From Jon Hamm's appearance on SNL

Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women

• Step 1:
When in doubt, remain absolutely silent.

• Step 2:
When asked about your past, give vague, open ended answers.

• Step 3:
Have a great name.

• Step 4:
Look fantastic in a suit.

Look fantastic in casual wear.

Look fantastic in anything.

Sound good.

Smell good.

Kiss good.

Strut around with supreme confidence.

Be uncannily successful at your job.

Blow people away everytime you say anything.

Take six hour lunches.

Disappear for weeks at a time.

Lie to everyone about everything.

Drink and smoke constantly.

…basically, be Don Draper.


Mad Men is the best show on TV. If you haven't seen it yet, try to catch up. Season 2 just ended. Unfortunately, we will probably have to wait until next summer for Season 3.

Manning can get rid of that monkey now

Quite a game, especially the 4 turnovers in the first half. I was on the edge of my chair for most of it. Watched the game with my brother-in-law Gord, we ate way too much (OK, just me) but that is part of the ritual with Super Bowl.

I figured Manning would get MVP because the voters love Manning and want to help him dispel those critics of the past 9 years. Certainly his stats show he deserved it, although I don't think the would have won without the Addai-Rhodes show.

I was not surprised by Grossman's performance. How he has stayed in the starter position for this long is beyond me. I guess this is one case where the QB is saved by his team again and again and the coach is staying with "the one who brung" him, even though "the one who brung" him actually had a 0.0 passer rating in a game earlier this year. You want your QB to have a passer rating of at least 80. Over 100 is good. The highest possible rating is 158.3, while 0.0 is ridiculous. More on Passer Rating.

One of the reasons that both football fans and non-fans watch the Super Bowl is for the advertisements. A bonus feature of having HD cable -- beside watching the game in HD -- is being able to watch the American ads and not have to sit through innumerable airings of Greco Pizza and Perma-Crete foundation repair ads. Here is a fun way to decide which was the best ad during the Super Bowl. I ended up choosing CareerBuilder "Jungle", although the Emerald Nuts "Goulet" ad was pretty good too. Of course the Bud ads were funny, especially "Slap".

Even though the Pats weren't in it, I had a good time. Enough with the football posts for a while now.

Hinterland Who's Who

This is great for those of us who grew up in the 70's and only had two TV channels, so we watched anything that was on, including Hinterland Who's Who. The pan flute opening notes are enough to perk up any Canadian's ears who is 30 to 40 years old.
Enjoy!