Wired Cola

I also play video games.

My brother Mike asked about the new TV, and I sent him a summary too good to hide in email. Some of this was covered in previous posts, but what the heck.

It's a Digimate 37" TV.

We got it at Future Shop for $1500. It was sort of an end-of-the-line deal for a TV they
apparently brought in for the Boxing Day sale. It doesn't seem to be available, at least from Future Shop, any more.

So here I am, home sick, trying mostly not to infect my co-workers. So I have a lot of time to watch TV.

You know which TV station rocks HDTV? Really does it right, with nearly full-day programming that I love watching? PBS.

Yep, that's right. Most of the "HD" feeds from the major networks, including CBC and the sports networks, are purely part-timers. I don't think TSN-HD shows anything in Hi Def except the occasional hockey game. Even their evening sports show isn't in HD.

Fox is very nearly as bad: a few prime-time shows in HD, and that's it.

Gene-mod Bacon that's high in Omega-3 fatty acids. Bonus creepiness that will bother you, but not me: the gene donor was the roundworm C. elegans.

þ: Mr. Reynolds

So I'm rereading Evan Kirchoff's Oscar movie analysis (very good), mainly to remember why I didn't think much of "Good Night and Good Luck," since that was the movie of choice tonight. At the end of that bit, he suggests an alternate director: "John Milius, circa 1984."