Lawrence O’Donnell has Keith Olbermann’s former 8 PM weekday slot on MSNBC, and tonight he’s ripped apart “Irish bully” Bill O’Reilly. O’Donnell’s style can occasionally be combative, but tonight he’s his more typically controlled and metered self, and he’s done a good job of picking apart O’Reilly and what passes for news at Fox.
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Mark Sinnott has announced that his dad, Marvel Comics legend Joe Sinnott, will have some of his fantastic art on display at the Dutch Ale House in Joe’s hometown of Saugerties, NY. The opening for the two-month showing will be next Sunday, February 20 at 3 pm, and I’m hoping to be there with D.F. Rogers, esq. Denro has done an incredible job of locating issues of comic books for Joe that he worked on decades ago, where Joe had only the story title on file because the publisher didn’t have a specific issue in mind for the assignment.
Mark is the world’s biggest Jethro Tull fan, and at this moment one of Ian Anderson’s flutes is in orbit on the International Space Station, with astronaut Catherine Coleman.
It was Perm Week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Scott was worried they might do something to his own back-length hair; but, as you can see, he escaped unscathed. Which is a good thing for us too, his co-workers at the office!
Here’s the video. Don’t know how long it’ll be available, so watch it now.
Knowing that you can’t stand the suspense of waiting to find out what my new desktop computer will be, I’ve already ordered one. It’s an Acer Veriton M275 E7600, and having soured on Dell, it will be the third Acer computer in the house.
Ugly box, eh? It’s intended to be a business computer, and that’s why it interests me, because it has Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), which is $80 more retail than Windows 7 Home Premium, but $100 more when ordering it as part of a customized Dell configuration. I’m fairly confident the 500 GB hard drive from the Dell Inspiron is still good, and the new computer also has a 500 gig disk, so I’m hoping to use Windows RAID 1 mirroring. I vaguely recall there are hassles when doing this on a C: drive, but I’ll either figure it out or add the second disk as a D: drive.
My external Western Digital USB drive has hardware RAID 1 mirroring. Unfortunately, it appears that WD has discontinued their Mirror Edition drives, but fortunately Amazon still has some, so I grabbed one.
Scott Murawski is a guitarist who tours with Mike Gordon, from Phish. Scott’s day job has him stuck working with me. He’s not at the office today, because tonight Scott will be appearing with Mike Gordon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
When synchronized sound came to the movies, American film studios no longer had a universal product that only needed the title cards translated into different languages to be exported to markets around the world. Dubbing spoken dialog has never been a satisfactory alternative, except for cartoons.
Thanks to the ubiquitous distribution of American silent movies in their day, every so often copies show up in other countries. The latest example is a cache of American films that were preserved in Russia.
