Getting ready for a trip out west by cleaning up and doing some laundry, while watching the Cavs season opener and poking around the internet. I came across a video movie review of A Perfect World, a Clint Eastwood movie from the early 90s. I was surprised to see the review give it really high [...]
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Article in Silcon Alley Insider talking about “An interesting argument by Paul Sweeting on Content Agenda: Blu-ray needs to stop pretending it’s a revolutionary new format like DVD and start acting like what it is…a minor quality improvement that consumers won’t pay any more for. The first order of Blu-ray business for 2009 is an [...]
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I might not have mentioned the Wire on here in a long time, probably haven’t thought about it as often as I used to. So it came as a bit of a surprise a week or two ago I got a late night phone call from a friend of mine, who after having just a [...]
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So if you read the title you probably don’t have a clue what I am talking about here. Two things, one is I recently changed my cable provider from Wide Open West (WOW) the budget competitor to Time Warner here in Columbus (and other Midwest cities) back to Time Warner Cable (TWC), who despite having [...]
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jan. 17, 1961. Somehow I missed out [...]
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The new and final season of The Wire (its fifth) is in full swing already (one episode down, nine to go – although you can watch a week early on HBO inDemand so I am two weeks in). Much has been written on the new season (for those who follow the show that is) by [...]
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I had not heard of V for Vendetta until recently, but since first hearing about it, it seems to be coming up in multiple contexts, first as coming from the Matrix creators, second I heard it mentioned in my IP class for an actor leaving during filming and being replaced by Hugo Weaving, and most [...]
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