Siftables

We interrupt our regularly-scheduled pop culture programming to bring you this video. I don't know when I became so drooly over technology, but I'm really getting into it and I find this idea extremely exciting.

Sacrilege!

Is using the term sacrilege for anything that's not actually sacred, strictly speaking, sacrilegious in itself? Did that even make sense?

I digress.

I failed to mention that the closing number on the DWTS Tour was to Footloose (big yay!), but that helps me segue nicely into this bit of news that I find unnecessary:

Zac Efron Brings Home the Bacon in Footloose Remake

And how awful is that title? Oh, TV Guide...

Proud to be a Massachusetts Resident

(at least for the next two months and three days)

Legislators vote to defeat same-sex marriage ban

Thursday Morning Miscellany

First, American Idol. So far I have not called a perfect "bottom three," though I did get two out of three this week. However, I'm three-for-three in that each week one of my bottom three actually goes home. Next week's theme: Tony Bennett songs. I actually even like Tony Bennett, but seriously, I have yet to see LaKisha or Melinda do a song that was recorded in the last twenty years. I'd like them to get on that.

Also, what I think may be a fun link: http://tmastc.blogspot.com/2007/03/one-shining-moment.html.

It's all of the "One Shining Moment" montages (which they play each year following the men's NCAA basketball championship game) from the last ten years. I haven't had a chance to actually watch them, yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

Pat and I watched The Illusionist last night. Once again, I was sucked in to a movie by the cast: Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti (okay, Jessica Biel is also in it, so I guess that should've been a giant red flag). And, once again, the movie fell flat. It wasn't bad (unlike Man of the Year and American Dreamz). I'd even give it three out of five stars on Netflix. But, it also wasn't great. And, I honestly don't even have much to say about it. The accents were horrendous and I figured out the plot twist all on my own. Also, I really liked the story idea, but thought it wasn't executed as well as it could've been. This movie falls short of its potential. But don't we all?

Finally, an article from The Boston Globe about superstitious baseball players: http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/03/29/quirk_of_fortune/.

Being mildly superstitious myself, I enjoyed it.

Happy Thursday!

15 Channels

Average Joe sees just 15 channels

In short, the average U.S. household gets 104.2 channels, but watches only 15 of them. I think Pat and I only regularly watch a dozen or so: CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, Comedy Central, ESPN, USA (when Psych is on), SciFi (when Eureka is on), NESN (during baseball season), and Food Network. Sometimes we watch the weekend morning crap on E! and VH1 and Pat really likes the Discovery channel.

Not that anyone is that interested in what channels I specifically watch, but I just thought it was an interesting exercise to think about how many channels we get and how many we actually watch.

another article about "meh"

I love it.

Meh - the word that's sweeping the internet

Interjections

Interesting article on interjections from Slate.com, including a couple paragraphs on my personal fave: "meh."

Pardon the Interjection