Vincent Schiavelli passes away

Vincent Schiavelli was in a ton of memorable movies, including One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (where he played none other than Mr. Vargas), but to me, he'll always be John O'Connor from Buckaroo Banzai. A real shame. Rest in Peace, John O'Connor.

Vincent Schiavelli

Guitar Hero -- my new favorite game

My darling wife bought me Guitar Hero for Christmas this year. That night after the kids were asleep, I played the thing for two solid hours. Hey, I'm an old man--staying up until midnight playing a game is what I used to do back in my 20s and 30s. But this game is just a ton of fun.

I finally realized that, just like a good driving game lets you feel like you could really drive a car at breakneck speeds, and a good flying game lets you feel like you could actually pilot a fighter jet, this game lets you feel like you could really play "Ace of Spades" on the guitar. Of course, in the real world, I could do none of the above things--which is why games are so great at providing those experiences. So, no, you're not really learning how to play the guitar, but when your pinky has to hit that blue button to hit the high note on the solo in "You've Got Another Thing Coming," it sure feels like you're playing it.

I got through all the songs on Easy and am now working on Medium. I'm not sure how I got through "Crossroads" on Easy, and am not looking forward to how hard Medium's going to be, let alone Hard or Expert.

Great news out of Dover PA

I'm sure if you watch Yahoo News or some such thing, you'll know the news: the judge in the Intelligent Design case in Dover PA has ruled conclusively that ID is not science, that it was a not-so-subtle attempt to inject religion into the science curriculum, and that the sticker and statement proposed was not constitutional.

My favorite part of the ruling is where he points out that two Dover board members lied under oath about numerous topics. "It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy"

I find it utterly and sickeningly ironic that these people, who are supposedly God-fearing individuals, would lie in an oath taken to that selfsame God about the events that preceded the proposed policy.

Anyhow, I think the only phrase I can think of right now is, thank God things turned out this way.

Judge bans teaching intelligent design - Yahoo! News

Hamachi : Stay Connected

Note to self: check out Hamachi.

Hamachi : Stay Connected

Stupid mod tricks

Sorry, I consider it stupid, others might consider it retro enough to be cool. Engadget reports on a guy who's taken the guts out of his Xbox 360 and put it into an Atari 2600 console case. As Engadget says, "oh you crazy modders..."

The Atari-Xbox 3600 - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Cinematic Effects in Source

Speaking of Penny Arcade, this article on Valve's Day of Defeat: Source was linked on PA's front page. Holy cannoli, the things you can do in a PC-based game nowadays... motion blur? Depth of field? Film grain and color correction? I'm downloading the movies right now; the screenshots alone are impressive. Wonder if they can get the 360 to do all this too?

bit-tech.net | Cinematic Effects in Source

Bad news for high-definition DVDs

Everyone is going on about how HD DVDs (whether HD-DVD or Blu-Ray) is going to get everyone all hot and bothered. Well, not necessarily. See, if you want people to buy yet another version of your movie that they already have on DVD, you better count on those people being able to recognize the quality difference between their SD DVDs and an HD one.

Easy, you say? Apparently not. Below is a link to an article I saw mentioned on Slashdot, discussing a recent survey that cable set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta took. They claim that a huge number (up to half) of HDTV owners think they're watching HDTV, when in fact they haven't gotten a HD cable box, or OTA tuner, and are in fact NOT watching HD programming. Some people think that just because a program says at the outset that it's in HD, then they must be watching it in HD. Others think that it looks just fine as it is. And those people are the ones who aren't going to run out and get Lord of the Rings on HD-DVD.

The Technology Liberation Front: Video Placebo: Is that Really HDTV You Are Watching?

The Elemenstor saga

There's been a running joke in the online comic Penny Arcade about a fantasy series called The Elemenstor Saga. At some point one of those wacky PA funsters decided to make a wiki dedicated to fleshing out the back story of the saga. And man, did it ever get fleshed out. I followed a link from the PA main page and started checking out the wiki. Oh My God, do people have a lot of time on their hands. The thing that kills me is the fake Saturday Morning Cartoon (Wizbits) with the fake episode guide, fake original Japanese titles, and fake MP3 theme song. Anyhow, it was all SO complete that I thought just for a moment that maybe it really was real. Nope. The Wired article below confirmed that for me.

