You guys think you're sick of woody Paige? I've been reading that guy's collumns literally since I learned to read, and I can't stand that idiot. As a life long broncos fan, he was pretty much unavoidable, at least until the internet came along. and even then it took a while for reliable sports blogs to emerge as a…

the KOTH finale was excellent, IMO. I hadn't watched it in a few years (I had forgotten it was on - Fox seemed to air it's seasons at odd times of the year). but I recorded the finale when I heard about it just out of curiosity and was impressed with how they managed to make it both funny and dramatic, and resolved…

I've known people who've walked out of theaters, and god knows I've wanted to walk out of a couple myself (for some reason actually walking out of the theater would be more depressing than just sitting it out in my opinion. At least there's the chance that it gets good at the end if you sit it out). But I've never…

Dynamic range compression was a big feature on home theater systems in the late '90's. The idea is that you turn it on when you're watching movies in surround sound late at night so that the volume doesn't spike during the action scenes quite so much, while still allowing you to hear the dialog during quieter scenes.

I definitely remember DIVX - at the time I was selling electronics for Sears, and we didn't have DIVX players, which was a real pain in the ass. It seems silly now, but there was a good 6 months or so there where Circuit city was nearly successful in convincing consumers that DIVX was going to take off and DVD players…

Hey, I'll defend MD here - it really was superior technology at the time ("at the time" being the key phrase here). Personally, I was tired of getting my CD's all scratched up and hauling them back and forth between my home and car in a massive CD book. CD burners were brand-new, and cost about $500-$600. Digital…

yeah, the one where Alex rents out rooms in their house for the big game is a pretty sweet episode. sure, it's pretty farcical by today's standards, but Michael gross's monologue is pure gold:

The Monster at The End of This Book FTW!
I must've made my mom get all the way to the end of that book about a million times as a kid, and it never seemed to get old. In retrospect, I know now that she wasn't really afraid of the monster, and I knew that then too I guess. but damned if wasn't fun anyway… I think I'll…

Probably First Contact if you ask me. You know they're going back to that well eventually, why drag it out? They'd have been better off pulling in some cash from an actions-style Trek movie and then spending on a good Sci-Fi story along the lines of TMP (without space pajamas though).

I think that the thing with Kirk's Nexus is that Picard visits Kirks' Nexus on the first day in which Kirk gets there, 80 years prior. That's why Kirk notices the difference in jumping his horse over the creek, because he's jumped it in reality, on earth, several times before, but this is the first time he jumps it in…

I like either of those ideas… certainly more interesting that chopping wood in a cabin. the closest connection that has to anything related to what we know about Kirk is that it appears to be in a vaguely Montana-like setting, and he was climbing El Captain in TFF (wait, make that "Making love to" El Capitan). Edith…

I disagree with any defense of generations that's based on Picard's interactions with Kirk, on the grounds that the entire crossover concept is a bad idea. Nimoy knew it, and so did Kelley (and when it comes to any aspect of TOS Trek, I defer to Nimoy's judgement. Let's not forget he essentially saved the entire…

Jared diamond makes" hypothesis that the reason why Europeans were able to do things like breed beasts of burden, develop large scale agriculture, and eventually build high-density cities and sophisticated civilizations is merely a lucky trick of geology in his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel". Europe, specifically the…

Damn! that went completely over my head… I can't believe I thought it was a formatting error, even though I knew an error that egregious would have been pointed out hours ago by our thoroughly geeky commenting community.

@ billy: agreed. It really ties into the entire Q arc in a valuable way if you ask me. the series has seemed to get away from the whole "Q challenging humanity to evolve" theme recently, the more I revisit these episodes, the more I'm convinced that Q's not really a villian at all. He's more like a particularly smarmy…

Seems to me he's got pretty damn solid grounds for a lawsuit. And I presume Eddie would like to get in on that action as well. At the minimum he should sic Julia on him and get a huge severance package out of it.

well, Amber recovered well enough to be out of the ICU and attending a play, so I obviously it was more than a day or so. But on the other hand, they only keep you in the hospital for 2-3 days anymore, so it seems a bit weird they'd still be there. and stranger still, why is Julia stopping by the hospital AFTER…

I enjoy the occasional references to the movie, particularly how they manage to tweak them just a bit and work them in to the plots in organic ways. The retainer thing was a pretty good example - it doesn't feel forced at all, because at first Adam is just convinced that Max didn't look hard enough for it, and then…

I think it builds up throughout the season. I didn't really watch it last season, becuase I assumed it'd be some lame sort of rip-off of the movie, but my wife insisted it was pretty good. so I started kinda half-watching it while doing other things whenever she was watching it, and it gradually sucked me in. it's…

I don't know that I'd exactly call what they do immoral, at least not the buying or selling part of it, which is all you ever see on the show. Pawning, in my opinion, is a bit more morally dubious because of the exorbitant interest rates involved. But what they're doing is essentially creating a market place for hard…