First of all, I’ve never seen an episode of Chuck before. After seeing this “3D” episode, I’ll probably check out a few more on hulu.
Alright, on to the review. The show is funny, fast-paced, and has lots of good action. Plus, there is a hot blonde lady who kills fools! What’s not to like? Well, how about the so-called “3D” aspect, for starters.
When I put on some stupid glasses then I have to construct myself, I expect some fuckin’ eye-popping 3D explosions, some real Disney shit. You know the Honey I Shrunk/Blew Up/Had A One Night Stand With/ the Audience thing. The cobras, dogs, shit flying at you. Instead, we got some strange-colored bullshit where Charlie from Lost appears slightly closer to the screen than Chuck. GREAT!!!
Seriously, that was the worst “3D” episode of anything that I’ve ever seen, period. They put in one, count ‘em, one, shot of a thrown knife that was actually pretty cool. Other than that, biggest stupid glasses wearing experience of my entire freakin’ life. My girlfriend and my roommate just took their glasses off after about 2 minutes. Half the time you can’t even see the difference between the show normally and the “3D” parts.
Final score:
Show: B+
3D: F+
Seriously, NBC, if you’re going to make me run around town like a crazy fool trying to find some goddamned 3D glasses, then shit man, at least make it halfway decent. You goddamned bastards.
By now, you all have to have heard of Hulu.com… right?
I’ve been using it almost daily for a few months, and it’s basically changed my life. I used to sit at my desk and cry over my peanut and jelly sandwiches, but instead, I cry from joy, because I can watch hundreds of TV shows and movies right in my browser. It even works (mostly) on my 4-year-old mac.
Hulu is owned by Fox and NBC, so it is mostly their shows on there, but they do offer a lot of great stuff, like full episodes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Arrested Development, which has the whole series available for free. Not everything has a ton of episodes, and they do have expiration dates, but there is definitely enough to keep you occupied. Hulu is an ad-supported site, but they only put 2 minutes of ads per show where normal networks stick on 8.
One of the cooler features is that you can embed full-length episodes right into your blog:
Enjoy the pilot episode of Arrested Development.
If you want to find out more, Wired has an interesting article about it, giving a detailed background about the company’s founding, a cool read.
This video might be a little boring at first, like a large bee with dog legs, but watch the whole thing. It’s cute and scary all at the same time. (note how life-like it is at 0:36 and 1:24)
Yeah…now your words of cuteness have been replaced by an awe of fear. If this video of eminent destruction has scared you, watch this to remind you of the other benefits of modern technology.
So, Adam posted a pretty good entry on railguns the other day, but I found this crazy video demonstrating the scary capabilities of the railgun the US Navy is developing.
So I never really understood what railguns are. I recently read this news byte and thought it was pretty interesting. I copied the essential elements out of the article I found off the Army’s newsfeed, which is taken from major newspapers around the nation. I meant to get the source, but forgot before closing out.
The Navy’s railgun is basically a long tube lined with two copper alloy rails. When charged by an enormous pulse of electricity, these rails exert a tremendous force that sends an inert projectile out at incredible speed.
And the more juice generated, the more muzzle velocity the weapon has and the farther and faster the projectile can go. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve looked at this for at least a minute, trying to figure out why the hell anyone would ever possibly want something like this. “To find your glasses in the dark, of course,” you say. No, silly, this is just a stupid, worthless product. It glows in the dark, too!
A musical tissue roller. There’s nothing I want more than to go into a friend’s home, ask to use their bathroom, go to use the toilet paper, and find, “Ah ha! A toilet-paper holder that makes music!” By that time, I’ll be glad that I had just finished using the restroom, because I would be scared so much by a music-making accessory for a product designed to wipe fecal mater from my rear. Great conversation piece my ass.
Can you imagine the sheer horror of walking by this thing, late at night? Billy, The Big-Mouth Bass was bad enough, now they have a talking mother-in-law? “The life like portait.” If I had a mother-in-law, and she looked like that, I sure as hell wouldn’t put a picture of her on the wall.
First of all, I’ve never seen an episode of Chuck before. After seeing this “3D” episode, I’ll probably check out a few more on hulu.
So I never really understood what railguns are. I recently read this news byte and thought it was pretty interesting. I copied the essential elements out of the article I found off the Army’s newsfeed, which is taken from major newspapers around the nation. I meant to get the source, but forgot before closing out.
