Odds ‘n Ends

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  • I spent about an hour on the new Odds ‘n Ends pic, so I hope you like it–’cause you ain’t gettin’ anything else! I decided to go with a more vertical look this time around. You’d be amazed at how much I mess around with the positioning of the items until I’m satisfied with the look. As it is, I think there’s too much red/orange, but it’ll do.
  • DCUC Wave 6 seems to be arriving everywhere–except here in the Northeast, of course. An eBay search within 200 miles of my zip code comes up with nothing. Of course, I have these pre-ordered through Corner Store Comics anyway, but seeing all the pics on the Web–especially this one–doesn’t make the waiting any easier.
  • We’ve got an HDTV at the Chez Ghostal household, but no Blu-Ray player. I’m one of those people who thinks Blu-Ray is the new Laserdisc and within five years everything will be available via HD on-demand. But it still bugs me that I have to buy the regular ol’ DVD of The Dark Knight. I do like the digital copy it comes with, though, because…
  • …I can watch it on the new Ipod Touch I got for my birthday. I also downloaded Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which I hadn’t seen because I am a lazy geek.
  • Speaking of being a lazy geek, every day I get more and more worried that I should be watching the new Doctor Who. But there’s only so many hours in the day, y’know? I still have to get around to watching the last season of Buffy and the last season-and-a-half of Angel.
  • This week’s question: What toy line will be the main focus of your collecting in 2009?

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3 Comments

  1. OB1

    @Paul: I hear you on The Wraith. I actually spotted that in another friend's collection last Friday, so that's just bizarre!

    As far as the Blu-ray purchasing goes, I am with Poe on this one. I was one of the idiots that bought the PS3 just to play Metal Gear Solid 4, but I'm keeping it to watch movies on. That said, I'm hitting up Netflix for them instead of buying. I stopped buying DVDs a couple years ago in preparation of the next gen winner, which was Blu-ray, but now I feel I might as well wait until I can stream anything I want in HD to my Xbox 360 on the 46" in the living room. No need to own if I can Netflix stream it on-demand for a small monthly subscription fee. I have only seen one HD movie streamed via Netflix to the Xbox, but it looked pretty damn good to me, but as Paul also pointed out, it is compressed. Once everyone has fiber straight into the house, it is a different story, unless you are lucky enough to already have FIOS.

  2. @Poe: You may or may not have mentioned her, I can't remember. 😉

  3. You're trying to keep wolves at bay and your mom says she looks like the hot version of Britney Spears!? You guys need to exchange memos.

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