Pizza Bites

This didn't turn out as well as I had hoped — the crust was too thick, the sauce didn't complement the toppings, and the lox lost most of its flavor in the oven — and my inexperience with the Droid camera made it look less appetizing than it actually was, but even so:

Bagels in the morning,
Bagels in the evening,
Bagels at suppertime!
When bagels are on a pizza,
You can eat bagels anytime!

Get off my lawn

When I see a headline on Digg like, "BREAKING: Twitter Acquires Tweetie," my eyes involuntarily roll back in their sockets and I can't help but wonder how the world could possibly get any more inane.

I am officially old now.

Lots of weather tonight

Hail is more intimidating when your living room has a patio door.

I hope my car's okay.

TCM, you're so clever

Turner Classic Movies has been running a tribute to Akira Kurosawa this month (i.e., showing a bunch of his stuff every week). This Tuesday, they will be showing Rashomon and Seven Samurai.

Tonight, they're showing The Outrage and The Magnificent Seven.

I think we all know what "CBS" stands for

So, I've been watching the online feed of the MSU-Maryland game, because the CBS affiliate in the Chicago area has decided to focus on Ohio State instead.

My understanding of how local/regional commercials are supposed to work is that the national broadcaster sends everyone a continuous TV feed, along with some instructions on when the local advertisements may be inserted. The local affiliates cut to their own commercials during these spans of time, and then cut back to the national feed when time is up. The national feed usually fills this space with some extra commercials rather than just having dead air, which is why you will sometimes see brief slivers of national ads bookending local ones. I could very well be wrong — I don't work in the TV business — but that's what I've been told.

Twice, now, the online feed has spent about thirty seconds showing a pulled-back shot of the arena with some statistics overlaid. The announcers haven't been saying much during these breaks. In fact, they don't seem to realize that they're on the air at all. Instead, I've been listening to the bands play, along with occasional snippets of announcer audio like this:

• "Yep. Yep."
• "We already talked about that."
• *laughter*
• *whistling the song the band was just playing*
• "How long until we're back?"

I didn't realize TV was so hard.

Infuriatingly bad joke #2

Spent all day in the house, 'cause it snowed
Watched Alone in the Dark, even though
Time and time again, I'd seen it panned, on some web site

Stop the press

There is an active State Farm agent whose last name is Totoro.