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Soft Pretzels For Lunch

For those of you who haven’t seen Cloverfield and want to know what the monster looks like, check this out. Yeah, kinda underwhelming as a toy, but it does show more than in the movie. It’ scarier in the movie, although it also had a kind of softness and pathos to it there.
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Next Gen Gaming And Video Ahoy

Well, I finally did it. I ordered a PlayStation 3. I bought it online, so I probably won’t be getting it for a week or two. The more expensive 80GB units (which have SACD and backwards compatibility) are becoming extremely rare and the conventional wisdom says that Sony is going to stop [...]

Bromine Barium

Done with the “day” titles at last!

I just watched the first two episodes of the new AMC original series Breaking Bad. I’m not sure how an original show like this ends up on the “American Movie Classics” channel, but like the channel’s other original show Mad Men, it’s aimed squarely at folks who don’t [...]

It’s Thursday And There’s A Wall

Okay, I admit it. I’m starting to hit the wall here with this blogging-every day thing. After what… 94 days? Hey, I should at least be able to make 100. I don’t think it’s so much an idea problem, since I can always think of something if I try hard enough. [...]

Sky Signal

It occurs to me I have not updated my loyal out-of-town readership lately on the status of the Denver Digital TV Supertower, of which I wrote so many blog entries decrying the NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) mentality of the residents in the area. Looks like my last entry on the subject was way [...]

Merry Xboxmas (War Is Over)

Comes the news today that Warner Bros, which has been distributing their HiDef movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, is dropping HD DVD and focusing on Blu-ray exclusively. This was apparently a surprise to some, but not to others. This decision has spawned all sorts of pronouncements of doom for the [...]

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