Timmy: “Are we gonna discover the secret of life, Mr. Wizard?”
Mr. Wizard: “We will if we’re not careful, Timmy!”
—”Mr. Wizard and Timmy” parody by Stevens & Grdnic
I’m not old enough to have seen the original “Watch Mr. Wizard” show, and I hadn’t even heard of Don Herbert’s more recent Nickelodeon series “Mr. Wizard’s [...]

Hanford Lemoore and I were both early employees of ReplayTV.  Hanford writes about how he became a DVR user more than a year before any were available commercially, and how he has now gone DVRless for over year.
I watched very little television before using a DVR.  I would set my VCRs to record the few [...]

People do crazy things for love, and apparently NASA astronauts are no exception. On a mailing list, a friend wrote “We’ll never get to Mars at this rate.”
Actually I think we can fund the Mars mission(s) via advertising by making it a “reality” TV show, as well as by government-run gambling.

Phase 1: Lottery [...]

From Boing Boing: US Navy SEALs see unknown ape in Africa,
They look virtually identical to the gravelings seen in the series “Dead Like Me” (images here and here).

Boing Boing describes a $25K bounty for hacks to the new DirecTV PVR to allow usinng a different (higher-capacity) hard drive, multiple drives, etc. They state that they specificially don’t want anything that will bypass the DRM or Tivo’s service fees.
Those caveats are a shame, because the best upgrade to a Tivo would be [...]

OK, so it’s not an official studio release, just a DVD someone has assembled from video cassette recordings, but it was still great to see it again after all these years. I watched the pilot episode this evening. I’m not sure I’d seen the pilot previously, but I think I saw most of [...]

Steve and I have been enjoying the DVDs of the first season of Jeremiah. I thought I’d seen most of them when originally broadcast, but I missed more of them than I realized.
Steve, Dan, and I saw “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” recently, and we really liked it. Don’t expect Jim [...]