After HD TV, it's hard to go back. I have a really nice 32 inch Wega that I loved when I first got out of college. It was my first big purchase. I dropped over $1000 on it and it was totally worth it. Now it sits upstairs, mostly unused. I've moved on to bigger and better things.
I mean, I've always loved a good PBS/Nature/Science special, but with the magic of HD, it makes images on the screen seem breathtakingly vivid.
I just plopped on the TV and lost an hour watching a special on the Smithsonian Channel in HD. The special was about the search for giant anacondas. Like 25+ feet long. Of course the snakes looked huge, scale-y, and alive.
Of course, this kind of backfires when watching the Food Channel in HD. It's so hard to not feel hungry when faced with the sumptuous feasts that they produce in decadence.
BBC announced the 11th Doctor this week. I have seen Matt Smith in action when I watched The Ruby In Smoke featuring Billie Piper, so he isn't totally unfamiliar, but I think my voice is just one of thousands who that are whispering, "He's so young!"
At 26, Mr. Smith is the youngest Doctor ever.
Of course we have to wait until 2010 (or as I like to think of it, THE FUTURE!!), till we see him pilot the TARDIS.
His name was not amongst any of the actors the British betting books were touting. We just have to wait and see what he's going to do with the role.
As to my Doctor Who fanfiction featuring 10, I'm afraid I've been at time sick and busy. It's all in waves, really. Two more chapters are written, but must be polished. I apologize for those who are waiting. I suck. Oh! But I got Series 4 on DVD for Christmas. Am happily rewatching it. Hm, I guess I could use the time to actually write. Hm, I really do suck. Sowwry.
I just installed Flock on my laptop. It took a while since my thinkpad is running Ubuntu... I looked at a couple of tutorials to see how to install it, but none of them were working. Thankfully, someone pointed me to GetDeb.net. Someone created a deb installer for it. It installs it very neatly. Truthfully, it's a bit overwhelming to see everything from my twitter, facebook, flickr, picasa, etc, all in one place. But this is a test of the blog post system. It's intergrated into the browser and supports several types of blog software. Let me push publish and take a look at how it turns out.
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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