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Get Ready For Eureka!

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Tuesday, July, 29–Eureka season premiere. I.CAN.NOT.WAIT Eureka‘s one of those rare shows that has a bit of everything (including intelligence). Though the plots are sometimes far fetched, the cast is excellent and always manages to pull off the funny, sad, and geeky parts. It’s a must-see show.

Since we were treated to a nice little Eureka marathon this weekend, I’ve been watching rips of Pushing Daisies. This is another quirky show that I really like. I’ve said it before, but Emerson Cod is one of the best written characters on TV. I smirk just thinking about his comebacks. LOVE. The new casting spoilers about Emerson’s mother made me happier than I’ve ever been about casting news…and I’ve never even heard of her. The picture just *BAMS* you in the head making you smile. Here’s to a great second season for The Pie Hole gang!

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Exercise in Futility

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At the end of the school year, I requested a database so I could convert our school’s site to WP. I didn’t hear anything, but I figured I was in no rush since I had to come up with a good layout and design. Well, today I finished it (and it looks spectacular, if I do say so myself). I emailed the tech people to get my database and was promptly told that they are buying some package for all the schools to use and I can’t have a database. Seriously,I’ve worked hours on this and though I know it’s my fault for not having the database from the start, I had no reason to believe it would never come through. Also, WordPress is free…and relatively easy to learn. Instead, we’ll have some FrontPage-type application, or worse.

I’m just really sad that I’m not going to be able to do the site afterall. I’m really not interested in stepping down to a Fisher-Price level and I don’t want to get involved with something like Joomla, which is what they’re using at their office. Shucks. Anyone want a really good school site theme?

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Winner!

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For years now, I’ve recommended (and even purchased) BSPlayer. Well, I have a new player now. The screencaps here are from a .wmv, and they are excellent. There are tons of options I get to play around with, and best of all, it’s free! The reason I loved BSPlayer for so long was that it was originally free and offered the ability to make caps. Now, there is adware bundled with the player, so unless you purchase or download it some other way, you’re stuck with crap. The only thing I miss from BSPlayer is the ability to play multi-part .rar files. Hopefully, that function can be added to the next release.

Enough about that. The new player I have is the KMPlayer and the caps are from Di’s Farscape vid, “What About…” Di’s vid looks amazing on any player, but this one makes it even better. Even if you don’t get the player, get the vid!

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21 to Life

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There’s talk of a new RoboCop movie. Normally, I wouldn’t care one bit about this news, but something in the report punched me in the gut…hard. The first RoboCop movie was released 21 years ago. TWENTY-ONE FRELLIN’ YEARS AGO. How f’n old are we?!? I was no youngster when RoboCop came out TWENTY-ONE FRELLIN’ YEARS AGO.

I know time is marching on and all that jazz, but I’m still in my Peter Pan mode, refusing to grow up. However, when I read things like the above, I start to think that maybe, just maybe, I’m getting old anyway. This is a dark, dark day. :evileye: