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My Favorite Christmas Specials

I love Christmas. I love it. I wouldn’t pin it on the notion of getting a bunch of free stuff though. That is exciting, but the season and the build up are far better than whatever loot I come out with on the 25th. It’s the whole season. Decorations, lights, music, special candy… and Television Christmas Specials.

There’s something I just can’t get over about short programs centered on Christmas that air only once a year. (“Air” is a funny term, isn’t it? I haven’t watched Over-The-Air television in years.) A number of these specials have caught my attention and wonder over the years. I thought I’d step up and present the list of my favorites (in no particular order)

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School

Even though this blog is at AaronEiche.com, I tend not to make it very personal. It’s mostly because I don’t really want to expose most of my personal life to the slings and arrows of the internet. However I made a decision a while back to return to school, and it’s gotten me thinking about college, degrees, grades, and everything that goes into them.

 

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Aaron Eiche Podcast, Episode 1

Yup, I made a podcast:
http://aaroneiche.com/podcasts/AE-podcast-1.m4a

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Well now what? (My new laptop)

MacBook ProWe have a handful of computers in our house. My Desktop, my wife’s Desktop, our media/backup server, and a netbook. The netbook’s job was relatively simple. It lived in the back room of our house hooked up to a couple of things: Our rarely-used printer/scanner, and my MakerBot 3D printer. Over the past few months I had contemplated getting a replacement for the netbook.

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Back on the 3D-Printed Horse

Several months ago, I finally got my hands on a mostly-working 3d printer. A maker bot. After irritated months of tinkering, I had trouble getting it to print out things that I wanted it to, and I gave up. Well, I took it somewhere, and when I got back I just never got it back out of the box. Last week I pulled it back out.

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Blurring the Lines in Digital Content Shifting

I ran into a dilemma today that I never expected to run into and it has to do with fairness when it comes to digital property.

I’m an advocate of time-shifting and space-shifting content. When I say content I mean books, movies, TV-shows, games, whatever. Time-shifting refers to the process of utilizing something at a different time than it’s origin. In terms of media, the old analog is taping a show to watch later. These days it means Tivo, Netflix or Hulu. You’re simply watching something at a time other than when it was broadcast on television.

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