Writing up of some paperwork is finished and ready to sign.
I am writing in Steven again. I have defeated the sleepiness. I must press on, but pack up before bar rush. Wish me luck.
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Hipster PDA
I’m such a meme sheep.
POD, Stargate: Ark of Truth, and Heroes: Season 2
Amazon bullies Print On Demand publishers. There’s also a Wall Street Journal and a Publishers Weekly article on the subject.
Grand River Coffee, which was previously a Cornerstone Coffee, feels like a hotel lobby. They even have a waterfall running down a pane of glass.
Stargate: Ark of Truth is the perfect wrap-up for season 10. If it had been cut in half, at a cliffhanger, it would have served as the season 10 finale and the season 11 starter. It has replicators, a banished Morgan LaFey, the ascended Orusai, and plot tie-ups. It has everything that was missing in Season 10.
While playing like a double-length episode, it still takes advantage of feaure-film special effects, soundtrack, and camera work. Unlike 99% of the movies that the SciFi channel puts out (craaaaaap), this straight-to-DVD release was quality.
Also, Teal’c is a badass. Five stars.
Heroes: Season 2 was not as cohesive or a-to-b as Season 1 was, but I didn’t see that as much of a drawback. We learn a lot more about the previous generation, and that this super power thing has likely been going on for a very long time. Nearly every character gains depth, save Syler. That jerk. There is definitely an end-of-the world plot going on, like in the first season, but it’s implied that this is the normal course of events for people with these powers, and always has been. Very MiB in that regard.
On a technical note, I streamed this from Netflix’s servers. While the quality was good, the wait time was high (direct correlation, methinks). I’m still miffed that I’m forced to use IE to view streamed content, and that it uses Windows Media Player for its “viewing rights verification process” or whatever. But overall, it was a pleasant experience.
Five stars.
Baby Shull
Here lies an unknown and possibly illegitimate baby. It was never named,
and was not taken care of in the traditional yearly grave cleaning. When
I was first introduced to this side of Benny’s family, I felt like a bit
of an outsider. So, I knelt down and brushed the dirt and pine needles
away. I poured water on it, and dug a pathway so the mud wouldn’t cover
the sunken stone. This year, the baby got a flower, despite the lack of
pot or urn.
It would cost seventy-five dollars to put a slab under the grave stone
to stop it from sinking, and raise the marker to the height of the other
family members. That should be pretty easy to do in a year’s time.
Writer’s Block: Three dishes I could live on
Chicken Tikka Massala
Bamboo Curry
Mongolian Beef
Stargate SG-1: Season 10
This is supposed to be the last season, right? The show was canceled, yes? Well, yes and no. Instead of tying up, or even really making any sort of climactic progress against the armies of the Ori, this is just another season of Stargate SG-1. They’ve got just as many retrospective episodes, character history episodes, Jaffa infighting, Baal (GOD! JUST SHUT UP YOU CLONED JERK), the NID, actual Goa’uld implantations, and Tok’ra bailouts as past seasons. What it doesn’t have is a conclusion. In fact, it has the opposite of a conclusion. Hell, it didn’t have a buildup or climax, so why would it have a conclusion?
I enjoyed nearly every episode, on its own. But even if it hadn’t been the last season, there would have been a cliffhanger at the end. It feels like I was in the passenger seat of a car that was being driven off a cliff.
Because of the strength of the individual episodes, the small amounts of Ori plot advancement that did happen, the twist involving
My web presence
I’m feeling quite the urge to aggregate and list the various incarnations of me that exist across the web. I have several home pages, blogs, memberships in rental/rating sites (like Netflix and GoodReads), information networks (better descriptor for Google and MSN/Live?), photo sites, and IM protocols.
Home pages are evolving into just such an aggregation, it seems. Since data is strewn across different networks and servers, but is readily available and backed up by those immense and professional services, why duplicate the information on a local server? Why not simply hotlink? That’s what the web is, right? It’s come full circle, except blue underlined text is replaced with super-mini-logo-icons.
You’ve seen them, you know what I mean. They’re up there, next to the URL in your location bar. Only now those itty bitty logos are popping up as identifiers for linking to and from those popular, immense, professional services.
I suppose the only reason to duplicate one’s data in this scenario would be for backup purposes. Because, really, what will it take to make Google (Picasa, Blogspot), Yahoo! (Flickr), LiveJournal, or the rest unavailable? What would it really take to wipe out the data that’s scattered all over the net for each of us?
In aggregating these links, are we making it too easy to be tracked onilne?
Weekly Word Count
There was once this super secret project, back in the day.
I say evolved, because it adapted to survive. And the changes are so severe that they might just be generational. Of the ideas, I’d say that this one, the one that will finally see life ( *knock on wood* ) is the third generation.
Our working title is Fight or Flight, and the grandchild idea is a webcomic. The current plans are to update weekly, and we plan on having a several-month-long stockpile before the site goes live. The main character, tentatively named Willy, is pictured here. He was drawn by Rick Schlaack, who is one of the most amazing artists I’ve ever met. And the irony is, HE is waiting on US to get scripts finalized so that he can draw. Talk about a reversal!
With the concept art that he’s given us, I have absolutely no doubt that this project will take off. I’ve got my eyes on Penny Arcade, PvP, Megatokyo, and Looking For Group. And I think that we can do it.