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01-Aug-2020

HBO MAX still not on Roku. Bye bye HBO GO. Man, so frustrating. I really like Roku as a platform. I can of course use an HBO MAX app on an iOS device and stream to my Chromecast but what a pain. Dear Roku Customer, As you may know, HBO discontinued the HBO GO service on July 31, 2020. HBO GO had previously enabled cable...
16-Jan-2011

That Time When My URL Appeared On The TV Show Bones In August of last year I got an email from a fellow who was watching Bones on Netflix, and, well, here’s what they said: Hi Joe, You don’t know me, and I don’t know you, but I saw something odd in a fraction of a second on a TV show, and it lead me to...
25-Mar-2010

The day my twitter icon showed up on local TV Okay, maybe not that exciting. See it on a local tv station WSLS: Jay Learns How To Tweet. A screenshot:
02-Feb-2010

30 Rock Appreciation I have now looked at everything on the (not-safe-for-work named) blank yeah liz lemon. I was laughing maniacally at this site. Why? I don’t know, it’s not like I’ve not seen the images and heard the lines spoken, still, I laughed. Two selections, they may not make you laugh if you don’t watch the show,...
18-Jan-2010

Mark Cuban’s counterintuitive take on NBC’s talk show moves Mark Cuban has a counterintuitive take on the changes NBC tried with regards to late night tv in his latest post: Why are we condemning Jeff Zucker & NBC over Leno? In today’s corporate world, if you don’t take the risks, you don’t get skewered on blogs, on cable news, in the newspaper. Public condemnation...
12-Jan-2010

“This is free genius tv advice.” David Letterman comments on TV shenanigans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN6Q2YFFteQ
06-Jan-2010

Omar & Brother Mouzone Two of the more vivid characters from The Wire, Omar and Brother Mouzone, which Leah, my father and I have watched over the past month with great zeal. It’s worth re-watching start-to-finish.
01-Nov-2008

Star Trek Demonstration: 1968
22-Oct-2008

Walt Disney; What’s My Line Love this episode of What’s My Line https://youtube.com/watch?v=Of7_K1e_x3Y Our houseguests and Leah and I went to Disneyland several weeks ago on the dime of one of Leah’s blogger things, and I was impressed. I was not feeling that great, but I was stunned by how well the fun machine of Disney’s making works.
22-Mar-2008

Even More David Simon via UBM. and previously.