Joe Rogan Takes His Act to The Improv

Joe Rogan (Fear Factor and News Radio) revealed that he’s banned from performing at The Comedy Store. Following the “Joe Rogan vs. Carlos Mencia” saga, Rogan was asked by The Comedy Store management to “take a break” from performing there.  Shortly after the news, Rogan contacted The Hollywood Improv and got himself booked for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday show.

Joe Rogan has been vocal in “exposing” Carlos Mencia for stealing other Comics’ jokes. Both Mencia and Rogan finally duked it out in front of live audience at  The Comedy Store on February 10th, 2006. Rogan was backed by other Comics in confronting Mencia for stealing others’ jokes. The was uploaded on Rogan’s site along with YouTube, MySpace and other sites. Mencia quickly demanded YouTube to take down the videos citing that the videos were violating his copyright. The video is still available on Joe Rogan’s own site.

Joe Rogan’s schedule at The Hollywood Improv:

  • Thursday 02.15.2007 10:00pm
  • Friday 02.16.2007 08:30pm
  • Saturday 02.17.2007 10:00pm

Hollywood Improv
8162 Melrose Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90046
(323) 651-2583

Reno 911! – Movie Premiere and Carlos Alazraqui

Reno 911!: Miami The Movie Premiere will be held at Mann’s Chinese Theater on February 15th at 7:30 pm. The red carpet event will be atended by the main cast members. According to Carlos Alazraqui (Deputy James Oswaldo Garcia), the cast members will be arriving as their respective characters to the premiere.

I sat down with Carlos Alazraqui at The Hollywood Improv on Wednesday Night shortly after his stand-up performance. We talked about Reno 911! movie, his projects, and some other stuff. I will be posting the video after I finished editing it and showing it to Carlos. Check back for the exclusive official video podcast of Carlos Alazraqui at 37prime!

Carlos Alazraqui plays a janitor named “Julio” on NBC’s “Las Vegas” scheduled to air on February 23rd; the same night Reno 911! movie opens in theatres.

Carlos Alazraqui and Cedric Yarbrough (Deputy S. Jones) just finished working on a short-short film soon to appear somewhere, maybe on the internet.

Reno 911! is scheduled to shoot the fifth season sometimes in March 2007. More info to follow.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is available in Mac OS X Universal Binary

Finally, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is available in Mac OS X Universal Binary.
One of the best and FREE game out there. Did I say FREE?

The PowerPC version was a resource hog. I’m downloading it right now and will test it later today.

UPDATE:
I’m having trouble connecting to most servers.

From Timothee Besset:

“I hope ETPro and other major ET mods out there can update and support the new Mac client soonish.
Meanwhile you may have a bit of trouble finding servers that will accept this new client
(the best approach may be to use qstat [3] and filter for servers running etmain/,
I haven’t found a good third party server browser for OSX at this point)”

I used to play a lot at Hamsters House Of Fun server.
http://www.ham-clan.com/

Get Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory for Mac OS X Universal Binary here:
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=476&time=20070115181957

http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=14582
http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/wolfenstein_game_ready_for_mactels/

SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 1.0.1.145 is Available

Previously, I downloaded SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 1.0.1.144 on January 1st 2007 and had a few trouble using it. It required SlingBox firmware upgrade but whenever I launched Slingbox Setup Assistant it always said that it was expired. After a little bit of fiddling around, the SlingPlayer worked without upgrading Slingbox firmware. The Slingbox Setup Assistant still unusable because it’s still expired.

Today I downloaded SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 and the version turned out to be 1.0.1.145. I have yet tried upgrading the Slingbox firmware.

This time I ran the SlingPlayer Uninstaller before installing the latest SlingPlayer. I then launched Slingbox Setup Assistant and it didn’t come up with expiration message. So far, so good. The next thing I need to do next is to upgrade the Slingbox firmware from within the local network.

http://www.slingmedia.com/
http://us.slingmedia.com/object/KB-005161.html
SlingBox Pro @ Amazon
SlingBox AV @ Amazon
SlingBox Tuner @ Amazon

Apple TV, Apple iPhone, and New Airport Extreme 802.11n

Thanks to bad WiFi receptions, bandwidth hog and some other factor, I didn’t get to connect to the internet at MacWorld.

Ayway, two new products from Apple announced by Steve Jobs.

  1. Apple TV
    http://www.apple.com/appletv/
    Priced $299 (U.S.) and will ship in February.
    As expected, it has 40GB hard drive for local caching and storage.
    “It is a cool product, but not necessarily a must have product at this point. I will find out more before making any purchasing decision.”
  2. Apple iPhone
    http://www.apple.com/iphone/
    Tentatively scheduled for released in June 2006 (U.S.)
    GSM Quad Band (no 3G) and EDGE
    Cingular exclusive (for U.S.)
    $499 (4GB) and $599 (8GB) with 2 year contract.
    3.5 inch screen at 3:2 ratio (landscape)
    Operating System: OS X
    iPod capability
    Built-in 2.0 megapixels camera
    802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
    “Yikes! It is basically a Mac. I’m surprised that it’s not called MacPhone. One thing that might stop me from getting this so called phone is the price with 2 year contract. Now I have to wait till June to spend my hard earned money.”

Apple also shows off the newly redesigned and updated Airport Extreme Base Station.
http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/
It now officially supports 802.11n protocol, offering up to five times the speed and twice the range compares to 802.11g protocol. It has one WAN port and three LAN port. It also has one USB 2.0 port that can be used for printer sharing or USB mass storage sharing.