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Subway on the Water?

This weekend, a bunch of us ventured out to Far Rockaway for "Rey's Annual Way Out Beach Party." The event is always, well, eventful, and part of the charm of the event is the payoff of the party after the incredible journey it is to get there, lugging beach stuff, food, and drinks.

The trip took roughly 3.5 hours for me, taking me from Astoria, down through Manhattan, through Brooklyn, and finally into Far Rockaway, where the scenery suddenly changes to that of a run down amusement park complete with rusty railings, fake looking buildings on stilts, and waterways.

Amazingly, the subway not only becomes a transway (superway?), riding above the ground, it then drops down to ground level, running like an Amtrak train.

The final, and most mind boggling change of scenery comes when riding across the shallow bridges of Rockaway, as the subway car seemingly skims across the surface of the water. It was surreal.

4:15 pm | permalink | /life/travel | 0 writebacks |

Flash Forward Film Festival Comes to the New Yorker

I just found out that the Flash Forward Film Festival will be happening less than 100 feet from my office in the New Yorker Hotel! Who knew? I'll try to get some coverage if possible - It'd be cool to stop up in on lunch if nothing else. Perhaps a little clever espionage to get in? He he, now I'm picturing myself whomping a bellboy over the head, dragging him into the alley, and emerging in a way too small uniform. Outstanding.

In the meantime, check out the past winners, and the people choice finalist video that's getting passed around our office now, Lullaby. (be sure to click the movie to get it to start, otherwise it's just three people in hammocks for a really long time! Don't be afraid to mess with the movie with your mouse too, that's part of the fun! There's lot's of little fun touches in this animation.)

Stolen from Rey

3:49 pm | permalink | /technology/web | 0 writebacks |

Cool New Car-Radio-Like LCD Case

Ryan just sent me a link to http://www.colorcase.com which has this awesome LCD readout. I've always wondered why we waste screen real-estate for information that's so readily translated into LCD-friendly numbers and symbols

Rye:

i think i got it. aside from this one particular one.. the whole site is full of fun toys...

control 4 diff fans?

Scour that site. It's awesome.

10:02 pm | permalink | /technology/gadgets | 0 writebacks |

Meg Hutchinson's "The Crossing" Released

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I've been waiting for this album for over 2 years.

I first became a Meg Hutchinson fan about 5 years ago now when handed a CD of hers by a friend from back home, where she'd seen her play. I was immediately taken by Meg's high, sweet, smile-tainted voice and evocative and image-heavy lyrics. It was a very solid independent album, and Meg found herself on the cover of the metro, the Time Warner Cable Access music show "Sounding Board" and the winner of 4 "New Folk" and songwriter awards in 2000.

Against the Grey stayed in my playlist for over 3 years, even outlasting most of my Ani Collection and various other flavors of the moment. When I finally got a chance to see her live around 6 months ago, I was thrilled, and somewhat star struck.

The thing that floored me - still floors me, in fact - is the amazing different between Meg live and on CD. Her music on CD is catchy, sweet, and nice. Her music in person is emotional if not religious, and her soft voice draws you so far in that watching her perform is like watching a powerful movie. You don't mean to be so involved, and you have occasional moments of clarity where you realize where you are, but for the rest of the time, you're completely lost in the world of the performance.

Meg performed various songs from her live album which I bought the next day and alluded to the imminent release of her new CD, the crossing, which made up the rest of the music she played that evening.

I got the CD in the mail today, after many studio delays and the time it took to ship, and it's nothing short of awesome.

This isn't just a good folk CD - this is a good folk CD with two or three radio-worthy singles on it. I'm half excited and half terrified that this could be Meg's breakout album, propelling her to folk stardom in the next few months.

The first three tracks on the album alone have definite grooves, I really feel that the titular single could climb the charts.

8:34 pm | permalink | /life/music | 1 writebacks |

Pretty Girls Make Graves

And pretty good music apparently

This is why I love bittorrent.

I've been surfing around Suprnova.org (leave out the e for.. umm... extraneous lawsuits?) looking for some new music for a few days, and not only have I been finding lots of bands that I've always meant to listen to, but I've been finding complete albums and discographies.

