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So who came up with the awesomesauce thingy? I'm considering stealing the idea and adopting it for my self. :p |
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| National Television Awards |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|09:18 pm] |
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[sorry if something similar has been posted previously, I can't SEE anything but you never know]
FAIL!!
Those people in charge of the National Television Awards have done something quite unfair to us fans. The previous "Most Popular Actress" and "Most Popular Actor" awards have been abolished in place of Outstanding Drama Performance. And okay, I do agree, the award sounds a lot more swish and important now. But we have a problem.
WHO do we vote for, as David Tennant and Catherine Tate are now in the same category??
Help. Who are you voting for, who would you suggest? (: |
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| This was supposed to be more coherent than it is. |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|04:10 pm] |
So, I watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog a few days ago. Watched it a few times since. Dig it. But it got me thinking about mad science and all of that.
Eric Burns over at Websnark said a few things about mad science while trying to come up with a mad science playlist. (post) Part of what he says is "The thing is? Mad scientists, as a trope? They're not cute and fluffy and geek positive." And then goes on about the powerful image of broken people exploring secrets that shouldn't be explored and et cetera et cetera . . .
But . . . you know what? Geeks don't need "geek positive" things. Geeks are already convinced that they, as a group, are superior to all others, even though the public may be too stupid to realize the fact. "Geek positive" as a phrase is roughly useful as "feline positive"--you can say that either one is just as good as the rest of us, and a worthwhile segment of society, and they'll both know you're way off the mark because they're better.
But mad science brings something else. Mad science brings images of power, of force, of things that must finally be recognized and reckoned with and acknowledged for what they are. "You know-nothings, you plebians, you troglodytes--you never understood, you never realized, and now your destruction is in my hands." It's payback against a world who never really understood what it was looking at.
. . . so yeah. Mad science isn't "geek positive." But it's still awesome.
And makes me wish I had more of a head for science, 'cause I totally want a piece. But hey, I can live with being a flunky. ^_^ |
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| Just heard on five news |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|09:02 pm] |
RTD offered Prince Charles a part in Doctor Who, but he turned it down! |
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| Streaming posts ... |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|03:32 pm] |
Seriously?!?! I thought I was pretty clear last week. Apparently, enough of you thought that watching talking chihuahuas was something you should really spend a couple hours of your lives watching, enough that it happened again?!?! Did someone come out of this movie last week and tell you how fucking good that talking chihuahua movie was?!?! Is this some kind of brain-washing Disney cult thing?!?! Seriously, what the fuck is going on?!?! I can almost understand if the children are to blame, almost. However, it is your responsibility as an authority figure to slap the shit out of them and tell them how fucking stupid and just wrong it would be to watch such a movie. The same diligence with which you teach your children not to stick forks into light sockets should be used with a movie like this. Any parent that is taking their child to see this crap is lowering the standards and intelligence of their children, and guaranteeing the stupidity of movies to come (enjoy Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2: Escape From New York). How about making the little shits go (gasp) to a park, or museum, or even an art gallery? Something that might actually benefit them in the future perhaps? Thinking about sitting through a Disney movie about CGI anthropomorphized talking chihuahuas, I can immediately imagine several excruciatingly painful things that I would rather have done to my testicles. I hope you are all fucking happy, you have renewed my fears with the election one month away. ............ ...........
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| Another moment in geekery |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|03:31 pm] |
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My DVR recorded Batman Forever a few days ago and I just now got around to watching it again. When Edward Nigma (Jim Carrey) meets Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer) about 20 minutes into the movie I happened to notice his (Nigma's) shoes. "Are those the Doctor's Converses?" I wonder to myself. I shrug it off because I was unsure, then he backs up enough and I see the logo on the side of the shoe. "IT IS!!!" I shout, pointing. Luckily, no one was around to hear me but the dog.
Thus my moment in geekery. I know lots of people must wear cream-colored Converses in movies, but since Tennant, they will always be "The Doctor's Shoes" to me. |
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[Oct. 13th, 2008|09:27 pm] |
Hm, got new glasses today: ( Glasses on my face! )
Would be more pleased had the reason I got new glasses not been that I just, uh, misplaced my previous pair. I'm sure I put them down somewhere in my mother's house, but it's been three months now, so I finally gave up. Somewhere, they await me. Anyway, both pairs were cheap Favoptic ones.
