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Television series of yesteryear were genre defined by cliffhanger moments that made you want to see what could happen in the very next instant, but you would have to wait a week for the new episode to air. I despise this form of entertainment. This is why the ratings fell so drastically for the new (and fabulous) Battlestar Gallactica. People were glued, watching the sequential events unfold into the series… then, without warning, RealLife™ gets in the way and they miss an episode or two and never had time or premonition to TiVo/DVR. At this point, enough juicy tidbits of the storyline were lost that it simply wasn’t worth watching the rest of the season when you could buy the DVD box set and catch up right where you left off. It is production cutting its own throat. On demand viewing should be the number one priority for content providers worldwide. People should be able to roll out of bed at 3 in the morning, unable to sleep, and dip into an anycast stream for anything ever made in the history of video entertainment. Sure, charge for it. Who cares? If you want to see it, you’ll pay… and so will I for that matter. Which brings me to the root of this moment on the podium… I’m simply not patient enough to watch a season of a well written series in 30 minute bitesized chunks. It loses it’s appeal and in the end will lose me as a viewer. One bead on the abacus. *click*

In other news, I stopped on the way home and took this IR shot of the Anadarko Petroleum building between The Woodlands’ mall and Interstate 45. After I got home and checked it out, I realized that I severely dislike the lens distortion from a wide angle rectalinear lens on building edges that should be straight. I know it’s just a perspective thing… like paralax… but still, I don’t care for it. I figured out how to fix it in Photoshop, but was just not motivated enough to go back and correct this one. It’s not like it’s ever going to see print or anything. The Waterway water taxi came by in a later shot that I’ll probably post tomorrow and I’m going to try and perspective correct that one. Maybe you can tell a difference, maybe you can’t… whatev.

I met Jean-Paul and Marielena for dinner tonight at Bistro Provence. I haven’t been in years, but the food was a pleasing as I remembered. They had taken my regular dish off the menu (Pavé de Boeuf), but I have the Ravioles de Chèvre, avec Brochette de Fruit de Mer and Salade d’Endive and was far from disappointed. I also was able to try the Assiette de Charcuteries and the rillettes was incredible. I drove home with a full belly to sit through the new episode of Californication with a deep tumbler of SR. Tomorrow is a busy day and I have a ton of work to do, but I just don’t feel sleepy. I hope this isn’t the onset of Insomnia Round Duex.

update: ok, so I can’t sleep and went ahead and fiddled with the other image. It’s the same spot in that my feet didn’t move, but there is a boat in this one (wheee!) and I did some perspective correction on the tower. I’m going to try to sleep (again).