I just discovered this. Why did I not know ofthis before now? It is brillant.What a wonderful science show. And I love the design.
Russia's The Dead Hand
15 years ago
Saturday, April 4
Friday, April 3
Stuff
I needed to get the last post off the top because... well, just too sad.
Anyway, there is more of the story coming. I have a bunch of stuff... I'm just trying to juggle the pieces. And there as been other more important stuff that has needed attention.
Also, I don't know if you noticed, but I have added a ton of new links. Which is not that exciting but you should explore them. I think my favorite new find has been Cook to Bang, which is perhaps the greatest idea for a site ever.
Not me.
I think the only reason I have "Christopher Scott" on Google Alerts is to make me sad. It is just too common of a name. 90% of the results I get are Christopher Scott's arrested for drug dealing (usually meth). Then there was the whole death row inmate thing from last year.
Today I have been getting a lot of results. Because Christopher Scott was charged in Harrisburg, PA... charge in the death of a baby.
Sigh.
Good Morning, All!
I am not really looking forward to the next seven days or so. See, it's audition time in this neck of the wood (this neck being the UCB NYC improv neck). Not a huge deal. But it does meanthat 75% of my friends are just a little bit tenser than they are normally. So, for all of them, I post this:
(via Unique Daily)
(via Unique Daily)
Thursday, April 2
Wednesday, April 1
SqueezBacon
How has it taken forever for this to come about??Actually this strikes me as a horror of horrors.
Tuesday, March 31
Monday, March 30
Well, thank God I don't have to worry about that!
Well, if God says he won't ever again destroy the Earth... I feel better. I'm going to go light hairspray.
(via Charlie Todd)
Deleted "Twilight" scene
NSFW due to language.
But wonderfully shot and is how I feel about most of the whole vampire thing.
Link.
(I would embed but resizing video is a pain. Blogger needs an easy tool to do that. This is the one of the only reason I think about switching to Tumblr.)
But wonderfully shot and is how I feel about most of the whole vampire thing.
Link.
(I would embed but resizing video is a pain. Blogger needs an easy tool to do that. This is the one of the only reason I think about switching to Tumblr.)
BSG finale thoughts (spoilers)
I finally got around to watch the Battlestar Galactica finale. Yes, I am more than a week behind. I have avoided most of the discussions about it so I am pretty sure I will add nothing to the debate. But here it is anyway.
Look. I enjoy a good religious sci-fi mashup. Honestly. But that's because with sci-fi you can jump into those ideas and make them concrete. They can still be mysterious but you can make more declaritive statements. BSG was great because it was able to tackle big themes: War (especially in this day and age), Identity, Gray Moral Choices, Sins of the "Father," What is Faith. I suppose this last one is what they ended on, pretty much tossing the rest aside. But all of the "mysteries" they tossd out there in the last two seasons were prety muchexplained away by "It is god's plan... and god's plan is unknowable." Fine. Whatever. I like that theme. I understand it.
But they by making it SO unknowable it just came off as sloppy plotting. What was Hera's true purpose? Why was she delivered to Earth (or "Earth")? Drop her and the rest ofthe fleet on Earth to mix with the primtives? To bring us language? Was that the message? That this was how civiltion gets started? Did her having a cylon mother and cylon father have any affect on us as a culture? What was that effect?
I am totally fine with Baltar's visions being an "angle" and I love the Caprica Six had her own Baltar angel. But why? Same thing with Starbuck's whole thing. Her only purpose was to translate All Round the Wachtower into coordinates? Really? I guess that is my big problem with the final message: They were ALL just tools for an unknowable god so that they could be introduced to Earth... but we're not going to explain why it made any difference.
Science fiction is often called "speculative fiction." They left out the speculation in the finale... after exploring it so well up to that point.
Love was the answer to so much of it? Really? That was why cylons could concieve children by themselves? Because ethey needed to be taught love? That idea was the first one speculated on way back when and they never explored it further. And, again, if that is what humans taught the cylons, what did the cylons teach the humans? That technology is bad?
I enjoyed it. It was well down. But saying "All of this happened for a reason... but we're not going to even attempt to ask what that reason is" is not an ending. "To end the cycle?" No, because at the end Angel Caprica say explains that maybe things won't repeat the same way because it has already repeated so many times. The cycle was never broken, never changed, and yet the writers wanted to be optimistic. Sigh.
The most compelling line of the finale was Angel Baltar's "He hates that name." And it was a throw away.
Look. I enjoy a good religious sci-fi mashup. Honestly. But that's because with sci-fi you can jump into those ideas and make them concrete. They can still be mysterious but you can make more declaritive statements. BSG was great because it was able to tackle big themes: War (especially in this day and age), Identity, Gray Moral Choices, Sins of the "Father," What is Faith. I suppose this last one is what they ended on, pretty much tossing the rest aside. But all of the "mysteries" they tossd out there in the last two seasons were prety muchexplained away by "It is god's plan... and god's plan is unknowable." Fine. Whatever. I like that theme. I understand it.
But they by making it SO unknowable it just came off as sloppy plotting. What was Hera's true purpose? Why was she delivered to Earth (or "Earth")? Drop her and the rest ofthe fleet on Earth to mix with the primtives? To bring us language? Was that the message? That this was how civiltion gets started? Did her having a cylon mother and cylon father have any affect on us as a culture? What was that effect?
I am totally fine with Baltar's visions being an "angle" and I love the Caprica Six had her own Baltar angel. But why? Same thing with Starbuck's whole thing. Her only purpose was to translate All Round the Wachtower into coordinates? Really? I guess that is my big problem with the final message: They were ALL just tools for an unknowable god so that they could be introduced to Earth... but we're not going to explain why it made any difference.
Science fiction is often called "speculative fiction." They left out the speculation in the finale... after exploring it so well up to that point.
Love was the answer to so much of it? Really? That was why cylons could concieve children by themselves? Because ethey needed to be taught love? That idea was the first one speculated on way back when and they never explored it further. And, again, if that is what humans taught the cylons, what did the cylons teach the humans? That technology is bad?
I enjoyed it. It was well down. But saying "All of this happened for a reason... but we're not going to even attempt to ask what that reason is" is not an ending. "To end the cycle?" No, because at the end Angel Caprica say explains that maybe things won't repeat the same way because it has already repeated so many times. The cycle was never broken, never changed, and yet the writers wanted to be optimistic. Sigh.
The most compelling line of the finale was Angel Baltar's "He hates that name." And it was a throw away.
Lucky's funeral
I realize this is old but I never saw it on the first pass. Last week I read a mini-blurb about it and then forgot to look it up. And then I saw it today. Too precious.
(via Neatorama)
(via Neatorama)
NOT Lewis and Martin
"The Jungle is Jumping... with GIRLS, GAGS and GOOFS when... Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla!"
(via Boing Boing... where there are some links to this comedy team.)
(via Boing Boing... where there are some links to this comedy team.)
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Look. It's playground equipment. I can't say it is safe for work but you should get that from the title of the video.
So so horrible. The Giz post also linked to an hold post about the horribly conceived light switch below.
(via Gizmodo and Gizmodo)
So so horrible. The Giz post also linked to an hold post about the horribly conceived light switch below.
(via Gizmodo and Gizmodo)
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