Category: Media
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Time Warner Raising Rates…Fight Back!
Many of you have probably heard by now, TWC is raising rates, as much as 12% depending on what you have. You can point straight at crap like the recent Fox nearly being pulled due to pricing negotiations running right up to the deadline, and (locally) the Channel 4 craziness. tron legacy, HD, full movie,…
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Favorite Windows Software/Utilities
As you can probably tell, when I’m not watching hockey and football or playing with my kids, I like to tinker with my computer. I have come across several utilities recently (thanks mainly to Lifehacker and other geeks) and I thought I’d share them with you. where watch the sound of music film TeraCopy –…
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Red Cliff Poster!
As discovered by friend of HIYLJ Nighthawk over at Geek Tyrant…YES! Based on the semi-historical Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms (scroll past the election nonsense, and you can read the whole thing online), this movie focuses in on the Battle of Red Cliffs, one of the pivotal battles of the Three Kingdoms era.…
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Movie Review – Ponyo
First, a story. I had been exposed to Anime only sparingly as a kid, mostly Voltron, Tranzor-Z (Boob missiles!) and later, Ronin Warriors. I enjoyed them, but nothing really made me go out and seek more. Oh, and I caught the super-hyped showing of Akira on the Sci-Fi channel, which didn’t help. My Miyazaki fandom…
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Woot: MST3k! In For One!
SWEET! Today’s Woot is 4 discs packed with episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000! Click here to see the full details. Here’s a sample from one of the ‘hits’ included, Future War. Skip ahead to 2:43 if you are impatient. 6:54 is not bad either. Enjoy! Bonus feature, Werewolf: bones film with good quality
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Happy Birthday Townsend Coleman
Happy Birthday to Townsend Coleman, voice actor extraordinaire. People of my vintage may not know his name, but we know his work. Most famously, he was the voice of the Ninja Turtle Michaelangelo…and my favorite, The Tick. (to keep this sports related, he voiced Wayne Gretzky on ProStars) His voice acting profile is here, and…
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Show Your Desktop
Click the thumbnail for the full effect – I use Rainmeter for customizations, and the background comes from Orioto’s ‘Videogame Remakes’ gallery at deviantART. The skins used for Rainmeter are Urban, Enigma and HUD.Vision (for the weather and picture viewer). H/T to Lifehacker that got me started with Rainmeter. I know Ryan has evicted Big…
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Movie Review: Star Trek (2009)
I am writing this, in the interest of full disclosure, as a Trekkie who kind of fell away from Star Trek towards the end of Voyager, and missed pretty much all of Enterprise. Seems pretty common, actually, from the guys I went to see the movie with. Word of caution: Here there may be spoilers…
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Star Wars/MacGyver
cameron I should be working on deep, well-researched posts for the Sabres early offseason, but I’m just getting cracked up over and over by this:
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xkcd – Nerd Romance
The comic is chock full of stuff like this, but to delve a bit deeper, read this. Basically a detailed mathmatical analysis of a date in which you attempt to see the sun set twice. I did NOT study hard enough to deal with that…
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Very Important Question!
[poll id=”13″] I’ve been thinking about this, as my son slowly but surely gets exposed to Star Wars thanks to kids at school (and the very fun Lego Star Wars game we have). While I’m probably not showing him these any time soon, this is the sort of thing a geeky dad think about. So…
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No Seriously, Thanks a LOT
I laughed at that a lot more than I should have, I think. Unfortunately, viewing that led to this showing up in the related vids. (mind scrubbing may be needed afterwards, beware)