On the Colbert Report two days ago:


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Took kids to ice cream to celebrate the end of school. They were properly appreciative. I took my last mid-day nap of the summer before they arrived home. I was properly appreciative.

Meanwhile, last night this happened:

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Some space fabric for your morning ( Read more... )

Mythbusters Behind the Myths Tour was great. Not a lot of myths, but a lot of process and stories and things. Definitely worth the $65 ticket price, and I wish we had heard about it before the meet-them tickets had sold out. Kids were THRILLED. Jaime went looking for audience participation and was 10' from us at one point - they were high-speed ( Read more... )

Karen is selling an industrial kitchen pressure cooker to a new client today, so I reminded her about MythBusters: Season 5, Episode 20 "Exploding Water Heater" which is a similar sort of critter ( Read more... )

As we've been watching B5, I've tried very hard not to pre-discuss things that come up. As an example, when the Night Watch presentation was made, all I asked A. was if he'd join the Night Watch for an extra $50 a week (or whatever it was.) He thought it was a pretty good deal ( Read more... )

Originally posted by wilwheaton at Discovery Channel Owes Its Viewers An Apology

http://wilwheaton.net/2013/08/discovery-channel-owes-its-viewers-an-apology/

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I love Shark Week, and every year since it started airing on Discovery Channel, I’ve planted myself in front of the television to watch every minute of it.

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The last major sentences from the kids before they settled down to watch, and then demanded another episode ( Read more... )

I've watched the four installments over the past week at the HBO site, and it's very well done; I'm in the process of watching them again with the kids. The Weight of the Nation presents the issue without any of the finger-pointing that is so common to discussions in the public sphere about obesity. It discusses root causes in society and mass ( Read more... )

The show is as old as I am, but I always liked it, so I have a disk from Netflix, and the kids and I have been watching it ( Read more... )