Clarity From The Skies
Hi, it’s been awhile. How do you do? How have you been? The Blogging Well has run a bit dry here at FlasshePoint, plus I’ve been kinda busy. And just waiting around for something interesting to happen to me. Wait… is that it…? Nope, only a particularly loud burp.
Still no [...]
It’s Not Over Now Just Because It’s Over
Attention Magnetic Fields Fans: I’ve mentioned before the latest album by Immaculate Machine, Ones And Zeros. I’ve also mentioned how much I like it. It will most undoubtedly be on my Top 15 list for the year (probably in the top 5). But one thing I’ve never mentioned is how much one [...]
Hermey’s Facial Blemishes
CBS is trumpeting their showing tomorrow night of the classic Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Digitally re-mastered and in High Definition! proclaim the enthusiastic commercials. Wow. I’m as much or more an HDTV advocate as anyone, but there’s just something wrong about seeing the delightfully primitive Rudolph in full digital clarity. [...]
Denver Cowtown Status Intact
Kudos to the Rocky Mountain News for an editorial today (belated though it is) decrying the stupidity of the Jefferson County commissioners in not approving the digital TV tower on Lookout Mountain (see my previous blog entries about it here and here). I’m ashamed to be living in the county that these bozos oversee. [...]
I Wouldn’t Live There If You Paid Me To
I did a wild thing last week and pre-ordered the Talking Heads Brick Box Set (it was only $104.99 then – the price has since gone up) which is due out next week. Even though I believe the whole HiRez/Surround Sound music thing is dying a pretty slow but horrible death, it still doesn’t [...]
NiMBY
The city of Golden, home of Coors beer, has launched another salvo in the war to keep the new digital television broadcast “super tower” from being built on Lookout Mountain (one tower, replacing several other analog ones, which could then be removed). According to this article, they are contemplating several tactics, including buying up [...]
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