Thursday, October 13, 2005

When is a K not a K?

Baseball:
So what is the deal… Last nights game could not have sucked much more. In watching the replays and the interviews with the umpires I am even more frustrated. But that is sports. Have I mentioned ugh yet? Go Angels!

Video iPod:
So Dan asked me to provide my feedback on the new video iPod v. other technologies out there. Here are the viable portable video media technologies as I see them: the video iPod, the PSP, portable windows media players, and Archos media players. In brief… the iPod is cool but $1.99 an episode is really expensive, no real ability to port captured videos over to it, and no ability to fast-forward or rewind the videos, I say no! The PSP, no hard drive, only uses proprietary disc formats but has a killer screen, no until they come out with a hard drive and then maybe. Archos are cool, relatively inexpensive (by portable media standards), and can record just like a PVR (or take videos from your computer), I vote a big maybe but I think that the transfer of data is tough. The last is the portable Windows Media Player - very cool, easy to port video and long battery life. The only real issue is that the Windows Media PCs are far too expensive to be a viable PVR choice. Once the prices come down the portable Windows player and Windows Media PCs it just isn’t practical. So there, are you happy Dan?

Peanut Update:
She has spent 3 nights in a row in her princess bed. We have been impressed that she cries out but stays in bed. We aren’t sure how long this will last, BUT… Go Peanut!

6 comments:

Lee Schneider said...

But you didn't answer the most important question of all about the portable video players - will their tapes play in Dan's VCR?

Lee Schneider said...

p.s. An ALCS Game 2 loss that ensues from a ninth-inning blown call with a tied score is 1/100th the stomach punch of a World Series Game 6 loss that ensues from a ninth-inning blown call that leads to a blown lead.

Lee Schneider said...

Hey Dan - now that Drucker can watch his favorite show (all of them) at work, I fear your favorite show (his blog) has been canceled (or is on hiatus, at least).

Lee Schneider said...

[12:54] leehschneider: hey
[12:55] ciruli: yo
[12:55] leehschneider: remember Drucker's blog?
[12:55] ciruli: Not really.
[12:55] leehschneider: neither does he

Dan Ciruli said...

I guess now that he can watch TV at work, he does that instead of writing about TV at work.

Lee Schneider said...

Drucker goes to work?