Month: November 2007

I’m Thankful for:

* The fact that my daughter was not hurt when she totalled her car in an ice-related accident on Wednesday. Thank the gods for the big fuck-off steel brick that is the 1988 Ford Crown Vic. Had she been in a lighter more modern car, she’d be in the hospital or worse.

* Being able to do what I love for a living. I bitch about it a lot, I know….But it beats having to work for someone else, and getting paid for imagination is pretty cool, when you get right down to it.

* Friends. If you can read this, thank you for putting up with me.

* Not being dead. That still is a big one, even months out from my All-Clear.

Generally speaking, 2007 has been a gallstone of a year. I’ll be glad when it’s over. Here’s hoping that 2008 brings health and wealth for all of us.

As an ePublisher, I’ve been asked my opinion (most recently in an interview for the AP earlier this week – not sure when it’s coming out) about the future of the format, and things like the new Amazon Kindle reader.

I’m not impressed. $400 bucks for black-and-white, and no PDF support? No thanks. I mean, sure, Amazon has got the push behind it, but I don’t see a lot of early-adopters. Not at that price, and not with those features.

I’ve decided, however, that I need one of these:

That’s an Arcos 605 wi-fi Portable Media Player. With one of those, I can read PDF documents….but I can also watch video, listen to mp3s, surf the web, and more…..on a full-color hi-def screen. It comes with up to 160 GB of storage, and is priced roughly compatably with an iPod.

The Kindle? Not so much.

The Doctor Who News Page is reporting a press release from BBC America that says:

BBC AMERICA’s all-time highest rated show, Torchwood, is back with a U.S. premiere second season, beginning January 26, 9:00pm ET/PT. Created by Russell T Davies, lead writer on the current Doctor Who series, Torchwood (13 x 60) is a BBC Production, distributed by BBC Worldwide.

With guest stars including James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville), Alan Dale (Ugly Betty, The OC) and Doctor Who’s Freema Agyeman, the show will air close to its UK premiere.

Richard De Croce, VP Programming, BBC AMERICA says: Torchwood has legions of loyal fans in the U.S. and we wanted to bring them the next season as soon as possible.

Given the air date, it looks like the American showing will be only a week or two at the most following broadcast in the UK. That’s pretty cool.

Of course, I’ll still end up downloading the UK broadcast version, because the US version gets edited slightly…but still.