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October 20, 2008
Las Vegas Hilton in-room phone answering system interaction:
“Press U for user options.”
[You press U (= numeral 8)]
“User Options: Press X to exit user options.”
The war in Iraq? Sartre’s idea of bourgeois freedom? How I feel when I run into someone whose name I can’t remember who asks me, “Remember me?”?
October 19, 2008
Suppose that you had a comedy sketch show that made fun of a particular vice presidential candidate particularly effectively. Suppose the person doing the imitations, as well as the staff in general, really really really (excuse me, rully, rully, rully) dislikes the VP candidate. Suppose they think of her as a demagogue. Suppose they felt obliged to honor the candidate’s request to be on the show, but didn’t want to let her use the show to gain sympathy. It’d be awkward.
Or, as they say: Live! From New York! It’s Saturdaaaay Night!
October 18, 2008
Berk Breathed is interviewed in Salon about the upcoming end of his comic strip. Too bad. It had a certain ferocity.
October 17, 2008
I thought this was a pretty charming video from the Boston Globe.
Getting that close to a potential president — Dem or Rep — is pretty thrilling. I still remember the day I shook Bobby Kennedy’s hand as he campaigned through a town near where I lived in 1967.
Sarah Palin is not a joke. So, suppose we TiVo users were to skip past her time on SNL this Saturday. Any chance TiVo would notice and publicize it, just as they made public that the moments of Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction were the most re-viewed seconds of the Superbowl that year?
Yes, I think this may be the worst idea I’ve ever blogged.
October 16, 2008
For months now, with perfect consistency, after four or five songs, Pandora goes dead when I listen at home using my RCN broadband connection. The music stops and the play button, which says the music is playing, does nothing. Other streaming media sources work fine — I can watch entire debates live on CNN. I’m getting the same Pandora behavior even after a complete reinstall of OS X.
How suspicious should I be? And is there any way to tell, other than asking other RCN customers if they’re having the same problem? Am I now officially a tin-hat-wearing, paranoid Net neutrality person?
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