Download, double-click, dropout.

Don't know why but I remembered that we hadn't played this game in a while.

Farewell, trusted friend.

I said, "NO!"

This is the last TVS for several weeks (holidays and Macworld). Maybe I'll even shake this cold. Then we are back on track. Maybe I'll even keep the episode numbers sraight... NAH! This week, more Japanese game shows, music and free Tupperware! Plus Podsafe Music, Elfin' Dennis and the Yule Log. And there's my partial retelling of a three day stay in the Gray Food Hotel. Happy Holidays to Boxheads. And if you don't watch the show ... well ... screw you!

Sorry the show is late. I spent a couple of days in hospital. So, better late than never.

The older that I become, the more I find Xmas intolerable. Now, I'm no Socrates but it seems to me to be fairly unlikely that a species that has a majority of VCRs flashing '12:00,' is not a likely candidate to figure out how everything began. But that's just me. Fortunately for us, merchants have figured out what Xmas is all about and how we should celebrate the day. Shopping. Yes, just like Macaholics, tens of thousands wander zombie-like to the doors of WalMart's and other countless emporiums at hours only owls usually see. There they stand in lines, nay, mobs, for hours just to be the first ones to get their mitts on lead-laced do-dads from China and two-for-one sales on family sized bags of Doritos. Oh, Happy Day! Enough of that, let us speak of this week's show. I haven't a clue as to what it is about. Which is quite suspect, seeing as I created it and so on. I'll pay more attention next time.

By now, you're all too familiar with that sound. It's either your stomach about to erupt from consuming enough turkey to feed an eastern European family for two weeks. Or it's the sound loop playing over and over in your head as the b@#tard in Ford Taurus steals your parking space at the local Shop 'Til U Drop. Either way, it ain't going away anytime soon. This week's show is a whopper. Literally, it starts with ground beef and you can work it out from there. We have Sport and The Human Condition. Then we have Sport and Eddie Izzard. We round things out with Dennis Sellars and his mustache who are no sports at all and some holiday music from the Alice Project. As for me, I talk, I occasionally grin but mostly keep to myself. And, of course, Henry the Horse dances the waltz.

I grew another year older this past week. They're right when they say that 52 is the new 51. Gawd, my back hurts. This week's show is a whopper in size. 400+ MB. I had encoded it to work with Apple TV. It caused problemsnso I returned to the iPod file size. For those of you who watch 'House,' I have a segment from his earlier work as half of the comedy duo Fry & Laurie. We have a music video from Devlin Murray. News and things that I'm thankful for. This week's special co-host is Chad Everret. See you in the pictures.

I've been using Macs for twenty some odd (some even) years. Stuck through them through the lean years and never stopped believing in "Hoist the Jolly Roger." But I'm wondering now if a little bit of Microsoft think isn't creeping in. And a lot of it is our fault. The iPhone wasn't completely ready, but we forced a date (we being Macaholics and the rumor mill). Leopard, when released, seemed like an Alpha and the update, 10.5.1, has brought it up to Beta status. But Steve shares some of the blame. He couldn't be bullied by Gates, Scully, et al. But mess with the faithful... I only bring this up because it made this week's show a living Hell to produce. Should I have put it onto a mission critical machine? No. But past experience showed that the earlier X releases were quite stable. In fact, I used the Beta of the line quite successfully. I think that we all need a reality check. Fans - no more forcing release dates. And Steve - just take the time that you need to get it right. Now, on with the show. Check The Sandbox out and subscribe via iTunes, Miro or FireAnt Subscribe directly at http://phranky.libsyn.com/rss 
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