Zibblog

I’ve got 3 or 4 blog entries in various stages of completion. While I’m waiting for stuff to complete on the computer today, hopefully, I’ll finish them up.

One of my favorite shows of last season was House. The premise is that each episode, somebody has some problem that no one can figure out, so Dr. House and his team keep trying treatments that may or may not work (and may or may not kill the patient) under the assumption that if they do nothing, the patient will die anyway (patients with unknown, annoying skin rashes don’t make for good tv. Anyway, I found some episode reviews that are around how accurate the medical treatments are in each of the shows. I read a couple and they make for some interesting reading.

I also figured that I’d throw out some show recommendations that you may or may not be watching because they are all BBC shows.

• Top Gear: This bbc car show is a big favorite of Rus and I noticed that it is now on the discovery channel.
• MI-5: This is another bbc show that is called Spooks elsewhere. As you might have guessed, the show is about MI-5, and, as opposed to US dramas, they aren’t afraid to kill people off. A&E is currently showing this one.
• Dr Who: They just got through airing what is the 27th season altogether and also the first season in a long time. Given what a geek following the show has, it isn’t hard to find online.

I recently paid for NetNewsWire and MarsEdit from Ranchero Software after playing with NetNewsWire for a month. NetNewsWire is their news reader that supports RSS and some other random features like treating results from search engines as feeds. MarsEdit is a blogging application that supports most of the major blog applications. I’d recommend them both to anyone. MarsEdit is still a little new, but it looks like it has a lot of potential. There is an interesting weblog article here about the reasons that they split off MarsEdit into its own application.

I finally started watching the current season of 24. I had all of the episodes on my tivo with the idea of doing “24 x 24″ which would entail watching all episodes of 24 in one sitting (not to be confused with 24 x 7 x 365, which is a really odd way of saying all the time including holidays). So far I’ve liked it a lot. The show tends to have a lot of actors that I’ve seen in random shows and this season included actors from First Wave and La Femme Nikita. A little known fact is that Rob LaBelle who was one of the stars of First Wave got his undergrad degree from Brown.

Does anyone else remember the TGIF marketing campaign that ABC used for its Friday night comedy lineup? For some reason, I now have a hard time thinking of TGIF without associating it with shows like Family Matters.

Anyway, I figured I throw in some random stuff here to finish off the week. The run with Stacey was rescheduled. As to the comments from the peanut gallery, I understand that the internet is public, which is why there is a lot of filtering going on in the blog. My coffee date went pretty well but not great. I’m trying to fill the pipeline, but my sales channels just aren’t cutting it right now. Maybe I’ll have better luck speed dating this weekend. To go off on a tangent for a moment, sometimes I feel like the analogy for my love life (that I’d make if I was a naval aviator) is like going in for a carrier landing in poor visibility where the crew on the flight deck is telling you to wave off, but you feel like you can make that landing. However, you were wrong, miss the cable, and go off into the ocean. At this point, you should just become a lawyer.

For anyone interested (which is probably 1 person), I randomly found an interview that David James Elliot (star of JAG) did with Runner’s World while I was looking for something else. David James Elliot was being phased off of the show to cut costs (it sounds like he is going to do a tv movie for Lifetime … there’s one movie that I won’t be watching) and most of the episodes in the second half of the last season dealt with person CBS picked to replace him.

As a final note since somebody was interested, I gave War of the Worlds 6 zibs.