A couple years ago, the DVD "consortium" consisting of entertainment and hardware producers worldwide got together. They had a problem to solve - with all these new high definition television sets on the market, the general shittiness of the DVD was starting to get exposed. Let me explain ( Read more... )

For the record, if you even bothered watching more than 2 minutes of the UM/MSU game today, you ( Read more... )

So, Heather and I are not getting any sleep and busy with the 2 YO and the newborn. You lame-os have no such excuse, and yet not a single new post in LJ today. I'm sick of seeing Dave's graph that he's pseudo-liberal or some nonsense. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO READ AT 3 AM. Haha ( Read more... )

I'm technically supposed to be napping and not on the computer, but hey.

Allison Elaine
9 lbs 3 oz
20"

Born around 8:30 or so. I still don't know the actual time yet.

Everyone is fine. Heather looks a LOT better than with our first, though her morphine drip is broken and she's sad.

So, tomorrow Heather is going to the hospital and at 7:30 am SHARP, the extraction of our baby girl will begin ( Read more... )

So I ventured onto Newegg this morning to buy some dual-layered blank DVDs. My mom wanted me to snag some shows off her DVR, and they were big enough where I didn't want to compress them onto a single-layer (4.7 gig) DVD ( Read more... )

Wifey, toddler, and me all went to Walmart last night to pick up some bedding for the half-pint. At the end of the journey, we ended up at one of those self-checkout lines, which at Walmart is a colossally stupid endeavor. The morbidly obese snaggletooth in front of us was waving her items around like she was divining water, UPC code sticking ( Read more... )

the only asshole that has to work today? This blows. OTOH, I did make my commute in 6 (six!) minutes today. If the Beltline was this dead every morning, I'd sell my car and buy a bike!

Jerry Greene, Orlando Sentinel: "Get excited about the NFL's first game when Miami plays Pittsburgh. It gives me chills thinking about the showdown between Joey Harrington and Charlie Batch."

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