mother board. (Really? You’re the “Geek” and my buddy Noah did more than you did to examine this thing. You suck.)
So basically, the old laptop is dead and gone. A sad situation made all the sadder by the fact that my wife’s iTunes library was on there. But also that was the laptop I used when on the road for things like graphic design, editing TANcast, editing videos..etc. I do have a “back up” laptop that a friend gave to us a few years back but it is sloooooooooow. I couldn’t even load PhotoShop on it. I have to boot it up, go for a drive to Kansas and back, and THEN it’s ready to use.
Now I finally have some cash to get a new laptop. I’m leaning towards an HP but that’s just because that’s what I’ve always had. Any suggestions? I need to be able to run PhotoShop, open office, Audacity, Skype, and the internet (duh). Anyone have a favorite laptop make and/or model they’d like to champion? One quick stipulation: If you’re going to say “Mac,” save your breath. I was born a right clicker and I will die a right clicker.
My name’s Tim, I’m a PC, and hating on Apple was my idea.
September 5th, 2010 . by Tim Babb (TANcast's #1 Host/Editor Fan)
Day 5
Ok…I think the companies have officially run out of good ideas for us. The plan now is to slip incredibly stupid, wasteful ideas past us and hope we don’t notice. I saw this commercial a few times while watching Criminal Minds reruns the other night….
