Epitaph One

So, what could possibly go wrong? Oh.
“Epitaph One”, the unaired, so-called “thirteenth” (it was really the fourteenth), “lost” (I think Joss pretty much knew where it was) episode of Dollhouse, has, you will be shocked and astounded to learn, been somewhat overhyped. In other words, not the greatest hour of television ever made by anyone [...]

DHDVD

So Amazon tells me the Dollhouse Season 1 DVDs I preordered are on their way. Excellent! I’m eagerly anticipating “Epitaph One”, the so-called 13th episode (really 14th, counting the scrapped pilot which also is on the DVD set) which was not broadcast. Apparently it really brought the house down at ComicCon.
Word to those who didn’t [...]

Welcome to the future

We don’t have cable TV, and we don’t have an antenna that works acceptably. No hardship, we haven’t had either since 2003 and we’re doing fine, but I sort of assumed we’d have one or the other by now. Now I’m not so sure we’ll ever bother. Online video has a long way to go [...]

Cheap thrills, and not so much

Ah, the spending. The economic stimulus. The prelude to yet another chorus of why the hell do we have so much stuff?
I mentioned the new TV. I didn’t mention the dishwasher. Well, I may have mentioned it a little, but I think I got away with it. Let’s see, how many dishwashers have I owned? [...]

Pasture

This is a Commodore 64 video monitor.

I bought it around 1985 and used it with my C=64 for a couple years.
Somewhere around 1988 I bought my first VCR and hooked it up to this, since I didn’t own a TV.
I’ve owned three VCRs. I’ve owned three DVD players — not counting the DVD drives in [...]

Or maybe not

I signed up to bring bread to the band dinner. Sunday night I fed the sourdough starter. Monday it was not looking especially lively, though not dead either. Monday night I made up bread dough with the starter and some yeast…
And it didn’t rise.
Tuesday morning I stopped in at Columbus Bakery and bought two loaves [...]

Conspiracy

Heather and I have been watching Stargate. Never having seen SG-1 on TV, we started borrowing the DVDs from the local library system, and more recently from Heather’s mom.
We missed a bit of Season 1, though. The Syracuse central library has Stargate SG-1, Season 1, disks 1, 3, 4, and 5, but not [...]