TDTVS

SyFy

WTF? The SciFi Channel is changing its name to SyFy. I’s must be out and Y’s are now the it vowel. I guess I’ll change the name of this place to “Lyfe of Bryan.” (looks vaguely Gaelic)

And because TDTVS is about to come on, in leiu of me writting something, Some scifi goodness from around the web:

Via io9 – Alien vs. Predator Game night – the chess game image is my new wallpaper.

Via Vimeo – Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon – sometimes obsession and too much time on your hands can be a good thing.

Via Trek core – Genuine Tribbles – literally “As Seen On TV”, these babies appeared on an episode of Deep Space 9.

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Charlie

I have been hunting Mr. Pace on ebay for the longest time, but my $15 was never enough. In frustration I went hog wild and upped the limit by a buck and a half – we have a winner.

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Mother, Jugs & Speed

Every time the MMC goes out for a breakfast run I take a few pictures, usually shots of the cars in the parking lot, people at the tables, the place we are eating at, what we might be eating, etc. While standing outside the restaurant lining up one more photograph of a row of Miatas I decided no more generic photos. This picture is the result. Fresh & New? Or Lame & Amateurish?

Stumbled on the last half of M, J & S on Fox Movie Channel tonight and instead of watching the news we opted for classic cheese. The cast included a Battle of Network Stars Dream Team: Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby, Dick Butkus & Larry Hagman. The soundtrack listing was fun too, the only mid-seventies band missing was Geronimo Jackson.

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Oh Crap

There are some nasty looking thunder storm cells headed our way. That is bad on so many levels. First they could bring heavy rains, strong winds and possibly spawn tornadoes. Second, because they are dangerous the local weather guys will be breaking into programing to keep us informed of there progress and that will mean they might interrupt TDTVS. We can’t just not watch it, what will we talk about at work tomorrow around the water cooler? Or third the storms might knock out the power here or in Augusta or the cable and then we’d miss the show entirely.

I had a really cool idea to that involved mixing up a photo rally I did several years back and geocaching to create an event for the MMC. I would give them a set of coordinates to go to where they would find a cache that held another set of coordinates to another cache for another of coordinates which would send them to a restaurant for lunch. Sounds kind of cool, but when I went to my GPS receiver to enter coordinates, there was no place where I could do that. I could get directions to an already entered waypoint, but where is the fun in that, if everyone kows where they are going. Are all GPSs like that? If so, that kind of kills this idea.

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Let’s Do The Time Warp Again

When the Losties left on the Island started jumping around in time I have to admit I was intrigued, I’m a sucker for a time travel story, but after last night it was almost too much, like too much cheesecake can be too much of a good thing.

Sort of seemed like they are doing it to show how clever the writers and producers of the show are. See how smart we are? Remember way back in episode X of season X when character A did that thing in the jungle and there was what appeared to be a throw away comment to soon to be dead character B? Didn’t seem like much at the time, but now, in season 5 episode 4, it is a major plot point that lays out the story arc for character C.

Well I’m hooked now, so, I say:

It’s so dreamy, oh fantasy free me
So you can’t see me, no not at all
In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention
Well-secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You’re there in the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You’re spaced out on sensation, like you’re under sedation
Let’s do the Time Warp again!

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Who Is This Woman?

Not too much time, TDTVS is on in a couple minutes. After tons of typing in cryptic commands in three attempts to get the wireless to work under Ubuntu, I did it, but only after running some temporary commands. I was then led through more typing to make it permanent. When I rebooted, it turned out to have been anything but permanent. I tried the temp fix again and it would have worked, but the thing that turned out to be permanent was the wrong WEP code that I had entered last night it seemed to be preventing me from logging in.

I may just have to reinstall Ubuntu from scratch again. Or maybe I should see if I can find a different distro that does support this wireless card.

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Red Shirt

Although originating in Star Trek, the term “redshirt” has been used in commentary on other action adventure stories, particularly serialized television. As a plot device, redshirts are most commonly used on shows which focus on characters who are prominent members of a larger group. In terms of plot function, redshirts serve to highlight the danger of a situation without forcing writers to sacrifice lead characters.

February is National Heart Month and this coming Friday is Wear Red Day 2009 to support the fight against heart disease in women.

For whatever convoluted reason our company nurse decided to pass around a memo last week to try and get everyone to wear red today, Monday, February 2nd and in spite of what happened to Frogurt while wearing a red shirt in last week’s episode of TDTVS…

…I took my life into my hands and wore a red sweater to work today. Obviously because I am home sitting on the couch in a yellow shirt, nothing bad happened to me on today’s “away mission.”

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