The D Spot

Harold Ramis confirms ‘Ghostbusters III’

The headline got me excited, but then I read on…

I just received this e-mail from Harold Ramis confirming the forward progress on a third “Ghostbusters” movie (as mentioned earlier here), with Judd Apatow, some of his regular actors and perhaps Bill Murray involved:

“yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we’ll take it from there.
best,
harold

This means that Dr. Venkman and the boys will probably teach a stoned Seth Rogan, James Franco, and Michael Cera how to be ghostbusters. I have a feeling, like many Apatow movies, this becomes a stoner pic that stops being funny 20 minutes into it.

You ever get your hands on a program that the moment you start using it, you know that it has no practical application for you, but you can’t stop using it?

I’ve been playing with Google Sketchup for many, many hours now. It’s a 3D modeling program designed for engineers and architects. I’m sure that people the develop video games could use it as well. I am none of those things. It hasn’t stopped me from using it.

I get hundreds of emails a day asking me… “Dan, what does the upstairs level of your house look like? What is the layout?”. Well, here you go.

This is horrible!  This is disgusting!!  I can’t believe this is happening in MY town!!

Bad signs at Obama HQ

The Waukesha Police Department sent an officer to the local headquarters for Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama yesterday after the office complained that it had gotten hate signs.

Just what was on these signs filled with “hate”?  What could someone say that would prompt the office to call the PD?  What vile and putrid sentiment was delivered with all of this “hate”?

The officer went to the HQ at 744 N. Grand Ave. and was shown two signs. One says that Obama “sucks.” The other says he is a loser.

Police concluded that the signs were an expression of free speech and not racially hateful.

Wonder how long that investigation took?

With the news of the death of Jerry Reed, I just threw together some video clips of some of his performances.  To save load time, I’ve put them after the break.  Click below to see them.

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We must be on death watch today! Now, legendary country singer Jerry Reed has died! I’ll skip the Eastbound and Down or the When You’re Hot, You’re Hot jokes.

I’m a huge fan of Jerry Reed. This is not a good day.

My xbox live username is AmosMoses74 and when I play games online like Counter-Strike or COD, I use the name AmosMoses. Lots of people wonder where that name comes from. Well, it’s from my favorite Jerry Reed song.

You might not recognize the name, but I can guarantee you’d recognize the voice.

Think of any movie trailer/preview that starts with the words… “In a world…” Now think of the voice saying it. That is Don LaFontaine.

It’s amazing they were able to keep this such a secret, but tomorrow (9/2) Google will release Google Chrome.  A completely new take on the internet browser.  Funny thing is that it was an accident that the info got out.  They were not ready to release it yet.  You know what that means, right?  Don’t buy into the hype yet.  Let them work the bugs out.

A fresh take on the browser

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

The John McCain campaign says it knew that Gov. Palin’s 17 year old daughter was pregnant.  I’m not sure that passes the gut check.  It’s was already a “maverick” kind of pick, but this is going to draw more attention to a VP candidate than I think you want.

What do you think?  Vote in the poll to the left, then comment here if you’d like.

Maybe it’s because I’m kind of geeky about behind the scenes stuff, but Fox News is doing something fantastic.  Unfortunately, I can’t link directly to it, but you need to go to their website and find the words “behind the scenes” attached to one of their headline stories.  I don’t know why they are making it so difficult to find this download, but they are.

What you’ll be downloading (and it’s best to download to your desktop… not do the live stream in your browser) is the new Adobe AIR software.   It’s video streaming software.

Fox News has several cameras located throughout their RNC studios.  The video is streaming in real time.  For example, you can watch them setting up for an interview during the break.  You can also see what is happeing when video is rolling and the talent thinks they aren’t on camera.  For example, I was just watching Hannity and Colmes screwing around during a weather report.  They did a send over to the weather guy and then, while he was talking, they were throwing papers at each other.  You could hear the audio of the paper rustling on the broadcast, but if not for this behind the scenes camera, you’d have just thought someone was getting papers ready for an interview or something.

Again, maybe it’s just because I geek out on this stuff, but well done Fox News!

So, the mayor of New Orleans Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin (who is unbelievably still the mayor) has ordered people to evacuate New Orleans.  He’s told them that there will be no Superdome this time.  There will be no city services to rescue them.  The city has paid for (I also would be that you and I helped pay for them) buses to get people out of New Orleans.  But… there is a problem.

Advocates criticized the decision not to establish a shelter, warning that day laborers and the poorest residents would fall through the cracks.

About two dozen Hispanic men gathered under oak trees near Claiborne Avenue. They were wary of boarding any bus, even though a city spokesman said no identity papers would be required.

“The problem is,” said Pictor Soto, 44, of Peru, “there will be immigration people there and we’re all undocumented.”

I just don’t even know what to say to this.

Just playing with the PollDaddy.com interface. Feel free to take the poll… or don’t.

http://www.vpilf.com

h/t to Conrad.  (Who else would find something like this)