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Eric Mesa | January 6, 2010
Every once in a while, while reading Wikipedia to try and figure out why some show from my childhood isn’t available on DVD, I read that music rights are holding back the DVD. I understand that these shows were created back before DVDs and, therefore, some kind of weird legal loophole is keeping the tv [...]
Eric Mesa | July 26, 2009
For the first time since moving here, I found out about Otakon ahead of time. Unfortunately, the economics didn’t work out we didn’t buy tickets. But I did go to hang out outside Otakon on Saturday to get some photos. Lessons learned:
Remember what you learned in Hawaii and don’t be afraid to [...]
Eric Mesa | March 25, 2009
It’s been pretty ridiculous recently with Steele claiming to bring Urban cred to the Republican party. I think they feel like they have to have a black guy too. It’s just odd that suddenly after Obama’s President, they have a black chairman.
Well, I know that eventually Hulu will pull this clip. But until [...]
Eric Mesa | February 26, 2009
A lot of people have been warning that rules/laws that everyone considers stupid are a very dangerous thing. Essentially, what happens when every single person you know is a “criminal”? It begins to create a sense that rules are pointless and if everyone’s disobeying this rule, why not disobey that one and so on. These [...]
Eric Mesa | February 20, 2009
There’ve been a lot of people recently on the MythTv mailing list talking about Boxee as a convenient way to was content on Hulu. However, the Boxee developers have blogged that Hulu has nixed that idea. (And here’s Hulu’s side of the story) I read a bunch of comments as well as both of those [...]
Eric Mesa | February 5, 2009
The other day I was messing around with flickr’s slideshow feature and I came across this:
And here it is zoomed in:
This comes from an episode where the characters are discussing the founder of Springfield who uses the word Embiggen and some teachers debate whether it’s a real word. I love the way programmer put little [...]
Eric Mesa | January 31, 2009
Over the last few days I’ve been watching season 1 of the British version of The Office. I’ve come to the conclusion that to say, “the American The Office is based on the British The Office” is a gross understatement. For the first season, at least, it’s almost a 1:1 copy of the British version. [...]
Eric Mesa | January 11, 2009
My father-in-law is over today and he’s been dying to watch the Bizarre Foods Paris episode. I’m opposed to buying video media off of iTunes because of the digital restrictions management (DRM). But, he’s been wanting to watch that episode forever and we no longer have cable so I can’t record it onto MythTV. We [...]
Eric Mesa | December 12, 2008
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I went to see Mike Burbiglia on his Broadway show “Sleepwalk with Me”. I wasn’t going to blog about it originally, but during the performance he mentioned that he gets Google alerts about himself. He used to Google himself, but then he set it up to get Google to do it [...]
Eric Mesa | December 7, 2008
This week was my last week with cable television. I’ve had it since I was around 12 years old or so. Now I’ve been on my own for a few years now and I noticed two things. One, I don’t watch much cable television. Just a few programs here and there. Two, it’s pretty expensive! [...]
Eric Mesa | October 14, 2008
I just got Anberlin’s latest album, “New Surrender”. I was pretty lukewarm about “Cities” and Danielle just about hated it. We both loved “Blueprints for the Black Market” and “Never Take Friendship Personal”. This album is a return to the sounds and lyrics of those first two albums. I loved it upon first listen. Danielle [...]
Eric Mesa | July 21, 2008
Today I consider whether or not TV Stations as a distinct programming lineup have become obsolete. More or less since the beginning of commercial television there have been TV Stations to tune in to. (eg ABC, HBO, TNT) These stations create and broadcast original programming or buy the rights to broadcast programming created by others [...]
Eric Mesa | July 12, 2008
One of the killer features of Songbird is that when you view web pages with MP3s, it presents a very easy way for you to download the songs. I noticed on my last.fm home page that there were a few free MP3s available for download, so I decided to test this out.
I went to the [...]
Eric Mesa | July 11, 2008
Last.fm is getting close to relaunching their site and I was invited to participate in the beta program. I think the new design has some great new features and I wanted to share it with you so you could get excited about it too.
Here’s the main page as it appears now:
The most important thing to [...]
Eric Mesa | July 9, 2008
It’s been a really long time since I last looked at Songbird. In fact, according to my blog, the last time I checked it out was version 0.2 back in October of 2006. The UI certainly has a bit more polish. I submitted some bug reports on their Bugzilla about Metadata problems with [...]
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