Getting the whole album - not just popular songs, or mislabeled mp3's or bad live recordings - is freaking awesome. This was the reason that I converted my CD collection to MP3 back in '96. I wanted an easy way to play the music that I liked, and had already paid for. Because most of my collection is legit, I've got everything organized by Artists and then full albums, so having random downloaded singles in there is a pain.

We saw Pretty Girls Make Graves open for The Atari's a while back and I found myself liking them but hadn't gotten a chance to listen to their stuff. Listening to it now, I can say that I like the whole album, and I'll both look for more PGMG shows now and will probably buy CD's and merch there to support them.

I thought Napster and other programs were neat, but because my collection is generally of complete albums I already owned, I really never used them to download gobs of music.

The "bandwidth is free" culture of Bittorrent where people are encouraged to make complete collections and link them all together as a torrent has finally peaked my interest as a downloader, and I feel does a lot more for the artists involved because it gets people to listen to their whole body of work and become fans, rather than just grabbing the single and forgetting who sings it.

The "no central server" principals of Bittorrent should also keep it going against the efforts of the RIAA, so long as sites like suprnova don't become too central. There's also an implied safety to downloading with BitTorrent - It's not encrypted or secret, you can still be sued, but with BT, you're going in and making surgical downloading strikes. You get what you want, share it back while you're downloading it and a little bit after, and then get out.

BT is also the first filesharing system to really have a case as a legitimate file sharing tool - I've used it to download the last few versions of Knoppix and Fedora Core, and it's just flown along. Keep your eyes on it, I feel like things are about to get really interesting.

3:44 pm | permalink | /life/music | 0 writebacks |

Rumsfeld OK.d harsh treatment of suspects in U.S. war on terror

Yet more proof that my crazy theory was spot on.

Rumsfeld OK.d harsh treatment of suspects in U.S. war on terror (USA today)

Looking back at my conspiracy theory story now, it doesn't look crazy at all.

10:03 am | permalink | /life/politics | 0 writebacks |

Microsoft Quietly Unveils Brilliant Wiki-enabled Blogs

For quite a while now, blogs.msdn.com has been populated with Microsofties, independent developers, and interested third parties like IT admins.

Somehow, this seems to have slipped under the radar of the mainstream press, and has gone without a major press release from Microsoft.

Part of me understands the move. You don't exactly want to tell the world that you're giving every employee at your company the ability to talk about whatever they want, sometimes making mistakes as they go.

You also don't want to make public announcements that you'll be allowing your customers to write your documentation because you often leave holes in it.

In the meantime, they've gone and done both those things, and it's brilliant.

http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/05/12/130556.aspx just saved my butt at work. It's not official Exchange documentation, but someone at MS saw that a whole bunch of people were calling in with the same trouble, and grouped all the resources into one spot so that you don't have to pull your hair out while every user calls you to tell you that the email is down.

Once the poster had written the initial article, it was then open for Wiki-style editing. Anyone who comes to the page can add to the bottom of it! If I have something to say that adds to the recovery procedure, I just comment right on the page, and hopefully others will benefit from it.

I first saw the brilliance of the Wiki enabled manual at MySQL.com. Their technical documentation was lacking at the time, but the comments at the bottom saved me time and time again as other users wrote in with the fixes to their problems (and to mine.)

Is Microsoft quietly learning a lot of the right lessons from Open Source? Lesson 1 - "Your users are your army, let them help themselves and each other." - learned.

I hate to say it, but score one for Redmond.

7:08 pm | permalink | /technology/web | 1 writebacks |

Crow, Dark City Director at "I, Robot" Helm

Until a few minutes ago, I had absolutely no intention of seeing I, Robot in theaters. Taking Asimov's forward thinking, intellectual stories which have already seen 2 Hollywood adaptations (A.I.* and Bicentennial man) and giving them the "T2/Matrix" plot didn't really appeal to me.

There's a new variable in the equation that has my curiosity peaked though. The director of The Crow and Dark City, two movies which at least evoke special feelings for me even if they aren't technically superb, is behind this new mega-budget behemoth.

I'm very curious to see the direction the film takes now. Alex Proyas (The Director) has a very distinct comic-booky style, and I can see a great portion of this movie being devoted to discussion of sentience and what makes something "alive," where as before I had assumed it would just be a robot/murder/chase movie.

