Lamest. Game show. Ever.
Not even the pretense of requiring skill or intelligence. Pick a bunch of random numbers, and try not to be a bumbling greedhead. About as much of a “game” as Keno or Bingo. All you have to do is pay attention (a little). And the “banker”? Just some clown sitting in front of a simple odds calculator to give Howie a chance to ham for the cameras.
At least they have 26 hotties in fancy dresses to hold the random numbers. They almost make it worth watching. Now, if Howie Mandel pulls out the rubber gloves and starts inflating them over his head, they might have a show…
And, yes, I’m aware that by watching it I’m only encouraging them 🙂
Lamest. Game show. Ever.
Not even the pretense of requiring skill or intelligence. Pick a bunch of random numbers, and try not to be a bumbling greedhead. About as much of a “game” as Keno or Bingo. All you have to do is pay attention (a little). And the “banker”? Just some clown sitting in front of a simple odds calculator to give Howie a chance to ham for the cameras.
At least they have 26 hotties in fancy dresses to hold the random numbers. They almost make it worth watching. Now, if Howie Mandel pulls out the rubber gloves and starts inflating them over his head, they might have a show…
And, yes, I’m aware that by watching it I’m only encouraging them 🙂
Iggy vs. Brodeur: photo originally uploaded to Flickr by Uncle Greggy.
I actually got to watch the game last night. Calgary vs. New Jersey. Hell of a game, and it helped that the Flames kicked some royal ass, too.
In the first period, I had a sinking feeling that Calgary wasn’t quite there. And then it happened. Iggy got pissed off. And almost dropped the gloves. Flashback to the last Stanley Cup run, where the Flames were often dormant until Iginla got pissed off and beat the crap out of someone, then went on to score a bunch of goals. He was |<-- this close -->| to scoring a hat trick last night, after being held goalless for the previous 9 games.
It helped that New Jersey basically shut down after Iggy got in their faces. Their defense just stopped trying. They did outshoot the Flames by over 2:1, but Sauve was rocking our net. Great to see we have two solid goalies this year – Kipper can relax a bit.
Now, if only the TSN announcers would just shut the hell up during the game. Leave the commentary to the time between plays and periods, and let us watch the game without your inane banter…
Iggy vs. Brodeur: photo originally uploaded to Flickr by Uncle Greggy.
I actually got to watch the game last night. Calgary vs. New Jersey. Hell of a game, and it helped that the Flames kicked some royal ass, too.
In the first period, I had a sinking feeling that Calgary wasn’t quite there. And then it happened. Iggy got pissed off. And almost dropped the gloves. Flashback to the last Stanley Cup run, where the Flames were often dormant until Iginla got pissed off and beat the crap out of someone, then went on to score a bunch of goals. He was |<-- this close -->| to scoring a hat trick last night, after being held goalless for the previous 9 games.
It helped that New Jersey basically shut down after Iggy got in their faces. Their defense just stopped trying. They did outshoot the Flames by over 2:1, but Sauve was rocking our net. Great to see we have two solid goalies this year – Kipper can relax a bit.
Now, if only the TSN announcers would just shut the hell up during the game. Leave the commentary to the time between plays and periods, and let us watch the game without your inane banter…
Oh, man! I want to do this. Somehow, I think I’d get a citation or something. Sony dropped a bajillion superballs down the hilly streets of San Francisco to film an ad for their new Bravia line. Not in the market for a new TV, but the ad sure looks hella fun.
I’m sure glad I wasn’t on the cleanup crew for this shoot. First, The City has the roving bands of parrots on Telegraph Hill, now it will have mysterious roving bands of bouncing superballs for years to come…
Oh, man! I want to do this. Somehow, I think I’d get a citation or something. Sony dropped a bajillion superballs down the hilly streets of San Francisco to film an ad for their new Bravia line. Not in the market for a new TV, but the ad sure looks hella fun.
I’m sure glad I wasn’t on the cleanup crew for this shoot. First, The City has the roving bands of parrots on Telegraph Hill, now it will have mysterious roving bands of bouncing superballs for years to come…
The first home game since the Flames made their dash for the Stanley Cup – the entire city has been waiting for this for a year. And the game is banished to CTV SportsNet? Why the hell isn’t the game on every single channel? Hockey Night in Canada should be doing a special event. Heck, even TSN could cover it – it’s part of the basic cable package, so would reach the whole city. CBC has decided it’s better to run Coronation Street and Canadian Antiques Road Show (from Montreal). Coronation Street? Really?
