| So as the 2nd to last episode approaches tonight... Here are my predictions.
1) Galactica will ram the colony with a well placed suicide jump with Adama and Tigh at the Helm.
2) Kara is a Hybrid her father was Daniel the #7 model skinjob that was supposedly put out of comission.
3) Gaius is also a Hybrid.
4) Boomer will do something to redeem herself for the sake of Hera. Hopefully dieing a painful death in the process.
5) The Chief, whom i believe to be in the brig,(which is why we didn't see him at all alst episode) will be given another shot.
6) The Galactica is the Dying leader theorey is stupid. It's Roslin and she'll hopefully die painfully of her retarded long bout with cancer. And if it is Galactica RDM is an asshole.
7) The humans and cylons will eventually reach the promised land, a beautiful planet to settle on. Except at the last minute they'll get sucked through a wormhole and come out next to Voyager who was inadvertantly emitting a reverse tacheon pulse. "It will happen before and it will happen again" in a cruel evil joke. This is RDM referring to him bringing Voyager back to Tv for another 9 seasons of crap. | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| So recently (about 3 weeks ago or so) I quit Caffeine. For those who don't realize it, Caffeine actually has withdrawal for people who drink too much. I being one of those people since my teenage years, have tried before without much success. So I made it through entirely cold turkey, not a single cup of coffe, decaf or otherwise. No teas, no sodas, nothing. This is a mighty extreme swing from someone used to a regular cup of coffee or 2 in the morning and at least one drink with multiple shots of espresso during the day and soda with meals.
So i noticed several things when the crippling headaches went away. One I have much more energy in the morning when I wake up. Secondly and more interestingly I started dreaming. For my entire adult life I could never ever remember having any dreams. Not even waking up in the dead of night when i should be in full on REM sleep. I'm not talking about being able to remember dreams. I can't say I've ever even had one that i can remember. I would just go to sleep then wake up the next day. So now whenever I'm woken up (baby, alarm, Adeline etc.) for the last 2 weeks I've come to wake with the knowledge that I was in the middle of dreaming. Pretty darn cool. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I was listening to the white house press conference today... is there a reason why the dude Obama picked as press secretary has the oratorial skills of a calley girl? Ummmm..... uh.... yes....um.... the president ....um considered....uh.... that. Couldn't he perhaps have found someone who can speak and not sound like a moron?
I hope Obama refuses to sign this disgusting pork and earmark ridden stimulous package. I've never seen so much disgusting spending wrapped into one package. The Dems in the House went wild on this one. I'm supprised it doesn't include a statue for each of them on their lawn. But it does include new lawns and beaver damn removal...yay. I hope he spits on it and sends it back saying I promised NO PORK! But that doesn't seem likely does it... as in only a few weeks we've got a cabinet filled with former lobbyers and tax cheats. Seriously the guy in charge of the Fed can't even figure out turbotax?
One of the positive things i can see coming from this is the Cap on Corporate salaries. That's a must... I even think $500,000 is too high. They should work for only stock options... so if your company recovers you make money... if you don't you've got a pile of worthless paper. The Talking point on the republican side of this is that it's opening up a pandora's box of salary capping... next they'll be capping everyon's salaries. The slipery slope argument fails in practical use. It was the same bullshit with gay marriage... what next we'll be marrying dogs! Cause you know that's the next logical leap. Fucking morons. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Right now our government is burning the midnight oil to push back the forced switchover to over the air DTV (Digital Television) broadcasts next month. This is the perfect example of stupid people coming together to make themselves look just outright retarded.
It's so bad it actually makes me angry. Sure I'm a techie... But this is a common sense thing. When i go to explain this switchover to people the toughest part is not the actual explanation, it's convincing them that what I'm saying is so painstakingly simple.
So... here we go. This is as simple as this whole DTV switchover is.
1) Do you have TV service you pay for? Cable TV or satelite? THEN IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER!!!!! PLEASE MOVE ON!!!! NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!! THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU!!!!! NOTHING FOR YOU WILL CHANGE!!!!
