A Cry for Help

As you may have heard, the Harry Potter series (supposedly) wrapped up this week. Also this year, The Sopranos ended its TV run (you may have heard a thing or two about that, too). I have never read Potter or watched Sopranos, but deep down my social conditioning tells me that some day I [...]

After months of flirting with the idea, Em and I finally cut the cord. Or, more precisely, the coaxial cable. This week we returned our digital high def DVR cable box to the mothership (Warwick Mall) and bid adios to Cox Cable*.
Now, after hearing other people’s stories about what happened when they threatened to cut [...]

Em has a scary good memory, so when she read about that tainted pet food story last week, she immediately thought SNL. I had no idea what she was talking about until she tracked this video down:

Oh, the irony. Sad, sad, hilarious irony.

After 129 episodes, watching Colin Farrell teach Turk and JD a life lesson was the last leg of my journey to watch every episode of Scrubs. And just in time, too, because Em is returning our cable box to Mothership Cox this week.
So what did I learn? Scrubs is a good show. It has that [...]

I wrote some new code today that I thought might break some old stuff I wrote a few weeks ago, so I went back and tested it out. Apparently I did break something, because here’s the error message I got: “The change could not be saved for some unknown reason. Frick.”
Yeah, this is what happens [...]

According to my spreadsheet, I’ve now seen 113 episodes of Scrubs in the last month. And after 113 episodes, I finally got to see the first one ever.
First episodes are weird to watch after you’ve been following a show for a while. I can picture the writers trying to balance introducing their characters with the [...]

As someone who has seen 18 minutes of American Idol in my life, I can’t be the only one who resents Lost getting moved to 10pm, right? And while I’m complaining, I’m ready to stick ice picks in my ears after missing entire scenes of dialogue because WLNE’s HD feed can’t be bothered to keep [...]

Since Em and I are contemplating canceling our cable, I’ve been trying to get in some quality time with the DVR while I still can. The best use of it I can figure is to find one of those shows that is played 6 times a day on various channels. I thought I might be [...]

I hate it when my real-life friends corner me at a party and say “hey, what happened to your 30 days of posting?!” and refuse to let me get to the beer table. What I told them was some lame excuse for a guilt trip (”hey, based on the comments, no one seemed to mind. [...]

Thank God for the Red Sox, because I don’t think I would be able to go 19 weeks without another episode of Lost to infuriate me (in a good way!). America’s favorite plane crash survivors ended their second season this week, also ending season one of Bil and Em’s Lost parties. And only a few [...]