SlackthePlanet

I’m not usually one to reminisce about how great things were “back in the day”. In fact aside from a crumbling economy I think we’ve got it better now than any other generation before. Except in the area of cartoons. I loved the cartoons of the 80’s and early 90’s. Now I know some will say I’m biased because I grew up on these cartoons but that’s not the case. They had stories and character development and taught a lesson. Remember the old G.I. Joe saying: “Now we know, and knowing is half the battle.” Nothing else today even comes close to that kind of awesomeness.  So it is that I leave you with four clips pulled from the depths of youtube. First is a compilation of 80’s cartoons combined with what I feel is one of the all time greatest 80’s songs. The last three are intro videos for my all time favorite cartoons. Enjoy.

Spent the last half of the day watching my Family Guy DVDs. So I thought why not share my all time favorite Family Guy moments with the internet. God Bless you Seth McFarlane.

Thats right FOR THE WIN! I know that sounds unbelievably stupid to most of you considering its the digital equivalent of an evolutionary dead end. Whats going to sound even more strange is I didn’t buy a player until I was positive the format was good and dead. I waited patiently for Toshiba to sign the death certificate and then and only then I jumped on it like a necrophiliac in a morgue.

I had been watching the xbox360 add-on HD-DVD drive for quite some time. I watched it spiral in price for a while before making the jump:

• $200 “NAH!”
• $170 “Hmmm, very interesting”
• $80 “Oh my gosh it’s so close I can taste it”
• $50 “BINGO!!!”

So there I was walking out of Best Buy carrying an HD player that I paid a grand total of $30 for, thanks to my Reward Zone coupons. What did I do next? Headed straight for Hollywood Video. I was just going in to rent some HD movies but they were running a 2 for $20 sale on all HD-DVDs. So I ended up walking out of there with quite the collection.

The really great thing about Microsoft’s little add-on drive is that it can connect to a computer. Here is where the WIN part of my outlandish HD-DVD FTW statement came from. I buy the HD-DVDs for cheap, some are as low as $9 online now. I rip them to my computer using the add-on drive. I can view them here on my computer or stream them through my network. Now I just wait until Blu-Ray burners drop in price. Once they do then I burn my ripped copies back to disk, this time its a Blu-Ray and I avoid having to re-buy my collection of HD movies.