2)Do you have an antenna on your roof(notice i dind't say satelite dish?) or rabbit ears? Then you'll need a) a tv with a built in digital tuner. b) a digital converter box which costs about $50-$100 for which there is also a government rebate program.
Why did the above cost us millions of dollars to explain with an entire ad campaign? Jesus christ people, this isn't rocket science!
To pass a stimulus package it takes months with layer upon layer of pork, but to postpone this shit they're busting their ass? You know what makes it worse? I don't think i've talked to a single other person about this topic that understands it. Even the old AV guy in my school district, that now works with me in IT doesn't get it.
AV guy: "Boy the DTV switchover is coming soon, i wonder how that will affect our district?"
ME: "how do you mean? we have cablevision."
Av guy: "yeah but we dont have any boxes, you'll need those after this."
ME: "No, you don't Cablevision does the conversion for us. It only affects over the air transmission"
AV guy: "I don't think so, i saw something on tv the other day about needing a box. I only have one cablevision box in my house so my other Tvs wont work."
Me: "NO... no... if you have cable it doesn't matter... box or not. They're taking care of the switchover on their end."
Av guy: " that can't be right i saw a commercial the other day that we needed a box, boy we'll be screwed if we don't have one of those boxes."
Me: "NO, just NO!!! aren't you listening to me! Why god Why!?!?! (this last line was all in my head in reality, i walked away. It took him several days to believe me.)
I think this has inspired me to make some sort of youtube rant video calling everyone stupid. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Ok SO some people have asked my why I hate the new Indy movie soo soo much. This will contain spoilers, but this movie was an obvious piece of crap from the start so i don't see what i could spoil besides George and Steve's plan to steal $10 from you.
The Movie starts out of course with the new bad guys, the Ruskies. The ruskies have infiltrated america, kidnapped Indy and his Friend(worst character ever) and smuggled them into new mexico with an entire russian infantry division. Where they proceed to launch a comical assualt on...(really 10 guys with machine guys hiding behind the one russian officer dude) Area 51 of course. Cate Blanchett appears as her menacing villian! She's so unforgetably evil that she constantly changes accents from russian to british. She does however have a wild-eyed look and a Greay Jumpsuit that makes her look fat.
Anyhow at this point they drag Indy and his Friend out of the car, and take them inside the Area 51 warehouse. This was the point i knew the crap was going to being flowing, as they transition from a large warehouse exterior to a huge extradimensional CGI interior. George was so eager to use CGI he had to have CGI crates in the first 5 minutes... CRATES!! Did real crates jump in price recently? So they tell Indy to find them the Crate they're looking for. It turns out she wants the coffin of an alien! Of course she does, this is Indiana Jones Alien hunter! So Indy gets them to empty all their gun powder into his hat so he can throw it up in the air and watch it fly around the room. See gunpowder is magnetic and when you throw it in the air it flys around the room, it's simple science really. Now that Indy has gone all Macguyver on us. He leads them to the crate, His friend changes sides for one of the 12 times during the movie and betrays him and he makes a run for it.
Of course the russians instead of staying and grabbing everything in area 51 (including the ARK) they decide to chase indy through the dessert onto a nuclear test site. Luckily for Indy Frigidaire during the 50's (not many people know this) made their home fridges to be able to withstand a full on ground 0 nuclear blast. So of course Indy jumped in the fridge, 2 seconds before a Nuclear weapon went off and was thrown several miles away, where the fridge opened and our intrepid hero rolls out unharmed and immediately surrounded by a US government scrub team.
Now i'm sorry this is where i lost all hope, in fact the rest of the movie was in such a haze i'll just gloss over the rest of the movie from the moments that hurt my brain enough for me to notice.
Motorcycle Chase scene(the commies really are everywhere!)
Recycling Russian Villians
Tarzan
Jungle chase
GUy constantly switching sides
Ants
Car off cliff onto tree into water.
Jar-Jar showed up (well actually no, but that would have been an improvement over the standard alien they did use, at least then i would have laughed.)