I don't know if I'll go opening night, but between Proya's cool visual style and the possibility of a *smart* sci-fi movie, my hopes are certainly a bit higher now than they were after seeing the ads around NYC.

*AI was not directly based on an Asimov tale, but was heavily influenced by his stories and echos many of Asimov's themes.

Stolen from Wired, boingboing, and Cory Doctorow, who wrote the article.

6:36 pm | permalink | /technology/film | 0 writebacks |

Cockamamie Gadget Ideas

Every once in a while I see something and think how marketable it could be if just tweaked a little bit and put in a bevy other other devices.

I believe Nokia has hit on just such a goldmine with their "Light Writing" phone for midair messaging. A small row of LED's and a cheap accelerometer allow you to "write" in the air by flashing the diodes in sequence.

The technology is nothing new - LED signs work on the same principal, scrolling the words across many rows rather than moving one row along.

Two ideas came to immediately after seeing this. First, why not make the display bigger. Imagine a jump-rope full of LEDs drawing 6' pictures in the air at raves and flashing messages at protests as the owner spun it around.

Second, with all the blue LED's on the highway already, why not use this same technology to write in the air as you pass bystanders and other vehicles. It'd certainly be at least a somewhat better use of the technology than just lighting up blue and going back and forth like night rider.

Come on, if you're already taunting the cops with your pimp-mobile mods and blue lights, why not go the whole distance and be able to key in "eat my dust" as you fly by at 120mph, "Out of my way" as you pass those slowpokes doing the speed limit, and then "Ouch!" as you slam into the guardrail.

Ridiculous as it seems, I bet this is on Pepboys shelves by this time next year.

2:30 pm | permalink | /technology/gadgets | 2 writebacks |

Bachelor's Party Solutions

Thanks to everyone who gave ideas for Bachelor's Party Fun, both upstate and down.

Some things are starting to come together, and I just came a across a great site, saying many of the same things that I've been saying.

http://www.foreverwed1.com/articles/bachelor/45982g.html

Not a last gasp

Christopher Robbins, the owner and founder of the Hickory Group, a marketing company in New York, held his bachelor party a few weeks ago at his family's country house in Bondville, Vt.

His father and best man, Ken Robbins, organized the party, bringing about a dozen friends together for three days of practically nonstop canoing, biking, golf, billiards, darts, Frisbee and volleyball.

"My dad titled it a last gasp, but a bachelor party for me is an amazing beginning," Robbins said. "The experience of the whole weekend solidified my friendships for the future. It wasn't like `This guy is going to be lost to the winds of marriage.' It was not a goodbye. It was a rekindled hello."

That sounds just about right.

5:03 pm | permalink | /life | 0 writebacks |

Organic-Tribal Kaleidoscope Art

I've been doodling organic tribal designs for years now, using the activity to occupy my brain when I need to keep engaged through any long period of focus. Although it seems antithetical to paying attention, I am actually much more able to concentrate when my visual brain is active. Doodling provides exactly that stimulus while I'm in meetings, listening to lectures, or brainstorming.

Recently, I've become really happy with the way the little drawings have been coming out, and I've started scanning them to clean them up on the computer.

The resulting art was a bit bland, and I wanted a way to join my doodles into a more cohesive design, incorporating symmetry and geometric patterns into the organic flow of the inked art.

Today I stumbled upon the wonderful kaleidoscope filter in PSP 7, and these little drawings are the result. the resulting patterns are very neat and incorporate my doodles well - I may finally have something to fill the boatload of frames that the previous tenant of our apartment left behind.

Beware that if you click on the full image, (it goes thumbnail -> small image -> full image) you'll be waiting for a while as these are very high resolution images for printing.

5:33 pm | permalink | /life/art | 2 writebacks |

The Modern Bachelor's Party

Here's a open question for anyone reading today. What the heck do you do at a "clean" bachelor's party.

Here's the problems - I'm not a big fan of the objectification of women, and strip joints have always seemed sleazy and unappealing to me. We've also got a semi-limited budget, so running out to Vegas or something isn't really an option. By the same token, I'm not exactly an outdoors-man either.

What do you do for a geeky bachelors party?!?!

I can't be the first guy with the same aversions - so I'm taking suggestions - What would you do?

5:44 pm | permalink | /life | 6 writebacks |

Honda VS Harley in Two Markets?

