G4 was really fun yesterday! Everyone was really nice, and I think it was a good show. Yes, there was a little flub in the prompter as some of you noted (hence the awkward pause… ugh, that hurt) but I think we recovered it ok. Dude, getting hair, makeup and wardrobe done frakin’ ROCKS! I wish we could get someone at CNET to do that, but maybe I should just learn to do my makeup better myself… they have classes for that kind of stuff, right? Anyhow, I’m looking forward to going back next Friday too. I just hope my flight doesn’t get delayed like last night and leave me sitting at LAX until 11:40 PM. That was a little annoying.

But anyway, we finally got Guitar Hero 2 at the house, and so we’ve done nothing but play since I’ve been back. Ryan has had more time to practice, so he’s doing a little better. I would think with my mad air guitar skills that I’d be better, but give me some time! The game is amazing though, it’s a ton of fun.

I swear we’re going to podcast today - but not until I get some food in me. More later!

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I thought I wasn’t going to be traveling much this month, but it turns out I’m going to LA tonight (and next Friday as well) to shoot two episodes of Free $tuff! So look for it live on G4 at 10 PM ET and PT! I’m a little nervous, but also excited to meet Morgan Webb, Blair Butler, and everyone. Should be a lot of fun, hope you guys can check it out!

Oh, as for the lolcats… I’ll give them until Sunday at midnight before I close the polls!

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This past month has been insane, but now I’m happy to report that I won’t be leaving the state again until the end of June! Hooray! Traveling can be fun, though, and I have to say that I found CTIA (in Orlando) to be much easier on me than SXSW was. There were probably a lot of factors, but I think it mostly had to do with having a little downtime before getting thrown right into the fray of shooting and podcasting.

Speaking of podcasting, I’ll be shooting a video TWiT at Zeum (at the Moscone Center) here in SF on Friday afternoon. It’s not going to be open to the general public, but look for the video on TWiT.tv next week. Also, Ryan and I will be recording our first podcast together this weekend! We have a name, but you’ll just have to wait and see. It’s more for our amusement than anything else, so don’t expect it to be as formulaic as BOL or as detail-oriented as the Engadget podcast. Well, maybe Ryan will still be as detail-oriented, but he’s just smart like that.

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Man, I feel like crap tonight. I guess it’s good that I wasn’t sick at SXSW, but I think it hit me today. It’s just a cold, I hope, but it needs to go away before Friday. Ryan and I are going to Disney World, and then I’ll be covering CTIA for work until Wednesday. Should be fun, but no traveling is fun when you’re sick.

Anyway, I’m happy to be home from Austin. SXSW had it’s ups and downs, but I’m not sure that our audience is really into the things that were covered there, at least not the people that are on CNET TV. Maybe they’re more gadget-oriented, and SXSW Interactive is more… bloggey? Web 2.0? Too industry? I don’t know. And the music stuff didn’t really seem to strike a chord (You like that? Heh!) with people either. Well, it was a good experiment, but maybe next year I’ll just go check out the panels.

I spent the night making TivoToGo work on the MacBook Pro, and trying to figure how to make Nabaztag connect to the WiFi again. But for now, I’m going to eat these Oreos, drink some WalFlu, watch more back episodes of AskANinja and call it a night.

Oh, Ryan and I have been talking for a while now about doing a podcast together… I’m guessing the subject matter would probably center around, oh I don’t know, technology, but if anyone has any ideas let me know!

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