Anyone hitting Gossip tonight? I can't decide if I'm too busy or not.

The hard drive on the mythtv server just died. Down to no dvd, basic cable and having to watch tv in real time as its transmitted. We're being forced to watch tv the way cavemen did.

Wow, I thought I'd first get on CNN when that Boy Scout Troop was found in my crawl space. Who knew my dancing skills would get me there first. Thanks to gen9 for finding this, I'm at :56 and 1:54.

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The scary thing is this is almost a decade old.

Our car, our piece of shit hoopty mobile that we have specifically decided not to replace because we leave it at the Fruitvale BART station all day and didn't think it would be a tempting target got broken into today. Someone smashed our back window, made off with the 2 bucks I had in the glove compartment and left it wide open for the rain storm ( Read more... )

Gahhh! I am spending way too much time being bothered by this, far more then it deserves, but I just can't stop. So "Meet the Spartans" is out, another steaming pile by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzerthe who also made Date Movie and Epic Movie. Downtown SF is covered by posters for it right now and the damn thing is bothering me so much I can' ( Read more... )

* Warning, some spoilers below *Well, that wasn't nearly as good as I hoped it would be. The pacing is really plodding, it suffers from looking low budget compared to the movies, voice over is rarely a good idea with the best voice talent and Lena Headey is no Linda Hamilton. In an odd way it feels very retro, like the action tv dramas from the ( Read more... )

The Wire is still the best TV that's ever been made.

How did I miss the fact that turkey is one of the foods that's bad for my gout? I can barely walk today.

Is it just me, or is James Carville looking more and more like Spider Jerusalem?


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Little late to this, but yeah, Portal might be the perfect game.