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		<title>Lost paint</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2010/05/24/lost-paint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the lost &#8220;writers&#8221; painted themselves so thoroughly in a corner that they decided to pull a Dallas. But they went one better instead of just one season they did all six.
Really?  Guys you had nothing else?
What about turning everyone into black smoke that cleverly comes out of Locke&#8217;s ass?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the lost &#8220;writers&#8221; painted themselves so thoroughly in a corner that they decided to pull a Dallas. But they went one better instead of just one season they did all six.</p>
<p>Really?  Guys you had nothing else?</p>
<p>What about turning everyone into black smoke that cleverly comes out of Locke&#8217;s ass?</p>
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		<title>TV executives</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2010/05/20/tv-executives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 22:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[if you&#8217;re a tv executive and you&#8217;re scratching your head trying to figure out why nobody is watching tv anymore. here&#8217;s some ideas:
- 30 minutes of tv = 20 minutes of actual content
- you censor anything that looks like a movie
- the tard factor in your focus groups is very high
- you rely on ratings [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if you&#8217;re a tv executive and you&#8217;re scratching your head trying to figure out why nobody is watching tv anymore. here&#8217;s some ideas:</p>
<p>- 30 minutes of tv = 20 minutes of actual content</p>
<p>- you censor anything that looks like a movie</p>
<p>- the tard factor in your focus groups is very high</p>
<p>- you rely on ratings  based on equipment a good percentage of your audience has      no access to</p>
<p>- you cancel tv shows based on the last two points above</p>
<p>- the internet has better content</p>
<p>yeah, i&#8217;m a little bitter because one of my favourite shows got cancelled due to tv-executivism. Life on Mars. Great show probably didn&#8217;t appeal an audience who heard about the &#8217;70&#8217;s on the internet and didn&#8217;t really know what it was.</p>
<p>other shows that were ahead of their  time: &#8220;Nowhere Man&#8221; and &#8220;Profit&#8221;</p>
<p>the &#8220;big three&#8221; should take a look at Fox. These guys came out of nowhere didn&#8217;t follow traditional tv season schedules and made a name for themselves (the simpsons, x-files, south park). how many of YOUR shows have dialog that made it&#8217;s way into the popular lexicon?</p>
<p>&#8230;yeah, that&#8217;s what i thought.</p>
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		<title>comedy tv</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2010/04/27/comedy-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[watching a bit of a great comedy on tv (ok, not a comedy but it&#8217;s funny)
latest episode of Lost. in this episode we go back to 1867 (or whatever), last time i watched it it was 1977, apparently somebody&#8217;s going to tell someone about the island, Jacob gives an assignment..
i&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re making it up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>watching a bit of a great comedy on tv (ok, not a comedy but it&#8217;s funny)</p>
<p>latest episode of Lost. in this episode we go back to 1867 (or whatever), last time i watched it it was 1977, apparently somebody&#8217;s going to tell someone about the island, Jacob gives an assignment..</p>
<p>i&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re making it up as the cameras are rolling&#8230;like the last 2 or 3 seasons&#8230;</p>
<p>- bitter ex-Lost fan.</p>
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		<title>riverworld</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2010/04/18/riverworld/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in 2003 somebody got the idea to make a movie based on philip jose farmer&#8217;s Riverworld series.
they did not do a good job.
i saw the movie a few months ago. i&#8217;m a big fan of the series which i read years ago. i see on the imdb forums they are calling it the &#8220;original&#8221; movie. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>in 2003 somebody got the idea to make a movie based on philip jose farmer&#8217;s Riverworld series.</p>
<p>they did not do a good job.</p>
<p>i saw the movie a few months ago. i&#8217;m a big fan of the series which i read years ago. i see on the imdb forums they are calling it the &#8220;original&#8221; movie. um, ok.</p>
<p>so a different group of geniuses decide to make the movie (or mini series, not sure i saw it as a two parter the other night) again this year.</p>
<p>ok, free ticket for the clue train that the writers can use anytime.</p>
<p>you don&#8217;t take a 5+ book series, which has a ton of material you can use, rip out a lot of good content and then replace it with your non-pulitzer price tripe.</p>
<p>you don&#8217;t throw out random plot bits from the book with no explanation. yeah the fans of the series will get it, but they&#8217;re gonna have to explain it to the people watching with them.</p>
<p>you don&#8217;t reverse characters ideals, remove other characters (that you hinted might show up) and add your own characters, include stupid flashbacks to support the new characters.</p>
<p>you don&#8217;t try to stuff 5+ books into 3 hours of movie.</p>
<p>and you absolutely DO NOT have a stupid dumb feep ending where Methos saves Riverworld.</p>
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		<title>recruit a friend</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2010/04/18/recruit-a-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;m starting to think that Blizzards&#8217;s &#8220;Recruit a Friend&#8221; option they have for World of Warcraft is a bit of a scam.
