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The between-season TV drought is ending, not that I miss watching TV regularly much. A few of the things coming on that I think friends are interested in:

“Weeds” returns tonight on Showtime, and this year it’s paired with “Nurse Jackie”, which looks interesting although isn’t getting great reviews

There’s no new season of “Top Chef” this summer; we’re getting “Top Chef Masters” (starting on Wednesday June 10th) instead, which is “Top Chef” with established chefs (some of whom have been judges on the regular show) and a different team. Read the rest of this entry »

Um, excuse me, but when did it start?

[From CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Steele: GOP must focus on conservative principles « - Blogs from CNN.com]

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…a new project.

For some reason when I’m away from home and sitting in a hotel, I often really want to code.

I enjoy the initial act of creating something much more than I enjoy the act of completing and deploying it. This has been the case pretty much since I started creating things. There’s a thrill for me in the initial exploration of an idea, the initial design of a piece of software or web site, and in learning how to use new tools or pieces of software to build the thing that I want to build.

I lose interest when it comes to polishing it and deploying it, though.

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Not having read any spoilers, I predict that they set off the nuke and that the entire cast is propelled 150,000 years into the past where they become the progenitors of humanity… wait, sorry, wrong show.

Just a footnote about the tax protests: the conservative group behind them has associated the name ‘Tea’ with them, and some people are referring to the protests as teabagging, which – if you don’t know what it means already – you might take a moment to check out, because it’s hilarious.

Even better is the Rachel Maddow report on it that Adam showed me:

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There are tax protests going on today, because the government is spending a god-awful amount of money – more god-awful than usual. Or maybe they’re because a group of people who are accustomed to getting their way aren’t getting their way after 8 years. I’m not going to defend or attack what our government is doing at this point, but there is a sentiment going around these tax protests that I feel the need to say something about.

“You can’t spend your way out of debt”

Really? REALLY? Because last I checked, that’s exactly how most companies operated – most companies, at the start, have no cash flow and require a loan or investment – which they spend – in order to keep going until they can build up cash flow and start making money. If that cannot work then I guess we haven’t had any successful businesses in the last couple of hundred years.
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NBC’s new show ‘Kings’ has intrigued me… the biggest selling points of it for me are that it stars Ian McShane (Al Swearengen from ‘Deadwood’)… we spent part of the weekend trying to explain the appeal and charm of Al Swearengen to someone, and likely failed.

The show is an alternate-universe modern retelling of the biblical story of David (replete with Goliath tanks). While I don’t have much need in my life for retellings of bible stories, the pieces fell together to make this one look interesting to me.

The show has received critical acclaim while, unfortunately, not many people seem to have watched the premiere. It’s still sitting on our DVR as we haven’t had a chance to watch it yet either, but I’m looking forward to some high quality Ian McShane time, even if it will be weird that he’s not swearing up a storm. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this:

It sounds ominous. If I don’t sign in are they going to close The Nugget?

Apple’s first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of some modules along with Perl. It looks like Perl works okay for things that MacOS X uses it for, but if you do development using it or have installed other modules than what it came bundled with you may find that it no longer works.
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Do you ever turn on the television and think “Oh my, why hasn’t Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom?”

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