Insomniac's Thread

[lhb412]

[mr.negativity]

[lhb412]

Oh my god... I've had this song periodically stuck in my head for about 18 years and I just now figured out what it was:

[mr.negativity]

^Thanks!

[The Shadow]

I've always found it strange that the movie adaptation of Dragnet shifted into parody and away from the realistic depiction of police work that Jack Webb strove for, but at the same time the movie seems to work out fairly well (especially considering how often Hollywood drops the ball).

Dragnet's also one of those shows that began on radio and transitioned to television in the 50s.

[lhb412]

^Well, by the '80s I guess Dragnet had acquired some infamy for it's sensationalistic anti-drug anti-youth culture episodes of the '60s and the movie kinda riffed on that.

[The Shadow]

That the Dragnet movie works as well as it does impresses me when I think about it; the movie is a highly unusual exception for Hollywood.

We've seen Hollywood's adaptations of television shows generally fall flat one way or another. Hollywood has tried the "turn it into a comedy" route fairly often lately and the movies come off as more a hackneyed skit; Dragnet successfully parodies Dragnet AND pays tribute to it, an apparently difficult line to walk.


Now for something different. Google's Pixel 2 just released and they dropped the standard headphone jack (and they even had the gall to make fun of Apple October 2016). This is a trend I don't like, as there does not seem to be a real end user benefit (in particular no genuine audio improvement over the headphone jack).

I could understand if cheap bluetooth headphones were everywhere, but they aren't and don't look to be cheap anytime soon (and of course, don't forget the battery life limitation). I could understand if the device makers put two USB C ports on the phone (or lightning in Apple's case) so people could both charge their phone and use a dongle with a current pair of headphones, but again they don't.

I know dropping the headphone jack has nothing to do with water resistance, my Galaxy S5 has a headphone jack and is IP67 certified.

[lhb412]

Nightmare on Elm Street 5 is on TV and there's a scene where a bunch of Spider-Man comics are strewn around and I caught a glimpse of an issue I just happened to have in my hand a few hours ago while digging through the discount boxes at my local comics shop.

what are the chances?