Synoptic Precis Summary Thing
1) Battlestar Galactica season finale : Very good! Clarified some things, opened new boxes, shot a commander.
2) Doctor Who, second episode: Very nice. Excellent story, very Who-y. Spot on Michael Jackson reference.
3) Sunday dinner at Reid and Luisa’s. Mmmm. Barbecue. Reid thinks Commander Adama’s first name should be Lorne. I agree. Ronnie can play Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious on the piano. I can’t even spell it. Can’t spell Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis either. Betcha Ronnie can’t play it. =;]
4) Corner Gas episodes: baseball, corn, Brent broke. Larf and a harf!
5) CNN, the Catholic News Network: felt guilty for hoping something ‘newsworthy’ would happen in the US to get the Pope funeral coverage off the air (”Yes, Miles, I can confirm our source inside the conclave, if you will, tells us the Pope is still dead, I say the Pope is still dead. Miles?”) Then Charles and Camilla got married. CNN replayed both events in their entirety. WTF? Oh, and Lou Dobbs is an opportunistic racist and Nancy Grace is trash.
April 13th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Hey, you didn’t tell me Dr. Who was in High Defintion! It looked fabulous!
April 15th, 2005 at 8:18 am
My TV is old and crappy and it looked good. It’s only been two episodes but I might be hooked.
Do you watch Battlestar Galactica and if so, in HD?
April 20th, 2005 at 9:17 am
I have permanently programmed Dr. Who into my PVR, which is good, since I only got home after 8:30 last night after doing my usual chasing around, and besides, if I delay like that, I can skip the commercials and play the Dr. Who theme 5 times. Jennifer started to get into it, “Oh look at those cool computer graphics they made the ghosts out of!”. The little one sort of got into it… “Mama, look, Spooks!”. I then taught her the traditional Dr. Who technique of hiding behind the sofa when the spooks come out.
Was it just me, or did Rose & the Doctor look like they’d just had a rough and tumble good time coming out of the Tardis the first time last night?
No, we don’t have much free time as it is, I’m about 15 movies behind in my “to watch pile” so no Battlestar Galactica (no reason for that, I’ve never seen a single episode)
April 22nd, 2005 at 10:14 am
I did a little research on the Dr. Who image. Apparently it is a 16:9 PAL image converted to HD. Which means it looks great, but is not truly HD (about 50% of the resolution of the typical 1368×768 “almost HD” HDTVs they sell). But where did they get the 1024×768 screen captures that I am using as wall paper on my computer then? I bought a $20 Dr. Who mag. last night, and it didn’t have the technical poop on the image. Sigh. There were episode summaries — next week’s is supposed to be heavy on FX.
May 6th, 2005 at 11:51 pm
Why Humans Are Better Than Cylons
Why Humans Are Better Than Cylons 1) Humans don’t all make a religion of sitting around telling themselves how much better they are than Cylons