SchizoSummer

Look, I can deal with highs of 88° Fahrenheit and I can deal with predicted highs of 62° Fahrenheit. But they should be more than 48 hours apart. This spring/summer/what-the-hell-are-we-doing-today is screwed. Help me Obi-Gore, you're my only hope. (And no, that was not a move for a "Draft Gore" movement. If you were Gore and you were where he was, on an issue you'd cared about for dozens of years would you quit to see if the US electoral system can kick you in the balls again? Yeah, if he was willing to do it then I wouldn't want him. There's a HHTTG reference in here, JP you should read those books someday.)
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Heroes on Blu-Ray!

And lo, my resistance to Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD has been rewarded:
Marking the rollout of the studio's first global release on Blu-ray(TM) will be the "Heroes: Season Two," which will debut beginning August 26, 2008. The highly anticipated premier of the sophomore season of NBC's "Heroes" will be buoyed by the simultaneous debut of "Heroes Season One" on Blu-ray(TM).
From thedigitalbits.com (I don't think that's a permalink, the site seems strange about that. Look for the "early update 4/17/08") Heroes season 2 wavered a little but in the (foreshortened by strike) end it was still pretty good television. And season one was the best show of last season, in my opinion. I almost bought Heroes S01 on HD-DVD several times, and the only holdup was that I could see HD-DVD wasn't the future. Heroes S01 on Blu-Ray? Oh yes please. Now I just need something that will rip Blu-Ray to my iPhone. Notice to hardware vendors: I'll buy a Blu-Ray drive for TinyGod as soon as this happens. For reals.
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More on the combo feed

OK, during some emails with Bwana I realized the combo feed wasn't broken the same way I thought it was and then I got intrigued enough to mess with it, so now it is fixed up. There's still a problem in that when a comment is posted neither the comment nor the combo feed update until I make another post. I'm not quite sure why yet. But the combo feed works as well as the separate comment-only feed does, and I'm going to call that good enough for today. Anyway, this is the combo feed URL: /~tsanders/wp-rss2+comments.php Apologies for the mayhem!
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Consoles are just dust in the wind

I twittered about this but I realized I wanted to write something more permanent in my blog. Saturday Xbox 360 #3 died - froze playing Assasin's Creed and then Red Ring of Deathed when I restarted it. Some more messing around Saturday established it was throughly borked - if I could get it to turn on at all it would lock up within five minutes or so. Monday I called and spent a bit over 20 minutes dealing with their customer support before they agreed it was under warranty for Red Ring of Death. (Stupid stuff like plugging the console straight into the wall, as well as getting them to read their own computer system.) The sucky thing is that GTA IV comes out in three weeks. I hope they get me a replacement before thing. Xbox #1 was nine days turnaround, Xbox #2 was 18. I'm hoping the trend isn't linear or I'll have to sit around for three or four days after GTA IV comes out. Also, after having not watched a HD-DVD in months of course Netflix sent me a HD-DVD today (sigh). Gotta send that back now. I wish this generation wasn't a choice between sucky, cheaply made hardware (the 360) and sucky, cheaply made online functions (the PS3).
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