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05 Feb

Television rots your brain

It is always unfortunate when Congress has to miss doing something — anything really — no matter how ineffectual.
“It is unfortunate that Congress had to take additional action on this issue, but the prospect of leaving millions of consumers in the dark was simply unacceptable,” Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of a congressional [...]

31 Jan

Absolutely Maybe. And We Mean it This Time!

The Senate has passed yet another bill delaying the adoption of broadcast DTV. This one would make the switch “voluntary and television stations could go ahead if they wished with digital transmission on February 17 as scheduled and drop analog transmission.” (source)
Yeah… if you could just go ahead and put the new cover sheets on [...]

16 Jan

Catch the Frak Up

I haven’t found a way to embed this clip so I’ll link to it. Take 13 minutes (with an advert at the beginning) to Catch the Frak Up. The final ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica are about to hit the picture box.
I am so fr*kking stoked.
UPDATE: Wow… that was dark!

25 Nov

January 16.

The final episodes of Battlestar Galactica air beginning January 16 on Sci-Fi. There’s a teaser video up but I can’t embed it. See it here.
Yeah… I just wet my flight suit.

01 Nov

I might want this MTV

Remember when MTV played music? Back in nineteen-hundred and eighty-two, if I remember correctly, our family signed up for cable. Two things happened as a result:

I saw MTV for the first time.
God was removed from this once great nation of ours, leading to increases in gang activity and mullets.

Well now you can see it all [...]

18 Oct

Ready for DTV?

This video is hilarious. Yes, they’re poking a little fun at the “elderly” here but the message I took away was that the publicly available information on converting an old TV for DTV transmissions is confusing. The bleeding edge technophiles (I’ll include myself in that category) have already embraced this stuff while the less technical [...]

03 Oct

BSG in Eight Minutes

Well, the first three seasons, anyway.

I tried doing this with season one of Babylon 5. It took me six hours to tell.

02 Oct

Joe Sixpack vs Sarah Soccer

I said I wasn’t going to watch it. The debate. The debate between the vice-presidential candidates. …vice-president of the United States? Of America? Still don’t know what I’m talking about? Me either.
My gut feeling (and I do always go with my gut) after watching those two go at it is that Joe Biden is much [...]

29 Sep

TiVo on a PC? I’m there.

I just happened to see this post on TechCrunch about Nero and TiVo teaming up to offer the TiVo experience on a tuner-equipped PC. Long time readers know that I built one of those a while back. I’ll probably need a newer tuner card (for Clear QAM digital on cable), but the price isn’t too [...]

18 Aug

Oh, pluheeese

While I’m recouperating at home I’ve been watching the [world games]. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to mention the actual name of the games that are played every four years and that are this year being played in China… but I bet you can guess I’m not talking about WWF Smackdown.
During one of the [...]

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