Wired News: The Saga of The Saga

Apple's new DVR caching videos?

Just read this on Think Secret... a claim that the new Apple DVR coming down the road will serve videos via a caching mechanism, so that the file never actually exists on your hard drive and thus can't be easily copied. If this is true, I'm much less intereted in the box. This would explain away the conflict I described below, between paying the networks for content like Lost versus just recording it onto your DVR... the deal is, you're not recording it. That also solves the tuner issue: no tuner needed.

The only problem with this is it completely removes the ability to hop through a program like you can with a real DVR. There's no way that you'll be able to skip like that with a caching setup.

Anyhow, we shall see in a few weeks. Maybe. :)

Think Secret - Road to Expo: Apple's new media experience coming soon

Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi

I'm just now coming up for air from my busy season at work. Actually, I'm still busy, but have these 60-minute pauses while I capture video. So, a little more time to blog.

Anna is hooked on Cartoon Network's Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi Show I must, of course, watch with them, in case of objectionable material. :) It's a fun show overall. The animation is a little flat, but that's an acceptable stylistic decision. The voice work is great, and I like the little dashes of Japanese they throw in there from time to time. The title song, by the way, is incredibly catchy. The only song that can successfully drive it out of your mind is the theme song from Theo's current favorite cartoon, Yu-Gi-Oh G/X.

More networks jumping on board the iTunes bandwagon

NBC has added some of their lineup to the iTunes Music, er, Music and Video Store. (When are they going to change the name of that store anyway?) You'll be able to get Law and Order, The Office, etc. Interesting that they're also providing some of their older shows... in the case of Dragnet, some of their super-older shows.

This kind of agreement, by the way, does call into question whether Apple will provide a DVR of their own. NBC was one of those groups that were not pleased with TiVo's recent announcement that they will allow TiVoToGo to work with PSPs and iPods. They want you to pay to watch their shows. They'd probably love it if they could make you pay when you think about one of their shows. If Apple lets you record the shows on their DVR and transfer it to your iPod, why would you pay for it? Hm, very interesting.

iTunes now offering NBC, SciFi, and USA television for download - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Mac mini to morph into DVR?

Now this is an intriguing rumor... good old Think Secret is claiming that Apple is going to introduce a new version of the mini that is meant to be kind of a dedicated digital video recorder. It'll feature a new version of Front Row, possibly include a dock for your iPod, and probably be Intel-based. Supposedly to be introduced along with Intel-based iBooks at the January 2006 Macworld Expo. I'm a big MythTV fan, but man, a Mac mini would be an awesome little DVR.

Article on rumored Apple DVR

TiVoToGo giveth, movie companies taketh away

I saw TiVo's announcement on Monday about providing TiVo owners the ability to pull recordings from their TiVos and put them onto their PSPs and/or iPod videos. Hey, thought I, that's a nice feature. Kudos to TiVo for doing that. You can do similar things with MythTV but not nearly as simply as with a TiVo and TiVoToGo. Sure, TiVo says they're watermarking the video to try to discourage people from uploading those videos to the Internet, but they have to do something to placate the TV and movie execs, right?

Well, apparently that wasn't enough. Since there's no digital rights management (DRM) attached to the files, and therefore (gasp!) OTHER PEOPLE could watch their precious shows, apparently they're pretty POed at TiVo.

I know that stuff like DRM is probably only a real issue for geeks like me, but ultimately, people know when they're being treated like customers and when they're being treated like thieves. If media companies continue to make their products inconvenient to watch or listen to, people will move on to media that is not hobbled. Or at least I sure hope they do.

Entertainment industry voicing threats against free portable content

Off of the log

I normally put stuff like this in the kids' blog but this was too good to pass up...

Me and the youngins were driving somewhere or other, and I had the iPod playing one of the kids playlists. One of the songs I have in there in an attempt to widen their musical horizons is The Clash's cover of "I Fought the Law." Theo finally got the hang of the refrain and started singing along... yes, now you've figured it out, he sang it "Off of the log, and the log won. Off of the log, and the log won."

Prius Tank #2

I know this is thrilling blogging which is why I do it. Filled up for the second time this morning... got almost 390 miles for this tank, and at 7.75 gallons that's a good 50MPG. Plus, just to add to the excitement of this blog entry, I used my brand-spanking-new cordless air compressor and digital tire gauge to make sure all my tires were at the Prius FAQ-recommended PSI, and I've already seen a jump in my average of about 5 MPG! I am sure I am going to get many many comments on this blog entry, so please try to contain your enthusiasm.

