Unfortunate dish

Well, my Roku HD1000 Media Streaming thingy arrived last Thursday. I was all ready for it, with a space on the shelf, a CompactFlash reader (necessary for system updates), and an ethernet connection to my network. Then  [more...]

I’m not quite sure how to take the news that Disney has swallowed up the Muppets. Back in the 90s, I remember that Disney tried to acquire them. Jim Henson died during that period, and I gather that there was some  [more...]

The State of the Union got terrible television ratings the other night. I was one of the millions and millions who didn’t watch. An example of the highs and lows: 26 million people watched “American  [more...]