I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
We know our own.
Wow, that is some serious geekyness.
That takes guts.
way to blog post. you can see why this is the best blog around.
For those that were trying earlier, bloglines is back up.
I think it's cool. Explains a lot, actually.
You wanna see geeks? Watch Trekkies 2.
I'm glad that there wasn't picture phone blogging the night I ran into Paul Lynde in a bar in Oqunquit Maine. He looked just like he did on Hollywood squares. I was not a fan. Come to think of it I wouldn't have posted about it.
Forget this post.
you say it almost like it's a bad thing!
KIRTLAND, Ohio, April 15 -- President Bush return on Friday to the state that secured his glorious victory over liberalism, homosexuality, and atheism in last year's election and was hailed by thousands of devoted followers as he continued his triumphant Social Security "roadshow."
In his latest effort to sustain his Social Security proposal -- which has been met with overwhelmingly positive response around the nation -- Mr. Bush used his visit here to secure his place in history as one of America's most popular and beloved presidents.
"I sure love the Buckeye State," said the handsome president, looking out over a vast crowd, the fringe of which was peppered by a several lonely and pathetic looking Bush opponents. Bush, a president obviously at the height of his seemingly limitless powers -- invoked God and September 11th and warned the audience that the terrorists who are determined to destroy the American way of life would not stop until he had destroyed the Social Security system, which was developed during the New Deal era by a party that has come to be identified with not just leftism but a new American communism.
Geek flirting. How cute! 
LUCY'S CAT BLOGGING!
http://stickandballguy.blogspot....-more-
dogs.html
IMAO, Enterprise is a show that just shouldn't have happened. Trek has suffered badly from over-saturation.
Give us Spock's last story and have done with it.
Wally Cox was always my secret crush....
"Both sides are escalating their campaigns to win over public opinion.
On Wednesday, the Judicial Confirmation Network, a conservative group set up to organize grass-roots support for the judicial nominees, said it was making an initial purchase of $250,000 in cable and local television advertisements with similar religious themes.
Displaying pictures of Senator Reid and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, an announcer declares: "They want God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. They say child pornography is protected by the Constitution. Who are these people? Arrogant judges."
Yesterday, Ralph Neas, president of the liberal People for the American Way, which is already spending $5 million on television advertisements defending Democratic filibusters, responded by noting that courts had never found a right to child pornography and that the Supreme Court had overturned an appeals court ruling that public schools could not require recitation of the phrase "under God" as part of the pledge.
After learning that the Judicial Confirmation Network had bought advertisements on the Sunday morning political news programs, Mr. Neas said his group had spent $170,000 for advertising on the same ones, setting up "dueling ads." Mr. Neas said the organization was now considering creating another advertisement designed for what he called the Republican "manipulation of religion for political purposes."
- The New York Times
"...willful ignorance is ideological armor I think. The conservatives have so demonized the Left that to them agreeing with us has become tantamount to ideological treason. And since any rational debate would bring them in alignment with our point of view, they have long ago ditched any pretense of actually attempting to make sense." Adonais | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 9:13 am | #
Ultimately there actually are no "sides". This statement is meant to illustrate why:
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It is possible Atrios and the Reality Based Community may be experiencing instances of attempted retaliation and intimidation, in this case caused by a deliberate backfiring engineered to look as if it is caused by the usalone system. That being said, a recent usalone email did request users of Eschaton, Kos, and others to enlist the support of other Reality Based Community members on those blogs, and the spate of emails could be the result of quite a few people with good intentions misinterpereting that to mean emailing the owners of the blogs themselves, rather than encouraging other like-minded members to use the usalone system to contact representatives in Washington, as intended, if indeed that is usalone's intent, as it is stated by them and does appear to function.
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For the life of me, I'll never understand what people see in ST. My ex-wife tried to get me into it.
Nothing.
But, he IS one of our favorite geeks. You go, Aravosis!
But, he IS one of our favorite geeks. You go, Aravosis!
I don't get the Star Trek thing either.
But, you know, if I ever ran into someone from "Buffy," I'd take a picture and exhume my dead blog to post about it.
We all have some geekdom in us...
Liberty speaks. She's clearly sick of all that's going on.
