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Oh I'd committed...by my wife!

NP5 is better than NX5. That’s what you asked about.

…large tvs…? Entertainment for the rich…that will quickly fade away…? I guess you’re brand new to consumer electronics and home theater and missed the ... checks notes … last 30 years of mass market TVs 😂

130” flat panel would be wild! But all of this continues to frustrate me. I have room for 120” screen. 115” is too small but 130” is too big. But neither one is navigable to my theater. So it’s all moot! grumble grumble :)

Started an Umbrella Academy rewatch, in anticipation of Season 4.

I’ve started a rewatch ahead of the new / final season. Love the show. An under-acclaimed delight with great writing and acting. The first episode of the first season still holds up as a great intro.

NP5 is better.

https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/brats-2024.382925/

Title: Brats Tagline: What did it mean to be part of the Brat Pack? Genre: Documentary Director: Andrew McCarthy Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Lea Thompson, Timothy Hutton, Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, David Blum Release...

I felt exactly the same. It was actively pushing me out of the show, feeling the frustration over losing two good cast members so they didn’t have to cut out the gouting flames on the bridge. I wonder if future Star Trek shows will have ships that jet flames on the bridge during combat maneuvers?

What’s surprising is not that they are screw ups, but that their worst traits are held up as valorous, and we the audience are to celebrate how terrible they are. And especially the stalker story is shown as an exemplar for how to pursue love. It is grotesque and reveals some of the worst of...

Title: St. Elmo's Fire (1985) Tagline: The passion burns deep. Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy Director: Joel Schumacher Cast: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Martin Balsam, Andie MacDowell, Joyce Van Patten, Jenny...

It’s a mix. Some features this year. But some major features not coming until 2025. Per latest Bloomberg newsletter .

Discovery from day one had the Spore Drive problem: how to explain how Star Fleet had an Infinite Warp drive that no one knew about. Maybe they decided they needed to eliminate it from “canon” so that future Trek shows (if any were ever set in the 29th century) didn’t have to retcon out the...

Not my thing, but I have younger friends and family who might be really interested.

Loot is back!

Would like to know what was in mind for a Season 6. The Wayfinder drive, introduced in the first episode, I assumed would be a Chekov’s Gun mechanic crucial to the story later in the season. But nope. It was like the retinal tricoder: throw-away tech needed by the plot to enable Saru to zip his...

Fair enough. I missed the comment about getting a ride back. And the setup was all made to look like Michael was the sole person on board. I realized it was setup for Calypso, but wa confused because I thought they made the setup / reference already in the Time Bug episode. So ok.

Where do people buy replacement parts for their Weber grills? Weber no longer lists parts for my model, Genesis E-330.

Star Trek Discovery’s fundamental weakness was its writing. It didn’t want to do procedural. It had one or two especially good standalone scifi episodes early on. But largely it didn’t create anything standout from a conventional puzzlebox, short-form storytelling approach. But it wasn’t...

Talking with friends last night about Star Trek, I summarized Star Trek Discovery as, “This show’s a mess.” There is a ridiculous and fun heist plan to steal the Progenitor’s Technology from the Breen. Michael needs someone to hack the Breen Iso-dodecahedron-technobabble-base-42 encryption. She...

Well, that’s done.

I misunderstood the link I posted yesterday. Looks like Apple could announce loads of AI stuff this June, but it won’t be released until next year.

Here’s a legit big deal rumor for WWDC! https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/31/24168834/my-kingdom-for-a-redesigned-settings-menu

All the AI is planned for 2025, rumorers rumor. So maybe this year will be more interesting than I expected. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24168175/ios-18-ai-siri-apple-apps

Microsoft has promised ARM transition before. It remains to be seen if they’re serious and committed long term this time. I‘m guessing they are.

Three years ago with the m1 MBA was announced, I said that Intel was dead man walking. I'm saying it again now that Microsoft has worked with ARM to create laptop chips competitive with Apple Silicon and suitable for the PC world. Setting aside the Atari vs Commodore arguments ;) this is a...

Only if your isolinear circuits are aligned!

I'm not sure if it's my overall enthusiasm for consumer-tech is waning or it's that I have zero use of for AI / ML / LLM tech: But I have zero interest in WWDC this year. The prospect of a Keynote centered on useless AI features is feels totally uninteresting to me at the moment. Maybe Apple...

Yes, I especially liked FO3's DC / NoVA region setting.