Pat Robertson logic

So Pat Robertson (America's very own crazy ayatollah) has recently warned the town of Dover, PA, that if anything bad happens to them, it's their fault for voting to remove 8 of their 9 school board members after their support of teaching "intelligent design." Since they voted "to remove God from the schools," and "stuck their finger in God's eye," they shouldn't be surprised if God no longer protects them.

Now, I'd like to investigate the flipside to that logic. If nothing bad happens to Dover, PA from here on out, I'm assuming that means God approves of teaching kids evolution. Yay God!

This week in Evolution versus Intelligent Design

I love Ars Technica, and was glad to see this review of the latest goings-on in the evolution vs intelligent design battle. My home state of Kansas, as usual, is doing their students a disservice by literally changing the definition of science so that non-scientific things like creationism, ID, and young-Earth "theories" can be taught in school.

Luckily, the people of Dover PA came to their senses and voted out 8 of the 9 school board members who proposed the "just a theory" warning about evolution. Yeah, there's a good use of the public tax dollars there, outgoing board. Congratulations.

This week in Evolution versus Intelligent Design

Kill Bill's Browser

I use Firefox at home but unfortunately must use IE at work. I would love to see Firefox more-widely used. So I liked this webpage on multiple levels.

Kill Bill's Browser - Switch to Firefox

The non-linear Prius fuel meter

I filled up the Prius's tank last Saturday. The fuel gauge has 10 little squares on it. I'd been driving for a while with only two squares left, so I figured I better fill it. I put 8 gallons in it. The tank is supposed to be a 12 gallon tank. Let's see, two divided by 10 is one-fifth, one-fifth of 12 gallons is 2.4 gallons, which means I should have been putting almost 10 gallons into the tank.

So now I've been driving since Saturday, and the fuel gauge hasn't budged from full. Until today, after driving about 70 miles. Let's see, 70 miles, one-tenth of a tank, that's 70 miles divided by 1.2 gallons... my goodness such mileage! NOT. The fuel meter is obviously just there for show, or to display pretty lights, or something.

On the plus side, the running MPG calculation automatically reset itself when I filled up. Very clever.

Two mornings after the morning after

Still sore, but at least I can now walk down stairs without looking like an 80-year-old man. I tried running a little bit this morning--a very little bit--and it was sore, but not impossible.

I've looked at some of my in-race pictures on the appropriate website. I look awful! My gait must be stupid, or every photographer in the race managed to get me at just the right time to make my gate look stupid. Other people look like they're running--I'm not sure what I look like I'm doing. I'm going to have to videotape myself to see what's going on there. And this is early in the race, too! It's not like the picture at the end, where I look like my legs have stopped functioning properly (because they have).

The morning after

Still quite sore. I'm wearing a brace on my knee just for support. That and the pain.

I should mention that after the race, I came home and took a hot bath. It was either that, or the tons of Powerade and carbo gels that I had during the race, or the Powerade and apple I had after the race, or maybe the fact that I'd just run 26.2 miles, but I could not even stand to look at the eggs and bagel that Maria had made for me. I was this close to tossing the ol' cookies. I decided lying down was a much better idea. I slept off and on for a bit, got up, and viola, problem solved. Chowed down the cold eggs and bagel quite readily.

I'm including the picture Maria took of me after the race with the kids. Yes that's a grimace and not a smile. :)

Goals accomplished

My goals for the marathon were threefold:

1. don't die
2. finish
3. don't stop

All my goals were met: I'm typing to you live (I'm not a ghost), I finished (although the last 5 miles were just brutal), and I didn't stop (just slowed down for water/Powerade).

My unwritten goal was to beat 4 hours if possible, and I just squeaked by that one too: I did a 3:53:39, which was apparently good enough to place me 230th or so out of 1400 other guys 45-49. I'm pretty sore today, but that helped to ease the pain. More tomorrow.

Here I go...

0630 on the day of the marathon and I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Cold is pretty mild at this point so I'll hope it's not a factor. It's a little chilly out right now but I should be fine once I warm up. I shall report back this afternoon if I don't keel over. Later.

Marathon T-minus 4 days and counting?

