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Television

The routine Giving of Thanks post, with a side of Black Friday

November 27, 2009

Last night I went to Thanks­giv­ing din­ner at a friend’s house.  It was sort of a com­bi­na­tion of a fam­ily Thanks­giv­ing and an orphan Thanks­giv­ing.  In ear­lier years, Kim and I would occa­sion­ally host orphan Thanks­giv­ings, but many of the folks we would typ­i­cally invite over are start­ing their own fam­i­lies with their own Thanksgiving […]

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Big Bang Theory on Twitter –or– Sheldon vs Wil

October 29, 2009

Normally, I tend to avoid 30-minute sit­coms.  There are two, though, that get an excep­tion.  The first is How I Met Your Mother, which I may go into detail about in the future.  The sec­ond is Big Bang The­ory.  This is a great show that is incred­i­bly nerdy and extremely funny.  Despite being a smart […]

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Buh Bye, Birdie

August 26, 2009

For a week now, I have been try­ing to come up with some­thing to tweet along the lines of me being a [straight] guy who enjoys musi­cals.  It had to be witty.  More impor­tantly, it had to NOT be… what’s the word?  Racist?  Sex­ist?  Gay-ist?  I guess “homo­pho­bic” is tech­ni­cally the right word, but doesn’t […]

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Comments from all over (Virtual Kindle Style)

July 3, 2009

When the blog was the only out­let for typed thoughts and shared com­ments, every­thing got posted here (or, tech­ni­call, over at Live­Jour­nal, as that was my blog long, long before I moved it here.) Now that we have Twit­ter and Face­book and what­not, those thoughts get scat­tered through­out the inter­nets.  In an effort to […]

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My iPhone’s Star Trek SMS tone (a how-to)

May 21, 2009

A while back, I set up a Star Trek ring­tone and SMS beep on my iPhone.  It worked quite well, but not too long after that, I had to reload the iPhone firmware (I believe due to an update from Apple) and lost the SMS tone.  While the ring­tone is triv­ial to re-add via iTunes, […]

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Star Treking across the J.J.-verse

May 18, 2009

I saw Star Trek over the week­end.  I thought it was a fun, refresh­ing “reboot” of the Trek fran­chise.  I could get into what I liked and dis­liked about the movie and its plot, but I’m not a movie review blog, I’d be hard pressed to talk about that with­out spoil­ers, and there are plenty […]

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In which I briefly emerge as an extreme LOST nerd

May 10, 2009

It is no secret that I am a fan of Lost.  In fact, I have a whole blog cat­e­gory devoted to the show.  Most of my Lost fan-ness is pas­sively lis­ten­ing to pod­casts, includ­ing The Lost Pod­cast with Jay and Jack, The Trans­mis­sion, and I was recently (re-)introduced to Delta Park Gets Lost.  I don’t […]

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The Empire Strikes Back, by Hugo Reyes

April 16, 2009

When the Venn dia­gram cir­cles of LOST fans and Wikipedia trolls over­lap (click to embiggen)…

(Thanks to Daniel for shar­ing this with me!)

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Mow Town

October 16, 2008

This morn­ing, I saw a gar­den­ing truck for a com­pany named “Mow Town.”  It was in all the right fonts, styles, and col­ors to be of the motown record genre.  It was so out­landish and sur­real that I thought I might have been tem­porar­ily pass­ing through an episode of Push­ing Daisies.
And speak­ing of Push­ing Daisies: […]

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Photos, Themes, & Cool Cats

June 1, 2008

Based on feed­back, both online and off, I think I am going to go with a Flickr Pro account for my photo host­ing.  The Aper­ture inte­gra­tion is beau­ti­ful and the func­tion­al­ity is great.  I’ll miss being able to pull up stats and the abil­ity to mess with peo­ple who hot-link pic­tures from MySpace.
I’m wait­ing a […]

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My LOST Predictions

May 28, 2008

These are my pre­dic­tions for the sea­son finale Lost.  They don’t come from spoil­ers or secret infor­ma­tion, they’re just guesses and intu­ition and are prob­a­bly wrong.
* The episode will end with Jin in some kind of per­ilous sit­u­a­tion to save Sun.  Sun and the other Oceanic 6 will believe him to be dead.  Even the audience […]

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Terminator annoyance

February 6, 2008

So I have been watch­ing Ter­mi­na­tor: The Sarah Con­nor Chron­i­cles and some­thing has been bug­ging me.  If you can only bring flesh (or tech­nol­ogy wrapped in flesh) and not straight-up tech­nol­ogy through a time por­tal, then how did that bare ter­mi­na­tor head get flung out of the bank vault and into the current-day storyline???

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