Wasting the weekend away...

09.08.2003

I found two things that I spent way too much time on over the weekend. The first was some optical illusions from a site in Japan. Not magical type illusions, just tricks your eyes play on you. The other was a Shockwave Lego game that I ended up playing until midnight last night. It's worse than crack, I tell ya!




Lacking Movies

09.03.2003

I collect DVDs. It's my hobby. Well, one of my hobbies. I've reached one of those times of the year, nestled between the end of summer and the start of Thanksgiving/X-mas, when the movie offerings start to dry up.

Tuesday is new movie release day (in case you didn't know). You can go to your local video outlet and rent new releases, or if you're like me you can trot down to Best Buy and pick up what's new. The only problem now - no new movies. Right now Amazon lists 10 new releases for this week. Five of those are season X for various tv shows. 3 of them are old movies from 15+ years ago. The only true new release is a John Cusack movie.

I think the production of seasons worth of episodes for a tv series may be a good idea for some shows. Your sci-fi series have the true hard core following, so they're usually good to produce (I'm getting Babylon 5 and Highlander series now). Some series don't need to be released on DVD. CSI, great show. Watch it when it's got new episodes. Once you know whodunnit and how, what's the point? Want to go even further? Saved By The Bell Seasons 1 & 2. I was hooked on Saved By The Bell for a while, but it comes on like 4 times a day! Almost as much as Home Imporvement.

But surely there's got to be something new coming out that's worthwhile. Somewhere. Some time.




Reformed Trekking

09.02.2003

I've often called myself a reformed trekker. I used to be a big Star Trek nerd, but I don't claim it anymore. I got burned out by the 6th season of TNG, but I still have a soft spot for the original and next generation episodes (but everything after I pretty well skipped).

Part of my holiday weekend was spent in front of the tv watching a TNG marathon on Spike "we're not TNN anymore" TV. I probably caught bits and pieces of 5 or 6 episodes throughout the day. One in particular caught my eye: Emergence , in which the Enterprise is infected with a lifeform trying to give birth to itself,but the only clues lie in holodeck programs merged together. About halfway through I remembered watching it the first time, and many old memories flashed back:

Yet still I watched. At least until they made it to New Verteform City. Yee Haw!




Quirky News

08.29.2003

Ebay falsely stops an auctioneer from selling highway sign replicas. I've seen the guy advertise on Fark for a couple of months, so it was a surprise to see something I had seen before pop up in totally unrelated news!




Mowers

08.28.2003

I found out that my excitement with the leaking lawn mower gas tank isn't localized to just me. Murray has issued a recall of over 90,000 mowers dues to 950 reports of leaking tanks. What does this mean to me? Well, first of all it should be getting fixed for free! Second of all, there's now a shortage of the damn tanks, so there's no telling when it'll get fixed!

Meanwhile, the grass still grows.....




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