Friends with Benefits

No, not that type of benefits! The "owns his own Home Theater business and willing to impart enless knowledge" benefits. Who knew that having kids in the school system could jumpstart my AV set-up back into modern times. I managed to find someone this past weekend to swap an extra Wii I won at my company summer picnic for a PS3 (yeah, I got off on the good end of that deal, eh!). Only issue now is that I have 4 HDMI sources - cable box, XBox 360, DVD player, and now PS3 - and only a single input on the TV. So I figured it was time to upgrade my 12+ year old receiver. On his recommendation, I ordered up a Denon AVR-2309CI. Very, very solid middle-range receiver that will do everything I need it to do, and a whole lot more to help keep it future-proof.

On the lighter note, after watching the Philadelphia Eagles absolutely rape the Rams, my wife and I actually tuned in for a new show on Fox - Hole in the Wall. Yeah, you know the one - that stupid Japanease show made its way to the US with morons standing up and trying to contort themselves to fit through holes in a foam wall that is moving towards them. Failing to do so gets them pushed off their perch and into a waiting pond of green water straight from the Hudson River. I only know one other language, Spanish. So even knowing how to say "stupid" or "retarded" in two tongues doesn't convey how much this show is an utter waste of bandwidth. I give it 4 weeks, maximum, before it's pulled. For Christ's sake, they have it slotted to compete with the new Surivior season - it's like they want it to fail. And God do I hope so.

And finally, on the same "nobody can be THIS stupid" theme, I give you tree huggers that are obviously off their meds. If not, then human euthansia needs to be legalized, if only for this group.