Do you think that making lists is a guy thing or a girl thing? I love to make lists and I’ve noticed that a lot of articles in magazines and on the internet buzz sites use lists in their headlines to get people to read their articles.My own lists are evident in my bookmarks folders and saved to my bookmarks toolbar.

For example, everyone knows and loves David Letterman’s nightly “Top Ten Lists.” The nightly countdown on the Late Show is always very topical and very funny. I’ve noticed that Letterman has been bringing in special guests to read the list on stage. There have been all kinds of athletes and celebrities participating- always a hoot.

I have categories within all TV episodes for my favorite shows over the years. I like comedies and crime thrillers. Lately I’ve been getting bored with reality shows, but there are even lists of shows within the reality show category, such as Top 10 Favorite Reality Shows as opposed to the Top TV Most Watched Reality Shows. It is a fine line, but there is a difference.

When I want to research my favorite movies, I count on the IMDB movies web site. This is one of my favorite web sites that I bookmarked years ago and still use at least once or twice a week.

Here’s the new list of Rolling Stone Magazine’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time:”

1. Jimi Hendrix

2. Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band

3. B.B. King

4. Eric Clapton

5. Robert Johnson

6. Chuck Berry

7. Stevie Ray Vaughan

8. Ry Cooder

9. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin

10. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones

11. Kirk Hammett of Metallica

12. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana

13. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead

14. Jeff Beck

15. Carlos Santana

16. Johnny Ramone of the Ramones

17. Jack White of the White Stripes

18. John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

19. Richard Thompson

20. James Burton

21. George Harrison

22. Mike Bloomfield

23. Warren Haynes

24. The Edge of U2

25. Freddy King

26. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave

27. Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits

28. Stephen Stills

29. Ron Asheton of the Stooges

30. Buddy Guy

31. Dick Dale

32. John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service

33 & 34. Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

35 John Fahey

36. Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG’s

37. Bo Diddley

38. Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac

40. John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival

41. Clarence White of the Byrds

42. Robert Fripp of King Crimson

43. Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic

44. Scotty Moore

45. Frank Zappa

46. Les Paul

47. T-Bone Walker

48. Joe Perry of Aerosmith

49. John McLaughlin

50. Pete Townshend

51. Paul Kossoff of Free

52. Lou Reed

53. Mickey Baker

54. Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane

55. Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple

56. Tom Verlaine of Television

57. Roy Buchanan.

58. Dickey Betts

59 & 60. Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien of Radiohead

61. Ike Turner

62. Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band

63. Danny Gatton

64. Mick Ronson

65. Hubert Sumlin

66. Vernon Reid of Living Colour

67. Link Wray

68. Jerry Miller of Moby Grape

69. Steve Howe of Yes

70. Eddie Van Halen

71. Lightnin’ Hopkins

72. Joni Mitchell

73. Trey Anastasio of Phish

74. Johnny Winter

75. Adam Jones of Tool

76. Ali Farka Toure

77. Henry Vestine of Canned Heat

78. Robbie Robertson of the Band

79. Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps

80. Robert Quine of the Voidoids

81. Derek Trucks

82. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd

83. Neil Young

84. Eddie Cochran

85. Randy Rhoads

86. Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath

87. Joan Jett

88. Dave Davies of the Kinks

89. D. Boon of the Minutemen

90. Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper

91. Robby Krieger of the Doors

92 & 93. Fred “Sonic” Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5

95. Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine

96. Angus Young of AC/DC

97. Robert Randolph

98. Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer

99. Greg Ginn of Black Flag

100. Kim Thayil of Soundgarden

Usually we go away for the Labor Day holiday weekends, but this year the threat of Hurricane Earl and a lot of things going on at work caused me to change my mind about that. So I’m looking for some fun things to do around here.

We have a big jazz festival going on in Franklin today and tomorrow. I’m thinking about taking the kids down there for a couple of hours. There will be concerts, but I’m concerned that the shows will last too late for the kids to be able to enjoy that. The opening act is scheduled for 5:00 but the headliner doesn’t come on until 8:30 – and that’s if it starts on time. Unfortunately, the shows are the main reason I’m interested in going. So I don’t know if we will do that or not. Still thinking about it.

My girlfriend, Vicki, is a legal secretary and we worked together for almost a year right after college. Talking with her today for a bit, she told me that her law firm has been struggling in the recession, like so many other businesses. So, to save money and not have to cut anyone’s pay, their HR person decided to lay off the firm’s receptionist and have each of the legal secretaries take a half day shift to cover the phones and front desk.

I’m aghast. What a dumb idea. That puts a huge burden on all the other secretaries and now they won’t be able to get their own work done. Plus they are paying the legal secretaries a much larger salary than what they were paying the receptionist, so they just made that position cost a whole lot more.

Vicki hates sitting out front and dealing with the phones. The firm is using voip phone service, to save money, which means she has to wear a headset while answering the phones. She doesn’t like wearing a headset and she refuses to share a headset with the other secretaries. She made the firm buy each legal secretary their own headset to wear, as a matter of good hygiene. So there’s another related expense to letting the receptionist go.

Vicki was telling me a little about VOIP and how she was thinking about getting that at home. But the system used by the law firm is Business VOIP, so she would not have to use a headset at home.

My friend, Wes Bennett, shares my love of dragonflies. He took this picture of a beautiful blue one and put it on his Facebook photos page. I just had to share it with you (he said it was OK).

Rented the movie, Cop Out and didn’t have high expectations for this movie. But I like Bruce Willis, so I though I would give it a look.

Well, this movie is hilarious. The dialogue is fantastic, with a lot of references to famous lines from a huge number of popular movies and TVs. The comedy is well delivered and the acting from an assortment of “B” List actors and unknowns is really good.

My only criticism is that the movie is supposedly set in New York City. Well, there is very very very little about this movie that looks, sounds or feels like New York City. They should have just changed the handful of references in the script to NYC and made it L. A. It would have made no difference to the story line and it would have been a lot more authentic.  I bet they spent maybe 2-3 weeks in NYC doing a handful of location shots to get the skyline in the background and the subway, then the rest of the movie was obviously shot in an L. A. sound stage.

There are some really funny scenes in this movie. I think I will buy it and add it to my DVD library next time I go to WalMart or Target.

I read online that Google is not letting users make free telephone calls anywhere in the U. S. and for a very low cost if you need to make an international call.

I haven’t tried it yet – have you called anyone using Google yet? Does it work for home phones and business phones? Does it work for cell phones? I’m not sure how it works but I’m willing to learn!

We’ve had such a busy summer that for some reason we never got around to seeing many movies. This summer had a lot of kid-friendly and family-oriented movies. But we never got around to going to the theater. I guess we will start going again when the weather gets colder and there is not so much to do outside.

The top box office hit this summer was Toy Story 3. We enjoyed the first two Toy Story movies, so I really do want to see the 3rd one. If we get a rainy weekend with nothing else to to do, I guess I will try to find the Toy Story 3 at a local theater, if it is still playing anywhere.

After a while, just finding anything but the current top 5-6 releases playing anywhere is hard to do. If I can’t find it on the big screen, I’m sure it will be relased soon on DVD. Probably in time for Christmas.

My girlfriend, Alexa, just introduced me to Brent Frazier on Facebook! How cool is that?

I watch Brent on the Channel 5 news at night. He is not an anchor – yet. He does a lot of “on the scene” reports. Evidently he was just here in my neighborhood doing a report a couple of days ago and Alexa had the chance to meet him in person. I wish I had known he was just down the street – I’m a big fan!