My new bike.

We celebrated Christmas at home, having two family Christmas parties, you might have seen the pictures from my previous post.  For Christmas Kelly got me and awesome bag for me to use for work, along with some cooking books I really wanted, a circular saw, and some clothing.  It was a really awesome Christmas.  For my birthday I got a new bike.

Raised vegetable bed.

Kelly and I used my new saw and build two raised beds for our vegetable garden this year.  We’ve already planted some onions, and are waiting for March to add the tomatoes and peppers I get at the annual sale that Fullerton College has.  That just about wraps up most of the things we have done the past month.  So I guess it’s time for the Weekly Cool Links!  Just an FYI, there is a lot of stuff to share this week, so I’m going to do something different and break this up into a couple posts the new couple days.

Cool Stuff
Lifehacker put together a kick ass table of when is the Best Time to Buy Anything, from Homes in the winter (hey that’s what we did!) to Jeans in October, it’s a great list for those that are looking for when the best deals normally are.  You say you aren’t interested in buying anything, well how about these not so cool porn ideas (safe for work), don’t miss “The Making of You” staring Mommy and Daddy with special guest Uncle Bill…  I was going to post a bunch of “best of 2009″ links, but this guy did all the work for me, so I’ll just link to him.  I was hoping I would be on the 30 best blogs of 2009, but I guess I’ll have to wait for the 2010 list.  Continuing with the theme of lists, Gizmodo posted their list of the worst gadgets from the past decade, a lot fo great ideas but they just ended up sucking.

Cool Advertising
I have some American Apparel shirts (well they are shirts from places that print their shirts on AAs) and I’ve always been fascinated with their unique marketing strategy, from using porn stars to having androgynous looking models, they cover it all, which is why this collection of their hottest ads (possibly not safe for work, but nothing graphic) is included here.

Cool Food
One of the books Kelly got me (and my brother in law Dominic) was the 1st volume of the Good Eats books, by Alton Brown, I’ve loved reading the book and wanted to share this great Good Eats fan site (it’s poorly designed but still a great resource).  Talking about food, Lifehacker shared this article of Six Kitchen Skills You Can Pick Up This Weekend.

Cool TV
Chuck and 24 started up last week, Burn Notice starts tonight, and someone is selling a barely used late night show…  By the way even though I don’t watch much late night, I with Coco.

Cool Sports
The Hall of Very Good has some great stuff about good baseball players, that aren’t quite Hall of Famers, or shouldn’t be Hall of Famers.  I liked the guy, but Eric Karros should not have receive 2 votes for the Hall of Fame.

Cool Videos
I know he’s gone, but his trip to Seattle was delayed because of an annoying USC fan.  (I’ll miss you Pete!).

The Unaired 1994 Pilot of 24!

This reminds me of calls I get sometimes when Kelly is having an issue with the computer at home… ;)

All these guys are trying to do is be Helpful!

Stay tuned for Weekly Cool Links #21.2 tomorrow!

Actress Christina Hendricks

Oh yeah the Golden Globes were the past weekend, and according to the Internet these were the only globes being talked about…

Monday
How I Met Your Mother – Still one of my favorites, I hear that we will meet the ‘mother’ this season.
Big Bang Theory – Best comedy show on TV, let’s hope they don’t screw it up.
Chuck (but not till the SPRING! :(  ) – Chuck had his death sentence put on hold, now he’s been given 13 episodes to prove his worth…   Oh yeah and it looks like Chuck’s got the girl!
24 (when it returns) – JACK WILL BE BACK AGAIN!  TELL ME WHAT YOU DID WITH THE BOMB!

Tuesday
Scrubs (when it returns) – I’ve grown to love the characters so it might be difficult to watch this “new” version…
Better Off Ted (when it returns) – The best new comedy of 2009, take Arrested Development and add in a big dose of The Office, and a little bit of Car Poolers and Knights of Prosperity and you have an awesome show.

Wednesday
America’s Next Top Model (Kelly!) – I think they should go more lingerie fashion then high fashion…
Lost? – The most confusing show on TV is still good.

Thursday
Fringe – The best 1 hour drama of 2009, can it stave off the sophomore jinx?
The Office – Still great comedy although last season was a little off more then it was on.

Friday
Smallville – Clark wearing a superhero outfit?  Zod?  Lois Lane is hot!
Dollhouse – 13 episodes of Joss Whedon greatness.  Let’s hope the ratings improve for a full season in 2011!

New shows we will try…

Wednesday
Glee – We actually haven’t even watching the pilot, even though it was on TV already and online to watch all summer…

Thursday
FlashForward – Promising premise that can tide me over till Lost comes back on?
Community – Joel McHale should be entertaining.

So for those of you playing at home, Heroes isn’t on my list of shows I watch anymore.  Sarah Connor is dead.  My Name is Earl was canned (but was sucking on fumes anyway).

This does not include those shows that we watch that are on during the summer and winter times which include; Burn Notice, Eureka, Entourage, and True Blood (Kelly).

So they killed off Bill Buchanan on 24!!!!  One of my favorite characters of all time besides Jack Bauer, very sad too see Bill is never going to be on the show again, but love that they killed him off as a hero dying for his country.

We are growing a vegatable garden in the backyard, I’ve planted 8 tomato plants and 2 types of peppers, will be interesting to see how that works out, I’ll take some pictures tonight and post them.

Also on top of all this we got a PS3 and along with it I bought MLB ’09 the Show, pretty fun game!

Oh and they came out with a Jimmy Eat World, Rockband 2 trackpack!  Three more Jimmy Eat World songs to play on my Xbox 360!