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I’m not even going to ask. I’m just going to bask in the WHA?

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*dances around the room in silent rage*

UK channel ITV4 starts showing Minear’s The Inside this Friday. Unaired episodes I’ve been waiting for half a year to see. But as I don’t live in Jolly Old England, Fox has said that there’s no chance of it going to DVD, and there’s no way it’s going to be available on iTunes, I’ll be Inside-less.

No Adam Baldwin, no Katie Finneran, no Peter Coyote. No amusing appearances by other Minear vets. No twisted psychological content, gratuitous gore, or dark humor. Also, I totally forgot Lost was on tonight. A world without BitTorrent is a world that SUCKS.

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No new VM tonight. Woe! Ah well, there is a new Lost, and I guess this makes one more week before I start having to buy Lost off iTunes so that I can watch both.

Does anyone have any experience with downloading TV shows legally from iTunes? How much does the resolution suck? How soon are new episodes up after they air?

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It’s come to my attention that the MPAA and NBA are going after people that fileshare TV shows now. I’ve already heard of Penn students (one is a close friend) that have been served their first and only warning. And she wasn’t downloading movies or music or TV episodes that have already been released on DVD, we’re talking episodes from CURRENT seasons, from shows that aren’t yet available for legal download, like through iTunes. Shows that are on NETWORK TV, not cable or some other specialty channel you have to pay for, which I agree would be justified. While I think this is UNBELIEVABLY STUPID, I also don’t write the laws. Therefore, it’s off to Best Buy for me! I’m getting a VCR!

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Why do people take the time and effort to submit stuff to “What’s in a Name” when the same information is ALREADY THERE?

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YAY, BLOGGER IS WORKING AGAIN! *knocks on cheap faux-wood paneling*

The temporary downtime has prevented me from sharing my usual twaddle, but in a surprising shift, Ko has unwittingly compensated for my absence by posting four entries in the past three days, when they’re usually weeks apart! One unmissable post contains a handful of quotes from a hagiographic article about Ronald Reagan that reads like the result of a Harlequin romance Mad-Lib.

She also wrote about the shooting a few days ago, the second shooting in as many weeks and as many blocks from my dorm. The first was Christmas day, right across the street at the Philly Diner. The second was a couple blocks away, outside a 7-11 at 38th and Sansom. Ko was awake when it happened and heard the shots, then watched as the area swarmed with police vehicles. Both shootings happened at about 3AM, when only morons are out, but it’s still highly unsettling. Especially as I can see into Philly Diner from my dorm room window.

But that wasn’t the only thing noteworthy that happened this past weekend! Rebecca came down from New York to spend some time with me, her boy (Tom), and her brother (not necessarily in that order/priority. XD) Saturday night, she and Tom joined me and Ko for dinner (not at Philly Diner) and the requisite gab session afterwards. Tom and Rebecca are adorable together, and a splendid time was had by all. The next afternoon, Erin (our hall advisor) organized an outing to see “Brokeback Mountain” and Rebecca joined me.

Today, I went to see a lecture with Rob Cook, VP of Research and
Development at Pixar. The word of the day is “gurgle.”

Links: Jimmy Kimmel’s Lost: the Musical (thanks to Voodoo), Self-proclaimed vampire running for governor of Minnesota (thanks to Xionin), and MAN has Peter Jackson lost weight.