But SportsNet means you have to subscribe to the correct “tier” of channels, getting a whole bunch of low-quality crap to get the one you want. So, I don’t have access to SportsNet, since we only subscribe to basic cable at home.
I guess I’ll be keeping the stats window open during the game – and tuning in to the NHL Radio stream, since I don’t have a radio in my house (we hates it…).
I was really looking forward to watching this game tonight, assuming they’d at least try to make sure it got out to a wide audience. It’s not like the game won’t sell out or anything…
Update: Just had a thought… What if the iTunes video section carried streaming live events? Sure, you couldn’t chuck them onto your iPod, but they’d play nicely via Front Row. I’d pay some cash to watch the game tonight. I’d bet people would also pay to watch the Stevenotes and One More Things… There must be an audience for streaming, and if the infrastructure is mostly in place, it just might work. Of course, paying customers would be less tolerant of stream droppage…
Update 2: Holy. Crap. Is the quality of the Windows Media stream suck-tacular! 20Kb/sec stream, and it sounds like a weak AM radio signal while driving through a tunnel or parkade. And it keeps dropping out for no apparent reason. Jebus. Why do people settle for Windows Media???
The first home game since the Flames made their dash for the Stanley Cup – the entire city has been waiting for this for a year. And the game is banished to CTV SportsNet? Why the hell isn’t the game on every single channel? Hockey Night in Canada should be doing a special event. Heck, even TSN could cover it – it’s part of the basic cable package, so would reach the whole city. CBC has decided it’s better to run Coronation Street and Canadian Antiques Road Show (from Montreal). Coronation Street? Really?
But SportsNet means you have to subscribe to the correct “tier” of channels, getting a whole bunch of low-quality crap to get the one you want. So, I don’t have access to SportsNet, since we only subscribe to basic cable at home.
I guess I’ll be keeping the stats window open during the game – and tuning in to the NHL Radio stream, since I don’t have a radio in my house (we hates it…).
I was really looking forward to watching this game tonight, assuming they’d at least try to make sure it got out to a wide audience. It’s not like the game won’t sell out or anything…
Update: Just had a thought… What if the iTunes video section carried streaming live events? Sure, you couldn’t chuck them onto your iPod, but they’d play nicely via Front Row. I’d pay some cash to watch the game tonight. I’d bet people would also pay to watch the Stevenotes and One More Things… There must be an audience for streaming, and if the infrastructure is mostly in place, it just might work. Of course, paying customers would be less tolerant of stream droppage…
Update 2: Holy. Crap. Is the quality of the Windows Media stream suck-tacular! 20Kb/sec stream, and it sounds like a weak AM radio signal while driving through a tunnel or parkade. And it keeps dropping out for no apparent reason. Jebus. Why do people settle for Windows Media???
On the left, the “Genres” selector from the iTunes Music Store for the US. On the right, the same “Genres” selector for iTMS Canada.
There’s no “TV” genre in the Canadian store. Searching for “Lost” doesn’t turn up anything related to the TV series. What gives? Some crazy licensing scheme where the Canadian networks are able to block distribution of an American show – which they already rebroadcast on Canadian airwaves?
The Video/Movies/TV component of the new iTMS really has the potential to change how we access media – subscribing to a series rather than a bundled package of 50 crap channels to get the one you want. Perhaps the cable companies in Canada have the power to protect their silly tier-bundling scheme by blocking iTMS Canada Video Store?
Man, I hope that’s not it… This is soooo close to being an industry-changing thing, but if it’s just copying/pasting existing monopolies and their silly licensing schemes, it’s not going to go nearly as far as it could have.
Jim Roepcke noticed this first.
On the left, the “Genres” selector from the iTunes Music Store for the US. On the right, the same “Genres” selector for iTMS Canada.
There’s no “TV” genre in the Canadian store. Searching for “Lost” doesn’t turn up anything related to the TV series. What gives? Some crazy licensing scheme where the Canadian networks are able to block distribution of an American show – which they already rebroadcast on Canadian airwaves?
The Video/Movies/TV component of the new iTMS really has the potential to change how we access media – subscribing to a series rather than a bundled package of 50 crap channels to get the one you want. Perhaps the cable companies in Canada have the power to protect their silly tier-bundling scheme by blocking iTMS Canada Video Store?
