Netflix on XBox: The Bane of My Existence

Thanks to the view it now thing that I couldn’t partake in for so very long because I have a Mac, I’m now hooked on Doctor Who. So much so that I couldn’t wait for Series 4 to be put out on Netflix, and I went to BT it. I’ve now got the entire series 4, plus the 2007 and 2008 Christmas Specials waiting on my Passport HD for me to finish with Series 3.

The end of Series 2 was so great. I was actually crying at the end. I didn’t expect myself to get so emotionally caught up in the show. DAMN YOU BBC!

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I bought a vidja camra

I might be tempted to post videos here, when I figure out how to do that sort of thing. It’s a Kodak Zi6. Like a Flip Mino, but it records in 720p HD. Pretty schweet.

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Burning a hole in my pocket

Wow, I haven’t been on here in ages.

So, I won $150 bucks in bonuses at work the other day. Basically for working my ass off in the month of October and for picking up on posting copy to the paper’s Web site as quickly as I did.

I used some of that to pick up my weekly fix (comics). $40 dollar day today. Haven’t had one of those days in quite some time. That tells me that I need to slim down my pull file. Or stretch it out better every week. Or stop going “Oooh, look at that…I’ll take one of those!”

Plus, I’m pawning off my old iPod on my boss. 30 gig video iPod, 2 cases and the FM tuner, for $150. I think that’s fair, since it’s almost a year and a half old and I paid $250 for it.

Think I’m finally going to buy that dock for my iPhone. Tired of just hooking up the wire when I get home.

Can’t wait to get home for Christmas. Three more days.

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The trailer for Joss Whedon’s “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog,” starring NPH as the titular Dr. Horrible, Nathan Fillion as his heroic nemesis Captain Hammer, and Felicia Day. Looks like it’ll be interesting, to say the least.

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Nobody Likes Onions

tristanjay7:

In honor of their current donation drive, I’d like to post my favorite comedy podcast. I appreciate its edgy, decidedly un-PC comedy. Though it’s superficially crass at times, I personally find it intellectually rewarding (the hosts are skeptical pragmatists). Plus, I can’t stop myself from using Net Sassy in everyday conversation now.
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I hate being a member of Columbia House DVD Club

They don’t communicate properly when they sell you one of their “Director Selections” and I can’t reject them in time.

Because of this, I have Bee Movie and Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Alvin had its moments, but overall I feel dumber for actually watching the whole thing.

Oh, and I have Internet back now! Yay!

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I should have said this Saturday, but alas, no Internet at home…

Go see Speed Racer! There is no reason Ashton Kutcher’s and Cameron Diaz’s crapfest What Happens in Vegas should have beaten it in the box office.

I can only surmize that a majority of people bought into the pre-hype “It looks too much like F-Zero and I may need to take drugs to get it” or “It’s a kiddie-movie because it’s PG” crap.

I saw Speed Racer. I loved it. True, there was some heavy-handedness in the whole anti-corporation stuff, but that’s not the movie. The colors were vibrant, the cast was excellent and the mix of drama, comedy and adventure was perfect.

It’s great when a movie doesn’t take itself so seriously and that’s what you get with Speed Racer. The Wachowski’s have redeemed themselves somewhat in my eyes after the Matrix Trilogy.

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Work is boring. There’s only so much I can do on the Internet here without getting in trouble.

I’m thinking of going ahead and getting internet w/o satellite hooked up early, so I have something to do besides read and burn through my TV DVDs and play my rented copy of GTA IV.

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I wouldn’t wish Chocolate Mix Skittles on my worst enemy.

Truly an awful invention.

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I didn't get my comics yesterday...

…and I’m blaming the shitheel owner of Texas Toyz for that.

As I go to my store, Collector’s Planet (one of three in the city), I’m told by the owner that I won’t be able to get my books until today. I’m okay with that, but the circumstances behind why really irk me.

Turns out that the UPS driver is a dipshit and can’t read “Collector’s Planet” on a shipment of comics and other items, so he goes to Texas Toyz, the better known of the three stores in town. Without missing a beat, Dean, the owner of the store and grade-A douche, proceeds to not only open the shipment, but to put the items in his stock and sell them.

For those of you keeping track at home, that’s two major crimes. Opening another person’s mail or package = federal offense. Taking another person’s property upwards or more than $1,000 in value = larceny.

David (the owner of Collector’s Planet) is getting the FBI involved. I hope that Dean gets what is coming to him.

That guy has a history of dick moves, one involving last year’s Captain America #25, in which Steve Rogers was assassinated. He took people’s guaranteed pullbox copies, lied about being shorted on supply and then turned around and sold the issues at an insane markup. That’s criminal.

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