Domestic Geek

I wrote about Comedy Central pundit Stephen Colbert's broken wrist the other day. Well, the cast came off and he's auctioning it off for charity on eBay. Proceeds will benefit the Yellow Ribbon Fund. This bid is currently $6255.00. How cool is that?

Watch the videos about his WristWatch efforts and of Stephen getting his cast removed on last night's Colbert Report in the extended.

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I'll be perfectly honest here about a couple of things.

First, I am not missing having the gazillion Dish stations at all. I thought I'd go through a little withdrawal or something, but I didn't. I'm amazed at how much time and energy I wasted on absolute garbage. There are many days now that I don't even turn on the television.

Second, Psych is becoming one of my favorite shows. When I first saw the preview for it last year, I thought it would be really dumb. A fake psychic detective. Um...yeah. I gave it a chance, though, because it was on the same night as Monk. I was pleasantly surprised. The show is hilarious. The chemistry between the two main characters, Shawn and Gus, is amazing. Yay that, unlike The 4400, their episodes are actually on iTunes.

This brings me to my next point — I need more iTunes gift certificates. I've just used up all the ones I've gotten as gifts or won and I need more to get my Psych episodes through iTunes. Your mission is to sign up as my Blingo and/or Winzy friend and win stuff so I can win, too. Click the buttons in the sidebar, please. It's literally a win-win since you'd win stuff, too.

Remember how I was so excited last week that USA had the season premieres of The 4400 and The Dead Zone on their site last Monday? Well, apparently that was a one shot deal. Jerks. I can get The Dead Zone through iTunes, but not The 4400. Damn it! So not cool.

You know how I said the only thing I was going to miss when we dropped our satellite package down to the bare minimum was Mythbusters and the stuff on The USA Network? Well, I guess it's only going to be Mythbusters now.

Yesterday was the season premieres for both The 4400 and The Dead Zone. I did one quick check of their site hoping for episodes to watch before I sank to bit torrenting them or something and THERE THEY WERE! Woo Hoo!!!! You have no idea how happy that made me!

I hope they keep showing them.

So Marcus and I spent a good part of this weekend ripping some of our DVD collection to our iTunes Server (with a handy little program called Handbrake so we can view them on our AppleTV. What sucks about the iTunes information palette is it is geared towards songs/music. What to do if you want to add metadata to the movie files so that you can see the rating, synopsis, director, actors, etc? You go download a cool little app called MetaX that I found through the Handbrake forums. It can grab the data from Amazon for you and then embed it into the movie file or you can enter in all that info yourself, if you're so inclined. It's pretty darned cool!