| Thursday, February 28th, 2008 |
| 8:43 pm |
John Barrowman interview
John "Captain Jack Harkness" Barrowman of Doctor Who/Torchwood gives a serious interview. He discusses his sexuality, his partner, his family and his religion. He sounds like he is well grounded and very comfortable with who he is and is having a blast in his career. |
| Sunday, February 24th, 2008 |
| 8:20 pm |
Ok, I admit it.
I'm watching the Oscar Red Carpet show and now I understand why they haven't had Regis host it for the past 30 years. |
| Thursday, February 21st, 2008 |
| 10:22 pm |
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| Thursday, February 14th, 2008 |
| 10:22 pm |
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| Monday, February 11th, 2008 |
| 11:45 am |
Catching up...
I'm pretty much over that nasty flu bug that is making its unwelcome way though the Northeast. Back in grad school, taking a four credit course in Cost Accounting. That will keep me pretty busy. A couple of quick reviews. HBO's Rome series. Excellent stuff. Well made, well acted and pretty historically accurate in the big picture. Brilliant set work and the Legion battle scenes were really good. De-Lovely, a Cole Porter bio pic. Wow. Great acting, and amazing soundtrack. Certainly much better than the old 1946 film "Night and Day" with Cary Grant. Now to get my Traveller PBEM game back on track. |
| Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 |
| 9:56 am |
A rare sports note
I risk being deported from the Peoples Commonwealth over this, but I don't follow sports. There is stuff I do pick up on, just because I don't expend energy to avoid sports news other than changing a channel. So, I'm aware that there is a football game today between the New England team and one of the teams that plays and practices in New Jersey. |
| Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 |
| 12:13 pm |
Joys of the flu
I'm past the fever, ache muscle phase. I'm now in my damn head is draining so much the longest intact block of sleep I can get is 45-50 minutes. |
| Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 |
| 9:13 pm |
An accurate description
For my sins, I'm in gradual school and the new Institute standard for word processing is MS Word 2007. So, I took advantage of my student benefits and got a student licensed copy of MS Office 2007 and loaded on my laptop. Author John Ringo nailed the Word 2007 user experience: "Word for Vista still sucks the tits of Yog Sothoth, the Goat with a Thousand Young who rests in foetid pools of Stygian darkness" |
| Monday, January 7th, 2008 |
| 8:24 pm |
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 |
| 12:39 am |
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| Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 |
| 2:59 pm |
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| Monday, December 17th, 2007 |
| 11:13 am |
Ok, it's Monday
Traffic was tied up due to accidents. It's snow and ice people. We get it every year here in the Peoples Commonwealth. Just slow down a bit, don't tailgate and don't suddenly swerve between lanes. On the plus side, new episodes of TWiT and Tiki Bar TV are downloading. |
| Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 |
| 9:28 pm |
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| Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 |
| 10:12 am |
I'm asking for your vote
Not for me, but for my kids. My oldest son got married earlier this year and the photographer is running a contest on the ring shots. It looks like our photographers put us in the running for a ring competition, and we can win a large canvas shot of the ring picture and our favorite wedding picture.
Anyway, I've never been in an online competition before, but if you have 10 seconds, would you mind voting for us? If you don't want to vote, the pictures are cool to look at anyway: http://theblogisfound.com/.
If you want to vote, we are #11 (the Finn wedding obviously, with the rings on wine corks). So, I'm asking you to surf on by and leave a comment voting for #11. Thank you for your support. |
| Sunday, November 25th, 2007 |
| 5:51 pm |
Gadget Punditry
Here is my geek punditry for the day. The Amazon Kindle etext reader is going to sell well. It will succeed for the same reason the iPod did. The iPod did not dominate the mp3 player market by creating a better mp3 player, they did it by greatly expanding the market through its iTunes service. People who had no idea of what an mp3 was or how to create/find them now had a way to purchase digital music easily and for less money than they paid for to get the music on CD. The Kindle has Amazon shopping built in and thus a way to purchase etext at a reasonable cost. Amazon is attempting to follow the highly successful model Apple used, and it will probably work. I've been doing the etext thing for years on my Palm based PDAs. There is an amazing amount of material available, including Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Beam Piper, and a good chunk of the Baen Books catalog. I am, however, a lot more geeky than the general public. I was not part of the Apple model because I knew about mp3s and the problems with overly restrictive copy protection. Apple's "Kindle format" is an encrypted version of the Mobipocket format common on PDAs such a Palm OS based devices. It does support non-encrypted Mobipocket, as well as text files and a few other open formats. The Kindle's biggest competitor will be the iPhone, once decent reader format is available (and either iTunes supports loading it or there is some third party software you could use without having Apple brick your phone), but I think the Kindle will hold its own, for the reasons stated. |
| Monday, November 19th, 2007 |
| 7:32 pm |
Really, appallingly bad...
AT&T Wireless Customer Service is so appallingly bad that I am more than halfway convinced that the senior executives are on the take from Verizon and other cell phone companies. I find it hard to believe that they could be this mind numbingly bad without some reason to strive to actually achieve a level of customer "service" that should be in all honesty called Customer Abuse. |
| 2:25 pm |
Some SciFi stuff
A couple of Star Trek notes. I watched New Voyages latest offering, “ THE WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME", with guest star George Takei. Damn good stuff. Take the time to watch all their stuff. It really is made out of love for the show. Pictures of Zachary Quinto as Spock in the new Star Trek feature film are out. He looks like a good fit. I’ve been watching the second season of the new Doctor Who series. This is first season with David Tennant as the Doctor. I think it is pretty cool that it was watching Doctor Who as a child that gave Tennant the acting bug and his life long goal was to play the Doctor. IMHO, it shows in his performance. The new series has a couple of spin off shows, including Torchwood. I’ve seen a few episodes. It looks seriously good. I’ll probably be buying the DVD set when it becomes available in the US. |
| Saturday, November 10th, 2007 |
| 8:50 am |
Busy...
Ya, not a lot of posts lately. Graduate school is sucking up a lot of time. I'm taking an MIS overview and a finical accounting class this term. Not terribly difficult stuff, but it does take time. Between that and working full time at a small company, I'm pretty busy. If I didn't have my karate class to teach, I'd flip. I'm taking time today to help with some tests at the dojo. That should even me out enough to finish the essay portion of one course's midterm. Once that is out of the way, I should spend some time updating my neglected T20 PBEM game. |
| Friday, November 9th, 2007 |
| 12:14 pm |
Nerd Alert
I just made a quick change to one of the servers at work by writing html in vi. Ya, it's basic nerdage, but something I haven't done it a while. It was the quickest way to fix what I wanted fixed. |
| Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 |
| 3:28 pm |
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