• Clan: McTiVo - Geek Out! - Mini-Posts

    Doctor Who: Spoilers in Linked News Item, Plus Also We Are Such Geeks

    BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Doctor Who Spoiler warning for my husband David, and for ***Dave of DDtB – we’re only up to the end of the second season here, but the linked article includes information about the third season now being filmed. And meanwhile, David is hooking up his new toy, which is some kind of mega-whizbang media hub switch thing that will allow us to view shows captured by his Snapstream software, which acts as an auxiliary to TiVo. Currently, to do this involves screwing around with some cables and his laptop, sometimes with inadvertent humor: The last…

  • Episcopal - Theocracy Watch

    Fred Barnes: Pundit, Provocateur, and Parishioner

    The Gay Bishops Links Remember the smear campaign conducted against Gene Robinson when he was elected Bishop of New Hampshire: Fred Barnes started it. Remember the huge amount of publicity generated by the  news that two large and conservative parishes were leaving the Episcopal Church? Fred Barnes is a member of one of them, and as a FOX pundit-on-call he commented on it on air. Remember the IRD? Fred Barnes is on the board. Coincidence? I think not.  Via  Jake

  • The Life of Riley

    Riley’s Big Adventure

    It wasn’t really a big deal, just a yearly trip to the vet. However, it’s already been blogged over at Rileycat. Afterwards, much petting. Riley’s in great health and we found that the chip that he had is one of the brands our vet, the Arlington Cat Clinic, carries. So we’ll re-register it at last under our name – we mislaid the form a while back so it’s good that we got around to that at last. The brand name is “Avid” and apparently we can’t register that one online, so David’s mailing the form today. He was pretty subdued…