I was looking for some video to watch yesterday while waiting for incoming calls and checked out the CBS News site, since they’ve been touting an increased “24/7 online news” presence lately. Also, it had to be free newsvid, and I wanted to watch the 2-minutes’ silence observance on a delay, which their site made available in RAW video (not edited, full length). I picked some other videos using their handy “select for playlist” and listened idly. One choice was to watch Ground Force’s Charlie Dimmock explain how to select plants for and design a Mediterranean garden. Now, if you…
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On my way in to work this morning, I saw a car whip around a turn just in front of me, then come to a screeching halt. Why? Because a large gaggle of geese was waddling slowly across the street (several breeding pairs and their progeny). Traffic backed up. People got impatient. “Honk! Honk!” said the cars. “Honk! Honk!” said the geese. It was pretty pointless, like much of the debate to come in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Somebody’s going to get mowed down eventually, once the honking stops.
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My husband David's been getting a lot of spam emails, and so have I. The trickiness is that we can't just mark the emails "spam" and forget it, because they're spoofed to appear to come from our domain. They're getting stopped, but we need to figure out some filters to refuse them completely. It's still amusing to continue to get emails from our "staff" telling us our computers are "zombies." In light of the preceding link, does this mean that we're bound to get all medieval on the zombies' decaying asses? For the first time Blogula had a lot of…
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If you’re a fan of “The Amazing Race,” you’re in luck. The cable network GSN will begin broadcasting all eight seasons of the show, in order, on a nightly basis starting at 8 p.m. Monday. “There are tons of people who came to this show in later seasons, and they’ve never seen these [early] episodes, because unlike dramas, reality shows don’t usually repeat and don’t hit syndication as quickly,” said Linda Holmes, an attorney from Bloomington, Minn., who, under the moniker Miss Alli, has recapped every season of “TAR” for the Web site TelevisionWithoutPity.com. “For people who missed those seasons,…
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I've added this to Flickr's London Bomb Blast group, along with the previous "mug shot." So many people are checking or uploading to Flickr right now that it's slowed to a crawl. I was astounded just now when I saw that the previous shot has already been viewed more than 4,000 times… I sent it at 8:30am CDT and added it to the group a short time later; it's only 11:09am now. Judas Priest! this image has already been viewed more than 1400 times. Flickr must be getting hammered. I've added a prayer request to the Holy Moly blog with…
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Mozillas and Gnus attack IE! Aiyee! If you click it, they will come. Eventually, Bill pops up in panic mode. Via the fabbleous Boing Boing, natch.
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Adrian Paul to executive produce Highlander 5 The Highlander fan list, HIGHLA-L, has been batting this dead pony around in a desultory way for a couple of weeks now. Actually, discussion has been revitalized in the last month, with actual stuff to discuss, whether on-topic or not. It’s been nice to see some old friends ride up on their trusty steeds (which can be any sort of mammal, not excluding cows, ferrets, and wombats). However, the Dead Pony Regiment has been having the most fun pooh-poohing the thought of another Highlander movie sequel, because they’re sure it’ll be screwed up.…
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Saturday dawned warm, hazy, and humid, but off to the Morton Arboretum we went to see a performance of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. If you’re not familiar with this play, it’s the one where girl meets boy, boy likes girl, boy runs off into exile into the woods, girl runs off into exile into the woods but dresses as a boy, boy meets “boy” and is tricked into “pretending” he’s wooing the girl so that he can be cured. Sundry rustic bumpkins and foppish courtiers intrude, and we get the famous “All the world’s a stage” speech from one…
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Okay, so I’m podding already. Downloaded 4 6 7 songs from iTunes already. My husband David’s going to regret this already. I’ve already realized it’s pretty trippy to play Cirque du Soleil’s Icare, then segue into Tiny Hat Orchestra’s Sing, Sing, Sing, then Rachel Yamagata’s Worn Me Down… and so on and so on. Hmm, there’s a new album by Cam Newton on iTunes… well, David has only himself to blame. I’d better get to bed…soon. Right after synching up and listening to that Cam Newton tune. I used to go to the weekly Beer Garden ‘way, ‘way back in…
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* beep’s Remote Patrol notes that former Amazing Race winner Reichen Leimkuhl and other reality “stars” will be in a new show where they all live together while filming a horror film. Oh, the horror indeed. That’ll get a big thumbs-down on the TiVo.