Man, I hope that’s not it… This is soooo close to being an industry-changing thing, but if it’s just copying/pasting existing monopolies and their silly licensing schemes, it’s not going to go nearly as far as it could have.
Jim Roepcke noticed this first.
Well, the One More Thing event turned out to be pretty spiffy. Cool new iMac. Some funky new software (but is it iMac-only?) The new video iPod looks sweet – and the high end one still costs less than my 3G 20GB unit did…
The TV-on-iTunes/iPod thing looks like it will be awesome. But… Where is Battlestar Galactica? I’d subscribe to the whole season of that. I will likely buy the rest of this season of Lost, as well – or at least the ones I miss “live”. But, BSG? Every. Single. Episode.
Oh, and daddy needs a new iPod! Larger screen. Colour. Videos. Battery lasts 20 hours. Mine looks like a total turd next to the the cool new demo. I mean… It’s a classic 3G 20GB… Anyone want to give me, say $300 for it? 🙂
Also, can’t wait for the remote to be added to the Mini. That would be an almost perfect set-top box! Slap that Mini on top of the TV, and have a pretty high-end entertainment centre handy. It would be even cooler if you could add other apps – so you could customize it to let you check email, etc…
Well, the One More Thing event turned out to be pretty spiffy. Cool new iMac. Some funky new software (but is it iMac-only?) The new video iPod looks sweet – and the high end one still costs less than my 3G 20GB unit did…
The TV-on-iTunes/iPod thing looks like it will be awesome. But… Where is Battlestar Galactica? I’d subscribe to the whole season of that. I will likely buy the rest of this season of Lost, as well – or at least the ones I miss “live”. But, BSG? Every. Single. Episode.
Oh, and daddy needs a new iPod! Larger screen. Colour. Videos. Battery lasts 20 hours. Mine looks like a total turd next to the the cool new demo. I mean… It’s a classic 3G 20GB… Anyone want to give me, say $300 for it? 🙂
Also, can’t wait for the remote to be added to the Mini. That would be an almost perfect set-top box! Slap that Mini on top of the TV, and have a pretty high-end entertainment centre handy. It would be even cooler if you could add other apps – so you could customize it to let you check email, etc…
Dear Ronald D. Moore…
I am a total Battlestar Galactica junkie. Fell in love with the previews of the miniseries, and have been watching every episode since. Absolutely great stuff – some of the best scifi on tv. I love that it avoids the formulas as much as possible, and doesn’t treat the audience like lobotomized droolbots that need constant spoonfeeding. It seems like, by and large, each episode is better than the last – and that’s hard to do for 1 season, let alone 2.
The podcast by Ronald D. Moore is also a stroke of genius – giving us the “director’s commentary” (ok, the executive producer / developer’s commentary) in almost realtime. Brilliant.
However, I would really like it if either Ronald or someone from Scifi.com (whoever does the post production on the podcasts) would please turn down the volume on the commercial-break BEEEEEEP. If I’m listening on my iPod while commuting, I have already turned up the volume pretty high because the level of Ronald’s voice recording is rather low, and I need to hear over traffic noise etc… So, Ron (hey, if I let you into my iPod, I get to call you Ron) is talking about the episode, and how wonderful the actors are, yadda yadda. Then, after a second-long pause in speech, there’s the three-second-sonic-lobotomy. BEEEEEEEEEEP. No real warning. Just a HUGE spike in volume, turning my brain to mush for three seconds. I can dive for the pause button, the neurons controlling my finger don’t respond when I’ve been hit by the commercial-tone-stun-ray. By the time I’ve struggled my way to the volume controls, the lobotomy is over, and I start to recover just as the commentary kicks in again. Too late, again.
Other than that, I am so totally addicted to the podcasts that I keep listening – learning to brace myself when I think a commercial might be coming up. Gritting my teeth really tight seems to make it hurt less. I think the other people on the bus think I’m fighting the urge to obey voices in my head or something, though… I suddenly tense up, pupils dilate, breath stops short… What? Kill them all? No. The noise will stop. Aaaaaah. There it goes…
Dear Ronald D. Moore…
I am a total Battlestar Galactica junkie. Fell in love with the previews of the miniseries, and have been watching every episode since. Absolutely great stuff – some of the best scifi on tv. I love that it avoids the formulas as much as possible, and doesn’t treat the audience like lobotomized droolbots that need constant spoonfeeding. It seems like, by and large, each episode is better than the last – and that’s hard to do for 1 season, let alone 2.
