This year I made a much simpler calendar, that shows the entire season. I will add the results after each game.

My New and Improved New York Giants TV Schedules and Results

• NY Giants 2010 2011 Pre-Season TV Schedule
• NY Giants 2010 2011 Regular Season TV Schedule
• Playoffs

Stories will be judged by Alan Cheuse, who reviews books for All Things Considered. Winner receives an autographed copy of Cheuse’s novel, To Catch the Lightning: A Novel of American Dreaming. Entries must be received by February 28 – in three days, but monthly contests will continue. Read the rules for more info.

How I Wrote My Story

I installed the photo as desktop wallpaper, to see it as often as possible, until I wrote “Flight”. I copied/pasted into entry form and submitted it. I found Previous Three-Minute Stories later!

Update

(March 21, 2010) Congratulations to winner, Rhonda Strickland, for Please Read. The fourth round of the contest will be announced next week.

Bear Grylls will be placed in life-threatening situations, including a high-rise apartment fire, and a sinking car, to show viewers how to escape. Grylls will also fend off a shark attack — less likely, but probably very exciting to watch!

History of Worst Case Scenario

This television series is based on The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht, published in 1999. Among other things, Piven and Borgenicht explain how to fight bears, alligators, and sharks. The original book evolved into a series of 30 books, on subjects which include, Life, Dating and Sex and Work. The Worst-Case Secenario books have sold over ten million copies.

Mike Rowe, who hosts Dirtiest Jobs, and narrates American Chopper, American Hot Rod, Deadliest Catch, Ghost Lab and Wild Pacific for Discovery Channel, hosted a similar show on TBS in 2002.

However, on earlier series, stunt men performed the escapes, not the host. Rowe explained in a CNN interview:

“we hire the best stunt people in the world to show you out to get out of quicksand, how to jump off of a building and live, how to get out from a car that is sinking in a lake, how to deliver a baby in a taxicab, how to fend off a shark.”

Bear Grylls replaced Mike Rowe, as well as the “stunt people” in 2010 version.

What Is Next for Bear Grylls?

Bear Grylls described this project in a 2008 interview, saying:

“We’re hoping to do an urban survival Man vs. Wild at the end of this year”

Done! Now we can wait for Man vs. Wild: The Movie. Bear Grylls said:

“I hope to do a film next year for Disney that’s gonna incorporate loads of different stuff. The idea is to kind of base it around Man vs. Wild, so we would be filming in a jungle and then everything starts going wrong. You see a plane crash, and there’s a family on-board, and then a whole cat-and-mouse game in the jungle and me getting the family out of there, and then it ends up in London with fight scenes off the rooftops. Again, it would be fun for me.”

How Do You Fight A Shark?

Watch Worst Case Scenario’s 10th Anniversary for answer. At 1:43 of this 3:44 video, coauthor David Borgenicht, asks this multiple choice question to people on street:

What would you do if a shark attacked you? Hold mouse over correct answer to find out now

1. punch in nose
2. repeated jabs in gills
3. punch in eyes
4. grab fin

Meanwhile, I also wanted to avoid ever having to look for another schedule during the season.

I solved this problem, by creating a public Google Calendar which can be viewed as a web page, or as a Live Bookmark with Firefox, so it is available all the time!

How To Find New York Giants Games on TV

NOTE: All times shown, are for New York, Eastern time — network probably will not change.

Select the following link, and load it as live bookmark. Then just look at your bookmarks, to follow New York Giants on television, throughout the season.

Load 2010 NY Giants TV Schedule as a bookmark.

Grylls will take part in a mock rescue, staged by The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) as part of Cowes Week, world’s largest sailing regatta, or series of sailboat races.

NOTE: This event was not mentioned on Bear’s Blog, and an email to Cowes Radio, was not answered. So please check Cowes Radio Replay for this broadcast, if it is not available live for some reason.

Keeping Life Simple

My traumatic brain injury has forced me to make some adjustments to my life. One of these was to get a television set without a tuning dial. This way, I have a few pre–set channels to browse, instead of the dozens provided my cable company.

Since I dislike the gratuitous violence found on the three major networks, and Man vs. Wild is my favorite television program, I used to set my TV to tune to Discovery when it was turned on. This also got me interested in some of Disovery’s other shows, including Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs, and Mythbusters. Sometimes I would watch Man vs. Wild reruns too.

But I felt “safe” with Discovery channel. I never had to change the channel to avoid stuff that annoys me, like “gangsta–rap” or idiots shooting at each other.

Bleeping Beeps

The only thing that used to annoy me on Discovery, was the idiotic beeping on Deadliest Catch, when someone used an “profane word.” After violence, beeping is my second gripe about TV.

When I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, I was forced to listen to profanity constantly. Now that I live in Lexington, Kentucky, I don’t have to listen to it, and I don’t want to listen to it.

The only thing worse than profanity, is when television networks mask profanity with beeps. Which is why I rarely watch anything on Comedy Central:

Comedy Central, like all channels, had a choice: either ask performers not to use any of George Carlin’s “seven words”, ignore them, or replace those seven words with beeps. I would have ignored them, but they, and apparently all major cable networks, inexplicably chose the latter.

I think that if someone was going to be offended by a profane word, they would be equally offended by the beep. I also think that a “real comedian” can please any audience without profanity. For example, I cannot listen to Jackie Mason without laughing, or hearing any profanity.

One exception: I used to love Andrew Dice Clay — a special case.

Worse than Beeps

Something else I left behind in Brooklyn, were rodents. Unlike Brooklyn, Lexington is not infested with mice and rats. In Brooklyn, rat sightings are common in parks and beaches. But I have lived adjacent to a 20 acre park in Lexington, for two years, and have never seen a rat.

Do You Like Rats?

Somebody must like them, because Discovery introduced Verminators, which followed “an elite team of pestbusters” around.

As if the show was not enough, Discovery Channel peppered their other shows, the ones I liked, with Verminator commercials. Instead of being forced to see rats and roaches during commercials, I simply stopped watching Discovery.

I still watch Bear Grylls, but I quit watching other shows on Discovery.

Did you watch Verminators?