Re: Fandom/Geekiness
Yeah, if they ever have a Red Shoes Diaries re-union, i'd be there in a heartbeat...
.
i think it's cool that aravosis is into star trek!
i have had my own run-ins with star trek alum:
1. shatner at the 2001 NAB in vegas: he's only like 5-3 and looked very picked. nonetheless, he posed graciously for a photo. at 6-1, i fucking towered over him, making for a pretty shitty photo (from my perspective) - i'd have preferred he be a little taller, if for visual balance alone.
2. the guy who played (i think) "quark" (an alien character) on deep space nine was clearly compelled to make an appearance - in costume, which was no small feat - at Toy Fair in the early to mid-1990s. i met him in the elevator at the 200 Fifth building and looked at him and said, fuck, what a nightmare that makeup is.
to which he calmly replied: "what makeup?"
hah!
NO Star Trek bashing! And no going on and on about how the original series was better than the rest.
JDW: One of Star Trek's appeals was its optimistic view of the future. Can you think of other sci-fi TV, movies, or books that did/do that?
What's so geeky about Star Trek?
up above typo: shatner looked "pickled."
Late to the party, so pardon me if
anybody has posted this previously
but --
the powers that be at STAR TREK
were considering making his
character gay almost up to the
moment the show premiered.
BTW:
IMHO it was the best of the Trek
spin-offs.
And I'm not a Trekkie.
I have the pajamas, but that's as
far as I go.
i have always hated star trek myself.
THe guy who played Quark, Armin Shimmerman, was also on "Buffy" for several years.
Geeks R Us.
TNG is the best of the Treks, but Spock is the best character Trek ever produced.
does anyone remember a show called "quantum leap"? that was way more interesting than any incarnation of star trek. i would watch reruns of that. plus the main character's name was sam beckett, which was kind of cool.
I'm delighted at the goofy-elder-statesman turn that Shatner's career has taken.
No celebs down here (other than Andy Griffith's historic birthplace only 18 miles away...), although we're having Justice Ginsburg down for a conference in September.
She is certainly not deserving of the "Scalia treatment," tee-hee.
But, you know, if I ever ran into someone from "Buffy," I'd take a picture and exhume my dead blog to post about it.
We all have some geekdom in us...
Lisa
well, hell yea, and i'm not a geek at all.
BTW:
As much as I was a fan of
"Enterprise," I knew it was
doomed from the minute I heard
the theme song.
A Diane Warren power ballad.
What the fuck were the producers
thinking? A crappy rock song by
the single worst songwriter in
the history of aural stuff....
seriously, she's satanic.
We should have a thread about
how Diane Warren signals the
end times.
She's that bad.
And she's written eight million
hit songs. None of which anybody
remembers the names of.
More proof there's no God.
http://www.realsongs.com/
I hated Quantum Leap. 
Jim in LA--If Shatner's shortness was going to ruin the composition of your picture, you should have given him a few phone books to stand on.
i met chuck norris and christie brinkley this week (true story). nice people, not what i expected at all.
of course we didn't talk about politics.
steve simels sez: ...A Diane Warren power ballad.
Holy Crap! John Amos in "Beastmaster" was right! Life IS a circle!
Who was Diane Warren's partner in songwriting? A guy named STEVE ANGELICA.
See posts below re Atrios' spammer.
Wow. Small world. But I wouldn't want to paint it.
blak, i really liked quantum leap. i liked the greatest american hero too, though. that was my favorite show when it was on.
NTodd--isn't your Firefox tab a little Starship Enterprise?
BTW, strawberry pie is in the oven as a reward for all the lovely Samblogging.
I've been watching ST since the first one. (I am 49 so I was in 6th grade.) I have never been to a convention. I just love the show. There is no bad ST, some are just much better than others. And yes, that Enterprise theme song was awful. I think I only sat through it once. Otherwise the channel was changed for a couple of minutes.
Ah, yes, Diane Warren and Steve Angelica. She knows how to pick 'em.
I would sooner watch 5 eps of Greatest American Hero than 5 minutes of Quantum Leap.
I was about 12-13 when Hero was on, so I actually watched it quite a bit.
Just checked Diane Warren's Web site, Steve.
I hate those kinds of songs. I mean really really despise.