I started training for the Marine Corps Marathon in early August--training consisting of running progressively longer runs once a week, other than that it was pretty much my standard running schedule of about 6 miles three times during the business week. Over the course of the training, I wondered what would happen if I got an injury: pulled something, twisted something, stuff like that. I made it to one week from the marathon without doing any such thing.

I'd forgotten about the possibility of getting sick.

Yes, one week before MCM 2005 and I started getting a scratchy throat. Always a bad sign. I started taking every bogus homeopathic cold remedy known to Trader Joe's: echinacea, zinc, vitamin C, you name it. It's Wednesday and I've switched over to tried and true methods of cold symptom containment: Sudafed Extreme Cold Formula, with a nice shot of Nyquil at night. I'm getting lots of rest and hoping to keep symptoms to a minimum. I imagine I'll still run the thing unless the cold takes a turn for the worse. We shall see.

But I don't WANT to buy a 360!

I mean, I really don't... but then good ol' J Allard has to go and say things that make sense, like "Anybody in my company who thought this was a bad idea to plug in Sony or Apple devices into [the 360], I ended that conversation pretty quickly. This is the right thing to do for consumers. Once they invest $500 in their digital media library, you can't ask them to go buy a 360 music player and a 360 digital camera, and a 360...NO! They got their stuff. They're going to want to plug it in. We're going to be open here, guys."

I'm still shocked that stuff like that can go on at Microsoft!

IGN: J Allard Gets Real

Note to myself on Prius aux in possibilities

I guess I could always pull this page up by Googling for "prius iPod" but even so I'll link to it from here so I can get at the page again. I may be considering the "expensive but fully-featured" AIC-100i. It'd be nifty to control playback from the steering wheel, and I found some online instructions that make it look kinda sorta easy.

How to Hook up an Ipod in a Prius - WikiHow

Another nice-looking Shuttle system

Reviewed at Anandtech. The slimness would let it fit right into a home theater system, but it seems that the Pentium M might not have the oomph to play back HDTV, at least not with MythTV and without XvMC support. Still, a very nice looking system. Will have to be on the lookout.

AnandTech: Shuttle XPC M1000 - HTPC Done Right?

46.5 MPG and counting

Still no idea how I'm going to jack my iPod into my Prius's sound system, but at least I can be comforted in the fact that my gas mileage is awesome. Looks like I'm going to get just over 400 miles per tank. Amazing.

I hate FM transmitters

Turns out that, for all its technological whizziness, the Prius lacks one little thing: a nice aux-in port for audio. Since I didn't spring for the navigation system, I didn't get the upgraded audio system. The standard audio system has a CD player but not a cassette... and the cassette adapter is definitely the way to go for playing your iPod in your car if you can. Audio quality is great and it's cheap.

Since I don't have a cassette or an aux-in, I had to go get an FM transmitter at ye olde Apple Store. I got a nice small one from Xtreme Mac called the AirPlay... lets you change the channel easily, unobtrusive, uses the iPod's battery. Now if it only sounded good. :-/ Using an FM frequency at the bottom end of the dial (87- to 88-ish), I get lots of interference and static. Using one at the top end (106- to 107-ish), I get a high-pitched whine if I turn it up enough to hear it.

I've looked into some third-party options, but I'll have to find out if the warranty will still be intact if I let my dealer install it. Lord knows if I installed it (a) the warranty would be voided, and (b) I would screw it up royally.

Mystery of the Gray Prius -- solved!

About two months ago I put a deposit down on a new Toyota Prius. I'd looked at all the colors and decided on the blue, although I kept seeing a gunmetal gray color one that I really liked. Going to the website, though, there was no gray choice. Hm.

Due to various roadblocks (including, but not limited to, Katrina, damage at the docks with a blue Prius, $3/gal gas driving up demand), delivery kept getting delayed. Finally, I heard that their October shipment was on its way, but that the blue model might not get here until the end of October, which was when my current car's registration expired. My salesperson said that they could get a green one a few days earlier. I didn't like the green color on the website, but I also didn't like not having a new car, so I said great, let's go for the green.

I went to get the car today. Guess what? IT'S GRAY! I have NO idea how this is considered green. I guess under the right lighting conditions--like maybe a giant green spotlight. Anyhow, all's well that ends well, as I like this color and (so far) I like the car. I'll post a pic when I can.

