One might not expect me to have an opinion, but I do: I think the best cake decorator in the country is Bronwen Weber (her poor showing in Food Network’s “Last Cake Standing” notwithstanding–when she’s on she can’t be beat.) And I think the funniest is Geof Manthorne (of Food Network’s “Ace of Cakes“.) Funny [...]
Unlike, say, MTV, HGTV has done an excellent job of staying true to its roots. Turn it on at any point during the day and you’ll almost certainly find a show about either homes or gardens. Good luck finding something about music on MTV, let alone music videos. Sadly, there’s a lot on HGTV that [...]
I feared NBC’s Parks and Recreation would be little more than a thinly veiled rehash of The Office. Turns out my fears were unfounded: the show’s creators decided to forgo the veil entirely. The Office has its moments–enough of them that I continue to watch–but not so many that I need to see them reproduced [...]
Deb’s sister gave us her old Pioneer TiVos with built-in DVD burner, but one of them had a major problem: the RF in jack had come loose, spinning freely whenever I tried to attach coax cable and failing to provide signal to the tuner. Opening up the case, I saw the problem: the connection from [...]
“The prehistoric reptiles known as dinosaurs…” Exactly! Prehistoric. So why is the History Channel featuring a show about prehistory? Please, it’s bad enough that it’s the “Hitler Channel” half the time. In brief: if it’s from a time before written records, it’s not history anymore, it’s prehistory. Archeology, anthropology, paleontology, etc. all apply, but not [...]
The television feed of Germany’s dramatic victory in Euro 2008 was disrupted during the game on account of a power outage in Vienna. Per UEFA contracts all international TV feeds went through Vienna. The Swiss, however, had their own, separate, local feed for the game (since it was in Basel) and at least Germany (perhaps [...]