But remember kids, Google's supposed to be the not-evil alternative to the Yahoos of the world.
But, don't kid yourself, Yahoo is just as evil.
Kinda makes me sad to think I'd ever considered working at one, or that I ever did work at the other.
February 2006 Archives
D and I have really been enjoying (and making good use of) the latest trend in frozen foods, which is those "skillet meal in a bag" things. Our favorites have been some of the Bertolli varieties.
A couple weeks ago, we purchased a chicken and pasta carbonara dinner that was just superb, far better than any carbonara we've made at home from scratch. We decided we wanted to go get it again.
Except we can't find it. You see, we both thought it was just "another of those Bertolli bags", except it clearly wasn't (as you can see from the page I linked to above, they don't have a carbonara). I've been to all three of the places we ever really go grocery shopping (Hannaford, Shop-Rite, or Emmanuels) and combed their frozen foods sections to no avail. It might be something we got at the Stop'n'Shop across the river the one time we went there, but I've yet to get back over and check.
But the important part is that, right now, we really don't even have any idea what we're looking for, who makes it, etc., etc., so it's not even like I could fill out one of those cards they have at Hannaford or Shop-Rite which say "I'd like you to carry ___________" because I couldn't begin to know what to fill in that blank with.
Hopefully, Stop'n'Shop has it, so I can finally know what the hell it is I've been looking for these past three weeks and then just write it down for posterity.
I had read an article that talked about how the iTunes Music Store was going to have the pilot episode of NBC's new show, "Conviction", as a free download.
Imagine my surprise as I saw that the description:
The newest legal drama from D**k Wolf
I understand iTMS tries to be "family friendly" at the 10,000 ft. level, but it still shouldn't be bleeping a guys' first name, especially since it's not like "Dick" is an uncommon first name.
When two people come to the door of the restroom, one going in, and one coming out, the right of way is always yielded to the person going in, because by and large, they're in a lot greater hurry than the person coming out.
Seen on Peter David's blog, taken from Bill Mumy's Site, Andreas Katsulas -- known to science-fiction fans as G'Kar of Babylon 5, known to Star Trek fans as the Romulan Commander Tomalak, and to non-sci-fi fans most as the one-armed man in the movie remake of The Fugitive -- has died of cancer at the age of 59.
He was a consummate character actor, and I've never read another actor say a bad thing about him in all of my readings. His portrayal of G'Kar over the five years of Babylon 5 is quite possibly one of the best performances in all of science fiction history.
The world is a lesser place now.
ArsTechnica reports that HBO plans to use the much-reviled "broadcast flag" to tell DVRs that they are not permitted to record any HBO content on them.
First, is HBO really that stupid? DVRs are the trend in home television watching. What could they possibly be thinking trying to swim upstream like this?
It's not like HBO has a revenue stream that is threatened by commercial-skipping. NBC, CBS, etc., I could almost see feeling threatened. After all, if you watch their shows on your DVR, you're likely to skip the commercials. The less commercials watched, the less valuable they are, the less NBC, et al, can charge for them, and that's a theoretical path to lost revenue. I don't think it's as bad as all that, but at least I could see "some semblance of logic" to that.
But with HBO, I pay them a monthly fee. It doesn't matter if I watch Sopranos, don't watch it, or record it on Sunday and watch it two weeks later. They still got paid just as much as they ever could have.
HBO wants to slave you to their timeslot, force you to sit down on Sunday evenings and watch what they put in front of you.
Well, I tell you this right now: I will have none of it.
If HBO decides to do this, I will happily discontinue our HBO subscription, because the only thing we use it for is to watch Sopranos or Entourage episodes. If I have to "sit down when HBO says to sit down", I'll simply refuse, save myself $15 a month, and, here's the kicker, I'll just download them off of BitTorrent, and push that HD stream out from the computer to the TV screen (and anyone who thinks that the broadcast flag will really prevent hackers from getting HD streams to share, please lay off the pipe).
I can understand when news agencies might disagree with each other about the facts of a situation, but it always amazes me when news agencies can't even keep things straight within their own organization.
Take the front page of CNN right now. It claims that Grandpa Munster, who died recently, was both 82 years old and 83 years old.
Now, seriously, how the hell does that kind of lax fact-checking happen?