EDIT: OK, here's the car with Anna doing her best Carol Merrill.

One of the best soundtracks ever

I bought Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" a while back on the iTunes Music Store. I've always meant to get it as it has some amazing music on it. The big hits off it back in the day was "Freddie's Dead," but I remember listening to the radio and hoping that the title song would come up in the playlist rotation. Great song. Add "Little Child Runnin Wild" and "Pusherman" and you've got one of the best soundtracks ever... in my book, right up there with the score from 2001:A Space Odyssey and the Leone westerns.

A new deadline for digital TV?

Just saw this on Yahoo News... the Senate is looking to impose a new deadline for the analog-to-digital switchover. April 2009, eh? Very interesting. I wonder what kind of DRM junk is also hiding in this legislation... guess it's time to wander over to the EFF and see what they say about this...

US Senate draft digital TV bill sets move for 2009 - Yahoo! News

Mark Cuban on iTunes and downloadable TV shows

Interesting commentary by the HDTV gadfly Mark Cuban, on Apple and ABC providing shows like Lost and Night Stalker as $1.99 downloadable media. It's an interesting business model to consider... how many people will download a show like this? I wonder how many people have bought an episode of Lost so far since Apple's announcement. Frankly, I'd pay a little more to catch this past week's episode of My Name is Earl in high-definition, as apparently my HD reception of the local NBC affiliate was totally pooched, and thus so was my recording. (And I only live four friggin' miles from the tower! Grrr.)

So hopefully Apple will bring HD to the table soon. In the meantime, Cuban makes a persuasive argument for the networks to embrace this new model.

How Bob Iger Saved Network TV - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _

A nice list of open source Mac-only utilities

Wanted to link to this article on NewsForge as it had a nice rundown of some Mac-specific open source software. In particular, I've needed a nice FTP client like Cyberduck for quite some time, on those occasions when I need to FTP from my Mac. The other utils looked nice too.

NewsForge | Using open source software on Mac OS X

New quiet Shuttle system coming

I'm a big Shuttle fan, so the fact that they're coming out with a new, very quiet, Pentium M-based system is very intriguing. Linked article is pretty slim on details, but it looks good and promises to be way quieter than the Shuttle I'm using right now. If it can play back HDTV, I'm there.

EDIT: here's a link directly to Shuttle's product page.

True confessions

Luckily my kids don't read this blog, don't know of its existence... well, for that matter, virtually no one else does either. So my secret is safe with you, oh my two or three readers.

I bought a Nintendo DS and a copy of Nintendogs.

I have a master plan to get the kids a DS for Christmas and their own copy of Nintendogs too. I have a feeling the CFO of the house may veto that plan. Anyhow, I'll figure something out. In the meantime, I'm trying to get my little Welsh Corgi (named Chauncey in honor of my old boss's dog) to do well in the obedience competition. Unfortunately I can't train him at home while the kids are up (for obvious reasons) and I can't train him after they're asleep (since they're voice commands and for some odd reason it bugs Maria for me to say "Chauncey, roll over" repeatedly while she's trying to sleep). So that leaves work, but my office has too much fan noise. What's a virtual dog owner to do?

I quite like the DS so far. It lasted quite a while on its battery charge while I cooled my heels waiting for my delayed flight back home. I also have Advance Wars: Dual Strike, and although I pretty much suck at the game, it's still fun.

Cool tech use in Army Ten Miler

Amidst all the complaints about the SNAFUd Army Ten Miler on the site's bulletin board, I found one set of posts that turned me on to a very cool use of the personal GPS units that some runners use to measure how far they've run. Check out this Google map of the course we ended up running, complete with mile markers and an optional measurement of calories burned! Hm, might have to get me one of them there things.

Asparagus ice cream

Watched one of the better "Iron Chef America" episodes I've seen to date. It was Masaharu Morimoto vs Michael Symon, and the secret ingredient was asparagus. Mmmm, asparagus. Everything looked quite good, but Iron Chef Morimoto deserved the decisive win. That maki he made was absolutely spectacular looking, and the fact that he made asparagus ice cream -- and that the judges liked it -- was amazing. (Speaking of the ice cream, I liked the new idea for the commentators to yell in mock fear "ICE CREAM MACHINE" whenever anyone cranks it up.)