Have been enjoying a week where all my waking time was spent 1) working or 2) studying Turkish — excepting the brief interlude during which I rolled around on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stef_g's bedroom floor while vocalising my discontent with the world. Let us admire poor Stef's tolerance! But I've had my first Turkish exam now, and I think it went well. Pepper, pepper, wood, etc.
Tomorrow I finally get to see the future studio space that I just spend a whole bunch of monies on. I am so damned set on drawing now! |
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| The red creature |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|12:28 pm] |
What is the name of that red creature from the Titanic episode of the new Dr. Who? Balaika? Balalalak? |
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| Check out my up dates |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|01:18 pm] |
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Don't forget to sign my guest book on my home page!
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[Oct. 13th, 2008|11:38 am] |
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Have a happy Columbus/Indigenous Peoples' Day. I know I am. :D |
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| Very strange question indeed |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|04:34 pm] |
In The Mind Robber Jamie mentions dreaming of a unicorn. Blade Runner fans will have guessed my question already: "Is Jamie a replicant?"
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| The Amazing Lollipop Man |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|04:29 pm] |
Lack of internet has forced me to the telly. I turned on to check the weather forecast on teletext shortly after lunch today when out of the television comes a familiar Scottish voice - even more familiar as I'd been watching Ghost Light last night. Blimey, it's Sylvester McCoy! He was in the daytime soap Doctors, playing a has-been TV star (The Amazing Lollipop Man), now down on his luck. He slips a disc and, faced with a career in a wheelchair, ponders aloud "perhaps I could play Davros". Later he says "if you ever get the chance to play a great role, grab it with both hands!" Whatever could he have meant?
There was, sadly, no mention of bus stations, tea going cold or unlimited rice pudding.
After the other night's nostalgia-tastic Fifty Years of Blue Peter (narrated by Tom Baker) and this, I seem to be getting tuned to Doctor Who even when it's not actually on.
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| Secant - xkcd |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|10:42 am] |
One of the more mis-quoted phrases is that "art imitates life." With a little research, the origins of this quote can be found with Irish writer Oscar Wilde: "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life." Wilde's quote has never been proven more true than with a recent comic over at the webcomic xkcd and with the hit video website YouTube. It seems that Google is implementing an audio comment preview that will read back the comments that listeners post below YouTube videos so they can hear just how inane their comments are.
The irony? xkcd did it first. Of course, xkcd had an annoyed cast member writing a virus to infect YouTube and implement the code, rather than Google itself realizing "this is a good idea" and running with it, but at its core, xkcd seems to have inspired the YouTube change. Indeed, an Australian spokesman for YouTube admitted that xkcd inspired the audio preview feature, and that YouTube engineers developed the feature in their spare time. (Unfortunately, it appears that the feature is not mandatory for all commenters. The morons out there who post stupid things will just continue to post their idiocy to piss off people and to be jackasses.)
So it appears Oscar Wilde was right. Life does imitates art. I just hope that YouTube includes a link to xkcd in thanks for this brief moment of inspiration... and that Randall Munroe gets some added web traffic as a result of a moment of genius that was noticed by corporate America. |
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| yesterday I fell to earth |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|09:10 am] |
Yesterday I dove into the sky and did not die. I fell for just over a mile with all the velocity that the Earth's gravity could give me. I spun and somersaulted in the air, not purely by intent, but because I was falling. It might have been dizzying if there'd been anything but sky with which to orient myself.
Finally I was righted and facing down the rapidly approaching ground. But still I did not die. With the tug of a cord, I stopped falling seemingly completely, held aloft like some dancing marionette by yards and yards of taut nylon. From there I drifted downward another mile, blissfully slow now, amazed by all the swimming pools in the towns below me. When I worked at the McDonalds down there, somewhere, briefly back in high school, those towns had always seemed so poor, but two decades later and miles above, it was another story altogether.
As the Earth approached, things sped up, pulling guide wires spun me around fast, making turns as fast as ricochets. I started to fear the landing more and more, but in the end the Earth was kind and took me back without so much as a bruise for all that had I cheated her hardness and gravity. And then it was over, buckles undone, feet back on the ground, hand slaps and embraces, waning exhilaration, and just a lingering pressure in my ears to remind that I just fell out of the sky.
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