Archive for May, 2007
Another round of layoffs at CNET
I don’t have as many contacts at CNET as I used to, so many of the people I knew are now ex-CNET just like me. But I have it on good authority that the company had yet another recent round of layoffs. So far I’ve only confirmed editorial folks, I don’t know if this round […]
No more English-language telenovellas
Well the great experiment has gone bust–MyNetwork TV has killed their telenovella format in favor of cheaper reality shows and sports programming. The telenovellas were basically prime-time soap operas. The distinction with a telenovella is that it airs only for a fixed run, usually a couple months or so, rather than over multiple seasons. And it runs in a […]
Please don’t make another “Pirates” movie
I just saw the water-logged mess that is the third “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie, and now this morning there’s a story in the LA Times that they’re already at work on the fourth installment. Which was kinda obvious at the end of the third movie, with a set-up that left the main characters embarking […]
Happy 30th Star Wars Anniversary
Weird to realize that it’s 30 years ago today when Star Wars was first released. There’s a generation of people out there who’ve never known a world without Star Wars in it.
R2-D2 is still my favorite character. The only Star Wars action figure I own is a little R2-D2 with a button you can press […]
HD-DVD not all that impressive, but Planet Earth is
On Tuesday I did get the HD-DVD player that Toshiba was selling for $300. And while the image quality is noticeably better, it’s not a quantum leap over regular DVD’s. I compared the regular DVD release of The Matrix against the HD version and it was a better image but not dramatic. It’s nowhere near […]
Kentucky Democrats manage to pick a candidate for governor
So Ernie Fletcher trouncing Anne Northup was not a surprise, but the fact that on the Democratic side we managed to select a candidate without needing a runoff is a bit of a surprise. The polls I saw last week had Beshear at around 33% which would have been the highest vote count but a […]
Carrying a bike appears to affect gas mileage
I’ve been hauling my bicycle to work so that I can ride the Riverwalk at lunch. The benefits of the bike ride are many–the physical and the mental-health benefits of getting out of the office and riding thru the wooded trail every day. It appears though that it’s costing me about .2 miles-per-gallon in fuel […]
‘300′ was so violent and so homo-erotic
The graphic-novel-turned-movie ‘300‘ finally arrived at the cheap theaters here in Louisville so I went to see it over the weekend. Two hyphenated words I think sum up the entire movie: blood-thirsty and homo-erotic.
Apparently in ancient Greece, blood splatters in the most intriguing ways. It floats in the air in these little clouds of mist […]
Anne Northup about to lose another election
So for the second time in just seven months, Anne Northup appears to be headed to defeat in an election. But unlike the race for Congress, this time she’s not even going to make it past the primaries.
When Northup lost the congressional race in November to John Yarmuth, I was surprised. She is a tough-as-nails […]
I’m tempted to get an HD DVD player this weekend
Toshiba is launching a promotion starting on Sunday that will discount $100 from their cheapest HD-DVD player. That means it will be $300, possibly less if the store has other promotions running. It’s not exactly cheap but at least it’s not sky-high. I know, by Christmas they’ll be down under $200 but I’m not sure I […]