Gimpysoft

Jericho, you can kiss my ass. If you haven’t been watching this wonderful show set in post-apocalyptic Kansas, let me save you the trouble. Each of the four episodes has consisted of about 40 minutes of some completely inane crisis-du-jour (fallout! library fire!) interspersed with about three total minutes of a mildly intriguing [...]

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Well, another day of NFL Sunday Ticket. Green Bay finally managed to eke out a win, though they did everything they could to give it away at the end. I actually spent a good chunk of time during the early game messing around with the audio settings on the satellite receiver and my [...]

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Good news: There is a Wire blog, Heaven and Here.
Bad news: The writers of the blog have HBO On Demand, so they’re watching the show one week ahead of us Satellite heads.
Guess I’ll have to read carefully. Hell, one of their first posts adresses this very topic:
What this also says is “fuck [...]

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After gorging on all 39 episodes in Seasons 1-3 of The Wire in the space of ten days over the summer, having to wait a week between every episode in Season 4 is a bit maddening.  I did get my DirecTV installed in time for the official premiere of Season 4, and yeah, it’s pretty [...]

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The installer showed up about an hour late, but I have no complaints as he installed the system in a pouring rainstorm.
There is a channel called “Game Mix” that shows up to eight games at once, and allows you to select which audio track to listen to. You can then press “Select” to zoom [...]

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My cable install was supposed to be Tuesday morning. There was a mix-up at the cable company and I ended up taking a half-day off work for nothing as nobody showed to install my cable. Given another few days to think about it, I changed my mind. No, I’m not going to [...]

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Yes, Season 4 of The Wire and football on ESPN have in fact broken me. The cable installers aren’t even coming by until tomorrow, but we’re already deep in our TV coma. Bex was good enough to buy seasons Three and Four of NewsRadio. We’ve been on a binge over the weekend. [...]

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After almost two years of Being Better Than You, I finally have to cave and get cable again. Yesterday was a kind of stressful day at work, but all day I was thinking how great it was going to be to grab a six pack on the way home and drink some beers while [...]

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This is pretty cool. HBO is now featuring Season 1 of The Wire on HBO on Demand. In August, Seasons 2 and 3 will be available on HBO on Demand. The cool part is that in the fall when Season 4 premieres they’re going to air the new episodes on HBO on [...]

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