2009-01-15

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2009-01-15 12:22 pm

Digital TV - Finally

I got a replacement for my defective Tivax T9 in the mail yesterday. It's hooked up and working, and the picture is WAY better than the "cable" reception I get, even though the signal is occasionally choppy and the sound can get out of sync. I'm assuming those conditions will improve when the switchover to digital happen for real on 2/17. But basically the picture looks about as sharp as a DVD playing on my PS2 over S-video out...
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2009-01-15 10:28 pm

Benjamin Button

I have no interest in seeing this baby boomer oriented nostalgia trip... BUT, I am curious about one thing: Benjamin Button, from the trailers, is born as an old, wrinkly, baby-sized old man. Okay, fine. Does he then just keep getting younger and younger and then just turn into a baby-sized baby? Because that is just dumb. He should really end his life as a MAN-SIZED BABY. And man, that would be creepy as fuck-all. He could get a little smaller and bent and stuff like old people do because of gravity... but his features would get all tiny and baby-like and he'd lose his hair, and his hands could get all stubby fingered and his limbs lose muscle and his skin gets all supple and stuff. But he just dies as an alien looking drooling baby-man. CREEPY.

Gah, why would anybody want to see such a weird-ass film??