I’ve never understood why people will use a lower-case L in the middle of an otherwise all-caps phrase. It’s the only lower-case letter that happens to look exactly like another letter entirely when mixed with capitals.
Free raffie? for a waik-in tub?
I saw the “Big Green Egg” sign from across the freeway and immediately thought, “Do they have big green ham, too?”
Of course, since the Big Green Egg is a barbecue, if you find some big green ham, it’s the perfect way to cook it!
When ABC canceled* the insane-office-politics sitcom Better Off Ted in February, they decided not to show the last two episodes. I don’t know what they were waiting for, or why they didn’t just throw them on at 3am on a Sunday to get it over with, except that it would have let people watch it on DVR and Hulu. They eventually decided to show the two episodes in the timeslot for the seventh game of the NBA finals in June, since the finals never go to a seventh game…except, of course, this year they did.
I was beginning to think we’d have to wait for the DVDs just to be able to see the last two episodes…except there was no sign of a season 2 DVD release, either.
The wait is over: as of the first of the month, Better Off Ted Season 2 is available online at Netflix Instant, Amazon Video on Demand, and iTunes. The whole season, including those last two episodes!
We watched them both tonight. They were great: just as funny, quirky, absurd (in every sense of the word) and uncomfortable as ever.
I’m really going to miss this show. Really, I’ve been missing it since February, but there was always that thought that, somewhere in a network vault there were two more new episodes to see, if ABC would ever let them out.
For now, they’re streaming online. Here’s hoping for an eventual DVD or Blu-Ray release — some form of semi-permanent library. Because I don’t trust ABC to keep the show available long-term.
*Technically they didn’t officially cancel it until May, but production was shut down and they hadn’t shown an episode since February. It was pretty clear they weren’t going to bring it back.
Yes, that’s right. Someone scratched the word “GROUT” into the grout between tiles in this movie theater restroom.
I’ve finally found something more crowded than Comic-Con International: The Orange Street Fair on a Saturday night.
I think we usually end up going on Sunday, because while it’s usually a solid crowd, I don’t remember feeling quite so…herded. We ended up not doing much more than getting dinner and dessert.
Still, the baklava on Greek Street was good, as were the “Australian” potatoes (that probably weren’t any more Australian than the ice cream), and one of the lemonade stands was offering diet lemonade sweetened with Stevia, which meant Katie could actually drink it.
“Do you want a Viking helmet?” “F%@# yeah, I do!”
“Is your name Don?” “Uh, no.” “I wonder what it would have meant if your name was Don.”
“These cupcakes are insufficiently sized.”
“Do you even know where you’re going?” “Yeah, that way.”
Crispian Jago presents the history of science as a subway map (cool visualization).
The comic strip The Oatmeal tackles the irony of mobile app pricing. Or, in the worlds of “Weird Al” Yankovic: “I hate to waste a buck ninety-nine.”
A 19th-century terraforming experiment: Ascension Island’s artificial ecosystem, instigated by Charles Darwin.
Some suspicious pingbacks this morning tipped me off that there’s a splog (spam blog) automatically copying posts from K-Squared Ramblings to their own site. I sent them a complaint this morning, but they don’t seem to care much: They’ve scraped the RSS feed again, and reposted the same 15 articles nine times today!
It seems extremely likely that they’ll repost this article as well. If you’re reading this on “Attorney Legal Blog” (great irony there), the site is ripping off content from other websites — and clumsily, too!
For the record, the site doing the copying, which I won’t link to directly, is “www – dot – legal – dash – attorney – dot – info”. And it looks like a lot of other sites are being copied…just as badly, repeats and all.
