Billionaire investor and dot-com veteran Mark Cuban had harsh words on Thursday for YouTube, the online site that lets people share video clips, saying only a “moron” would purchase the wildly popular start-up. Cuban also said YouTube would eventually be “sued into oblivion” because of copyright violations. “The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet is because there is nobody with big money to sue.”
Since the new fall season is in full swing, this year I shall be watching…
Sunday
Desperate Housewives, 9pm on ABC. Yes, I’m a sucker for Wisteria Lane…
Monday
Heroes, 9pm on NBC. The new drama tells the story of seemingly random people from around the world, including New York, Japan, India, and other places, discover that they have strange abilities, but are not quite sure how to react to them. At the same time, they find their lives intersecting randomly.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, 10pm on NBC. Another new show that takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy show, similar to Saturday Night Live. The show-within-a-show, also called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Tuesday
House, 8pm on FOX. See here for everything you need to know about House, best show on TV.
Standoff, 9pm on FOX. This new series focuses on an FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit whose members negotiate hostage situations and share relationships, plus it has Ron Livingston, what’s not to like?
Boston Legal, 10pm on ABC. A very funny, well written drama, who can’t like a show with characters like Alan Shore and Denny Crane?
Wednesday
Lost, 9pm on ABC. Do I even need to say why?
Thursday
My Name Is Earl, 8pm on NBC. Either you get this or you don’t, I really like it, not only is it funny but the characters are great, especially the dynamic between Earl and Crabman.
Grey’s Anatomy, 9pm on ABC. This was edge of your seat stuff towards the end of the last season, it had everything you could want in a medical drama.
Friday
Doctor Who, 8pm on Sci-Fi. Yes, I’ve downloaded this series already while it was airing in the UK, but it’s that good I’ll watch it again.
Battlestar Galactica, 9pm on Sci-Fi. Great Sci-Fi show that looks to be getting better and better as it progresses, how will the humans survive the takeover by the Cylons? Only one way to find out…
So that my must see TV, good thing none of them overlap otherwise TiVo would be working overtime.
Is it just me or is download times on the newly renamed iTunes Store more than just a bit lethargic?
Now I appreciate they have doubled the resolution of the files to 640×480 which more or less tripled the average file size, but back in the day episodes of Lost never took 20+minutes to come down the pipe… In fact it took around 3 minutes, seriously…
Not only that, but if I view the videos larger than actual size, they get a bit choppy. Sure my computer may not be up to much, but it can run downloaded HD torrents no problem. Not exactly a great place to start with video-on-demand, especially if a movie will take over 2 hours to download, speaking of which, the only movie I’d consider downloading is Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and apparently that’s not available anymore. How odd considering it was the centrepiece of the launch…
EDIT: Nevermind, Pirates has mysteriously reappeared… Dare I download it?
So in case you’ve been living under a rock, Robyn and I spent a week in Walt Disney World, and when you spent a week in a world where the outside world rarely leaks in, it can be quite bizarre…
But anyways, we left Atlanta early on Saturday morning and we were in Epcot by 10:30, and then came the sudden realisation that no body was here. Seriously, a full 90 minutes after the park had opened and we walked on to Soarin’, this was the ride that had a 2 hour wait and ran out of FastPasses by 10am when we came last year… This would be a recurring theme.
After Epcot we headed to Downtown Disney to take in the Cirque du Soleil show “La Nouba” before heading back to our hotel room in the Boardwalk to see the Illuminations fireworks display from our balcony. The next day we went to the Magic Kingdom and basically rode everything by 11am, seriously… Everything! It was becoming clear we’d have a lot of time left over at the end of the week, either that or we’d be riding everything at least 3 times… Robyn took a nap on Sunday afternoon and I went to Epcot again and walked on Test Track and Mission: SPACE multiple times.
The real kicker was Monday, we went to Animal Kingdom early for the extra magic hours and waited patiently for the park to open so we could rush to the new Expedition Everest ride like everyone else, after getting to the ride we had to wait about 30 minutes while they ran some “tests” on the ride, we got on the second train of the day, loved it, got off the ride and walked straight back on with no wait at all, this was craziness! We ended up riding it 3 times in that morning, along with riding Kilimanjaro Safaris, Kali River Rapids (3 times in a row again) and DINOSAUR we were out by 11 again, we didn’t need to go back to Animal Kingdom again. 3 hours and out.
September is really the time to go, the weather is bearable, a bit hot but cools off at night and a little chance of rain, no lines at all, the only downside is the mating Love Bugs which were only bad one day we went to Blizzard Beach. I’ll take a mass of bugs over lines any day.
To top if off we went to Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party on our last night which was a lot of fun, a cool parade and awesome fireworks show as well as cast members handing out candy to kids of all ages. Highly recommended…
So yeah, late September is the magic time it seems, we’ll definitely remember this next time we plan to go…
Originally uploaded by FLC.
Europe take the Ryder Cup for a record third consecutive time. Another 18½-9½ points difference as America capitulates.
This was taken on September 7th 1999, nearly 2 years to the day before hand, from the observation deck on the Empire State Building, during my first and currently only trip to New York City.
It’s weird to look at nowadays, very ominous with the top of the twin towers surrounded by clouds, also because I’m shit scared of heights, and I remember that I had to literally inch my way towards the fencing around the edge so I could take the picture. Apologies for the crap quality, it was taken pre-digital with a disposable camera.
Originally uploaded by FLC.
I swear, sometimes Robyn and I act so weird it’s just too funny for words, like tonight for instance, Robyn was talking about a strange “organization coaching session by an outside consultant” at her work, and all the weird phrases that was getting bounded about, as well as her yearly evaluation earlier this week…
At which point we both crack up and end up in fits of laughter for minutes afterwards. Just an average day in our married life.