American Idol: Disco Days

I've been a little late on posting these updates from Debbie...but here's the latest on just before the results are announced!

Jasmine--oooo....not up to snuff with the other girls on both songs.
Poor girl started crying on stage after her evaluation. I don't
think she should feel too bad b/c 4th place isn't awful among the
tens of thousands that auditioned. She's got a nice voice, it's just
not up to par with the other ladies.

La Toya--Again, I thought she was great. Liked both songs but the
Thelma Houston, "Don't Leave Me this Way" was just awesome. After
the judges critiqued her first song about not showing personality, I
found she really tried to show more oommph into her performance and
was more personable than reserved.

Fantasia--Liked her first song better ("knock on Wood") than her
second song. It was a good performance all around. She's very
consistent and has proven that she can sing pretty much anything.

Diana--Wow, she was my favourite last night. Disco was her element
and she was just ggrrreat! Go Diana! I don't know how she'll do
competing against the La Toya and Fantasia next week but it's been
quite a ride for her. Good for her.


Unless it's some kind of huge upset like the Jennifer Hudson fiasco,
I think Jasmine's going home tonight.

so what do u think?

I was such a geek tonight. I just spent the evening optimizing a DSP algorithm on paper (for work, of course). (Hmm..i wonder if my compiler doesn't already replace integer multiplies with bit shifts, cuz if it doesn't i'm gonna save a whole lot of cycles!!) And then i just spent the last hour playing with the new Blogger UI and templates. I settled on this look. I kinda like it better than my last one....but it could use some more tweaking. I gotta learn to this crap myself though...CSS, PHP, RSS, XML, blah blah...i already have enough acronyms at work to deal with....

Go Flames Go

With all due respect to the canucks, I'm proud of the Flames. They deserved to win yet another thrilling game last night. I can only imagine the insanity that filled the streets of Calgary. I guess Vancouver could take comfort in the fact that the Flames disposed of a more talented and skilled team in 6 games instead of 7.