That is audio puke.
fwiw, christie brinkley is quite the anti-nuclear activist on long island.
I hate to bring up such a serious and off topic subject on a perfectly nice Saturday, but what does this mean?
The US administration is calling for China to move immediately to introduce a flexible currency, a marked shift in tactics after several years of patient diplomacy aimed at nudging China towards allowing the renminbi to float.
A senior US administration official told the Financial Times on Friday: “Action is needed now. This is a co-ordinated effort to get the message across.”
The decision to demand prompt action by Beijing comes in the face of growing pressure from the US Congress over the burgeoning trade deficit with China.
NTodd,
I think you stole my name.
robert culp's character in greatest american hero was hilarious. reminded me of col. flagg from mash.
Tonight's Doctor Who looks awesome.
where is the new who on?
Elisabeth Bumiller - That's some good April fools stuff you got there, from the Onion?
Does she always post this shit?
I get it via Bit Torrent.
jealous, atrios? 
geek is chic in my book. i'm glad to hear the guys at the new show are as nice as in previous ST incarnations.
I think ST Enterprise had a lot going for it if they would have stuck to the original premise of the show and kept with the already well-developed ST timeline/history.
For me, it jumped the shark during the first season - the writers/producers didn't seem to be satisfied keeping things 'low-tech' as was originally promised (before see-everything sensors, phasers, shields, photon torpedos, and replicators). Instead of leaving that alone and basing stories on the challenges the crew faced because of that, they tried to speed things up way beyond believability.
And being a new ship with relatively new technology it didn't seem realistic at all to have so few crewmembers seen on a ship of that size (only a single bridge crew for a 24/7 starship?)
I'm glad I didn't stick around to watch the classic timeline get gutted and the ridiculous time travel episodes to try to excuse that.
TOS through Voyager maintained a base of scientific and crew/starship operations realism, even through all the technological gobbledegook speeches and alien encounters. ST Enterprise destroyed all that, IMO.
Wally Cox was always my secret crush....
GWPDA
Did you know that he and Marlon Brando were very good friends. Shared an apartment in NYC in their early careers.
TOW,
I have no idea what they think all that sabre rattling re the yuan is gonna get them. Mayhaps they forget that china owns our fat assed country.
OBAG,
I am gland that someone liked QL and GAH.
IMHO they jumped the shark when
they developed a story arc based
on 9/11.
I mean, how come that hadn't been
mentioned before on any of the
other Star Trek shows?
Pathetic.
Klaatu. Barada. Nikto.
On TCM right now.
GWPDA - Wally Cox was always my secret crush....
Aw - yeah, who didn't love Mr. Peepers?
At the Diane Warren site, she has a Top 10 Hits section and one of them was made a hit by Milli Vanilli. She doesn't have the sense to hush that up?
Other artists include Kenny G, Celine Dion and Michael Bolton.
And Eric Clapton?!?
I want my military
oops, sorry, wrong thread
Steve S--what's on SciFi tonight? do we get reptiles or insects? I realize this is pathetic, but it's what gives my life meaning.
"JDW: One of Star Trek's appeals was its optimistic view of the future. Can you think of other sci-fi TV, movies, or books that did/do that?
Pimp"
Pimp, I couldn't name you anything sci-fi because I don't get ANY of it. I did watch LOTR because everyone raved about it and the Ring books. Loved the cinematography, special effects, sound, makeup. But I'm like 'hobbits???', wtf is up with that?
I don't think this kind of stuff is really geeky, it's just a taste thing or how one's mind is wired. The ex-was no geek, in fact her whole family loved this kinda stuff and they were trailer trash. I think you are either receptive or no.
Now, if you go to conventions or dress up like ST characters, or play dress up for civil war reenactments or colonial life rendezvous, or go to Renaissance fairs or paint yourself for KISS concerts, or play D&D, or hang with the community theater crowd...well, then you might have some geekiness issues.
I guess NTodd didn't want his strawberry pie. Gather round, peoples, there's plenty.
TNG was the best, but that's despite its being a racist pile of crap.
PIE!
