Archive for October, 2006

The Slow Burning Death of Intellect

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has to be one of the most well written and entertaining shows I have ever seen. It’s an entertaining peice of television that has a full-bodied taste that won’t slow you down. It confronts the problems and divisions in American culture, and most importantly, it makes you think. That’s what good TV does.
We live in an age where people are afraid to confront the problems we have created. Wars, debt, obesity, outsourcing, and the overall dissatisfaction and hopelessness we have inherited as a consequence to allowing our core values to be squandered away.

We have allowed our perceptions to become easily smudged and rewritten, to the point that we don’t trust anything but a biased and slanted view. We have come to expect and demand anything but the truth.

The show itself continues to lose viewers. It is the kind of show we should want to see, and it loses more viewers every week.

Jericho Fodder

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Often times, when the good folks in Television portray computer use they don’t use actual footage of the OSs’ interface, for some reason or another.
While watching last nights Jericho, the mysterious character Robert Hawkins is using a laptop to converse with his co-conspirators and the background of his laptop displayed what looked like a disclaimer, with phrases like “interest of Mackay or any third party” on it.

Well, it turns out that’s an actual page, which I find slightly amusing. Shows like LOST have ruined my eyes, I see too much now! It looks to me like it’s an actual company, not a fake-easter-egg-fan-service site, like those clever writers at LOST would toss at me.

http://www.mackaycomm.com/terms.asp


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