Dear Triangle Time Warner Cable,

Thank you so much for still not providing the SciFi channel (and thus the Battlestar Galactica premier) in HD. Of course, why would I want to watch Battlestar in HD when I could be watching Sell This House on HGTV instead?

Thanks,
-Dave

P.S. Please DIAF.

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Or not. Per the article it's not as if I could really know for sure.

Have any of you folks out there who were suckered caught up by the diamond thing for your weddings seen the DeBeers Class Action page? I usually just ignore class action suits, but I've actually read about people getting a good response from this one. It's very hard to get over the feeling that it's one level below a scam to make money for some law firm.

I haven't had a chance to really read up on his site, but this guy is pretty much guaranteed his pick of jobs after completing his PhD. This is so rad.



His site

Has anyone actually read an article on Forbes.com and found the automatic slideshow to be helpful? "Thank you automatic slideshow! How ever would I have progressed to the next picture without you?"

<mild happiness>Yay, now I only have to worry about one format becoming obsolete.</>

I love the fact that the HD-DVD entry on Wikipedia has already started having the battles over "was" vs. "is" in the writeup. Sounds familiar.

Woohoo! Google has finally added Street View for the Triangle. With our upcoming house hunting, it couldn't come at a better time. Now I can easily see if a neighborhood has been stripped of trees by the developer and mark it off our list.

From the images of my house it looks like it was done sometime in the fall, though I know that it might have taken months to do the entire region. I haven't had a chance to find anything interesting yet other than the fact that my lawn looks like crap in their pictures.

I'm not sure what it is lately with all of the end of the world stories out there, but I finally got around to watching The History Channel's Life After People over the past couple of days. I have to say that I wasn't that impressed overall. The interviews with the various experts in biology, structural engineering and the like were well done, but the computer animation and overly dramatic narration really took away from what could have been a neat show. Also, you can really tell which animated scenes they spent their money on (hint: it wasn't the scenes involving animals roaming through deserted cities).

That said, it did certainly dovetail nicely with my current reading, Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. I've found it to be far more depressing than anything in the History Channel's show. For me it's not so much an issue of "how sad, all humans are dead" or anything involving the abandoned planet, but rather the implications parts of the book have on the world right now. Reading about the sea of plastic debris and how long it will take to degrade (nobody really knows at this point) as well as all the various metals that are now cover the Earth is kind of a downer.

Speaking of metals in the atmosphere and soil, the book did remind me of one of my favorite Wikipedia finds. It turns out that one man, Thomas Midgley, Jr., was primarily responsible for developments that would lead to both the addition of tetra-ethyl lead to gasoline and the widespread use of CFCs. The Wikipedia article contains this quote regarding his contribution: "(Midgley) had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth history." That's quite a legacy.

Current Music: Bad Religion - Pessimistic Lines

Or whatever you may celebrate. Or not. That's cool too.

Yeah, so having a kid has taken my LJ posting from almost-never to no-really-never-I-mean-it. Everything's been going really well, but it's amazing how much it takes out of you. Christopher has been doing great and seems to be getting close to crawling. Now if he'd just sleep through the night we'd be good. Anyway, my first post in a while isn't going to be a long one, so I'll leave you a cute pic.