Did you know (before you googled it, you cheater!) which TV duo of the 1960s were McBricker and Slaghoople before they got married?

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I've been avoiding Amazon.com's "Unbox Video Download" because the terms of use on a PC, last time I checked, were fairly heinous. But now they've got their service hooked up to TiVo, so you don't have to authorize Amazon.com to do anything to your PC -- you can just let them upload movies and TV episodes to your TiVo series 2 or 3.

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Or, in other words, j'y suis et j'y reste. The three of us agreed to sign a 7-month lease. Guildenstern will soon be living in Gainesville with a friend of ours, and we're treating Pied's 'rodent ulcer' so that she's adoptable.

I've recently listened to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999 Broadway Revival Cast)
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Jodi's out with some friends tonight, and despite her recent suspicion about the GRE, she says she's okay at the moment.  I read her parts of the first three comments, and she seems cheered by some of them.

I'm going to bed soon so that I've got a halfway decent chance of getting enough sleep to do some coding tomorrow.  Yesterday I got about five ( Read more... )

( Surprise, surprise, surprise. Here comes the science. )

The banner on the SciFi Serenity special -- the one that made Joss Whedon look abashed and blush happily -- said 生 日 快 乐 (shēng rì kuài lè), "happy birthday".

I couldn't have done it without zhongwen.com. The trickiest bit was realizing that 乐 is the Simplified Chinese version of 樂.

Fairway Oaks Apartments, where we live, has a slightly different cable lineup than Standard Cable for Hillsborough County. I tried to get Bright House to fax me a modified lineup, but they said they don't fax lineups. They did confirm that Showtime, C-SPAN and TV Guide have gotten moved around ( Read more... )