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Well, the DVD is better than standard, but not quite as crisp and clean as the HD broadcast.
Archive for 6th July 2008
Paging Joe Wilson
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” _ the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment _ was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
No WMDs? No nuclear program? No yellowcake? Really?
Experiment
Recorded Live Free or Die Hard off Cinemax HD, and burning it to DVD now. The HD picture is amazing. We’ll see how the DVD looks when the movie’s over.
Eh, Might As Well
Premonition is on Showtime HD. It gets about the same rating on IMDB as Perfect Stranger, but it can’t be worse than Perfect Stranger. I saw the end coming a good hour before the movie was over.
Ahem.
Bitter had a bitter experience with a particularly disgusting sounding pie. Chocolate banana pie.
Ugh. The bile is rising in my throat just looking at the name.
Okay, I admit, I love bananas and hate all things banana (banana bread, banana pie, banana cake, banana candy, all disgusting items that should never be eaten). But this is one of those “pies” with whipped cream on top.
Whipped cream never, ever, under any circumstances is a pie topping. Never. Meringue goes on pies. You can serve whipped cream with pieces of pie, but no, never should it appear as a pie topping.
Never.
Key Lime Pie, you say? That’s a nasty excuse for a pie, candy sweet and vile. And it has a graham cracker crust. That’s not pie. Pie has a pie crust. Graham cracker crusts are for cheesecakes and junior high home ec recipes for kids who can’t make pie crusts. That’s filth. If you like lime and want a pie, make lime meringue pie.