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February 13, 2008, 9:55 am

Tuesday quick shots

Work has been more active than usual lately with some protracted Promotion and Tenure Committee business on top of a 14-hour course load this semester, so pardon the light blogging. I do have a few quick thoughts:

No, I didn’t watch the Jericho season 2 premiere last night yet. 10:00 Eastern is way past my bedtime. I do have it on the DVR at home, though, so once the kids are in bed tonight I’ll be digging in. The entire first episode is online already, so maybe I’ll get a headstart if I ~~ignore enough of my work~~ get a break today.
I’ve been spending my post-kids-in-bed time at home this week watching season 1 of LOST at ABC’s website. Corey at Ubiquitously notes the huge quality difference between ABC’s online video player, which streams HD video full-screen, and CBS’s Innertube player. ABC’s version is really very impressive, with a crisp, DVD-quality presentation, non-irritating…

February 9, 2008, 2:30 pm

Jericho returns

By Robert Talbert

Just a programming/public service announcement: Jericho, the only television show I really actually watch, is returning for its second season this Tuesday at 10 PM eastern time on CBS. I first wrote about Jericho here, having discovered it while stranded in the Charlotte, NC airport for 36 hours. I say it’s the only TV show I watch, but in fact I have never watched it on television. You can get the entire first season, with the full episodes, for free on line at CBS Innertube, and that’s where I watched most of it (and mostly in the Charlotte airport). I broke down and bought a couple of episodes from iTunes as well.

That there will be a second season at all is a story in itself. The show was originally cancelled, but distraught fans mounted a petition drive to bring the show back on air. Part of the drive consisted of delivering several thousand pounds of peanuts to CBS headquarters (a…