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Wow

Posted on September 30, 2008

So these Atlantis episodes are getting really good.  I can't believe they're ending it after this season.  Then again, I guess that's part of the whole reimaging of the Sci-Fi channel.  Ugh.  At least Wright and Glassner intend on doing movies with Atlantis like they did / are doing with SG-1, and with the experience they've already gained there they're sure to make some damned fine movies about the Pegasus galaxy.  I just wish it didn't have to end so soon.  Daniel Jackson was on Friday's episode!  He appears again this Friday too, in the second part.  It's pretty fun to see him and McKay go back and forth.

Oh.  My.  God.  I just realized that I am similar to Amber when it comes to Stargate...  Well, I don't so much know (or care) about the writers or what the directors are doing, but I have become very involved in the Stargate universe (not to be confused with the third show, Stargate: Universe) just as she is with.. well, every show she watches.  Mostly Doctor Who.  That's all she really talks about, she relates far too many topics to Doctor Who.. but when someone starts talking Stargate, whether it be Richard or Stephanie or Joy sometimes, I am so there.  I think it's something about the universe and its lore that draws me into the show.  Same for Amber with her shows.  There's just something that pulls you in, makes you want to know more.  I think Stargate has been the root cause of most theoretical scientific discussions in my house.  Which is not a bad thing at all.  It gets your mind working, your imagination flowing.

I don't really have anything else.  Today is my poopy class day.  Started eating the candies that Galina, Linda, and Pat dropped off.  God I love Air Heads.  I need a can opener so I can drink this Jarritos :( No offense or anything, I guess.. but it really surprised me that Linda remembered how much I love Jarritos.  Then again, she met Yee and Nate (and Tim?) and they made us go to Meijer for some Jarritos...  I'm sure that moment stood out for her, meeting my weird friends and goofing off in a gigantic south-eastern Michigan grocery store :razz:

I can never find good bass/treble levels for my sound card...  It's annoying.  And then the bass knob on my speaker controls only helps to frustrate me. 

I finally found a program that will let me use the extra buttons on the wireless Logitech mouse that Casey gave me for my laptop (the mousewheel is wonky and he has like a million other mice, so he let me take this one for the laptop).  Now I just need to figure out what I want those buttons to do...

I've been talking with Mary, Brian's ex, a lot lately, since like mid to early August at least.  Her boyfriend broke up with her about.. a week before Jacki broke up with me.  Is.. is it bad that I have some sort of satisfaction that she feels she can come to me in this time?  I mean, that is a good thing, and I am sympathetic to her and am trying to help her.. but I just think I want for people to come to me with their problems far more than I should. 

I wish I had two line-in's on Andraia's sound card.  Sometimes I just wanna run my DS or Zune through my main speakers at the same time I have the laptop as well as the desktop going.  Usually the desktop is for music or whatever show I'm watching or game I'm playing at the moment.  The laptop is for AIM, most youtube videos, and sometimes a movie or show depending on what I'm doing on the desktop and is therefore always hooked up through Andy's line in.  It would be nice to run the DS through the speakers so I get some decent sound quality, and sometimes I wanna listen to the radio, so the Zune is great for that.  Too bad the laptop doesn't have a line-in..  Wait.. my sound control thingy has a slider for "Line 2."  This may be perfect!

Ugh.. time to shower.. then class, class, lunch, homework, dinner, class, lab, homework.

I need to start working out.  I'd say on a regular basis, but all I ever do is just a lame amount of push-ups.  I'd like to get a fair amount of push-ups down before I actually start going to Keating though, for some reason.  I don't know, it makes sense to me.  Push-ups are easy, something I can settle myself into everyday, ideally. 

Mmm Delicious Hangover

Posted on September 21, 2008

Yeah.. booze is the answer... totally..  No.  I'm an idiot.  But!  I do feel a hell of a lot better (emotionally that is, physically too after a lot of sleep and some expelling of stomach contents).  I guess that counts for something?  Now to get something to eat and drink..  I have cookies from Nicole!  Thanks! :D

Why is there a documentary about dragons (as if they were real) on the Science Channel?  Patrick Stewart is narrating!  This program stays on.

I need a new game to play. 

Oh right!  I downloaded Star Wars Episode 1: Pod Racer for the PC!  I wonder how it compares to the N64 version? 

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Goodbye City of the Ancients.. :(

Posted on September 18, 2008

Ugh..  Stargate: Atlantis is cancelled?  The current airing season is the last one.  Apparently they're planning to go to a dvd-movie format like SG1 is (is there any news on a third SG1 movie?  Continuum was beautifully done..  I mean, watching Baal die three (four?) different times was pretty awesome..). 

Stargate: Universe is set to premiere next year, possibly in the summer time.  Here's an easier to read article that claims to list things that need to be done but really just reiterates what MGM/Sci-Fi/Brad Wright/Robert C. Cooper have said Universe will be.  Universe will be more (entirely) space-based.. more character based..  but.. it could still work.  I was hugely cautious before.. but now?  I dunno... it's worth a shot, yeah?  They're also trying to get a younger demographic interested in the show.. 'cause apparently the average age of Atlantis' current demographic is... forty-seven?

We obviously don't know how it's going to turn out yet, but if they do something new and fresh to keep people interested..  it will work well.  The premier is going to be two hours (I guess the original idea for Universe was a movie, but then they decided that could elaborate more on the story).  I am going to watch it, see what kind of things they present.. how well they present them, etc.  The basic premise is that a spaceship appears in orbit above Earth..  an Ancient/Altaran spaceship.  A team boards the spaceship and it shoots off, somewhere.  They have no idea how to control it and are stuck on it with no way back to Earth.  Could be very interesting.  The idea is to be a completely separate entity from SG1 and Atlantis, since Atlantis was really a spin-off of SG1..  We'll see how it works..  I just need to catch up on the rest of Atlantis now..