Apr

28

The Bro Code

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Some thoughts on tonight’s How I Met Your Mother after the break. Watch out for the goat turd.

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Jan

7

On The SlingCatcher, MacWorld And The Strike

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A year later, Sling announces the SlingCatcher. Again. I don’t think they announced anything that wasn’t announced last year. It will still play virtually any format you can imagine, like Divx, Xvid, mov, avi and others, and should retail for $250. They say it’s coming in Q2, but they said the same thing last year. As for how it works, Engadget says:

Unfortunately for us, the unit was extremely pre-release, meaning the menus felt sluggish, the device crashed a couple of times, and it generally felt like there was a lack of polish.

SlingCatcher

Look how pretty it is, though. (Image from Engadget)

With the MacWorld San Francisco Keynote just around the corner (January 15th), the semi-annual Keynote Bingo card has come out. It looks to me like there are some pretty good chances at a bingo happening this year.

The Writers’ Guild of America strike claimed its first award show casualty, with the Golden Globes telecast being scrapped.

Speaking of the writers, Colbert and Stewart return to the air, sans writers. I’m curious to see what they do.

Oct

4

Pushing Daisies

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Pushing Daisies “Sounds like you’re a narcoleptic.”
“I suffer from sudden uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep?”
“What’s the other one?”
“Necrophiliac”

Some great news from TV land (of which I am a frequent visitor). Pushing Daisies won its timeslot yesterday with an awesome 9.2/14 rating/share, which was 12.83 million viewers, with big numbers in the key demos. Those are all great numbers, which is awesome because Pushing Daisies is the best new show of the season. Hopefully, those numbers will go up next week as people tell their friends about how awesomely awesome it was. Just like you will do now. NOW.

Great. Now that you’re back, onto some news and comment.