...listen to almost all the songs the Weather Network has ever used
My first, second, third and fourth favourite songs have no-embed settings on them, so I posted my fifth favourite.
I don't care if it's for ladies' wear, it's still awesome
Mind the quality
Viva Laughlin, a show I said I would watch this season, got cancelled after two broadcasts, and I haven't even seen a single episode.
The shows ran on Thursday and Sunday, and I recorded both episodes off the DVR, but haven't gotten around to watching them yet. I think I'll just get rid of them now.
In hindsight, I should have paid attention to the warning signs. A murder-mystery-musical starring Hugh Jackman. Those are four things I don't think should have been put together.
The good news is, The Amazing Race 12 is being premiered earlier now, the first episode will show on November 4, rather than in January.
Today, CBS replayed Bob Barker's final episode of The Price is Right, thus marking the end, and beginning, of an era in the daytime game show universe
Monday, Drew Carey takes over the show, and this is an exclusive clip of one of the early episodes of the upcoming season
That money might buy a steaming of the Plinko prop.
This is officially the coolest show on television.
And it's on PBS. How about that.
You know, someone told me the only people who watch PBS "are 97 and watching the IVs run out in their hospital beds". Well that guy just lost his invite to my big birthday party three years from now.
Can someone call the nurse for me?
From insidethecbc.com
I'm smilin'
At the CBC Headquarters in Toronto, ON
Visitor is in one of the elevators. Clearly, he’s lost. Nearly every floor button is pushed. A CBC staffer gets on and rides one floor down.
Visitor: How do you get out of this building?
CBC staffer: You can’t.
Visitor: Huh?
(door opens, CBCer walks out saying): It’s how we get funding. We hold visitors for ransom. Have a nice day.”
The visitor doesn’t smile.
Sorry I haven't updated this weekend, I was pretty much glued to my chair watching television.
Last Thursday, I got the SaskTel Max DTVR and a new box, a $10.00/month rental, and I must say it is paying for itself so far. The recording functionality is working great, I already have my favourite shows queued up on it, but I still have to get used to the fact I can pause and rewind actual television.
One of my favourite features so far is the replay button, where you can skip back 10 seconds on a live or recorded program. I was watching the Sunday Night Football game (Patriots and Chargers), and early in the fourth quarter, the Chargers made a touchdown pass, even though the receiver (Antonio Gates) went out of bounds before the line. I hit replay, and found that the ball crossed the line when Gates reached forward with his hand just as he was going down. The Chargers still lost 38-14.
Another good feature is the picture-in-guide. Before, when I hit the guide button, the sound and picture shut off as the guide took up the full screen. Now, when I call up the guide, the current channel shows in a window on the top right corner of the screen, thus ensuring you don't miss anything, and you can still rewind the show when you go back, as long as you don't change the channel.
But, it has it's bad spots too. Not too often, the recordings start a few minutes late, or not at all. You have a choice of giving extra time to the recording, but it's in 15-minute intervals, and I would prefer it to be one minute at a time, and if I had HD (the box takes HD as long as you have it, by the way), I can't tune to another channel if I am recording something in High Definition, as there is only room for one HD stream into the home.
Sure, I've been talking about SaskTel a lot lately. I am not being paid by them, nor am I an employee of them. I am just a common customer in good standing, but I seriously recommend this to anyone who is able to get it.
Now another topic. I think in football, the ball and the man must cross the line together to count a touchdown. Discuss.
Yeah. I'm lameThe new fall TV season is finally upon us, a time that I look forward to every year, when new shows start, and new episodes of my favourite shows that weren't cancelled in the season previous begin. And I am happy to say this year, it's going to be much easier, because today, SaskTel finally, FINALLY!, released their new Digital TV Recorder for Max, which they announced they would do more than a year ago. In the meantime, I bought six VHS tapes in bulk, one for each day of the week except for Saturday (hockey's the only thing on that night, and even though I am a fan, I don't tape games), and taped my shows accordingly, so I could enjoy the nightlife, or work, and watch the shows again over the weekends or during the day. I won't get the updated set-top box with the recorder (yeah, I'm gonna get it. Just called SaskTel tonight.) until between 8:00am and 12:00noon September 13, but even then it will be just before the networks start their seasons.
Last time, I planned my TV schedule, watching or taping at least one show each night. That stuck pretty well, so I am doing it again. Here's how it looks (shows in bold are new, all times are my local time).
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Sunday:
Basically, it will change sometime if a new show gets cancelled and when the time change comes in place in November, moving the shows on the non-local stations to an hour later (Saskatchewan doesn't follow DST). So I'll check back on it in around that time.
Heard - Sportsnet Connected with Mike Toth and David Bastl on Saturday. I gotta watch that show more. But in all fairness, Sportscentre was around longer
Read - A blunt message for Current President Bush, immortallized forever on Google Earth (it's near Dover, MA by the way)
Seen - In an attempt to stay up on Saturday afternoon, I watched season one of How I Met Your Mother. Easily, the best scene of that season...
