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Analog vs. Digital Antenna TV
Tonight I was SO missing having analog TV. At least with analog the picture quality was a continuous spectrum, so you could decide yourself how bad a picture you were willing to watch, and the audio was usually understandable even when the picture was too bad, so you could comprehend the show. I personally was usually willing to watch a heavy ( Read more... ) -
TV: Alphas: Rosetta
STUPID BIT: Red Flag lauches an DDOS attack which overwhelms Gary's EM-Wizard abilities. Nonsense, because matter how many computers hit YOUR computer with a DDOS, it comes in on your computers single active WiFi connection (which can include about 16? channels) Gary rountinely handles more than that! A city is an ocean of signals, and he's in a ( Read more... ) -
TV: Alphas
An interesting show ( Read more... ) -
Eureka: Liftoff
I finally realized why the method they used to get out of orbit was so familiar: It was lifted almost directly from "Warp Speed" @ Travis S. Taylor (available on the free Baen CDs). They added the Space Catcher's Mitt, which was a good thing. In Warp Speed the collateral damage was BAD ( Read more... ) -
Fic Bunny Revenge Most Bloody......Oops.
A not-quite-parody of "Harry gets Revenge" fics ( Read more... ) -
Floating Money
Someone on one of my lists (a Harry Potter fanfic list!) said:
> And the loans don't have to be long. Checkout slide 5 in
> > for a graph of the overnight loans that banks give to each other ( Read more... ) -
American Secession (Politics!)
I was thinking about the increasing burden of federal legislation and regulation on states. The Feds are farther from the people which makes them less able to understand the "will of the people" (not to mention the Progressive agenda) than the States ( Read more... ) -
New Ficlet: Ghost Negotianian
The ghost kept taunting the puny humans, knowing they couldn't touch him.
George spoke a Word that could only be forgotten, then with his hands glowing white reached out to grasp the ghost by it's throat.
"Agggghhhh!", cried the ghost; shocked that the human could TOUCH it!
"Now, let's continue our conversation in a more civil manner, shall we?" -
Fic: Dragon Slave Ron
"Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see." said Hermionie ( Read more... )