One Of Those Days
This morning, for the first time ever, the power went off at my house while I was taking a shower. The weather was clear, so it wasn’t a weather-related outage. Unlike most of the homes in this development, I opted not to have a skylight in my bathroom (which turned out to be [...]
Where Have All The Theme Songs Gone?
There’s a new television trend going on that I don’t like. A lot of the newer dramas are foregoing theme songs and opening title/credit sequences. Instead, there’s a brief splash after the teaser of the show name/logo with some atmospheric music behind it. The cast names are flashed on the screen either [...]
Venture Brothers – Not Even Nominated
I violated my no non-Oscar non-MTV award show rule on Sunday by watching the Emmy Awards. Since I didn’t watch the MTV Video Music Awards this year, I figure it’s a wash. And I didn’t really watch it so much as record it and then fast-forward through the commercials, acceptance speechs, pleas, and [...]
It’s Raining Fractals
The federal government’s response to the potentially disastrous situation was swift, decisive and completely planned out ahead of time. Everyone knew exactly what they had to do and they did it. Funding and resources were allocated appropriately. The team was quickly assembled and sprung into action to avert the crisis.
Ah, only on [...]
When Was The Signal Divorced From The Sign?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m having a really hard time trying to think of things to talk about this week. Actually, there are lots of things I want to talk about (stupid Broncos), but not right now. So here’s more trivial stuff.
Let’s see… I’m really enjoying the Maximo [...]
NiMBY
The city of Golden, home of Coors beer, has launched another salvo in the war to keep the new digital television broadcast “super tower” from being built on Lookout Mountain (one tower, replacing several other analog ones, which could then be removed). According to this article, they are contemplating several tactics, including buying up [...]
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