Late to the Party

I just watched the pilot for NBC’s Journeyman.  If I were to oversimplify the general plot, I’d say that it’s like Quantum Leap happening to a normal guy in 2007.  The key word here is oversimplify.   I thought the pilot was pretty good, though.  I’ll be adding the show to my regular TV viewing schedule.  However, I think they’re going to have to get a bit more on the ball about certain details.  Case in point: the main character, Dan, has an iPhone, but unless it’s a special one that’s causing his jumps back in time, it was shown upside-down in a quick scene:

This particular brief glimpse at his phone signified that he wasn’t in the present day, hence the “no service”.  Hello, NBC, I know you have a beef with Apple, but this isn’t the way to make yourselves look like the ones in the right.  Because right now you look very, very wrong.

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UPDATE: If you’re looking for fall 2008 season premieres, CLICK HERE

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I’ve been seeing a lot of people getting to my blog via searches for “house md premiere” or some similar search keywords.  Well, just to make things a little easier, here’s a link to epguide.com’s complete list of season premieres for this fall.  I admit that I have some TV show premiere dates marked down in my Google Calendar so that I don’t forget them. *sheepish grin*  Though, with all the anticipation we have for some premieres, I have it kind of burned into my brain that next week and the week after are big premiere weeks for a bunch of shows (all times below are Central Daylight Savings Time):

• Chuck – Sept. 24, 7PM
• Heroes – Sept. 24, 8PM
• Journeyman – Sept. 24, 9PM
• House, M.D. – Sept. 25, 8PM
• Bionic Woman – Sept. 26, 8PM
• Dexter – Sept. 30, 8PM
• Life – Sept. 26, 9PM
• The Office – Sept. 27, 8PM
• Cavemen – Oct. 2, 7PM
• Pushing Daisies – Oct. 3, 8PM

There are quite a few freshman TV shows on my list, but I haven’t heard one way or another if any of them are supposed to be good.  Since I still have to wait until next year before Lost and Battlestar Galactica start again, I have some time to try out new shows.   Of the older shows, I’m particularly excited for Heroes, House, and The Office to start back up again.

How about you?  Any upcoming shows I should check out?

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I went to SimpleWeather a minute ago and noticed that they had a new logo.  Then I saw the following and it all made sense:

What was once a very simple, ad-free page, now is a simple page with a sidebar ad. **sigh**  Oh well, it still loaded pretty fast.  I guess I’ve been going to Accuweather more often anyway, since its forecasts seem a bit more accurate than those on SimpleWeather.

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Perhaps you’ve noticed that everytime you visit your Flickr homepage, they show you a different way of saying hello in a foreign language (reminds me of old school Wired magazine covers…IIRC they did the same thing.  Either “hello” or “Wired” in different languages.  Now I can’t remember. ).  I just happened to see the following just a few minutes ago:

This is cool, because I’m of Filipino descent, and Tagalog (tah-GAH-lawg, not “tag a log”) is the national language.   Just a cute thing I happened upon that I had to blog.  Excuse my indulgence.

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I’ve read in a couple places now that T-Mobile decided to lower the price of their Total Internet Add-on plan by $10, presumably to be more competitive with AT&T.  I figured that the price difference would automatically apply to my data plan, so I didn’t worry about it.  I saw yet another story about the data plan on jkOnTheRun and decided to check to see whether T-Mobile had applied the discount to my account yet.  Here’s what I saw:

Considering that I’ve heard so many good things about T-Mobile’s customer service, I’m wondering what kind of service level I’m “enjoying” right now.   I’m going to investigate what the difference is, if any, between the $30 and $20 plans and make my choice accordingly.  I’ve been pretty happy with the data service so far, despite it not being as fast as 3G, so I don’t want to dump the data plan altogether.  But I was just so surprised at this foolishness on T-Mobile’s site that I had to vent.  I haven’t even set up the WiFi hotspot login information for my data plan, so I’m not even using it to its fullest yet.

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