Looks like one of the big bike makers is finally stepping up to the plate to take on Harley-Davidson.

At least as far as the general population knows, Honda has almost exclusively made bikes known as "crotch rockets," road speedsters more likely to attracted racers rather than the archetypal "biker."

Meanwhile, Harley-Davidson has spent decades carefully managing and cultivating it's "bad" image, which has earned them a fanatically dedicated consumer base and the ability to charge obscene amounts for the privilege of owning a "hog." It will be interesting to see if the squeaky clean Honda can compete in the same market by making good looking cruisers that cost a whole lot less.

Conversely, and perhaps, not coincidentally, Harley is now looking to expand into the Asian market where the burgeoning economy is just beginning to afford it's population the luxury of owning bikes like Harleys. A partnership with Zongshen, China's leading bike maker, is reportedly in the works to make this happen.

5:36 pm | permalink | /technology/gadgets | 0 writebacks |

Matsushita's "Sleep Room" for Insomniacs

Boing boing is running a piece about Matsushita's new and pricey "Sleep Room" for Insomniacs.

Essentially, it's a really comfortable flat surface in a room that lulls you to sleep.

Yeah, I've already got one of those. It's called a BED. My problem isn't that I can't sleep when I'm there, it's actually getting in it!

In all honesty, although this thing sounds pretty nice, I'd be interested to hear how many insomniacs think it would change anything about their habits, or if their sleep-dep routines would keep them away from their "Sleep room" just as it does their "Bed room."

5:11 pm | permalink | /technology/gadgets | 0 writebacks |

Speed and Bill

Last night, I ended up hanging out with a few of Miriam's friends. While this is normally an experience in and of itself as Miriam's friends are often colorful and intelligent, last night, we would be hanging out with Speed.

To Preface:

When you get Roadrunner, they can't help but give you 40 or so cable channels even if you don't pay for them. I don't really understand the glitch that makes it possible, but for some reason, when we just had internet for a few months at the apartment, we got the basic channels and a few odd ones like the Independent Film Channel. Because it was our only source of movies and anything that wasn't a crappy sitcom or a rerun, we watched a whole lot of it, and caught a movie called "The Cruise."

IMDB sums it up as an "Affectionate portrait of Tim "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses..." More than just a portrait, the movie is a platform for Speed's ruminations on living life, really "seeing" the world, the city, the things around you, and everything in between. When he's talking, you often feel that he lives in a world completely apart from ours, looking at everything from a very different perspective. At the core of it, you really don't know if he's brilliant, or crazy, or both.

Check out this interview over at citypaper.net to really get a feel for what Speed is about.

So hanging out with him was a lot of fun, but I realized we were neglecting the person who's apartment it actually was, and struck up conversations with Bill.

Turns out that Speed's friend Bill Brunner is actually really awesome too. He at first seemed shy and maybe a bit apprehensive at having a gaggle of young 20 somethings overrun his apartment, but once I got talking to him, he had a lot to say and was a lot of fun. I didn't probe him too much for info, but I did get out of him that he travels the world working as an architect, and most recently worked on two houses on the incredibly impressive Managua Cathedral (Catedral de Managua) with Legorreta Architects. He was very cool to talk to, and I wish that Tate, our resident up-and-coming architect at Common Ground had been there to chat as well.

1:10 pm | permalink | /life | 2 writebacks |

Sometimes No News Isn't Good News

There's nothing going on in the nation right now. No bombings, no terrorism, no real change in Iraq.

I know this, not because the news hacks at CNN + elsewhere actually come out and say it, but because they've spent the last 5 days covering Ronald Reagan's funeral.

Yes, it's sad that he died. Yes, he was a president. The problem is, these are the only to facts that have been full and accurate truths in all of the "over and over" coverage. I only watched for 5 minutes here a nd there while I was trapped in an office or store where it was on the tube.

Jimmy Breslin's article over at NY Newsday sums it up beautifully.

1:37 am | permalink | /life/politics | 0 writebacks |

Green Roofs Come to NYC

New York is starting to push the concept of "Green Buildings," offering incentives to designers and builders to include environmentally friendly concepts into their structures. The "Green Roof" is a main feature of this movement, providing a landscaped park on the top of the building as a community space and also to help regulate water runoff and heat.

