Of course ever-anxious Tivo recorded NBC’s response to CBS’ Amazing Race – Treasure Hunters. Off the bat, I have my reservations about a program that so obviously is the television version of the 2004 Nick Cage car-accident National Treasure and the Tom Hanks-starred Da Vinci Code. Unfortunately, it’s much, much worse than that. Aside from …
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Northern Exposure is Identity
We’re working through Season 3: Disc 5 of Northern Exposure (specifically My Sister, My Mother). In it, we find a nameless baby, Adam riding a roller coaster of emotions, and Shelly’s mom pretending to be her sister. Add these story-lines to the series’ general fish-outta-water-ness and there’s a lot of identity theory – Jewish or …
Northern Exposure Series 3 Disc 4 – The Ones We’ve Waited For
According to Netflix, this particular disc of Northern Ex has been sitting our our shelf for a month. We’re a couple episodes into it, and it’s the best disc yet. Between the cow piano-flinging and mid-life crises, this is the series at it’s best.
Videos Tab in TiVo Desktop – Video Blogs Now Playing – Nearly.
There’s an Easter Egg in the version 1.9.3 of the TiVo Desktop software for Mac. Flipping the right switch in the Preference Pane’s preference shows a new ‘Videos’ tab. Restarting the server and scrolling to the bottom of ‘Now Playing’ shows my MacBook. I’m very pleased they put my videos in ‘Now Playing’ (even at …
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Duh. Advertisers are the Customers, not Viewers.
Listening to Tod Maffin’s latest Todbits (made my Podcast Picks as well) and pondering his bit about American Idol running 3 minutes after the hour to thwart PVR-watchers and encourage live-TV-watchers. Honestly, I feel a little silly. All this time I was wondering why it felt like broadcast media outlets despised their customers. Switching up …
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Wanted: Recommendations on 32″ LCD HDTV
We’re moving into a new house this weekend and we’re pondering an upgrade to a wall-mountable, LCD, HDTV, 16:9, something reasonable like 32″, and somewhere south of $1500. If possible, I’d like something with an HD-tuner already built-in. Any thoughts? Here’s what I’ve found thus far that looks promising: Hyundai ImageQuest Q321 Samsung LNS3241D Sharp …
Amazing Race Season 9 – Episode 8
I’ve lost my passion for the Amazing Race. Maybe it’s the time switch – from 8pm Tuesdays to 7pm Wednesdays. Dunno. It feels like the segments between the commercial breaks are so fast cutting that nothing happens – like I don’t have time to focus on what’s going on. On the whole, the challenges this …
Amazing Race Season 9 – Episode 7
All you need to know about tonight’s episode; BJ & Tyler weren’t eliminated, the Dentists were. Everything else – aside from the wrestling – blah. Garrick’s Favorites BJ & Tyler – #5 Ray & Yolanda – #2
Amazing Race Season 9 Episode 6
I’ve said it before, BJ & Tyler are the best AR team yet; well-traveled, playful, multi-lingual, beards. The fake sign-up list was brilliant. Also brilliant – the Dentists requesting a clue not from the designated grounds keeper. Detour: Big Fish or Little Fish Big Fish. Big Fish. Running through the city with swordfish is much …
Pre-Amazing Race Season 9 Episode 6
Hey all. CBS changed the time Amazing Race is on. Now, Tuesday is just Garbage Day. Not Amazing Race & Garbage Day. Anyway a couple things in preparation for tonight’s installment. There’s some other Amazing Race bloggers: flyairdave Scrappy’s Amazing Race 9 (Looks like Amazing Race fantasy sports style. Also looks like Scrappy’s in Mpls.) …