The Army Eleven-point-two Miler

I haven't commented yet on the fiasco that was last Sunday's Army Ten Miler. First of all, it was supposed to be a training run for me in preparation for the Marine Corps Marathon. I was supposed to run 20 miles total, so I decided to run 10 miles before the race, and then the ten mile race. The ten miles before was uneventful other than trying to actually get to the correct Pentagon parking lot from the running path... one of the bomb-sniffing dog handlers kept saying "Stay! Stay! Stay!"--to his dog, not me-- and I kept wondering "what exactly is the dog going to do to me if he doesn't keep saying that?"

Anyhow, I did loops around the Pentagon parking lot until about 5 minutes before the 8AM race start, then jogged in place until we got to the starting line. Again, all fine, until we got to the turnoff for the 14th St. Bridge... and didn't turn off. Turns out the DC police spotted a suspicious package on the bridge at 8:05AM, weren't able to get it cleared, and the race organizers diverted the path to avoid the bridge. The second the course changed? No longer official. Big bummer for people who were trying to win, big annoyance to the rest of us.

Running the extra distance wasn't such a big deal for me, but not having any official time (they couldn't move the timing pads to the "new" finish line) was quite a drag. If I want to run 11.2 unofficial untimed miles, I can do that without 19,999 other people around me. This is the second year in a row where "security concerns" have interfered with this race, and it's getting old. It's something that has never happened with the Cherry Blossom Ten Miler, for instance.

Earl, The Office, and new season of Lost

OK, this blog is becoming TV Review City. Must remember to enter something other than TV. Then again, it's the new fall season, so I guess it might lead to a disproportionate number of TV reviews. Or something.

Anyhow, on to My Name is Earl, which I finally watched via MythTV. Bottom line: I liked it a lot. I'd seen reviews that said it was reminiscent of Raising Arizona, which is certainly an 8.something-rated movie in my book. Maybe it's just that Jason Lee looks like Nicolas Cage with that semi-crazed hairdo. I liked the writing, I liked the editing, liked the photography, liked the acting. Will definitely give it another look. (Frankly, with the passage of a few days, I'm not sure I can say the same about How I Met Your Mother or Kitchen Confidential.)

Also watched The Office season opener, finally. I agree with a co-worker's assessment: it was a little too touchy-feely for an episode of The Office, but then again, I also truly felt sorry for Michael when he was heckled during his routine at Chili's. I also probably have not mentioned in blog form yet how gosh-darn cute Pam the secretary is. The whole flirtation with her non-fiance is kind of annoying, but she's darn cute. Anyhow, another good half-hour of TV.

Finally, the Lost season opener. Through the magic of MythTV, we were able to watch it all recorded via HDTV including commercial-skipping. (I will probably post something else on why that's an accomplishment.) Looked darn good, and sounded good too, particularly that darn "Make Your Own Kind of Music" song or whatever it's actually named. Glad they didn't drag out what was behind the hatch, although certainly not all the questions have been answered yet. Lots of tension, interesting flashbacks. No Evangeline Lilly swimsuit scenes, but you can't have it all, eh? Overall, I would have to agree with Steven King's commentary in Entertainment Weekly and say that I hope they don't drag this series out too long. It'd be nice to give it a definitive arc and a definitive ending (not to mention a definitive explanation of what's going on).

Kitchen Confidential and HIMYM

Finally got a chance to watch both these new shows this morning via MythTV. Kitchen Confidential was pretty good. Certainly has a bevy of beauties involved with it, and it was good to see Xander even if it was a limited role. And it's cooking! Yay cooking! It's as if it's a FoodTV comedy series!

On the other hand, I was underwhelmed with How I Met Your Mother. Willow was good, as was Doogie Howser, but I didn't really much care for any of the other characters. And the writing was stiff, and frankly, not very funny for an erstwhile comedy. I also don't know how they're planning on stretching this concept of the dad telling the kids the story of, well, how he met their mother, for an entire season, let alone for multiple ones.

New blog with Blogger

I have finally been convinced that I should be blogging on something other than iBlog. I've known that for a while, as it's not too convenient to have to start up my iBook, start up iBlog, make some entries, preview said entries, then run rsync to sync up my iBook's web server with my public web server. Could be why I don't make more entries, eh? Anyhow, I will slowly but surely be entering things here instead now. I guess.