Bahahahahaa!

This site is an great buzz generator for the upcoming Simpson's film. It built by the charming folks who took over the online advertising for Burger King.

http://www.simpsonizeme.com/

This Flash app takes a photo you submit and turns you into a Simpson character.

Last night, I finally sat down to watch the last episode of Battlestar Galactica, season two. I downloaded it overnight on a prior day. I was willing to put the prior issues aside and enjoy the final segment of season two with a fine glass of Pinot Noir.

What's that iTunes? Got a little more fight left in ya?

Either the new iTunes client needs additional display resources, or the quality of the video is so enhanced, that my measley laptop cannot perform a dual display of the projector and the laptop screen.

At first, I thought the entire full screen mode was broken as the projection show static images of the video, about a second apart. Its not fun watching a television show as a series of Flickr images so I started thinking about other modes of viewing, including just using the laptop itself.

Finally, it hit me that the resources on my laptop were probably insufficient to run on both the laptop screen and the projection screen. Unlike all of my prior downloads on iTunes...

When I set the laptop to display on the projection system only, not dual display, the video returned to an acceptable state. As I was watching the otherwise fantastic end to season two, I kept wondering, hey, did I just see the video stutter a second ago?

As late bloomer for the current Battlestar Galatica series, I'm trying to catch up before the third series starts this fall.

I've really been digging iTunes for that. It's helped me catch up on The Office too. Just $1.99 per episode. I plug my laptop into my projection system and watch it in all its glory in my basement with fake surround sound and a phat woofer.

So, being late to the party, version numbers are important. I was a keen watcher of the column named Episode Number. A sip too much of the sauce, coupled with a phat fingering of the keyboard could have me watching the wrong episode. Perhaps ruining an entire plot line if I didn't realize it soon enough.

So with all of my powers of due diligence, I carefully sorted by the Episode Number column. Then, one day, I ran across this gem: no matter what I did, episode T2218 would always wedge itself between T2211 and T2212. Since I'm too lazy to search the Interweb, I can only assume its an intential gaff of the number sequence that we all know and love. It is the the follow up to a to-be-continued episode, but still. Can't you count right?