• Not thrilled that @cnnbrk sent out text messages overnight for a bunch Oscar winners. That is NOT breaking news!!! (not even news really) #
• Don’t know why how my DVR knew I never saw it before, but glad it recorded Mythbusters rerun last night. Mythbusters + Macgyver = awesome! #
• How long til the TV weather people start referring to this storm as Rainzilla? You know they want to! #
• It’s really sad when a TV show has to bleep the “Happy Birthday to You” song because it an insane amount to license it. #

• Trying to decide if I like Defying Gravity. Could an ABC show really be worth watching or just cool that it stars the guy from Office Space? #

 I just happened to read that the Discovery Channel is is going ot start airing Season 4 of The Deadliest Catch in only a few months. I know I’ve talked about this show before in the blog so I won’t describe it again, but check out the Deadliest Catch Blog to learn more about what’s going on with the show. That’s where I found out it’s due to come back on in April.

Yesterday the guy who got me interested in technology passed away. Mr. Wizard, whose real name was actually Don Herbert, created and starred in a show in the 1950′s called Watch Mr. Wizard. That show went off the air more than a decade before I was born.

If you grew up in the 1980′s, you more than likely grew up with your eyes glued to the only TV channel for kids, Nickelodeon. Most people loved Nickelodeon for You Can’t Do That on Television. However, I was way more excited when 1983 rolled around and Mr. Wizard returned to TV on Mr. Wizard’s World. Sure it was kind of campy and those kids were just a little too excited about helping out Mr. Wizard with his experiments, but at the the time, I would have given ANYTHING to be one of those kids!

Mr. Wizard had a way of making science make sense by using everyday household items with the random really cool items thrown in like a Jacob’s Ladder, a Van de Graaf generator or even a computer with a black and green screen that ran BASIC!

You can learn much more about the man who inspired so many kids at his website www.mrwizardstudios.com. You can even purchase DVD’s of his shows on the website. I’m tempted to order them all.

Now you can have all the wit and wisom without having to watch his show. Check out the Dr. Phil Random Quote Generator and get pearls such as…

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to throw a brick at a turtle.

For those of you who enjoyed watching The Screen Savers and Call for Help on ZDTV/TechTV, I hvae GREAT news! For the past year or 2 Call for Help 2.0 has been on the Canadian version of G4TechTV. (This network is NOT owned by Comcast, the company that bought the American version of TechTV and turned it into G4 while firing most of the staff.)

The new Call for Help show is really a mix of Call for Help and the Screen Savers. It’s hosted by Leo Laporte still, but he also has 2 co-hosts, Amber MacArthur and Andy Walker.

While this show is available in Canada on G4TechTV Canada and in Australia on the HOW TO Channel, it was not available in the United States. That is changing! Beginning on 29 August, Call for Help can be seen on G4 at 1100 EDT weekdays!!!

I’m setting my DVR right now! Downloading the torrents of the show was becoming tiresome.

Wow, why didn’t they have these when we were growing up?! Imagine all the sibling fights it would have stopped.

Sharp Dual View TV

I’m a Conan O’Brien, but I think you’ll find his Newsweek article about the future of television funny whether you’re a Late Night fan or not. Take a look when you get a chance.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7935916/site/newsweek/