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September 29, 2004 on 6:10 am | In Uncategorized

Escher For Real

The networks won’t gave to the politicians on the really important issues

The best entertainment news since yesterday’s Conan announcement

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    Conanza

    September 28, 2004 on 3:48 am | In Uncategorized

    The best news to come out of NBC since Joey: Conan’s taking over The Tonight Show in five years.

    And TiVo will still tape it for me!

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    Remembered

    September 27, 2004 on 5:32 am | In Uncategorized

    Forgotten is the first movie in a long, long time that I’ve seen based entirely off a preview.

    I was fast-forwarding through commercials, as one is wont to do when one lives with TiVo is likes to be wont to do various things, when I glimpsed one second of the ad — Julianne Moore peeling back paper in a room, revealing a child’s room’s walls underneath. I was intrigued and watched the whole preview.

    Today, Lauren and I saw the movie with some friends, prepared to be scared out of our minds. We were, at times.

    It’s a great movie. Building suspense and mixing with humor and scares not unlike The Sixth Sense. But where Sense had a killer ending, Forgotten’s leaves something to be desired. But, 92% good film, eight percent unsatisfying ending is still what my father calls “a good flick.”

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    What a Card

    September 26, 2004 on 3:23 am | In Uncategorized

    I work for a company called Intermix. It’s a big company, which runs a lot of hugely popular websites. MySpace, GameRival, Flowgo… Some of our sites let users send e-greetings to their friends.

    On Friday, I was asked at work to advise on a Yom Kippur Flash greeting they were working on. It had a standard greeting, “Have a wonderful new year” blah blah blah. An image of a burning candle.

    And music in the background that could only be described as Joyous Hora Get-Down music.

    Which, as those of you familiar with the concept of a Day of Atonement have realized, was a bit misplaced.

    I helped them find alternative music, but I pointed out that it was sort of too late to be putting out a Yom Kippur e-card for this year.

    “Oh no it’s not,” they said. “This card will be sent out to all our members for them to send on tonight. So the really observant Jews will send it out to their friends tomorrow.”

    “No they won’t,” I advised. The really observant Jews would be afflicting themselves, practicing self-denial. But they weren’t interested in that theory. They just wanted to know a good midi to attach to the greeting :)

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    Soon

    September 21, 2004 on 9:54 am | In Uncategorized

    Soon, the new web site I’m working on with my new employer will be released.

    Then I will be asleep at this hour, and not at work.

    Thank goodness I like the people I work with. And live two minutes away. And get free sodas.

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    Why I’m Scared To Be Famous

    September 20, 2004 on 5:39 am | In Uncategorized

    In many ways, success in entertainment is my biggest as-yet-unfulfilled life goal.

    But I’m scared.

    The great part of being famous is the extremely public immortality — your death may just be news.

    But then, the year you die, they show your face in the montage at the Emmy or Oscar awards. And the people clap.

    They clap far less, however, for the people they’ve never heard of. Or the people they just don’t give two dingleberries about.

    Freakin’ Ronald Reagan didn’t get the biggest applause on the death-o-meter tonight on the Emmy awards. I mean… To have your name appear on screen, over your video image, and have the applause DIE DOWN…

    That would be terrible.

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    Emmys Et Al

    September 20, 2004 on 4:44 am | In Uncategorized

    Arrested Development cleaned up. Best Comedy. Best Directing for a Comedy. Best Writing for a Comedy.

    Yes, yes, yes. Watch it, already!

    Kudos also to the Daily Show, for its awards — Outstanding Variety and Writing Variety.

    These are great shows. If you’re not watching them, you are missing out on guaranteed funny and life enjoyment enhancement every week.

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    OS X(p)

    September 13, 2004 on 4:29 am | In Uncategorized

    Why, look! It’s someone upgrading their Windows XP installation to SP2:



    But look closer! That someone is me! On my Mac!



    I connect to work via VPN, and then use Microsofts impressively functional Remote Desktop software to see my desktop’s screen in real time. I upgraded to SP2 and restarted the work computer… all from my couch.

