Great Feature, Stupid Limitation

Like a good little Apple fangirl, I promptly updated my iPhone to 1.1.3, and happily and quickly customized my home screen(s), added webclip icons (including making a custom one for THIS blog, check it out you iPhoners!), and thrilled to the *reasonably* accurate location finder in Maps.

Software updates: yay!

But. As we speak I'm downloading a rental of The Simpsons Movie. I'll load it up on my iPhone so that I'll have something to watch on my bus ride this weekend if I get bored of listening to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me while the scenery rolls by. The catch is that once I start watching it, I have to finish watching it within 24 hours. So, for example, I can't watch half the movie on my way out of town and the other half on the way back.

THAT IS JUST STUPID. Let me repeat: the 24 hour window to watch a rental that is available for 30 days is STUPID. In case I failed to be quite clear: this restriction is DUMB, IDIOTIC, and downright BRAINDEAD.

I cannot see how this limitation solves any concern that either Apple or the movie studios might have about piracy. It's just pointless. And aggravating.

Thank You for Smoking

Hilarious movie. Except for the egregious miscasting of Katie Holmes, seriously entertaining.

Best seen with a Washington audience.

You Will Laugh

Why are patience and civility a good thing (beyond their inherent virtue)? This video makes it clear.

For the Record

After viewing the unspeakably depressing Brokeback Mountain* this evening, Deb delivered herself of this defense of Ennis DelMar, the fine-looking but utterly monosyllabic character played by Heath Ledger, and all men like him:

"Just because he can't talk, doesn't mean he's not interesting."

I look forward to working this quotation into a toast some day.

*The movie is sufficiently tragic as to cause one to wish to find an appropriate length of rope, but go see it anyway. I thought Jake Gyllenhaal did wonderfully with what was in fact the more difficult role. Which pretty much guarantees that Ledger will win the Academy Award.

"TV's Craig Ferguson"

Okay, I have to confess. I find Craig Ferguson, the new Late Late Show host, very amusing. I saw his 'audition' show, when they were looking for a replacement, and said to myself, "They'd be idiots not to hire him."

Scottish accent, larger than life features, and a genuinely goofy sense of humor. He is perfectly prepared to be silly. He's much better off-script (his monolog writers are not particularly keen), when he's just rattling on.

I know I shouldn't be staying up this late. But the guy is entertaining as hell.