Category: ramblings

I’ve had a PS3 for a almost three years now, and I love it. Not so much for games, but I use it as a Blu-ray player more than anything else. And it was a really good BD player. It’s fast and responsive, unlike most other BD players I’ve tried. Its best feature, perhaps, was…

Just one call to Joe Hadeed. Now if I could only find the jingle for McKay’s Food Store in Southern Maryland.

Delightful murder mystery solved by a lush of an ex-detective and his wife. Fun dialogue reminiscent of Howard Hawkes films.

I haven’t bought a ton of stuff through 3rd-party sellers on Amazon (I mainly try to stay with things that are eligible for Amazon Prime, since I’ve subscribed to that.) What little I have done, I’ve never really had any problems with. Just a couple of weeks ago, however, I ordered this replacement Nikon BM-5…

I was just thinking about various consumer and pro HD formats now in common use for both production and delivery, and tried to rank them according to perceived quality (in terms of capacity to retain detail and color information). What other formats am I missing? What do you disagree with? The notations in parentheses indicate…

Since we moved house last year, I’ve played a fair amount of Rock Band with the kids, which has kept my occasional urge to compose music at bay; but I haven’t even unpacked my keyboard/controller in all this time, and I’ve been starting to feel really bad about it. So, I decided, hey, it’s been…