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    What to Watch

    September 12, 2004 on 5:09 am | In Uncategorized

    Abbi told you what she’s watching. Here’s my schedule, with many thanks to TiVo:

    Monday
    8-9pm: -
    9-10pm: Las Vegas (NBC)
    10-11pm: LAX (NBC)

    Tuesday
    8-9pm: Gilmore Girls (WB), which will boot Last Comic Standing (NBC) as of Sep 21st
    9-9:30pm: -
    9:30-10pm: Scrubs (NBC)
    10-11pm: NYPD Blue (ABC), narrowly beating out Law & Order: SVU (NBC).

    Wednesday
    8-9pm: Lost (ABC) — though the more I read about it, the more concerned I am. There’s a sci-fi element involved that I doubt belongs.
    9-10pm: The West Wing (NBC)
    10-11pm: Law & Order (NBC), though without Lenny Briscoe, we may stop watching.

    Thursday
    8-8:30pm: Joey (NBC), even though contrary to what everyone’s said, the first episode stank. I’ll give them a full 13 to figure it out, because I trust Kevin Bright and Matt Le Blanc.
    8:30-9pm: Drew Carey’s Green Screen (WB)
    9-10pm: Life As We Know It (ABC) — Entertainment Weekly hates this show. But what do they know?
    10-11pm: ER (NBC) — With the British lady leaving the show, it may become watchable again sometime this season

    Friday
    8-9pm: Joan of Arcadia (CBS)
    9-10pm:
    10-11pm: dr. vegas (CBS) Maybe? Ugh. Sounds awful, but has two actors I like. But it’s never going to make a season two. Should I watch Rob Lowe flail like a dead fish? Whoops! Forgot that the day of this post, Lauren and I watched our first episode of the new series Medical Investigation on NBC. It was awesome. Recommended!

    Saturday
    11:30pm-1am: Saturday Night Live(NBC)

    Sunday
    7:30-8pm: Malcolm in the Middle (FOX) — What the hell is this doing on at 7:30? And King of the Hill is airing new episodes at 7? Thank the Lord I (a) hate that show and (b) have Tivo in case I didn’t hate it, which I do.
    8-8:30pm The Simpsons (FOX) — Season 16, I believe. 16!
    8:30-9pm: Arrested Development (FOX) — The best comedy on television.
    9-10pm: Jack and Bobby (WB) — Watched a DVD of the first episode tonight. Supremely well done. A breakout hit.
    10-11pm: Boston Legal (ABC) — James Spader’s spin-off of The Practice.

    (Hat-tip to epguides.com.)

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    Thank you, Sogundi

    September 12, 2004 on 12:30 am | In Uncategorized

    I have felt guilty for a long, long time. At work — both old job and new — I’ve been forced to use a Dell running Windows XP.

    It’s rough, I know.

    As a web applications developer, I’m forced to use Internet Explorer. Since 95% of web surfers insist on using IE, I must cater to them.

    IE, as you may have heard, sucks. Especially when you’re used to beautiful browsers like Safari, Firefox, and OmniWeb.

    So I started using MyIE2, which eventually became Maxthon. It uses IE’s rendering engine, which I need, but puts a way-better wrapper on it. I get tabs, mouse gestures, themes, improved url shortcuts, and more.

    One Maxthon feature I use a hundred times a day — and miss with Safari — is the ability to type my Google searches directly from the location bar. Safari offers a Google search field, but I don’t like tabbing to it or remembering its command-key for focus. Command-L I hit all day long to highlight the location bar. Often I realize I don’t know the URL for the information I’m after… But then with Maxthon, I just type my search away and hit return and go straight to Google for the results.

    It doesn’t sound as useful as it truly is in practice.

    Thank you Sogundi! Free for OS X, it acts as an input manager available for Safari so that I can search Google from the location bar. I can type ‘amazon search term’ and directly search Amazon. Or ‘imdb search term’ or ‘php search term’ or any other one I add myself.

    Hooray!

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