Hey guys, it’s been a little while since I’ve made a post on the TonyMuckleroy.com site, but not to despair because I haven’t been sitting on my hands. I did that once, and both my hands and butt went numb. Anywho… Some of you know that I have a Jeep Cherokee podcast. Josh is my co-host on that show and with recent events in the news, primarily I read that some big time auto makers will be including the ability to play podcast in their new automobiles (you know making it easy for the simple folk) I contacted Josh and asked him if he wanted to start another podcast. One more about general things. A general talk show.
He said sure! We have a lot of fun getting on Skype and pretending to be big time RADIO personalities, so even if no one listens, we’re having fun. We’ve even set up a website, http://TonyAndJosh.com/ We record the podcast on Thursdays at 10pm Central Time and since it’s just as easy to do that and broadcast on UStream at the same time, well we do that too! So if you really don’t need to sleep before work on Friday why not join us at http://ustream.tv/channel/the-tony-and-josh-show/ at 10pm CT. You can make comments in chat and we even take live calls.
So far we’ve done three episodes. Each is about an hour long. We’re on iTunes, Stitcher and soon Zune.
Check it out won’t you?
It was just out of the blue and really strange.
Years ago it became very apparent to me that, well, I’m not exactly normal. Peer pressure really REALLY pisses me off. I would rather have people dislike me than to be controlled by their wishes. As you can imagine this has caused all sorts of issues, but in a way I’m pretty happy with the results. I think I could have been much more successful in my jobs, relationships, but I wouldn’t have been very happy with myself.
Ahhh you see what I did there (in the title) with the clever use of CENTS instead of sense? Yes hard to believe I’m not a professional writer isn’t it? 
t has been said that the first phone call was when Alexander Graham Bell said “Watson come here!” What isn’t widely known is the second call was a telemarketer calling Bell! I am perhaps one of the few people, under the age of eighty, that still has a land line. I remember the days when only geeks and technical people even knew the term, land line. If you don’t know what it means, it’s simple a line (wire) that runs over the land. Yep that piece of wire that is (was) connected to your phone ran all the way back to the central office and from there to all the other wired phones.
From a very young age my mother would tell me about all kinds of wondrous things. Astronomy was one of them. She really enjoyed reading and would often tell me about celestial events that were going to occur. When I was only five or six years old she was excited that a comet would be visible in the early morning hours. She, naturally, told me about it. I had only ever seen a comet in drawings, or zipping through a cartoon sky on Saturday morning television. I was very excited about seeing a real comet!
cently I wrote a article about sports “
Each evening when I get home I sit at the kitchen table, readying myself for yet another wonderful home cooked meal. I switch the television to one of the local stations to see what is going on in and around Houston, the country and world. I enjoy the local news broadcast, up until they switch to sports. “Sports is NOT news!” I’ll say in an elevated tone. Hastily looking for the remote and changing the channel before I am subjected to a complete waste of my time. I usually tune to a rerun of “The Simpsons”.
Well it’s finally here, 2012. In just a very short time it will be December, then the 21st. In case you’ve been living under a rock, I speak of the much publicized and talked about Mayan calendar. Specifically December 21, 2012, the end of their calendar. Personally I think the calendar maker just got tired and figured that 60 generations was plenty of calendar for his kids, grand kids, great grand kids, great great grand kids, etc…
I’ll start scanning the 500 channels for something to watch, then always remember I should check the “recorded list”. You know things that you have set the DVR to record for you. Sometimes a show will be on that I am recording. It seems I’m usually 5 to 15 minutes late for it, but no problem I can just go to the recording and start watching it before the show is over. The plus side is I can SKIP the commercials!
There is a collapse coming. Not house sales, democrat ownership of Washington, financial, etc… but one of how you get your entertainment and communications. I am sure that for many of you that are tech savvy or know someone who is this isn’t going to be news to you. Others of you may be surprised because you simply haven’t thought about it or care.
Are you apple-phobic? I must admit I am. I have never liked Apple. Our house is considered an Apple free zone. One exception to this was when my youngest daughter saved for and purchased an iPod nano. I warned her that she wouldn’t be happy with it in the long run, especially for the price. Wow was that thing expensive. I warned her about iTunes, and the limitations I had heard others complaining about with their Apple music players. Later she understood what I was talking about, then she lost it. The quality of the device was very nice. Apple makes nice things, and in a way I’m glad they are in business if for no other reason to drive the rest of the technology slugs to move things along.
