Cynically Optimistic

Everybody needs a bedazzled iPod Shuffle, don't you think?

In other news, Digital cable is nice. You get lots of extra channels, supposedly in "digital quality". I'm not exactly convinced that's a good thing really. Often times our Optimum iO Cable gives some nasty compression artifacts in the video feed. I don't really see this as an improvement from the slight snow or picture ghosting from analog cable, especially because the video becomes unwatchable instead of merely a little grainy or noisy. Today I noticed yet another problem while watching MTV Hits (yeah, I still watch music videos). I've seen the Mariah Carey video "We Belong Together" about 100 times now, only today the audio and video are completely out of sync, as are the next 10 videos. Not off enough to make it funny, but off enough to make it annoying. And also, this is just an MTV Hits thing, they'll get the song info completely wrong. The station must be completely run by interns. VH1 Classic, however, was good to me tonight. Who out there has seen the video for "Give up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" by Parliament Funkadelic?

Still working the kinks out of the blog design, step by step. Links, styles, banner; check check check. Dealing with it after work mostly, since the weekends this summer are filling up fast. Dinner parties, lab parties, visiting friends, visiting Spaniards, visiting parents, and hopefully at least a short getaway for me. Perhaps the NC beach at some point. Oh, and the US Open is coming up. It's one of my favorite things about summer in New York.