Friday, May 8th, 2009 @ 3:39p
This is my much more spoilery further thoughts on the Star Trek movie. ( more thoughts )
Friday, May 8th, 2009 @ 3:03p
The Star Trek movie was amazing, and I really enjoyed it. The cast was excellent, and all of the characters and their interactions felt true. The plot was solid, not the best attribute of the film, but much more compelling and coherent than the reviews had led me to believe. It certainly made more sense than any other recent Star Trek film. The visuals were good, it looked modern and yet with enough of a nod to classic Trek aesthetics to look right. There was definitely never a Star Wars feel to any of the set design or aliens (Star Trek IV and Nemesis, I am looking at you). My worst fear going in to the movie would be that Uhura would be reduced to a love interest for Kirk, and that thankfully did not happen. Uhura was great! She kicked so much ass! She had a romantic relationship that did play a large part in the film, but it did not overshadow her character. I'm going to try and go see it again with some friends who haven't seen it yet tomorrow. There was just so much buildup and fan service,not really of the sexual kind, just each TOS character getting their moment to shine, that I'd like to sit and absorb the film as a whole, rather than as a string of things I want to squee at.
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 @ 7:07p
Ah, 'tis the season for sandals, and also for black widows to build cobwebs in the garage at foot height. >:(mood wussy
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 @ 7:02p
Hey, I got a Dreamwidth account, thanks to Melannen! I haven't yet thought through whether I'll be posting here or at Journalfen, or if I'll just crosspost everything. I'll need to change the layout, as I don't keep my browser window very wide.Friday, December 26th, 2008 @ 3:44p
Merry Christmas, everyone! It is gorgeous outside. I woke up early enough to see the sunrise. Now I'm at
Friday, December 12th, 2008 @ 9:42p
These things happen when you can't carry a tune
( uh huh )These things happen when you can't carry a tune
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 @ 11:06a
Rickrolled by Macy's Parade!
The turkey is brining in the fridge still, stock cooking on the stove, stuffing ready to go, and no one is coming over, thanks to the visit to my family earlier this November (it is a very small turkey). Now to get my WoW character to level 76 before I need to cook anything else....Rickrolled by Macy's Parade!
mood accomplished
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 @ 1:22p
The Book Meme
Here it is:The Book Meme
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
How many fatalities have occurred during space-related missions?
The fourteen astronauts and cosmonauts listed below died in space-related accidents.
| Date | Astronaut/Cosmonaut | Mission |
| January 27, 1967 | Roger Chaffee (U.S.) | Apollo 1 |
| January 27, 1967 | Edward White II (U.S.) | Apollo 1 |
| January 27, 1967 | Virgil "Gus" Grissom (U.S.) | Apollo 1 |
| April 24, 1967 | Vladimir Komarov (U.S.S.R.) | Soyuz 1 |
From The Handy Science Answer Book by the Science and Technology Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Amazingly the closest book to me was on my bookshelf; I chose the shelf at sitting eye-level.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 @ 6:41p
I've stopped playing Warcraft until the expansion comes out. This may be related to my guild deciding not to try for progression, and instead just run Kara and Gruuls and Mag faster, and actually regress with no more SSC attempts. I really like the friendliness and camaraderie of this guild, but I can't understand how they could have been running AQ-40 before the Burning Crusade, and now we can't even keep people from looting before everyone's rezzed (or remember to turn on master looting). At least if we kept up with SSC, I could get the frigging fishing achievement.
Monday, October 27th, 2008 @ 6:11p
So much fail, Gwinnett county. First this, and now 7 hour long advance voting lines? Is it even possible to mess up elections this badly without trying?Saturday, September 27th, 2008 @ 6:41p
Ok, I haven't watched Saturday afternoon tv in ages. Last time I did however, America's Test Kitchen was a nifty show that experimented with recipes to find the best method of making a particular dish. They discussed what went wrong and what went right. Now it's renamed to Cook's Country, and it tells you how to make good down home country food, in a home-like kitchen filled with prop cookbooks and interspersed with shots of rocking chairs. WTF?Thursday, September 18th, 2008 @ 2:35p
Ding! (image heavy post)
( Oh look! I just got 375 Engineering in WoW. )Ding! (image heavy post)
( Political Stuff )
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 @ 2:53a
So I missed getting a Blizzard Authenticator yesterday.. maybe next month. And my guild has decided to finally lay off the Karazhan runs and do a Zul'Aman run instead. This is good, since mostly everyone has everything they need from Kara and I want to see some more of the end game. We also cleared Sunwell trash for the first time last week, which is exciting for the first 10 minutes only, and then only one pattern dropped.And the annoying 15 year old boy who constantly whines about what gear didn't drop, or did drop and he wasn't there is gone from the guild. I'm sure I missed some small drama over that, maybe having to do with account sharing? It's possible he left of his own accord, although I think I would have heard some grumbling about that.
The VCR I ordered came today. The old one died a few years ago, and there are some tapes I've been itching to watch. We went through our tape collection, and eventually watched Cube. It's got Ezri Dax and Rodney McKay in it! Which I never noticed because last time I saw it was so long ago.
ETA: The Blizzard Authenticator is in stock again, and ordered!
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 @ 10:21a
What is with the homophone abuse on Fandom Wank lately?Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 @ 11:17a
More Jeopardy awesomeness. Last night Josh from joshreads.com was a contestant. I hadn't been reading his blog for a few weeks so I didn't know ahead of time. Unfortunately, he lost (and Josh, I thought you knew all about female prime ministers and presidents! Oh well, that other guy is way smarter than he looks).Also, the night before had a nerdy-looking contestant with hair you would not believe. Balding and hair in every direction, especially up. So in addition to looking like your typical Caltech nerd, his introduction is about how he found his one and only (and currently being worn) suit from a dumpster. There is no way he is not from Caltech. I mean, other people get clothes from dumpsters I'm sure, but no one is proud of it like Caltech students are. The one I've heard before is "I got my interview clothes from a dumpster!" I can only assume there is an unspoken rule that only useful and non-disgusting things get thrown away in certain dumpsters around campus.