Game highlight film from the CFLs YouTube Channel
For the first time since 1976, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have a 6-2 record, and are now statistically the best team in the Canadian Football League. And it took a very wild and eventful contest against the Edmonton Eskimos on Saturday night to earn that distinction. The game was played during, DURING, a thunderstorm. Heavy rain, lightning, and a power failure at the stadium caused a 55-minute weather delay in the 4th Quarter with the Riders trailing 32-27. When play resumed, the Riders scored a field goal and a touchdown to win the game in front of several thousand brave fans at Mosaic Stadium
I didn't go to the game, and a early morning kept me from watching all of it, and let me say, I will regret it for the rest of my life. But many other people did and they all have their opinions, especially about CBC (the channel that telecast the game, and I remind, are on their final year of the national CFL contract), who didn't return to the game in all areas of the country but Saskatchewan (the blackout was lifted) after the delay ended.
Rod Pedersen (of course he was at the game, he's the radio voice of the Riders)
News Talk Radio's Green Zone had a whole bunch of audio interviews about the game and the delay, especially with Rider CEO and President, Jim Hopson, who said they were very close to calling the game.
Globesports.com had a press release from the CBC about their handling of the game broadcast
Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy was at the game, with a camcorder that recorded the very moment the power failure hit the stadium, and in a move that now puts his blog on my Links that I Like, posted the video.
Jon Keen, newsroom colleague, took time out of his impressive coverage of Bronco Training Camp to give a tip of the hat to the Riders, and a wag of the finger to the CBC
James Whittingham, one half of Cable Regina's James and Kevin Show, showed his displeasure to CBC HD's coverage
The Leader-Post, who put a photo that even Joe Rosenthal would be envious of, on the front page of today's paper
USA Today, yes, that USA Today, had a story about CBC showing Nick Nolte's The Good Thief instead of the end of the football game and compared it to the infamous Heidi Game
And speaking of the Heidi Game, the CBC will forever be publicly connected to it by Wikipedia
My Current TV Throughout the last few months, I have been under pressure to get a new HDTV.
When I went to SaskTel to pay my phone bill a few days ago, their store replaced their old Max standard-def TV that was always on Galaxie to a big-screen flat-panel HDTV, always on Galaxie. They also put two HDTVs, one on top of another, facing the window into the mall.
When I go to Wal-Mart, on all of their TVs, HD or not, they show a demo tape of Bell Expressvu's High Definition programming.
When I went to my Co-op store, all of the big-screen (and even small-screen) TVs show The Weather Network. It's not in HD, but it still looks all right.
Those are pretty much enough for anyone to pick up a new television at the very next opportunity. But not me. I am not planning to upgarde, nor do I think I will anytime soon.
Here are my reasons:
If you think I should get one anyway, I invite you to tell me where I can find a really good TV for less than $750, or give me tips on winning the lottery, then I'll consider it.
UPDATED Aug 24: I found one. There's a 32" RCA TV at Wal-Mart for just under $700. I haven't bought it, but I know it's there
Sticking with the tragic news of Merv Griffin's passing, TMZ.com posted this photo.
A lot of people are saying in the TMZ blog's comments and other websites that the photo is in poor taste and should be removed.
I have to disagree. Sure, on the surface, a picture that displays Vanna White applauding a puzzle that may or may not say "Merv Griffin Died Today" may come off as classless, but I think this is what Merv, a man known for his sense of humour, would have enjoyed. As for Vanna applauding, that's what she does for most of Wheel of Fortune. Applaud. And this applause would be to thank him for everything he has contributed to entertainment through his life. That, and it's nearly impossible to find a picture of her in anything less than a good mood
If you're asking them to remove this picture, why not ask them to take off some of the other pictures on that website?
What do you think?
Merv Griffin, entertainer and multimillionaire, died yesterday of Prostate Cancer at age 82. He's the gentleman who created Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and hosted his Merv Griffin Show for almost 25 years.
His biggest fan, of course, Cosmo Kramer
Rest in Peace, Merv
Heard - Richard Crouse, CTV Canada AM's movie critic, just reviewed Daddy Day Camp. Well, actually he didn't. Instead, he gave a list of things more enjoyable than watching Daddy Day Camp
1. Cutting an apple in half and watching it turn brown.He actually gave it some credit in the fact it's not Rush Hour 3
2. Watching colonoscopy videos.
3. Poking sharp sticks in your eyes.
4. Eating bugs.
5. Latrine duty.
I wish I wasn't working last night, because I missed a lot of good stuff on live events, that I never bother taping. Barry Bonds hit #756, there were two bench clearing brawls during the Jays-Yankees game, and Ben Mulroney went on a straight-up rant after Greg Neufeld got eliminated from Canadian Idol
Here's what he said (transcript from ctv.ca)...
"I don't know what to say,... No, that's not true. I do know what to say. Canada got this wrong. I don't care if I'm not supposed to say that. Canada got this wrong. Anyone watching our show should know. If they don't know, I'm telling them. You are a bona fide star. I hope to God that you benefiited as much from being on this show as we benefitted from having you. If that turns out to be the case, your future is absolutely limitless."
We are exactly one year away from the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, China.
NBC is already billing its coverage
Despite China being a full 12-hours ahead of the East Coast, globesports.com says NBC will air more than 3600 hours of coverage over multiple networks, and online through broadband video, a good portion of it being live.
Despite all that, I think CBC will show them up. Almost all of their coverage will be live, especially overnight, and they have been doing it that way for years.
