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9 Responses to “ Daily Breakfast 458: The Value of Time ”

1. 
   Chris Kirby Mar 18th, 2008 at 10:20 am

   Fr. Roderick,

   I’m not sure if you can access hulu.com in the Netherlands, but all 4 episodes of New Amsterdam are available. - for FREE. Now that Hulu is out of private beta, anyone can subscribe and watch full episodes of a growing number of tv shows with only brief commercial interruptions. I prefer this to iTunes only because I have a hard time paying for television shows when I’m already paying for satellite tv service in my home. So, if you don’t have a DVR and you missed the first few episodes of this new tv series, you should check it out.

2. 
   Maureen Paolini Mar 18th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

   Hi Father Roderick, New Amsterdam is a new series. It has only been on for about three weeks or so. For your US listeners - they should look it up on iTunes. The last time I visited iTunes they had the pilot episode available for free download. They often do this for new shows, but they don’t remain free for long, so it might no longer be available for free. The actor, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
   stars as John Amsterdam and is a graduate of the National Theater School in Denmark.

3. 
   Gabriel Stefan Mar 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

   Unfortunately Kirby it seems like it’s only available in the US. And of course iTunes TV shows are also restricted only the the US. I would love if I could get the TV episodes that are available on iTunes US store here in Canada.

   I’m actually kind of wondering why it is that these TV shows are restricted only to the US?

   Technically you can set up a proxie that will “trick” the site into thinking that you are in the US, but I have no clue how to go about doing that. And the legality of that is also rather… questionable… :D.

   All I know is that I need American Idol to end so I can start watching House again…

4. 
   Michael C Mar 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

   Stay tuned to The Daily Breakfast for news on another forthcoming big project that one of the producers of New Amsterdam will be involved with.

5. 
   Michael C Mar 18th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

   Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90

   By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer

   COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.

   Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, died at 1:30 a.m. after suffering breathing problems, aide Rohan De Silva said.

   Co-author with Stanley Kubrick of Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Clarke was regarded as far more than a science fiction writer.

   He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.

   He joined American broadcaster Walter Cronkite as commentator on the U.S. Apollo moonshots in the late 1960s.

   Clarke’s non-fiction volumes on space travel and his explorations of the Great Barrier Reef and Indian Ocean earned him respect in the world of science, and in 1976 he became an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

   But it was his writing that shot him to his greatest fame and that gave him the greatest fulfillment.

   “Sometimes I am asked how I would like to be remembered,” Clarke said recently. “I have had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer and space promoter. Of all these I would like to be remembered as a writer.”

   Story continues:

   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke

   More on Arthur C. Clarke via The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation:

   http://www.clarkefoundation.org

   ~

6. 
   Chelsa McDougall (good little catholic girl whos actually 24 and half) Mar 18th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

   Hey Fr. Roderick.
   Ya about that New Amsterdam show, i’ve tried to make sense of it butI really find it hard to understand. Anyways sorry for changing the subject here but Do you watch Ugly Betty? i love that show much cause finally theres an acttress in Celebrityville (aka hollywood) whos not skinny.Thank you, America Ferria for being a rockin role model for us chicks who actually not that skinny. Who are actually an “hourglass” figure.

7. 
   Christian Mar 18th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

   About a different topic:

   Flash is finally coming to the iPhone/iPod Touch. Just click on my name…

8. 
   Tim Ryan Mar 19th, 2008 at 10:00 am

   Your discussion reminded me of something I have posted in my office. I forget who to attribute it to but it goes like this:

   Think in the morning,
   Act in the noon,
   Read in the evening,
   Sleep at night.

   Enjoy the podcast

9. 
   frjimt Mar 19th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

   Amsterdam time, it is Holy Thursday. The Institution of the Eucharist and the institution of the Priesthood.

   I have two concerns:
   While the world is reeling from excessive planning and overscheduling….. I hear countless confessions of people who are slaves to their calendars. I pray that not happen to you.

   Please, please, please, tell me Fr. Roderick that you “fogged it” when you gave your schedule and you did not mention daily celebration of Holy Mass. What good all the other work if the Eucharist is not celebrated on a daily basis.

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