I can’t believe I never posted about this site before, but EvokeTV used to be my browser start page on my laptop at home. It was an AJAX-powered TV listing service that had awesome iCal and RSS support. So, I could look at my Google calendar and see when my favorite shows were airing new episodes for the next week. Or, I could check my favorite RSS reader and get new episode alerts for my favorite shows. Unfortunately, they had to shut down due to insufficient funds that were required to maintain the site. But from this post title, you can see the good news, and read more about it at the EvokeTV Blog.
February 16th, 2007
Just wanted to get this out there before the show is off the air, but I’m really digging the new Sci-Fi miniseries called “The Lost Room”. Since the story and premise is far too complicated, I’ll let this TV Squad post do the talking. There’s also a great Wikipedia entry for more information and a list of objects and their properties. After watching the first part, I highly recommend it. The first hour starts off a little slow to set things up and explain what the objects mean, but the second hour has the payoff. I hope the ending of the series doesn’t disappoint, but right now I recommend watching it. Sci-Fi is rerunning the episodes until Sunday where they have all 3 back to back.
December 12th, 2006
Well, I finally got my face on television. Now, it’s only for a few seconds, but still, it’s there. Here’s the story of how it happened:
My good friend, Noel, has been running this blog called TexasBurgerGuy.com for over 2 years now. He takes it seriously and has a passion for good hamburgers, so his reviews are very well done. Apparently, a lot of people at the Food Network read his blog, so they contacted him about doing a segment of a new show with him in it. The new show is called The Hungry Detective, which features a Los Angeles police detective that goes from city to city to find good restaurants that people may not know about.
When Noel got the news that they were going to film him, he let me know. But when I found out that it was going to be during the week and at Bubba’s Texas Burger Shack, which is right down the street from where I work, I just had to ask if I could pop my head in during the shoot. I took my good friend, Trey, along for the ride as well. Noel described the experience on this blog post, so I won’t get too descriptive.
In short, it was very interesting and fun to watch a television show get filmed. We actually showed up around 11AM, which is our normal lunch time, and there was no one there except Noel and a couple of crew members. We were hungry, so I finally ordered Trey and I a burger. After we got about half way done with our burger, the producer told us to save some room for another one so he could film us. So, after digesting our first burger, the producer set up a shot of Trey and I ordering our 2nd burger from the counter. We actually had to do 2 takes because they wanted to get audio of the shot (which they didn’t end up using). Later, they had the cameraman film us eating, which made me feel quite self-conscious! After that, we signed some release forms and we went back to work. Noel, on the other hand, had to stay the rest of the day for his part.
Here’s the clip that Noel posted on YouTube. You can see my back (behind the line) at the 3:39 mark, Trey and I eating at the 4:15 mark, and Trey and I ordering at the 4:28 mark.
Thanks to TexasBurgerGuy.com and the Food Network for a neat experience!
December 6th, 2006
I have to agree with Trey that Heroes is definitely my new favorite show on TV. It has barely edged out Lost, but only because Lost has become so convoluted. I’m really only writing this to test sending a trackback to another blog and decided that Trey’s blog would be a good candidate! 
Let’s see if this works!
November 16th, 2006