Sure i&#8217;m seeing the new mounts so obviously somebody got through the whole process but i haven&#8217;t.
when i go to the status page it doesn&#8217;t even show the friend account as having been upgraded [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i&#8217;m starting to think that Blizzards&#8217;s &#8220;Recruit a Friend&#8221; option they have for World of Warcraft is a bit of a scam.</p>
<p>Sure i&#8217;m seeing the new mounts so obviously somebody got through the whole process but i haven&#8217;t.</p>
<p>when i go to the status page it doesn&#8217;t even show the friend account as having been upgraded to a standard account. it&#8217;s completely paid up to the end of this month, and of course, the referring toon doesn&#8217;t have his mount yet.</p>
<p>i don&#8217;t want to go on and on about it or i&#8217;ll start to sound like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wttxD9iT9iM">Francis</a> (check out the rest of his. pure genious <img src='http://theventedspleen.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>i guess i&#8217;ll just have to get any of nice mounts the hard way&#8230; by earning them</p>
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		<title>The lost shark</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2010/01/29/the-lost-shark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading Adam savage&#8217;s tweat about lost I think I&#8217;ve narrowed it down to the event where they jumped the shark.
When John Locke turned the gear to move the island.
Seeing that typed out now  I realize that&#8217;s where I should have stopped watching it.
No problem though, not watching the last season. As graham chapman [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After reading Adam savage&#8217;s tweat about lost I think I&#8217;ve narrowed it down to the event where they jumped the shark.</p>
<p>When John Locke turned the gear to move the island.</p>
<p>Seeing that typed out now  I realize that&#8217;s where I should have stopped watching it.</p>
<p>No problem though, not watching the last season. As graham chapman would have said &#8221; ok, stop this it&#8217;s gotten silly&#8221;</p>
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		<title>boxee</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2009/09/13/boxee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i can only describe my first use of boxee has s dismal failure. granted i was using it under snow leopard but there were two issues that make the program distinctly unfriendly to use.
when boxee fires up you have to login. why? what if i&#8217;m only going to access local content? is it for the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i can only describe my first use of boxee has s dismal failure. granted i was using it under snow leopard but there were two issues that make the program distinctly unfriendly to use.</p>
<p>when boxee fires up you have to login. why? what if i&#8217;m only going to access local content? is it for the &#8220;social networking&#8221; aspect? if so what if i don&#8217;t want to get or send any recommendations? dumb idea, i expect when it gets out of beta there will be workarounds from people who feel the same way.</p>
<p>and speaking of local content why do these media aggregators make it so hard to get at your local content? ok i didn&#8217;t read any boxee docs but it should have been relatively intuitive to set and use a local directory.</p>
<p><strong>plex</strong> makes you jump through a few hoops also. but works for the local content.</p>
<p>and <strong>front row</strong>  doesn&#8217;t even let you.</p>
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		<title>another round of stupidity</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2009/08/03/another-round-of-stupidity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[here we go again. dan brown&#8217;s new book &#8220;the lost symbol&#8221; is going to be released in a month or so.
wait for mediots (media idiots &#8482;)  to say that dan brown is &#8220;claiming&#8221; various things they don&#8217;t agree with or are patently absurd. even though it&#8217;s a novel where author&#8217;s make stuff up for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>here we go again. dan brown&#8217;s new book &#8220;the lost symbol&#8221; is going to be released in a month or so.</p>
<p>wait for mediots (media idiots &#8482;)  to say that dan brown is &#8220;claiming&#8221; various things they don&#8217;t agree with or are patently absurd. even though it&#8217;s a novel where author&#8217;s make stuff up for the plot.</p>
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		<title>billy bob and the mashed potatoes (without the gravy)</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2009/04/13/billy-bob-and-the-mashed-potatoes-without-the-gravy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[well&#8230;he was like&#8230;wasted&#8230;or something. i don&#8217;t&#8230; i don&#8217;t really know what he meant.
to paraphrase his comment, he was like ozzy without the vocabulary&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well&#8230;he was like&#8230;wasted&#8230;or something. i don&#8217;t&#8230; i don&#8217;t really know what he meant.</p>
<p>to paraphrase his comment, he was like ozzy without the vocabulary&#8230;</p>
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		<title>guitar hero II&#8230; again</title>
		<link>http://theventedspleen.com/2008/04/20/guitar-hero-ii-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snowzone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i finally managed to find a copy of guitar hero II AND the guitar controller. there&#8217;s a number of places around town that will sell the game but no guitar go figure.
anyway, while playing again, i noticed that do really well on some tunes and not so well on others. not because the other tunes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i finally managed to find a copy of guitar hero II AND the guitar controller. there&#8217;s a number of places around town that will sell the game but no guitar go figure.</p>
<p>anyway, while playing again, i noticed that do really well on some tunes and not so well on others. not because the other tunes are any harder, but because i think the songs suck dead bunnies. for example, i can almost get through flawlessy wolfmother&#8217;s &#8220;woman&#8221;. but i still have a problem with the foo fighters tune (monkey wrench i think). basically the song sucks, and i lose interest in it right away.</p>
<p>the real challenge for me with the game is going to be getting through the tunes that suck&#8230;</p>
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