CSI:Miami is a pretty ridiculous TV show, and one of the things that makes it so is the opening one-liner. Often I will watch just long enough for this before leaving. They’re really cheesy and ballsy—Law & Order usually has the one-liner, but CSI:M really outdoes it. I blame David Caruso.

For a while now I’ve wished that someone would compile just the one-liners—I’d watch an hour of those—and it seems someone has. Without further ado, I present… the Endless Caruso One Liners:

Best thing I’ve seen this week.

Looking at the title of this post, that’s a geeky way of saying how old I am today.

Yes, it’s another birthday. I’m 36 today (in case you don’t want to do the math—which, incidentally, should account for leap years. Told you it was geeky).

Even though I had to work today—first time in a few years I haven’t taken my birthday off—it’s been a good day. Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday online—of course, having social networking apps that remind people of your birthday helps!

And for the beer geeks out there—right now as I write this, I’m enjoying a 2005 Mirror Mirror barleywine from Deschutes Brewery.

I’ve been enjoying Once Upon a Win lately (the cousin to FAIL Blog) and the one thing that’s lacking so far is the Commodore 64. Tonight, though, I came across something even more epic: the Commodore Christmas Demo. Dave writes:

Commodore wrote their famous Christmas Demo in 1982 to demonstrate the capabilities of their new Commodore 64 computer and the upcoming Executive 64 (SX-64) portable. It was included with the test/demo disk that shipped with every SX-64 so dealers could introduce customers to the machines’ advanced (for the time) sound and graphics. Though its character graphics and SID sound seem quaint by today’s standards, the Christmas Demo reminds many Commodore fans of the morning they woke to find a computer under their tree.

1982. I never knew of this before. Click through and watch it.

Best thing I’ve seen online all week. Hands down.

I’m writing this blog post on our new computer. Yep, finally; we order a Dell from a really good online Black Friday deal and it arrived yesterday. Replacing the six-year-old eMachine.

This new computer is running Microsoft Vista, which I was really leery about, but so far there’ve been none of the problem with Vista I’d been fearing from past experience. Some other observations though…

• "Windows Easy Transfer" isn’t. In fact, it rather sucks. I tried it twice, each time it failed. but not before copying over some data. The problem? It copied over stuff and simply re-created the folder structure as on the old computer, which really is not what I wanted. So I ended up scrapping that and copying over stuff myself.
• This computer is quiet. Really, really quiet. It actually bothers me a little that it’s so quiet.
• Browsing the internet in general seems quite a bit faster.
• This Vista is the 64-bit version of the OS, which apparently our Canon scanner refuses to work with. That’s a bit frustrating, and makes me wonder what else isn’t going to run because of 64-bit issues?

In other computer news, I’m being sorely tempted by the Acer Aspire One netbook they have at Costco. Only $350. It’s tiny! But seems like a good price for what you get, and it’s more powerful than the other comparable netbooks out there right now.