The mini-fridge in my hotel room has this clever-but-unnecessary plastic rack for storing those short 8-ounce cans of soda (or, as they say up here in Oregon, “pop”) commonly found in hospitals. But where would one acquire such a specialty…
Month: September 2005
Browncoat Blues Redux
It’s almost 11:00 PM on Thursday, September 29th. In just a few minutes, dozens of Browncoats waiting in line to see the midnight show of Serenity in San Francisco will start singing “The Ballad of Serenity” (the theme from the…
Palm drops the other shoe
Well, it finally happened. Earlier today, Palm (or are they still PalmOne? I can’t keep track) issued a press release stating that their new Treo 700 will run Windows Mobile instead of PalmOS. And, less than three weeks ago, PalmSource…
Flavor of the Week: Airline Pilot
The JetBlue pilot who landed his aircraft despite malfunctioning landing gear– not just safely, but perfectly, keeping the wheels right on the centerline– is refusing to talk to reporters. He’s not taking their phone calls, and he’s asked friends and…
Classy Headline of the Day
From Wired magazine: “Swelling Demand for Sex Ed Online”
My Name Is E.T.
Just watched two time-shifted pilots tonight, and here’s what I think. Threshold: not good. Did they really need two hours to tell this shell of a story, with clunky exposition and obvious plot twists? And is anyone else annoyed that…
Hot New Fall TV
Another list of premiere dates– this one from TiVo, with hyperlinks to show info. Of interest tonight: My Name is Earl, which fellow TV geek Ammy says is “widely pitched as the best new show this year.” We’ll see. I…
It’s a hell of a town, part 2 (photos)
Not being habitual tourists, we didn’t bring our nice digital camera with us to New York last weekend, but I did snap some shots with my Sony CLIE’s crappy VGA camera. I’ve back-dated the blog posts to the 10th, but…