Contributing to global climate change since 1965, Allen believes that you have a Constitutional right to his opinion. The magic of Cable Television is a mysterious thing. Digital Cable Television is even more mysterious. Data compression and digital signal processing make it possible for the cable company to cram four or five channels of programming into the space where only one analog channel would otherwise go. Using this magic, it is now possible [...]
TT and I went to see Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines last week. We rarely see films in the theater so it was a special treat to experience that for-real squeaky plastic chair and spilled soda under the feet environment that only a cinema movieplex can provide. But enough about that.
Terminator fans will find [...]
It would seem that my group at work did not win the Powerball lottery. The $263.1 million prize will be split between the Walkenbachs in Missouri and someone else in Pennsylvania.
An Associated Press story had this to say:
William Walkenbach, a production supervisor, said he wants to “finally get me a tractor with brakes.”
He will never [...]
In a Reuters story, we’re told that Shelton “Spike” Jackson Lee has had a change of heart regarding the renaming of The National Network to Spike TV.
In a statement, Lee said he “no longer believes that Viacom deliberately intended to trade on my name when naming Spike TV.”
One reason might be that Spike isn’t [...]
The PowerBall lottery jackpot is estimated to be $250 million dollars and there is a drawing this evening. A group of us at work have pooled a few dollars between us to leverage our chances of winning something. This brings our odds to something approaching the odds of being struck by lightning while being crushed [...]
TT and I spent the 4th with my cousin Kathy and her family. In the tradition of our forefathers and formums, we snacked on hamburgers and hot dogs and then blew stuff up real good in the street in front of their house. A good time was had by all.
After the eating but before the [...]
Just today I remembered that our former local cable modem monopoly had been replaced by another, larger, monopoly. The previous company had sent several notification messages about making changes to email clients and news reading programs so as to “not miss a single message.”
The other thing I just remembered was that my cable modem account [...]
I’m going to use the word SPIKE at least once in every conversation I have today.
Spike Lee is suing Viacom (owners of the New TNN) over their choice of name for their revamped guy-oriented channel: Spike TV. A name like that could only lead people to assume that Spike Lee is involved (in someone’s mind) [...]
