I was over at a friend's place last night to hang out. We'd had just come back from dinner where said friend's wife bought us all dinner. What a supremely nice gesture. Anyways, my buddy and I were lounging in front of the TV when he showed me this HD channel that I'd never seen before.

The channel was simply named HDNet. Simple and straight to the point. With that name, however, I had no idea what type of programming it had, other than the fact it probably showed in high definition. Well, it turns out that Mark Cuban, maverick owner of the Dallas Mavericks, owns HDNet. The channel shows original programming, sports, news, movies, and TV shows.

In terms of the original programming on HDNet, it just happened that we tuned in while one of those shows was on. We were watching Bikini Destinations where the entire premise seems to be flying beautiful women to sunny locales across the globe, for the express purpose of seeing these women cavort around in skimpy swimwear, all in glorious high definition. After a minute of watching this, I immediately was ready to endorse this channel to anyone would listen.

The channel also features a show called Get Out! which seems to have the same premise as Bikini Destinations, just with a different name.

Now apparently my HD provider, Telus just only recently added this HD channel to their lineup and I'm wondering if I should give this or the History Channel a try.

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At work we're fast approaching our final week of working downtown. Next week is the last hurrah so to speak. Today we also received a sign that things are drawing to a close. I got an updated meeting request in my inbox. The reason for the update? The room got changed from our current 17th floor room to a venue located out in Burnaby. Yep, a sobering sign that this isn't a bad dream after all.

I'll probably be taking pictures of my desk in the next few days as a momento of my almost three years of working downtown. When I post the pictures you'll be able to see the wide range of fast food napkins that I have collected.

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I know that Wikipedia has almost universal appeal. I quite enjoy reading that site myself. The wealth of knowledge contained there has led to many lost yet informative hours on my part. I seem to, however, fall into a certain trap when it comes to entries on books, TV shows, and movies that I haven't seen or read. I have a difficult time at stopping myself from reading a plot summary that is unknown to me.

I have several examples of this. Just recently, I read a summary on a Stephen King novel that I didn't even know existed. It took me five minutes to read the plot summary and at the end, I knew all the major plot points. Now, I'll be less likely to read that novel because I know what's going to happen. I might have actually enjoyed reading the book but now I've spoiled it for myself.

I also did the same thing for the Saw series of movies. Those type of movies aren't really my thing anyways, so I felt less guilty of spoiling them. It doesn't matter though, now if I ever see a Saw movie on TV, I'll know how its going to end.

Does anyone else do the same thing?

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Though it is nearly a year old, I only found this article on the weekend. Last year, a 14 year old boy in India had a small fish enter his penis via his urethra. According to the article, it happened as such:

"While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra..."

Just reading that makes me cringe and cross my legs. That statement however, is full of wonder. First, who takes a leak while holding a fish in one of their hands? Second, fish that small, supposedly 2cm long and 1.5cm don't just accidentally jump up into your wang. Yes, I know that have been some reported cases of Candiru fish finding their way up wangs but this was not a Candiru fish. This seems like one of those cases where someone goes to the ER with some foreign object stuck up their butt and they claim they either fell on it (one in a million!) or they don't know how it got there.

Of course, this story is somewhat like the "wang flies" story I reported several years ago. The differences being fish instead of flies and going into the penis as opposed to coming out.

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In earlier posts I mentioned I was a big fan of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. According to reports from late Sunday night, it appears the show has been canceled. There is no official word from Fox yet as the actual network announcement was supposed to be made on Monday. As such, by the time you read this, the official cancellation announcement might have already been made.

It's such a shame the show could not have been saved. It appeared to have a lot of viewers and followers. In the end, I'm guessing the Nielsen ratings mattered the most which I find to be an archaic way of assessing a show's popularity. In the age of PVRs, torrents, web sites like Hulu, and other non-traditional ways of watching shows, is it fair to measure the popularity of a show at that exact hour it was on?

Fox was able to do what no other Terminator could do, it managed to stop Sarah Connor. Perhaps bittersweet is the premiere of Terminator: Salvation this week. John Connor will live to fight another day but I'll always remember what Sarah brought to TV one week at a time for two all too short seasons.

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