Archive for the 'media' Category

Gigantic family day on TLC.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

In the ever-continuing quest to find the very worst television available to watch and mock, I happened upon the TLC double-header 14 Children and Pregnant Again! and 16 Children and Moving In. I’d read about them on the internets. I was home, and working, and I let both one-hour specials play through in the background. […]

A million little lies

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

I’m often a slave to pop culture, and in no arena is that more true than literature–books and magazines. I love People and Us, even stooping so far as to read Star or In Touch for a fix of unadulterated gossip-rag content.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy “real” books, ’cause I do–by the dozens. […]

I <heart> the Discovery Channel

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Discovery used to be all wolf cubs and panda bears, but the last few times I’ve snagged some late-night TV-viewing, I’ve found it less Wild Kingdom and more… real-life Survivor.
Sort of a cross between televised competitions and grisly medical show. With a few sensationalstic quasi-news shows thrown in for good measure. (For instance: […]

Geekery in the house of geekery

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

It’s been a week simply bursting with technology.
So, where I work, there is lots of geekery. And in the course of the half-dozen years or so I’ve been there, I’ve always had a couple of different machines, much like home. Though at work they’re actually separate boxes. One running Linux®, where I do […]

Dear weather: You suck.

Monday, February 13th, 2006

To whom it may concern in regards to weather and climate:
This is WINTER. Not spring, not summer, not fall. I am fully aware that this is the south, and frozen precipitation is less likely here. But less likely does not mean nonexistant. And this winter: Nada. Yeah, sure, three snowflakes […]

Ok, Mouse.

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

I just saw The Frog pitching a new “green” Ford Monstrosity. Their new “hybrid” SUV.
THE FROG SHOULD NOT PITCH THINGS.
And especially not with that song. My gods, have you no decency?

SPOILER ** 24 ** SPOILER

Monday, January 16th, 2006

THIS ENTRY IS ABOUT THE FIRST EP OF SEASON 5 FOR THE TV SHOW 24. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.
OMFG, AIEEE!
You’re not still reading are you? Cause I’m about to bust out with some all caps freaking out, and if you’re reading along but haven’t seen the first episode of the season… […]

Go. Read. Now.

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Before we headed out to Disneyworld® this past November, I happened upon a short story I had read–skimmed, really–a few months before. It was a short piece titled Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. I had blown through it the first time, filing it away as something to be explored again, if […]

I am not dead. Really.

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

I know it looks like I wholly abandoned this whole ‘blog’ thing, but I totally didn’t.
I’ve thought of loads of things to post about. Like:

I got to talk on the phone to Wil Wheaton the other day. He was really nice. He hates Catster, which I think is sacrilege on the altar […]

Same song, sans sarcasm

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

thinking about the times we live in