Do you remember when you first started using Tivo and it just seemed to work?
Me too, it was great.
Well, now we have a couple new ways to watch shows, and man does it just work:
Apple Tv and the Xbox 360.
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I typed “Xbox 360″ into google image search and ended up finding a picture of a naked girl covering up her breasts and cooch with some xbox game cases.
Yeah, she looked like a hood rat, and the games were old and unspectacular… but the image lead me to need to write a little thing about it.
I didn’t know I loved looking at girls with video games covering their privates, but there’s something about it, a line walked between debasement and the basement (where we play our games)… I love it.
The closest word I found to describe it is “nerdcore”, which was also the name of a calendar where naked models would do nerd things. (google it, the results are a treat.)
I think that it should be “Gamer Tags”, and that there should be at least some basic one-upsmanship of guys and girlfriends getting themselves on the google image search results page. Right now hardly anything comes up under “xbox 360 naked”, and that’s just sad.
I was IMing with my friend Alex last night, and we discovered that we’ve both been having the same problem with the Amazon.com Kindle: there’s a part of us that wants it, and another that shrieks “stay away!”.
The Kindle is an electronic handheld device that’s used in place of a book. Unlike a laptop or computer screen, mom, it uses an e-ink display which emulates the look of actual printed material. There’s no glowing screen involved, put you can change the text on the page with the click of a button.
Alex and I are both avid readers, and we’re both big fans of new gadgets… so you would think that the Kindle is a perfect device for us.
Factors, however, plot to disarm us of our glee.
For Amazon’s Hype Machine, click right here. You’ll learn about how the Kindle can basically do anything you want, and it’ll write thank you notes to your Aunts, too.
For the reasons that Kindle seems awesome, click here.
For the reasons the kindle seems terrible, click here.
Mike
There’s a lot of stuff that makes my wallet have a boner for one of these Kindles.
1. The display is cool.
I love the concept of e- ink, and i’ve demoed the tech in various book stores that have a similar sony device on display. It really does look like a regular page; easy to read and no strain on the eyes.
2. You can download books from the air.
Let’s say you just finished Huck Finn or A Game of Thrones and you just can’t can’t wait to read the sequel: now you don’t have to wait. You can download entire books, in under a minute, over the wireless cellular network. That’s fucking amazing.
3. The books are cheap.
Brand new releases are under ten bucks, previous releases can be 2 bucks. The savings!
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The kindle has some problems, listed below in no order if importance.
1. It’s stupidly expensive.
A book costs about 7 dollars, 14 if you’re not lucky. The Kindle costs $400 and has no book to read on it, so really it costs about $402 at least. Unless you want to read some old, crappy book like “Sense and Sensibility”, but then you wouldn’t own a computer and would have no reason to own a Kindle.
2. The name is terrible.
I hate the way the name sounds, and the mental images it conjures up. Kindle makes me think of burning something, and that sucks when thinking about books. It almost makes me think about Christmas, which I hate. If people wanted to think about Christmas all year long there would be a Christmas channel and the suicide rate would be higher. I would have called it “The Guide to the Universe” and printed “Don’t Panic” on the outside.
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Time for an embarrassing admission.
I just needed spell-check to tell me how to spell embarrassing.
Also, I have only ever seen one or two episodes of the landmark television series The Twilight Zone. This has bothered me for a long time, as it seems people around me reference it constantly.
As a sci-fi loving dork, filling in this gap has become my new mission. So, on Amazon.com the other day, I bought myself this bad boy:
I will enter the warm loving cocoon of these DVDs and emerge a butterfly. A butterfly of cultural awareness.
Then, my plan is to write about all of the episodes I watch. On this very blog!!
It’s been so long since I’ve used PlasmaSplasm that I feel as though it is a phantom limb. Tingling and itching to be utilized in any capacity.
Well, I’m ready to scratch the itch and moisturize the tingling. Though, considering the number of episodes of this show that exist (156), I won’t be writing essays for each one.
Hope the two or three of you who duck your heads in to read this site every once in a while enjoy my adventure in the fifth dimension.
Sorry about that.
hulu.com went public yesterday.
Translation: You can watch full episodes of popular shows with either a short movie trailer or mini commercials, online streaming without any download.
Here’s an example, an episode of Firefly, a show near and dear to the splasmers except for Will because he’s a jerk.
South Park’s first episode of the 12th season airs tonight, and it’s the beginning of my second season here. To celebrate and to unify the production assistants I put together some shirts that we all wore on yesterday while the rest of the office was busy working their asses off.
My schedule is pretty full with the show until the end of April, but I’m still working away on a side project (in my free time) that I’ll have finished in the next couple months. I’m working on a pitch for an animated show I want to make, and it seems pretty good so who knows what might come of it? Here are some work in progress images from the binder of material I’m putting together to show around.
Nora Quinn, a very old and talented friend, is collaborating with me by providing fantastic drawings. Hopefully we’ll have something to show around in a while, it’s all really fun and coming together fantastically.
That’s all for now: start watching South Park on Wednesday nights, or on the internet the next day, for the next seven weeks.
After that I don’t care what you watch. Beat it.
Mike
Here’s an awesome little flash game that lets you freeze, burn, explode, grow, melt, etc. pixels in a little field. Maybe it’s unfair to call it a game, but I can blow hours of time on this thing.
Mike
