Lately we’ve been watching season 1 of Dexter. Oh wow! What an incredible show this is! Dexter is about a forensics blood splatter analyst who lives a secret life as a serial killer. The twist is that he only kills bad people. I guess I really get into the dark shows these days. So far we’ve always been eating when watching it, which is weird considering some of the stuff seen onscreen. Dexter is such an interesting character. Almost everyone on that show is at least a little crazy. Looks like I might be ordering Showtime before the next season starts.
I guess Movable Type pissed me off one too many times, so I just decided to try something different. I had been working some on trying to finalize those design changes I started on a while back. Yesterday I tried to upgrade to Movable Type 4.1 and things got screwed up. I wasn’t in a mood to try to figure out how to get things right again, so I decided to switch to something else. It gave me a chance to redesign the site and switch to a new platform. I decided on Wordpress. I’m sure I’ll have issues with Wordpress, but for now I’m happy. I even decided to pick out a theme from their website instead of spending a lot of time coming up with one on my own. One of the reasons I wasn’t blogging as much is that I wasn’t happy with the look of the site. Now I won’t be worrying about that. I’ll get the other pages up sooner or later.
I haven’t had the best string of luck lately. I watched Surface, which is another canceled series. It was pretty good, but I can see why it was canceled. The storyline seemed to move fairly slowly in the beginning, but it got better at the end. So some weird things are happening in the oceans and a new species is discovered. You find out some interesting secrets as you go along. It wouldn’t mind knowing what was going to happen now or finding out all the secrets, but I’m not beaten up over it.
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Over Christmas break I started watching season 1 of Sleeper Cell, which was a series that aired on Showtime. I finally got around to finishing it yesterday. It’s about a Muslim FBI agent whose task is to infiltrate a sleeper cell planning an attack in America. The box said that it’s better than 24, but I don’t think so. It’s ok, but some of the episodes did seem to drag on a little bit. I don’t if I’ll bother watching season 2. It won’t be anytime soon if I do.
Season 1 of Robot Chicken was hilarious. Each episode is about 10 minutes long and the sketches are mostly short. It’s the perfect kind of show for the ADD crowd. I plan to rent season 2 and then probably download season 3 from iTunes.
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My first book of the New Year is Playing for Pizza, which is a short novel by John Grisham. This is his third short novel and the second one in a row that is football-related. I like these short novels because they are SHORT and they are a break from his legal thrillers. PfP is about a third-string NFL quarterback who blows a big playoff game and afterwards nobody in the NFL wants him. He ends up playing for the Parma Panthers in the Italian version of the NFL. Most of the Italian players don’t get salaries, but instead get pizza and beer after the games. I guess I’m just not as big of a football fan as I used to be, so I don’t think I enjoyed this as much as I would have 3 or 4 years ago. The football/team bonding scenes were okay…nothing mindblowing. The love story part of the book was a little boring and I glossed over some of it. Grisham spends a lot of time making me hungry talking about wine and food and it’s obvious that he has spent some time in Italy (he confirms it in the back of the book). Yes, there is a real Parma Panthers team. Did you know that Parmesan cheese gets its name from that place? Since I’m a Grisham fan, I’m glad that I read it, but it’s not my favorite Grisham book.
- Timeline, Michael Crichton
- On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
- On Truth, Harry G. Frankfurt
- Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
- Night Watch, Sergey Lukyanenko
- Day Watch, Sergey Lukyanenko
- Twilight Watch, Sergey Lukyanenko
- Final Watch, Sergey Lukyanenko
- The Taking, Dean Koontz
- Watchmen, Alan Moore
- His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik
- Throne of Jade, Naomi Novik
- Black Powder War, Naomi Novik
- Empire of Ivory, Naomi Novik
- Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare
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