The podcast by Ronald D. Moore is also a stroke of genius – giving us the “director’s commentary” (ok, the executive producer / developer’s commentary) in almost realtime. Brilliant.
However, I would really like it if either Ronald or someone from Scifi.com (whoever does the post production on the podcasts) would please turn down the volume on the commercial-break BEEEEEEP. If I’m listening on my iPod while commuting, I have already turned up the volume pretty high because the level of Ronald’s voice recording is rather low, and I need to hear over traffic noise etc… So, Ron (hey, if I let you into my iPod, I get to call you Ron) is talking about the episode, and how wonderful the actors are, yadda yadda. Then, after a second-long pause in speech, there’s the three-second-sonic-lobotomy. BEEEEEEEEEEP. No real warning. Just a HUGE spike in volume, turning my brain to mush for three seconds. I can dive for the pause button, the neurons controlling my finger don’t respond when I’ve been hit by the commercial-tone-stun-ray. By the time I’ve struggled my way to the volume controls, the lobotomy is over, and I start to recover just as the commentary kicks in again. Too late, again.
Other than that, I am so totally addicted to the podcasts that I keep listening – learning to brace myself when I think a commercial might be coming up. Gritting my teeth really tight seems to make it hurt less. I think the other people on the bus think I’m fighting the urge to obey voices in my head or something, though… I suddenly tense up, pupils dilate, breath stops short… What? Kill them all? No. The noise will stop. Aaaaaah. There it goes…
Alan’s got a rant-on about “reality” TV, and the impending doom of civilization as we know it.
I kinda agree, but don’t think it will stop until we’ve seen the likes of “Switched At Birth” – a “reality” series where they swap babies between a rich family and a trailer park family, and follow the kids until adulthood. Fun and entertainment for all, watching the rich kid become a crack dealer, and the poor kid a socialite. Wheee!
By the way, Rupert Murdoch, even though the rest of my blog is under a Creative Commons license, I retain the rights to “Switched At Birth” – when you want to talk production deals, give me a shout.
Oh, and Alan… If you find a deal on that off-grid tropical island, I’ll cut you in on my royalties if you can make room for a few more refugee souls…
Alan’s got a rant-on about “reality” TV, and the impending doom of civilization as we know it.
I kinda agree, but don’t think it will stop until we’ve seen the likes of “Switched At Birth” – a “reality” series where they swap babies between a rich family and a trailer park family, and follow the kids until adulthood. Fun and entertainment for all, watching the rich kid become a crack dealer, and the poor kid a socialite. Wheee!
By the way, Rupert Murdoch, even though the rest of my blog is under a Creative Commons license, I retain the rights to “Switched At Birth” – when you want to talk production deals, give me a shout.
Oh, and Alan… If you find a deal on that off-grid tropical island, I’ll cut you in on my royalties if you can make room for a few more refugee souls…
The Battlestar Galactica Podcast commentary for episode 1 of season 2 just showed up in my iTunes podcast subscriptions! Great to see executive producer Ronald Moore keeping up the podcasts for the next season.
Must… resist… urge to listen… before watching episode…
Can’t wait to watch the season opener!
Update: That was one kick-ass season opener! So, what happened with Tighe and Adama to get them booted out of the fleet years ago? Hmmm….
The Battlestar Galactica Podcast commentary for episode 1 of season 2 just showed up in my iTunes podcast subscriptions! Great to see executive producer Ronald Moore keeping up the podcasts for the next season.
Must… resist… urge to listen… before watching episode…
Can’t wait to watch the season opener!
Update: That was one kick-ass season opener! So, what happened with Tighe and Adama to get them booted out of the fleet years ago? Hmmm….
Battlestar Galactica Season 2 is coming, and much sooner than I was thinking! It looks like it’s starting July 15 in the States! This is going to be good…
Season 1 was probably the best scifi ever made (it’s definitely the best TV scifi, and probably in the top 10 best scifi of all time – movies and TV!)
Battlestar Galactica Season 2 is coming, and much sooner than I was thinking! It looks like it’s starting July 15 in the States! This is going to be good…
Season 1 was probably the best scifi ever made (it’s definitely the best TV scifi, and probably in the top 10 best scifi of all time – movies and TV!)
