Another ear post?! Lord almighty. No, today’s post actually references the ungodly noise blasting from what seems like every corner of our quiet little neighborhood today. I went out for a bike ride at 9:30 this morning, at which time everything seemed normal. By the time I got back, our street [...]

It was an interesting weekend.
I worked half a day on Saturday, doing “post-launch” tasks in the wake of getting the new websites online. On Saturday night, Apple and I watched a bunch of HDTV, including movies like Panic Room and Men In Black, just because. It was fun being lazy.
On Sunday we were [...]

It’s a quarter after one in the morning, and we’ve finally finished launching and testing our new company websites. There were a couple of minor hiccups, and some nitpicking that needed attending to, but I think we are finally done. Of course, the DNS hasn’t fully propagated yet, so I’ll check it out [...]

After all the hell I went through to get it working, I have to say that Apple and I are really loving the TiVo HD. The other day we went through the list of upcoming HD movies and selected several to record. There were a few others that I thought about recording, but [...]

At work, we recently started doing some advertising in print magazines — a first for us. Our company is pretty small, so the director of marketing is really just our most outgoing salesperson. He came up with an idea for our print ad campaign that was definitely out of the box, and actually [...]

Today was Comcast’s third (and last) chance at sending a technician out to put working CableCARDs in my TiVo HD — last chance, that is, before I escalated it up to a supervisor. Fortunately, with about 15 minutes left to spare before the expiration of the appointment window, the tech appeared at the door.
The [...]

Thoughts, observations, etc. on playing The Orange Box for the Xbox 360:

Every time Dr. Eli Vance talked, I shouted out “Benson!” and began singing the Benson theme to myself. Then I’d think, “Man, they should’ve gotten Auberjoobiedoobiedoobie to do Dr. Kleiner’s voice. Or maybe Dr. Magnusson.”
The airboat stage in HL2 is, as Jeremy Parish of [...]

Comcast missed my third CableCARD service call today. This is the second appointment in a row where the tech just plain hasn’t shown up, despite assurances to the contrary. Last time I had the 5pm-9pm window. Today I had the 1pm-5pm window. For my newly-rescheduled appointment, set for Wednesday the 9th, [...]

NBC has released a little teaser commercial for the new Knight Rider TV movie, scheduled to air in February. It’s not much to look at, but it confirms two things:

The scanner light is back, albeit radically different.
The theme music — yes, glory be, the theme music — is back too. In a super-hip [...]

I swear, GM, sometimes you make it very hard for me to love you. Ahem…did anyone else see Pontiac’s new slogan? Yes, that’s it:
“Pontiac is CAR.”
That’s precious. What next? “GMC is TRUCK”?