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Small Time Television: March 2009

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Thursday, March 26, 2009. What I was doing with a deck of cards at a bar last night. The basic idea: solitaire hold 'em poker. I've been on a bit of a playing card kick lately and the idea of a newish sort of solitaire poker flitted through my head a while back. I'm not too sure of the value of this particular game, but here goes the basic rules I came up with:. 1 deck of standard cards, jokers removed. 5 Flip over house; winner gets a counter. My stu...

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Small Time Television: December 2008

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Wednesday, December 24, 2008. On "The Christmas Shoes". I had managed to go my entire life until last week never having heard that odious crapfest of a song. Despite my best efforts to avoid its creepy, manipulative, heart-cloggingly schmaltzy lyrics, I've had to hear it twice in the last week. I can only say this:. A tale of two record labels it seems. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States. View my complete profile.

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Small Time Television: June 2009

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Friday, June 12, 2009. From here on in, analog goes to the wall. Extra credit to anyone who spots an extremely obscure reference.). Well, the analog TV era is over. I would have rather seen DVB-T than ATSC, but we get what we get. Rescan your tuners and get some higher-gain antennas if you're still getting broadcast. Now if only some of these stations could see fit to using the extra channel space for, you know, original programming and the like.

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Small Time Television: January 2009

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Sunday, January 4, 2009. Tabloids in the culture wars: What's wrong with AMI? You know, I think American Media Inc. has gone too far this time. They've always angled towards a distinctly right-wing audience (although the Weekly World News alone among all their papers discovered the value of not taking itself seriously), but they've gone over the deep end lately. Don't seem to have had much to say so far, but the Globe. Thursday, January 1, 2009. The b...

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The Lesser Arcana: June 2009

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Monday, June 8, 2009. 12 of Swords - the Professor. Given the general public's distrust of genetic modification in particular and university agriculture in general, in his more cynical moments the Professor likes to joke that his machete handles monkeywrenchers as well as weeds. Deep down, though, he's afraid for all the good he's trying to do the world that he might actually have to use it that way someday. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About the Lesser Arcana. Drawn by hand, colored using Seashore.

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Small Time Television: May 2009

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Wednesday, May 27, 2009. Of course, as Amanda on Pandagon. Pointed out, the wingnut world is reacting predictably, calling Sotomayor an affirmative action appointee. Now here's a question - is there anyone n0n-white that Obama could have appointed that wouldn't get that label? Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Small time television and politics rather go hand in hand, so I expect you'll see rather a lot of both as you read this.

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Small Time Television: Some thoughts on a month with Ubuntu Linux

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Saturday, August 22, 2009. Some thoughts on a month with Ubuntu Linux. So after I brought home the computer mentioned in the previous post, I repartitioned it with a small Windows XP install (of minimal use - I think I only used it for a couple of setup tasks) and 25GB of Ubuntu. So where to start? Ubuntu is doing a valuable service for Linux users by making a concerted effort to create a system that anyone can manage. But it does irk me that afte...

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Small Time Television: August 2009

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Saturday, August 22, 2009. Some thoughts on a month with Ubuntu Linux. So after I brought home the computer mentioned in the previous post, I repartitioned it with a small Windows XP install (of minimal use - I think I only used it for a couple of setup tasks) and 25GB of Ubuntu. So where to start? Ubuntu is doing a valuable service for Linux users by making a concerted effort to create a system that anyone can manage. But it does irk me that afte...

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Small Time Television: July 2009

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Sunday, July 5, 2009. There's something the matter with that Heath girl (and other observations). Sarah Palin is resigning her job as governor of Alaska, and picked the sketchiest possible day of the year - the day before the Fourth of July - to do it. Why? You do realize ads like that make you look like a second-stringer, right? Also, note to Verizon: when you do get FiOS to Cape Cod, can you please make sure there's some copper to carry current?

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Small Time Television: October 2008

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TV, politics, science, and whatever else I feel like. Sunday, October 26, 2008. If I trusted the voting machines, I'd have the popcorn out. Sunday, October 19, 2008. A few years ago, the nostalgia site RetroCRUSH published a list of the 50 Coolest Song Parts. I'd like to add one. I've found myself weirdly fascinated with the Ben Folds/Regina Spektor song "You Don't Know Me". Then with a cracking, devastated, but utterly defiant "Say it! Bam Kick to the fucking nuts. Friday, October 17, 2008. Given the sh...