It'll Never Fly » tv http://wqoq.com Clever... not good, but clever. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:50:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3-beta1-18972 Favourite Reality TV Moments http://wqoq.com/2008/12/27/favourite-reality-tv-moments/ http://wqoq.com/2008/12/27/favourite-reality-tv-moments/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:09:41 +0000 Bob http://wqoq.com/?p=632 I’ve been keeping this as a draft until I could hunt down online videos I could embed, but that’s too much work, and I’m trying to do some spring cleaning on the blog here even though it’s still Winter and still 2008. Regardless, here it is. If you want videos, you’ll have to search for them yourself.

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I was talking to some coworkers this morning, and had never realized just how much I’ve watched over the years. Now, I’m not an aficionado. I have a few shows I’ll always watch, a few I’ll never watch, some that I either start or stop watching part way through a season, and some that I’ve skipped for multiple entire seasons in a row.

Here are some memorable moments I’ve seen over the years.

Fear Factor – Reality TV Stars (Fairplay razzing J&V / “The Fight”)
Trading Spouses – Crazy Christian Lady (“dark-sided!”)
Any Amazing Race stuff (Mosques = Starbucks, “They keep breeding and breeding”, naked diving, Colin: “My ox is broken” / “I hate you”, any Jonathan & Victoria, Brandon (in Amazing Race 5 in India): “Lord help her”, etc…)
Big Brother (Will winning BB2, Dan winning BB10, Nokomis backdooring Jase)
Apprentice – Trump fires four at once
Survivor – Ozzy blindsided in Fans vs. Favourites, Randy and the fake idol from latest season

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Rocket Robin Hood
The Mighty Hercules
You Can’t Do That On Television

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Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Who Altered British TV? ‘Who’ Indeed

“And he has done it with mainstream programs that are immensely popular. In the last three and a half years he has built “Doctor Who,” “Torchwood” and another spinoff, “The Sarah Jane Adventures,” into Britain’s most successful homegrown drama franchise.”

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YouTube – ParticleMen’s Channel

No way! No one ever told me TMBG had their own YouTube account!

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Collectorz.com Movie Collector Features

Looks like this might be the DVD cataloguing software I’ve been looking for for the Mac to replace my beloved CATVids on Windows.

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Labour Day Classics: Winnipeg-Saskatchewan

The history of the Labour Day Classic between Saskatchewan and Winnipeg since 1950.

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In Defense of Hulk

An actual positive review of Ang Lee’s Hulk. Other than the “panel-effect” editing, which I liked, I agree with it completely.

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Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

STEREO AUDIO SWITCH – A B Audio Switch Box

Stereo Audio Switch Products: Easily switch between two sources and one output; or one source and two outputs.

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Tivoli Audio, LLC – Model Three® Clock Radio in Metallic Taupe/Cherry

The Tivoli Audio® Model Three® AM/FM clock radio improves your mood from the moment you open your eyes.

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody

Fascinating article by Clay Shirky about society, free-time, human nature, and television.

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Atmospheric Optics

Very cool site detailing the science behind atmospheric optical formations such as rainbows, sundogs, halos, etc…, with photographed examples.

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Ned Batchelder: CSS Homer, animated

Román Cortés painstakingly created Homer Simpson using only coloured text and CSS. Even more amazing is that it even displays correctly in IE6!

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G. W. Bush in CSS

Román Cortés gives the same CSS treatment to George W. Bush.

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Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody

Fascinating article by Clay Shirky about society, free-time, human nature, and television.

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I always was a little creeped out by the name of the Tickle Trunk.

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Well, I had one of those moments two weeks ago while watching the programme Corner Gas on CTV HD. I was watching the episode entitled “Coming Distractions” when it came to the setting shot the show used to transition to the scene in the theatre. Lo and behold, that’s the very same theatre I frequent a couple times a week, which is less than a ten minute walk from home.

Maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised when that happens, considering they mainly film in a town not an hour’s drive away from the city, but I don’t care. It’s still pretty cool, nonetheless.

Maybe it’s because it’s shown nationally during prime time and has huge ratings. It’s not the same as Puttnam’s Prairie Emporium, which never left the studio AFAIK. And as cool as they are, local cable access channels don’t count either.

As for movies, I had it a few times watching Just Friends, but less so during The Messengers and not at all during Decoy.

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My apologies to Miss Judy Garland.

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Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends on Google Video – Boing Boing

Haven’t ever heard of this before, but it sounds like it’s right up my alley.

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DbVisualizer – The Universal Database Tool

I’ll have to try this.

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MoodBlast — Circle Six Blog

You’ve discovered MoodBlast, yet more software to help you stay on top of your web life by simultaneously updating multiple …

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    • ]]>     http://wqoq.com/2008/02/01/links-for-2008-02-01/feed/ 0     Eating Habits of the Middle Ages http://wqoq.com/2008/01/30/eating-habits-of-the-middle-ages/ http://wqoq.com/2008/01/30/eating-habits-of-the-middle-ages/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:51:18 +0000 Bob http://wqoq.com/2008/01/30/eating-habits-of-the-middle-ages/ I’m at work today, and I took a break to get up from my desk and walk to the cafeteria to grab a muffin and juice. Normally, I enter through the side entrace, situated at the end of the L-shaped dining area, which requires passing by all the tables before getting to the actual cafeteria area where you line up and purchase your food. The dining area is one of the larger rooms in the building, and is often “comandeered” for larger meetings between people, though signs will usually be posted and/or the doors will be closed.

    This morning, however, was a little different. As soon as I turned through the side entrance doorway, I spotted all the tables on the right hand side of the dining area had been converted into one incredibly long table, and was completely surrounding by people sitting and having a meeting. At first, I had to step back and see if there was a notice on the door, but there was not. Seems kinda odd to hold a meeting there during peak coffee break hours.

    But it kinda reminded me of all that stereotypical imagery of Medieval banquets involving long tables occupied by royalty and nobility. You know the kind.

    Anyway, it got me thinking. Usually, when you see those banquets scenes portrayed, the people are often only seated along one side of the table(s), with the tables positioned in one long row, semi-circle, or an open-sided square configuration. Portrayals always seem to imply this is for a courtyard of sorts or for entertainers to perform jokes, stunts, or music (e.g. the first series of Blackadder).

    My question is, after having looked through the Medieval cuisine article on Wikipedia, I’m a bit curious how often or infrequently (if it even ever happened at all). Obviously, I’m mainly just talking about the aristocracy and rolalty, not the layity.

    How often did they have meals in such grandiose fashion, and did they always just sit on one side or was that an invention of screen and television, so you could see the actors.

    The reason I ask is because I wonder if that one side of the table always gets worn down more than the other. And if so, do they rotate the position of the tables in between banquets to save on supplies?

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