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Where DID My Summer Go?

Things that made me smile in the last week or so:
Horatio Sanz has been fired from Saturday Night Live. Hooray! No more “I’m Carol!”, surely the worst recurring SNL character ever. Oh good, Dane Cook is hosting the season opener. Yawn.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. I’ve never watched Sports [...]

Red and White Fingers Point to the Sky

Since I’ve talked so much about the proposed Digital TV Supertower that a consortium of local Denver broadcasters wants to put on Lookout Mountain, I thought it was long overdue to put up a picture of the existing Lookout Mountain antenna farm here (click on it go to the Flickr site and view larger images, [...]

Thunderbirds Are Go!

My satellite TV upgrade is at last complete, as I now have a working Dish ViP622 HD DVR receiver. Just sent the first one back – it would not output a signal on the modulated coax output to my other TVs on the distribution network, so I could only watch programs on the big [...]

iWake iMe iUp iBefore iYou iGo-iGo

I’m a bit of an alarm clock radio enthusiast. I get a new one every year or so, even though they never really change that much. Don’t ask me why. I guess I’m like Ernie from the comic strip Piranha Club, who collects toasters. My basement is littered with the carcasses [...]

Not Quite A Spending Spree

Random Odds and Ends:
Saw The Matador this weekend. Pretty entertaining and funny, and no big technical problems at the theater and no rudeness to speak of, even though it was a fairly full showing. One thing that I didn’t get is that Pierce Brosnan’s character, the burned-out hitman, is supposedly really attractive to [...]

The Bursting Bubble and the Shrinking Window

Last night I saw a just-released first-run movie. However, I did not see it a local theater, even though it was playing at one. I saw it from the comfort of my home, in High Definition video. I am speaking of the film Bubble, which is causing controversy because of its unique [...]

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