The bug screen is probably not helping -- I have the same issue here. If I put the antenna outside the window, BAM, works great. Inside? Not so great. The bug screen acts as a block.

Re: the bags of water...if this were the case, flies would leave live humans alone as we're basically big bags of water with some assorted chemicals.

Light blue walls...ha ha haaaaaaa. I have light blue walls in my place. The only things between me and flypocalyptic doom are fly strips and amazing swatter-fu. Some of those bastards ar etougher than Chuck Norris, too. I've known cockroaches go down easier than Arizona flies.

It's a one item Woot-Off, with some amusing little twists in the images (and I bet there's a Bag O' Crap at some point, to catch everyone unawares.)

Let's see....

The first Beatles album was produced in approximately twelve hours. Yes, the songs were already written, but arrangements weren't finaled and in a couple of instances I believe the songs were new to the band.

Van Der Graaf Generator's "Aerosol Gray Machine" was produced in a total of twenty-fours, which included learning and developing the material, all of the production, post-production and mixdown.

Bil Nelson regularly produces full-blown tracks in the span of two hours. This includes writing the lyrics and music, and full multi-track production. The results aren't always brilliant, but he hits more than he misses.

Composers for television shows produce fifteen to thirty minutes of new music a week. Yes, this often comes with a series of pre-built themes and variations; often it doesn't, though.

I think we could come up with literally thousands of examples of speed production, but the point being serviced is that fast doesn't equate to crappy and it doesn't even equate to under-produced or lacking polish. Even today, with home studios that lack the spit and polish of pro shops, it's possible to produce tracks that sound fantastic. You don't even need to lay out a huge wodge of cash for the tools anymore.

There's two of these in February?! (There's also February Album Writing Month at http://www.fawm.org, which goes for 14 songs during the course of the month.)

While I generally pick up classical music from eMusic (which is still one of the better deals around, even now), DG does have one of the best all-time catalogues of classical music. I've taken a look at the store, and it does make things moderately easy in terms of purchase and download, and you get a free track when signing up for the newsletter (no restrictions, apparently; I picked up a track priced at $3.69 without a hitch.) Prices are slightly higher - $1.29 and up, albums at $11.99 (multiple-disc selections per CD.)

The biggest issue for me is the use of Flash left and right, and navigation that's stultifying to say the least, especially when one would rather explore beyond the warhorses and the popular performers, orchestras and conductors. Payment options are limited to Visa and Mastercard from what I can see.

I'll keep it in mind, though. High bit-rates and lack of DRM are big pluses. Given that this is a Universal product, it's surprisingly skewed towards the decent edge.

What I'd like to see crop up now, though, is a store that services the soundtrack nuts like me. There's a lot of rare, unreleased, and boutique-release material that would probably do well released through a digital music store. Mind you, it would probably piss off a lot of dealers who like their $300 score CD sales....

Moving away from that, there's so much music out there that's crying for a release and not getting it -- things that would generate revenue even in small amounts if released through digital download stores. All it would take is record companies saying, en masse, the hell with DRM and worrying about piracy.

It's obviously Aaron Stack under a pseudonym, and they took him to the hospital for a tune-up and to properly refill his robot brain with beer.

The Roman Holiday knock-off was cute.

It's eight episodes isn't it? I do believe I read that right here on Boing Boing.

I think this series of the show is better than the first, and there's been a couple of episodes that had me actually roaring with laughter -- the dinner party one reminded me rather a lot of real life incidents, if writ large. Still, out of the six episodes thus far this series, there's not been a single fully consistent episode, and there's been a couple with long stretches of fail.

On the whole, though, it's better than The Big Band Theory. I wasn't able to get through the pilot. It's also better than Hyperdrive, which somehow managed to get a second season despite being a warmed-over Red Dwarf knockoff.