On the large scale, if enough buildings were to change their massive black-tar rooftops to "Green Roofs." it would both lower the temperature in the city by 2-3 degrees and significantly reduce the amount of rainwater runoff the sewage system needs to handle. Check out the article in Natural Health's July Issue for more information.

O C V Architects are one of the main proponents of the Green Building initiative in New York, and they're designing Common Ground's Christopher Nels Larson Residence. Presumably, once phase 2 of construction is complete, the rooftop will be refashioned into into a landscaped park. I can't wait to hang out up there and eat lunch, all while helping the environment. Mmm... Tasty activism.

1:09 am | permalink | /life/nyc | 0 writebacks |

Speaking of Will Ferrell

Speaking of Will Ferrell, while googling for the correct spelling of his name (I tried Farrell first, and had a feeling I was off base), I found this little nugget:

Will Ferrell's Apple Switch ad/spoofs

Stolen from: TechnoJunkie.org, who's name is WAY catchier than GlitchNYC.

10:48 pm | permalink | /technology/web | 0 writebacks |

Pimping the Comedy

During his visit, Jon brought us out to Comic Strip Live to catch Jim Gaffigan, and we ended up getting roped into the entire three and a half hour show. Aside from my butt being incredibly sore from the unforgiving chairs, the comedy was quite decent. There were a couple of real gems, including Mr. Gaffigan himself. Check out his stuff if you're a fan of Brian Regan or Will Ferrell.

The night ran long and the audience was thin and cranky by the end which brought out both the best and the worst of the comics in the latter half of the evening. Some of those that get a mention here came up against us late nighters and still gave a great set, even though there weren't many of us left to laugh.

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8:46 pm | permalink | /life | 0 writebacks |

GIJoe Public Service Announcement Redux

I'm a little late to the game here, but I had to add the link now that I've watched them. Fensler Films has redone the "And knowing is half the battle!" shorts from the end of G. I. Joe, added wacky dialog, and put them up on the net. The result is zany and hilarious in a way that only half-assed uncensored Internet media can be.

They're worth the download, check out at least 3 of them before you write them off, as they get funnier as you catch on, much like Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Now, the big question is, will these get stale after watching 16 of them, the same way that Aqua Teen is starting to for me? You'll have to watch them an find out.

Stolen from Arden & EBaumsWorld

7:56 pm | permalink | /technology/web | 0 writebacks |

Seth MacFarlane, Creator of Family Guy, Hosting Adult Swim

Seth MacFarlane, Creator of Family Guy and also the voice of Peter Griffin / Stewie Griffin / Brian Griffin / Glen Quagmire / Tom Tucker / Various Voices, will be hosting Adult swim July 11-15th, with possible clips from the new episodes.

For those that don't know, Family Guy will be returning to the airwaves Summer 2005 as a direct result of it's success on Cartoon Network and on DVD.

Sidebar: I Ripped this story from TvTome - the IMDB of TV. It's amazing how quick this site has become an invaluable resource, even surpassing IMDB at times as it provides complete episode breakdowns, anecdotal information, and news feeds about tons of shows.

11:00 am | permalink | /technology/tv | 0 writebacks |

JustWearBlack.com - New York Nightlife

If you're in New York and looking for something to do, check out JustWearBlack.com. I agree with almost all of their picks, and will have to check out a few of the other places they mention. Looks like we've finally got some new happy hour spots!

The story of how I got to that page is a funny if risque aside

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12:10 am | permalink | /technology/web | 0 writebacks |

Early Game Over for UPN's Aptly Titled CG Animated Show

Walking in Times Square last night, I noticed a billboard for a new computer animated prime-time show called "Game Over." I'd never heard of it before, and I was kind of excited by the idea of CG animation breaking into prime-time.

The premise seemed a bit like a reboot ripoff but the characters looked like they might be interesting enough, and if it had as much madcap humor as it was touting it might have done well.

Amazingly, the Times Square billboard seems to have outlasted the series by a couple of months. Imagine the advertising cost of getting that thing up there, and then the face they're losing for every person who goes looking for the show only to find it gone. Case in point, I was going to blog here about the "New show" and instead I'm highlighting UPN's idiocy.

