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 [...]

This morning I listened to a podcast where a man was working in an appliance store and quite by accident he was seen goofing around doing a G.W. Bush impersonation.  Since this was during the eight years of G.W.’s reign he was quickly in demand.  He even looks like the former president, or so they [...]

For the last four plus years I have been working for a company as a perm, salaried employee, but they have a contract with a major corporation in Houston, and well I work for them.  This has been a great job, great people, and I’ve even learned a few things.  Always a plus.  I knew [...]

It 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!

It’s been a long time since my last post.  Many things have happened since July, and hopefully I’ll force myself to write about a few of them.  Just a short post this time to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, and for my friends not in this country just a happy weekend for you!  Oh and to [...]

It struck me the other day that I never see television commercials any longer.  I was sitting in the kitchen having a meal and I saw a funny commercial.  I called to my wife to have a look.  Her response was “yeah I’ve seen it.”  My wife, God bless her, won’t run the kids out [...]

Tax Time! Turbo Tax.  I’m cheap. Someone that I wanted to sell a service to is cheap, and Texas politions and school district weren’t cheap enough now teachers are losing their jobs, and why this is a good thing!   Download the podcast from here.

First podcast of “Another *@&#ing Podcast!” Congress woman shot, people injured/killed including a nine year old girl. Being ripped off by towing company. The wife spins and damages the Mustang. Download the podcast Part 1

Space travel is much easier and safer than plunging into the depths of our oceans.  In space all you need is air pressure of one atmosphere since space is a vacuum, a total lack of air, or any medium that would exert pressure on you, or your craft.  So with a $20 of plastic sheets, [...]

You may have noticed the graphic to the right that says “Another *@&#ing Podcast!”. Hopefully very soon, I will be having a semi-weekly or weekly show. I do plan on having guests and you will have the ability to “call in” to the show! Both land line and Skype. Please feel free to ad me [...]

This past weekend I went with a friend of mine to an off road part near Huntsville Texas. We went in his Jeep and after riding the trails for a few hours we stopped back by the entrance to see if the ATV mud races were going on. They were about to start so we [...]

I’d like to share an original song a friend of mine did.  Amazingly it’s Christmas time and he wrote a Christmas song!  What a coincidence!   It’s called “Christmas Cheer” and it was written and performed by Tom Rapp.  You can keep up with Tom Rapp on his website The Tom Rapp Show! You can also [...]

Recently I saw a post on Twitter by @Zadi how she was trying out something called vYou.  Basically you can ask people questions via text and they record a video response that you can play back.  It’s pretty cool.  Anyone can join and ask questions, or post your own video responses to questions asked of [...]

Welcome to July!  I have a whole month of exciting and informative articles lined up for this month!  Seriously?  You may ask.  No not seriously I answer.   You should know by now that this is a “knee-jerk” blog at best. You may have read my article The Jeep – Hurricane Escape Vehicle! where I [...]

For some years now I have known that I am socially retarded.  Actually “retarded” may not be a fair word to use since people that are mentally challenged are not so by choice.  They are either challenged because of genetic, or physical trauma.  My social issue is by choice so I would be more a [...]

First and foremost I want to be clear, this is my completely uneducated opinion on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  A horrific accident occurred, and lives were lost.  Because of this the oil rig that was destroyed severed the connection to the well, and oil began to flow from deep with in [...]

I hope all you Fathers had a good day yesterday.  One ex-coworker received an iPAD for Father’s Day!  At least that is what he reported via Facebook.   What a great gift!  There certainly is nothing wrong with buying someone a gift.  Recently, prior to Father’s Day I told my oldest daughter that I didn’t [...]

So you might wonder why would anyone be insecure on the Internet?  I mean that is the possibly nicest thing about the Internet, the utter and sheer anonymity of it.  In fact this reminds me of a joke I read recently…  “The Internet!  Where Men are men, the woman are men, and the children are [...]