To me this movie was like the old indy knock offs from during the 80's... you know those alan quartermain and the lost city of gold movies. IT was like they stole one of those scripts, added in Indy and gave him some incredibly obvious personal plot. and threw in shitloads of CGI for the hell of it. Out of all the crap they could have had the Great Indiana Jones chasing, they chose some random bullshit that no one cares about. It would have been a better story and more interesting if he had gone in search of Manbearpig. I so wanted this to be good, really i did. But this movie does for the Indiana Jones series what Episode one did for star wars. A hack attempt at re-writing some sort of former glory and trying to shove a story in where it doesn't belong. | | comments: 13 comments or Leave a comment |
| | In another 2 weeks my wife moves into pop at anytime mode! Yay. It's amazing to think how fast life changes. 3 years ago at time time i was changing jobs and fields, back in school and trying to change myself a bit. In that time i've bought a house, gotten married and now here comes my first child. Life sure is a wild ride. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| 1. Pick 5 movies you know/like/love.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions
6. Post answers after 10 days if nobody guessed correctly
#1. "Mankind united with infinitely greater purpose in pursuit of war than he ever did in pursuit of peace." -DaBliss
#2. "Excuse me! I'm trying to conduct a wedding here which has nothing to do with love, so please be quiet! "
#3. "I could have killed 'em all, I could kill you. In town you're the law, out here it's me. Don't push it. Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe. Let it go. Let it go." -Mick
#4. "I will tell you, Mr. Wang, if YOU can tell ME why a man who possesses one of the most brilliant minds of this century can't say his *prepositions* or *articles!* "What IS THE," Mr. Wang! "What IS THE meaning of this?""
#5. "These are the rules. Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself." -Tom | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| So they're getting ready to deploy the SWORDS version these fully armed and operational in IRAQ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON
They're about to see combat service for the first time. It's literally an FPS come to life. Some dude is sitting safely away from combat. Steering around a Big RC car like when he was a kid. Only this one has a Giant machine gun mounted on it. Best of all, they're cost efficient at 150,000 a pop with the ability to repair cheaply. Compare that to an infantryman that costs at least 100,000 to train. Plus You don't have to tell the robot's family that it died.
I want to see the looks on the faces of a group of enemy combatants, when the live troops are given orders to withdraw and these things roll in. Seriously, what do you do when your enemy stops sending live troops and sends machine after you? | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| 1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - a song, a color, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Associate you with a character.
6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7. Tell you my favorite user picture of yours.
8. In return, you must post this in your LJ. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| The house is coming along well, lots of painting and other assorted work. I'll put up some pics when it's all finished... i think i have some before and afters. I'll probably try and do some moving this weekend if anyone wants to lend a hand with moving some furniture and such i'll let people know if everything will be ready by then.
On another note, if you know of anyone with experience in Corporate/Education it sales who's looking for a job let me know. My company is looking for people and willing to pay should even be a nice finders fee in it for me :P | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I just got finished watching the last part of "the lost room" miniseries.
I'd have to say it's just about the best sci-fi material that i can remember watching ever. Great characters, a story like nothing you've ever seen before.
If you see it re-running at any time on sci-fi i'd say it's worth a watch.
http://www.scifi.com/lostroom/ | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So the other day i'm at work, and myself and a co-worker are discussing his new wii. The guy we were working with says... "oh you want one of those? the guy down at subway said he has a few to sell."
I kind of did a double take, but then after work we went down to subway and voila this guy goes out opens his trunk and there's a new wii in there. So i picked it up for $250 cash. Then when i showed it to adeline she promply grabed it and put it away, cause i can't have it till christmas time. lol so no wii for mee until chrismas! | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| 1. Pick one of my characters, any one.
2. I will tell you the origin of his/her/it's name.
3. I will tell you five random facts surrounding his/her/it's creation.
4. I will give you one random fact of his/her/it's backstory.
5. I will give you one random fact of his/her/it's forestory.
6. You may ask me up to ten questions about the character.
7. If you place this in your journal, I will return the favor. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
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