Blogger.com blew up, so I'm a little late with this because I had to reconstruct the entire thing. The Apprentice was a hoot. First of all, probably because of an angry Domino's Pizza, Trump berates both teams (of course with the audio edited in after the fact) by saying, "If you had done the proper research, you would have known people don't like meatball pizza, they wanted a cheeseburger pizza." Huh? Then why didn't Trump say he liked a cheeseburger so the Apprenti would have made that one. Jeezy Creezy. But was it also foreshadowing of tonight's task? Mmmmm.

Two companies joined the Product Placement Train, American Eagle and Best Buy. The task was for the two teams to develop apparel that would be able to have pockets/pouches/flaps to handle all of the gadgets that one may take with them as they do their daily business. One team came up with Wearable Tech, while the others went with some Beach Wear deal. The Wearable Tech people won with a presentation that was simple and smooth. They did the research and asked AEO customers what their most important gadgets were. Of course, it was the cellphone. The Beach team was terrible and even said the most important gadget was the iPod. Whoops, not everyone has an iPod there, slick.

Angry Non-Homosexual Tobacco Addict lost the Beach team's credit card at Best Buy. Not sure how that happened, but I'm convinced that it was never recovered. Best Buy manager goes into the safe and the card isn't there. I believe the waiting that ensued was because this fiasco went up the corporate chain at Best Buy because they did not want to be the company that lost a Trump credit card on national TV, and the presentation of found credit card was staged. Meanwhile, one of the models left a jacket at team HQ that was included in the presentation. Angie freaked out and basically read her presentation from notes a la 6th grade. Needless to say, she got the boot from Trump.

Trump was a hardass in this episode. He berated the teams for pizza choices; channelled Tom Vu by saying if you hang with losers, you are a loser; yelled at some guy on the phone to prove he's a tough guy; and called Angie "a choker". Angie will deny being a choker to her last breath, but you know Trump will apologize on the finale, otherwise she'll sue for mental anguish. Other highlights, Not George was a woman and Carolyn showed thigh in the boardroom.

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A House committee passed an amendment to an energy bill to extend Daylight Saving Time. It would start in March and end after Thanksgiving. Not sure this really saves energy, as we would be going to work at 8 a.m. in the dark. I think when Nixon did this back in the seventies, it was determined that it didn't work. Then, of course, you have "concerned parent" who keeps children at home since they might get run over going to school.

Tire pressure monitors will be standard by 2008. This will guard against underinflated tires.

Have you tried Google Maps yet? The satellite feature is pretty cool. However, when I put in my address, it points to a spot that is not my house.

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It's Masters time. It's the time of year you hope for shitty weather because it's tough to sit inside on nice days to watch this tournament. What you do not want is rain at Augusta and unfortunately, that is the case today.

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55 Across: "The Children's Hour" poet (10 letters) Answer: Longfellow