  As some of you may be aware I run two Jeep websites.  xjTalk.com and WranglerTalk.com.  Even though the sites are open to Jeep Cherokee (XJ) and Wrangler owners and entuthiasts world wide we thought it would be a fun thing to have a local area Meet and Greet.  Several other xjTalk members have held [...]

Perhaps I am slow to this realization party but I am surprised how the Internet is being used to start careers.  It made sense to me how it could be used to promote careers in the media.  I remember back in 1995 when I was setting up Internet access, e-mail, website, etc… for the company [...]

I have this problem.  I see someone’s face, usually in movies, television, or pictures, and I think I recognize them from somewhere else.  It drives me nuts trying to remember where I saw them from before.  Recently I was watching an episode of “Seinfeld” when during the closing I saw someone in the background of [...]

It has been a while since I read this book, but it crossed my mind today when I was thinking about all the self promotion I’ve been doing.  I try to make some funny observations, or even be informative, but since I know a REAL published author, a REAL writer so I thought I should [...]

Just in case you haven’t already seen these I think they are destined to be Internet classics.  I know a classic automobile is 25 years, I think an Internet classic is a few million viewers and 2 weeks max! This love triangle sucks with just the one of us. This first one is from my [...]

As our technology grows in complexity so CAN it’s ability to fail.

I was very surprised to hear comment from one of my teen aged girls indicating her surprise that I had fixed a meal.

  It is often written “the good old days”.  Simpler times.  You know when you could leave your door unlocked and you had to walk to school up hill both ways?  Well I’d like to point out something wonderful that is here in the present and wasn’t anything that was even a glimmer in someone’s [...]

I was reading a discussion on another forum and it turned to “soylent green“. It sounded familiar so I googled it. I found lots of info on it and of particular interest, this story… Charlton Heston died today, April 5, 2008 at the age of 84 in Beverly Hills, California. A Hollywood titan and political [...]

Here are a couple of videos that I enjoyed.  This first one is a video we shot of my oldest daughter’s science experiment.  I’m just glad she didn’t pick the volcano! I think we spent about $30 for the stuff to do this.  By the way the magic ingredient here is DRY ICE!  Makes the [...]

I like playing around with photo editors.  I’m no master at it, but I have come up with a few things that I find funny.  I see these ideas originally in my head and if they strike me as humorous, or could be, I try to put some of them into a picture.  With all [...]

I am probably like most of you, each work day I have a routine.  I get ready in a certain order, deodorant, brush teeth, shave.  Same is true on my way out the door.  I have all the things that I need to take with me sitting together.  Keys, wallet, watch, cell phone.  I don’t [...]

How many times in your life can you say “Problem solved”?  I mean you say problem solved, after YOU fixed the problem.  Not picking up the phone and calling someone to resolve the issue, or driving your vehicle down to the shop and waiting patiently until they call you.  We like our lives problem free.  Of [...]

I recently read an entertaining article written by Alison Rosen on the Marie Claire website.  You can read the article here.  Reading this article I thought of several observations I have made, or my wife has pointed out to me.  Let me see if I can articulate them sufficiently here. A few years ago, perhaps [...]

I snapped this picture today of some of the team playing volleyball.  This is the second “spring” outing we have had in as many years, both times at a co-workers house.  Lots of fun for 1/2 the work day.  I had steak!  The menu consisted of the a fore mentioned steak, several pounds of crawfish, [...]

For the last few months I have been watching a very entertaining Internet show, it would otherwise be called a TV show but there’s no TV in this scenario. Just a camera, computers, a video streaming service. I learned about this show through Twitter (a social networking site where people follow each other and TWEET [...]

So let’s talk about the Jeep! Basically I’m a big kid, like most men. It isn’t a mid life crisis because it’s been going on since before I was 18. I love to mess with things. Cars, Trucks, Airplanes, electronics (Computers especially) but it also includes radio (as in Amateur Radio), but I’m getting away from my point.