Oscars Quibbles

Since I only watched the last half hour or so, this won't be long. All I saw was the last 5 minutes of the obits (I missed Heath but was very moved by the response to Paul Newman, which I think was richly deserved) best actress, best director, best actor, best picture.

I'll have to see The Reader - Kate has never impressed me as an actress, but sometimes experience works wonders. Slumdog Millionaire could not have been as good as the obviously emotionally skewed in favor of the underdog votes went, but I'll put that on my list just in case it really is a hidden gem. Haven't seen Milk yet, either, but Sean Penn has been robbed several times in the past, and I have no doubt his performance was deserving, and the spontaneous standing O and applause tells me most of Hollywood agrees.

So much for the personalities. The presentation made me want to puke. The time they spent serenading the nominees would have been better spent showing us clips from the movies which got them nominated in the first place. The best picture montage was a travesty, and I think it robbed the nominees and the previous winners both with such a poorly edited and inconsistent presentation. All I have to say is the person who produced that piece of crap needs to go back to the clinic and have the rest of the lobotomy performed.

Hugh Jackman is a stunning actor, he sings, he dances, he's very very pretty and has a lot of class. On the one hand, we saw almost none of him in the last half hour, thanks to the cavalcade of old thespians and bad montages. On the other hand, what we did see was not very entertaining. Blame the writers, I guess.

I forgot to Tivo it, but I'm sure there will be enough on NBC.com and Youtube to catch me up.

Okay, on to the next step

Me and my buddy in the next cube who has an iPhone tested the T-Mobile G1 and the verdict is the G1 works better than the iPhone as far as calling and receiving a call in my cubicle. Data is intermittent, but on AT&T it's non-existent anywhere in my building except by the windows.

So tomorrow I'll start the ball rolling to transfer my AT&T phone number to the G1. I'm probably going to take the maximum hit on the early termination penalty, but with the lower monthly fee on T-M, I'll be saving more than $300 over the two-year contract period.

Next is the switch to Comcast for my land line. When you think about it, cable is a land line too. Have to talk to them first, because I want to install the phone adapter myself, don't want to wait around the apartment half the day for someone who knows less than I do about how to hook up the equipment. And need to find out what they charge to lease the box. Vonage might be an alternative, but that puts one more point of finger-pointing into the mix. But I still own a Vonage router.

Epic Fail @ Sears

Yesterday I bought a pair of slippers at Sears. Tried them on at home, they were just a tad too small. Exchanged them tonight for the next size up. Got home, all set to enjoy the new slippers, took them out of the box, one was blue the other was black. Both were for the left foot.