It seems that if you're going to put something like a TV show on your network, you have two choices. Either decide that it is brilliant and then stand by it, waiting through the inevitable low ratings until people warm up to the show, or decide that it is crap and can it. Somehow the network exec's are missing this entirely, canceling good shows and endlessly plying new crap on us each season to see if we miraculously like some of the drek.

11:33 pm | permalink | /technology/tv | 0 writebacks |

Covet

I'm generally not one to let my technolust drive my purchases.

I've got a 1.4ghz PC, and that's just fine.

Ancient ATI 128 Graphics board? Works for me.

15" 1024x768 monitor...Hang on a minute.

I've been working on an LCD generously bartered from my old place of work, since we live on the 3rd floor, right next to the power lines, and their 60Hz magnetic interference, which screws up all CRTs. The problem is, this thing is such a postage stamp that I'm limited to working in 1024, where I can't see anything but the window I'm working on, and forget doing anything like art or video editing on it. I can't see the images under my tools!

Now I find myself drooling over this:
The Ultimate LCD : Samsung's 240T 24 Inch Wide-screen Display

24 inches of 1900 x 1200 wide-screen bliss. Wow.

I'm going to need to get myself a "decent but fairly cheap" flatpanel pretty soon, or I might do something rash... Hmm... Maybe just another 15" for dual monitor.

1:23 pm | permalink | /technology/gadgets | 2 writebacks |

Who's the Girl in the Beagle.24 Virus Messages

Beagle.24 (aka WORM_BAGLE.X) is still running rampant on a few systems, and has spammed our directors account with some very heavily socially engineered emails designed to lure lonely computer geeks into clicking.

The address is also forged to look like it's coming from inside our machine, and with no SPF (or Microsoft CallerID) patch from M$, we're stuck getting these. We're going to have to check out the open source spf exchange plugin soon if this gets any worse.

Check out how creepy these emails are. I know quite a few people who might click on something like this if they thought for a minute it was real.

My big question: who are these poor girls that have ended up all over the internet, in a virus email no less! How bad would that suck to have someone you know get this thing if it was you?

12:22 pm | permalink | /technology/microsoft | 0 writebacks |

Harry Potter 3 Game is Out Today

The Prisoner of Azkaban PS2 game is out today, and we'll either be renting it or buying it soon. Sara and I both thoroughly enjoyed playing through Harry Potter 2 on the PS2; the puzzles were interesting and fun, and the action thankfully errs on the side of being too easy, giving you just enough challenge while not burning you out because you're stuck for hours. Sara rarely hands me the controller in exasperation while playing this series.

The games steal a lot from other 3rd person titles like Tomb Raider, Tenchu, and Metal Gear, but in doing so mix up the game play enough that you're entertained throughout, whereas you can tire easily of just creeping around all the time, or just blasting stuff while you run.

The new installment is getting decent reviews, and seems to be similar in play to the first two, although you can play as Ron and Hermione in this one, and there are more side games. New to this edition are 2 player mini-games like dueling club and "Flying Seahorse Fishing." For owners of the Eye-toy, there's also a set of HP themed games which you can play with up to 4 friends.

9:56 am | permalink | /technology/games | 0 writebacks |

You've got Degrassi and Rosco at 8 - The N Has Got It.

The N is starting up it's summer schedule this week, with new episodes of many shows, including "Degrassi - The Next Generation." Nearly everyone who knows us has heard us sing the praises of this cheesy little TV show as being the new "My So Called Life," the holy grail of Teen Dramas. Ironically, The N has also started running My So Called Life, you can compare and contrast the two.

They're running "every episode ever" all week, with season four starting this friday at 8, 10, and 12.

Unfortunately most of America won't get to see the show as it's running on Canadian TV and exclusively on The N here in the states which is generally only included in Digital Cable lineups. Known as "Noggin'" during the day, The N (the-n.com) is a new breed of cable station, pulling in a highly specialized programming schedule to appeal to a very tight demographic. Amazingly, they have yet to (and hopefully never will) leverage that marketing pull, choosing instead to only show station-branding commercials and fun little in-betweeners. We originally started watching for the Daria reruns, and got pulled in by their other shows.

If you're not up to date on the show and have some time to kill, watch the marathon this week, and then tune in for the new episode. Call me a dork, but I've been waiting all winter! Bring it on!

1:56 pm | permalink | /technology/tv | 0 writebacks |