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Trailers Without Pity: Sherlock Holmes

We initially resisted giving the Trailers Without Pity treatment to the Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey, Jr. joint Sherlock Holmes, fearing that we just wouldn't have much to say about it. Those fears proved unfounded when we got cracking and discovered the joys of rolling our tongues around words like, "Sleuth" and "holmes." I like saying, "Holmes."

We're doing two more videos this year, then we're taking a break while I go tend to a mewling new baby next month. But, if the missives I'm receiving from the mothership are true, it sounds like NBC/Universal would like to continue this creative partnership, so we will have more episodes beyond those next two in the '10.

For now, please enjoy this video we made for you:

posted by Omar G. at 12:24 PM

All Know-It-Alls Considered

The week's segment of All Tech Considered seemed straightforward enough. I was to talk about three subjects I've already written about pretty extensively: the new Motorola Droid phone (which I've been testing out), the new Dell Adamo XPS slim laptop (which I got a demo of last week here at work) and Warren Spector's Epic Mickey videogame. I've been following that for months.

I'd even talked about the Droid on this week's brand-new, totally awesome Age of Lasers podcast (Episode 2: Diagnosis License).

I went in, much more prepared than usual, did my thing and left, thinking things went really well. So why is it that last night, I was dealing with e-mails from fools telling me my opinion of the Droid (I said it's ugly and a little masculine) was flat-out wrong and that I don't know how to pronounce "mischievous?"

Check out this e-mail. WTF? And the comments here on the audio entry where I had to school someone on some Merriam-Webster facts.

Another person e-mailed on the subject of "Droid's handsomeness": "You said on NPR that the Droid was ugly. I think the Droid is a handsome peice (sic) of hardware, all made of metal, a nice heft. Just saying."

It's kind of amusing and I try not to take it too seriously, like the racist e-mail I got over the weekend that said, "You can use your picture in the newspaper next to your other illegals or those born here from illegal aliens."

Journalism would be awesome if it wasn't for all the readers and listeners.

Speaking of work stuff, I also had a story in Saturday's paper about the upcoming genAustin Girls Now! Conference. You can find that here.

posted by Omar G. at 3:28 PM

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