With rumors of an Obama appearance, this Saturday I found myself doing something I can hardly every remember doing – getting excited to watch Saturday Night Live. Sure, I’ve enjoyed it from time to time. I’m as big a fan of sketch comedy as anyone. But never a die-hard fan of the show. But having been watching weeks of telelvision this summer ripe with satirical potential (e.g., the Olympics, the conventions), I’ve been itching to see how the SNL crew might capitalize on some of this. I was initially greeted with some of the political humor that I was thirsting for, but most of the rest of the show turned out to be a bit less pallatable. Read more “SNL: Cold Open Was Solid, Rest Was Luke-Warm”
Category: The World
Who Needs a TV?
As I’m sure I’ve stated before, I’m a TV junkie. I watch more of it than I should. I can say more about shows I’ve never seen than most can say about their favorite show. I’ve got my DVR programmed to record a dozen or so series’ this fall (with 2 kids under 5, I rarely get to sit and watch what I want, when I want). And yet I’m now coming to find I may be able to cancel a number of those items in my queue due to Hulu. Read more “Who Needs a TV?”
Unintentional Sponsorship
I was reviewing my home page tonight and I couldn’t help but notice that every ad that was displayed on it was politically-oriented. This, in and of itself, didn’t surprise me – most of the posts I’ve written in the past 2 weeks have been related to coverage of the conventions and the candidates. The detail that I found personally disturbing, though, was that most of these ads seemed to mention McCain and/or Palin (or if they mentioned Obama, it seemed negatively tinged). Read more “Unintentional Sponsorship”
Change for the Worse
For years I have been a fan of steering away from cash in favor of being able to charge anything and everything to debit cards. And recently I’ve finally been getting my wish. I can go through nearly any drive-through (sorry, drive-thru) or get gas at nearly any station without having to worry if I had enough cash on hand. I just swipe my handy-dandy check card and be on my merry way! Unfortunately I did not realize the price for such convenience. Read more “Change for the Worse”
And Then there was Chrome
In my line of work, it is critical that I am on top of all of the latest browsers and internet technologies. So when Google suddenly decided to release their own browser 2 days ago (called Chrome), I was right on top of it. I read the comic book intro for it while I was waiting for the download to be available (btw, awesome way to describe … well … anything – much more interesting than reading an article … hrm). Some of the features sounded really cool and smart. Some of them worried me a little (at least on a professional level). After using it (which I am right now to write this), most of my concerns were quickly abated and all of the features were as good as or better than I expected. Read more “And Then there was Chrome”