Month: April 2006

Scott will love this…

… he’s a big fan of classic horror flicks.

Comcast Corp. and Sony Corp will launch a horror films on-demand cable, Internet and wireless network on Halloween this year, an executive at the top U.S. cable operator said on Sunday.

Movies for the yet-to-be named network, which will debut on October 31 and expand Comcast’s programing lineup, come from more than a thousand horror titles in the Sony and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer libraries.

Me … not so much. That’s OK though. One thing we’ve learned over the years together is that although we have a lot in common, some things we’re never going to get the other person to like.

He’s still getting mileage out of the time I got him to sit through The Piano. And I can counter with having had to sit through Species.

At least we agree that Big Trouble in Little China kicks ass!

Teh Cute!

Well, this isn’t quite the post I had in mind when I promised a few new ones, but our pal Dragoncaller has posted some cute pix of his ferret Brutus.

Spotty Blogging

I know, my blogging quantity and quality have both really slipped the past few weeks. The semester has entered its busy zone, the unending rain has had me down, and we’re going home for Passover, which has added to the chore list considerably.

I’ll try to get two or three decent ones up before we leave for New York, though.

Atrios Nailed It

What he said:

There are well established processes for declassifying information which, in part, involve running the documents by people who supposedly should know whether revealing the information could harm national security or harm intelligence assets or whatever. So, whatever legal right the president has to declassify information at will is separate from the issue of whether any competent president would go about doing such a thing.

Whatever the legal issues, the president bypassed normal declassification procedures – put in place to ensure that revealing information does not threaten national security – in order to wage a political battle. Whether strictly legal or not, it’s an act of a man who puts himself above the country. For shame.

I Am So Over This Rain

Since my last post on the issue of how freaking much it has rained here in the Bay Area, it’s rained pretty much every day since. If this is what Seattle is like (I wouldn’t know, on my one trip to Seattle back in 2000, the weather was perfect the entire time), you can keep it.

I’m sick of it. I’m tired and cranky and generally unmotivated.

Some of this could be just regular second-half-of-the-semester workload issues combined with the job, but the weather definitely isn’t helping my mood any.