TV on the Internet

A good link - TV links.
I've been not surfing these past few days and instead have been watching TV shows online with the help of this aggregator. Some of the episodes are disappearing fast, especially the ones on the Daily Motion servers. The stuff on Veoh seems to be working OK so far for me.

Sliders is something I've been watching and is more enjoyable than I remember it. The tenets of the Sliders gang (in its various permutations) seem to be that Friendship and "being there" for your mates is the most important thing in life, as well as the oft repeated "there's more to life than happiness and contentment" idea. And it is interesting how often Wade (one of the characters from the first few series) needs rescuing. Also there are more non-white characters in Sliders than in any TV series (US) that I've seen before; characters who are black or chinese not because their race is part of the plot, their race is incidental, it's refreshing. (In the episode in which America is ruled by monarchy, the king and queen of The USA are Black.)

A Little Interest in YouTube

So now my Animal Crossing fixation is waning and I am on to other things. I've never really got into YouTube, but recently I have begun spending time watching more than the one off clip. Today I watched some Prodigy videos (live stuff and music videos) and then watched some Courtney Love stuff, and from there on to some general stuff people have been putting up. It's interesting to see some of the old Prodigy stuff (like Out of Space), how they have evolved, video speaking, and in their mode of dress, nice to see dancing Keith Flint with long hair.

Suspense!

I've been listening to this Old Time radio show called Suspense (the first lot of them on archive.org), recently. Suspense (brought to you by Roma wines that's R - O - M - A, Roma wines) sometimes cheesey, sometimes inadvertently funny, but sometimes rather good (I like the episode Cabin B13). There are hundreds of episodes on archive.org, and at the moment this is most of what I listen to. I also watched a crappy (but watchable) stream of The Man Who Knew Too Much on the same site. I'm having a 30s/40s bonanza. It will probably end soon. I have little stamina for prolonged immersion.

wiki details on Suspense here.

Some Podcasts I Have Sampled - Seven

Podcast update
Been listening to old US radio drama, they refer to it as it Old time radio (OTR) podcasts. Find some here Radio Detective Story Hour or radio stations Radio Nostalgia Network. There's a ton of stations out there, streams and stuff just google Old time radio and browse away. I find it helps me get to sleep, when the stories aren't too offensive, but usually it's historically and culturally interesting, and of course some of the stories aren't half bad. I like the detective stuff best though.

I'm also listening to MondoMovie and Cinemaslave podcasts, which is strange as I am not a big film fan, but both these podcasts recently discussed David Lynch, which was incentive for me to listen. Not much to say about these podcasts, as I said I'm not much of a movie one, but these are interesting, I like to hear people talk about film who are really into it, and who aren't arrogant arses (like so many film aficionados). MondoMovie is by two British guys Cinema slave is one (US? I'm guessing) guy.

So I'm, going to check out some of the podcasts on the IT Conversations website.

Animal Crossing : Wild World

Animal Crossing : Wild World
Originally uploaded by KCanard.

My promised picture. You can't see the continuous head bobbing that all the characters do.

No Posts... Animal Crossing (and inertia)

Life has been very uneventful for me, Web speaking this past week. I have been playing much Animal Crossing Wild World.

Here are two things that go a little way to explaining the attraction of Animal crossing
on Terranova (referring to the GameCube version)
from the Guardian by Aleks Krotoski.

I love the real time aspect of it, and the sense of place (which is what those two links lead to wrtitings about) the morning, pink late afternoon sky, the seasons, the way trees take time to grow, the sending of letters. I might talk more about the reasons for its appeal when I am not so immersed in it.

Here's links to some useful Animal Crossing Wild World guides I've been using.


Both these are excellent places to find information on every aspect of Animal Crossing.

Animal Crossing Ahead This site covers the Original and the Wild World versions.
Animal Crossing DS Beginner's Tips and Tactics Guide by Freyashawk, this one is text only, but is so full of informtaion, it's overwhelming.

There's a lot of other AC sites out there, but these are the ones I keep returning to (many of the sites out there consist of almost identical information, reformatted).

Haven't taken a pic of my character yet tho.

My Occupation : Animal Crossing

I've been initiating myself into the world of Animal Crossing Wild World (wiki link or official page) over the past few days. I am coming to know its mysteries and to enjoy and be irritated by the "personalities" of the animal characters. Though I am annoyed I can't get the WiFi to work, it should work (with my iMac rebroadcasting my network connection via the Airport card) but for some reason Animal Crossing is one of the games it doesn't work on. Alas. So either I give up on that idea (wireless fun) or I get myself a wireless thingummy. Well anyway I'll post a pic in a while (of my character in my town). I've been mulling over buying this game for a few months, as I didn't even have a DS, so I bought a Nintendo DS soley in order to play this game, so far I'm not disappointed.