Random Thoughts, Sights and Sounds - a Potpourri of Knowledge

Friday's on the Chicks Dig Awakward Mornings with McLovin blog will a be catch-all day, a day to talk about and post random things that I've heard or seen in life or around the web the past couple of days.

I've had a long-running Drew Bledsoe vs. Tom Brady discussion with several friends over the past couple of years. Obviously Brady's shown that he's the better quarterback, but I like taking the opposite side of the argument and stating Bledsoe's case, with points like: The Patriots wouldn't have won their first Super Bowl (and Brady wouldn't have been the MVP) if Bledsoe didn't quarterback the team to victory in the AFC championship against Pittsburgh.



ESPN's D.J. Gallo has an interesting spin on this and theorizes, "What if Tom Brady never became the Tom Brady"





It has been over a year since the lovely Wendi Nix (right) graced our television screen as a sports anchor on Channel 7 (though, she is on ESPN, it's not the same), and she has been missed.





In taking their time to find a replacement, I believe Channel 7 has found someone who will make all of us forget Wendi. Starting next Thursday, Julie Donaldson (left), a former Miss Florida, will be working the Red Sox beat for Channel 7.


To see more of Ms. Donaldson than you'll ever see during her reports on Channel 7, click here. Score a big win for Channel 7 in adding Donaldson to their newscasts. Normally Fox 25 has all of the attractive anchor babes.

Last weekend I was procrastinating in working on a paper that I had due for Graduate school, and was flipping around the TV channels and saw John Cusack starring in 'Sereindipity'. It got me to thinking, 'I'd really like to watch High Fidelity right now'. The problem is I don't own it, it wasn't on On Demand and I didn't want to drive to the video store to get it.

I thought wouldn't it be cool, to have a box attached to your tv that would give you access to rent a larger variety of movies than is available on On-Demand. You push a button, view through the available titles and in moments you're watching the movie you wanted and not waiting for it to come in the mail from Netflix.

To my surprise in my e-mail inbox this morning was an e-mail from Apple announcing the revamped Apple TV, where you can rent movies directly to your TV. All of the Major studios, are involved. You can rent movies in HD. You can rent newer titles, older titles, want You Tube videos, look at your photos, listen to podcasts and music all on your television.

That is bad ass.