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Yeah, sorry one of our teams had to lose. I've come to appreciate Penn State as a classy and sympath... |
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Hey Ken, congratulations on the win yesterday! Some really odd choices by our coaching staff in that... |
Television Upgrade | Monday, 2009 November 23 - 4:37 pm |
Well, I've bit the bullet, and decided not to wait for a Black Friday deal: I'm finally ditching my old behemoth rear-projection TV for an LCD flat panel model. (Amy will be enormously pleased to recover some square footage in our living room.) Sony has a promotion going on right now: discounted TVs along with a free Playstation 3. I'm not terribly interested in having another game console to suck down my time and money, but the PS3 is one of the best Blu-Ray players available, so it's worth it just for that. Nice things about the new TV, as compared to my old one:
The only bad thing I can think of is that it doesn't have the picture-by-picture mode that my old TV has, which is far superior to the picture-in-picture mode that the cable box provides. The TV should arrive in less than a week. Whee, reckless consumerism! I mean... whee, doing my part to stimulate the economy! |
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Television: The Prisoner | Monday, 2009 November 16 - 11:22 pm |
Today was part 2 of 3 of AMC's remake of "The Prisoner". Thus far, it is as I feared: it doesn't live up to the original. Perhaps they're deliberately not trying to recapture the same feel as the original show, and I can appreciate the desire to make something novel. But I greatly prefer Patrick McGoohan's clever subversiveness to Jim Caviezel's outright rebellion. And you know, a disjointed plot is not the same as a mysterious plot. In this version, there's just no subtlety. Instead of mind games, there are psychotropic drugs and coercion. I keep waiting for the shocking plot twist that doesn't come. Maybe they're just setting up for one big surprise? There's one episode left tomorrow... we'll see. And OH! I almost forgot... how could you have The Prisoner without the Village font, the beautiful Albertus derivative that was ubiquitous in the original show? In this version, we get... Avant Garde Gothic Bold and Optima Bold Italic? Really? |
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Fall TV | Friday, 2009 November 13 - 12:43 pm |
Well, being at home sick does mean I get to catch up with all my TV shows on the DVR. Here's what I'm watching this season... Read more... |
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