Like a comment posted above, I too watched as many Star Trek's as I could, never collected any of the stuff, never went to a convention, and yes the Enterprise episodes that I saw had great promise, as to how all the other shows could have been explained, but they failed to do so, choosing to go as "techie" as they could. Too bad. Oh, at 52 I'm not ashamed to say I always liked the babes they had on the shows as well.
jdw- or hang with the community theater crowd...well, then you might have some geekiness issues.
Bwahahaha! That's my geekiness you're talking about. If you ever go to a *shudder* karoke bar with theater types, do not get in between them and the microphone. Just sayin'...
"Bwahahaha! That's my geekiness you're talking about. If you ever go to a *shudder* karoke bar with theater types, do not get in between them and the microphone. Just sayin'..."
Paging NTodd, Paging NTodd.
haha. They don't even have to be drunk.
Sallyh:
I hear ya. My life is largely
devoid of meaning, too.
Anyway, tonite
Sci-Fi channel is running a three
hour movie about an earthquake in
NYC.
Seems to have been a '99 network
mini-series.
It has Jennifer Garner and Tom
Skerrit (both of whom I like) and
the FX look pretty good.
Apparently some suit goofed and
booked something not appalling.
BTW: did you know they passed on
the new Dr Who series?
Imagine that -- they felt it wasn't
up to the exalted standard of
Mansquito.
Klaatu. Barada. Nikto.
On TCM right now.
Not in my neck of the woods.....
DW was probably too rich for their blood.
dumass lib--my husband said what he liked about DS9 was that gambling, drinking and tinfoil bikinis were back.
I liked the tailor on that show the best. He was way cool.
...i'd have preferred he be a little taller, if for visual balance alone.
"beware of Geeks wearing lifts"
I've indirectly used star trek to reach conservatives. I ask them what they wish the future to look like a lot of them will bring up star trek. Then ask them if the policies they hold dear are the path to that and a lot of them will think long and hard about it.
Steve S--I think the reason they passed on Dr. Who was that they don't want to be mistaken for a station that has anything resembling quality programming--you did see the line up for next year, didn't you?
Well, Sci-Fi has one good show.
And no, I ain't talkin' about SG-1.
Sorry, it was on the Fox
Movie Channel, not TCM.
I liked the tailor on that show the best. He was way cool.
I thought Garrick was pretty cool as well, I also enjoyed Dax and the evil Kira.
SS,
SciFi passed on Who? Not much suprise.
Anyhoo, an interesting show on the Nazca lines etc. on History Channel.
you did see the line up for next year, didn't you?
Sallyh | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 1:42 pm | #
Oh god, no -
What fresh horror awaits us?
(to paraphrase Dorothy Parker)
BTW: I love Stargate.
I hope there's still some cake left. Cairo and I had to go play at the school...
They don't even have to be drunk.
No, but they'll drive YOU to drink.
What fresh horror awaits us?
(to paraphrase Dorothy Parker)
Shakespeare, even.
I just saw "dot the i" last night. It opened here in Chicago.
I really enjoyed it. Sort of like, Memento meets Adaptation.
Anyone else catch it?
Thanks for the update steve,
unfortunately that channel is not part of my package. Fantastic Movie though.
BTW, some classic Rob Lowe is on SciFi in a stinker called "Atomic Train"
BTW: I love Stargate.
Same here, though it took a long time to warm up to McGuyver, which always reminds me of Patti and Selma from the simpsons.
Well, Sci-Fi has one good show.
Greatest. Scifi. Show. Ever.
"beware of Geeks wearing lifts"
focus | Email |
my first water thru nose moment of the day.
i'm a DS9 girl all the way. kira was a lesbian's dream, dax was totally cool, even worf managed to find a place in the family. TNG is my other fav, VGR was weak but had really good moments. TOS i have always been able to do without, it's something i associate with my folks (who like a lot like kirk and uhurua) and a bit too campty for my tastes. and conventions are cool- i've not yet been to one, but my mom when and scottie was speaking. she said it was like a religious ceremony, everyone talking about peace and love and harmony and the postive future.
personally, i'd rather talk to geeks all day than sports fans, but that's just me.
fwiw, christie brinkley is quite the anti-nuclear activist on long island.
bkny
yes, i've heard this too. she is also 51. you would never believe it to see her. prettier now than she used to be.
NO NUKES! i said this to a freind and he was like "you mean weapons right?" but i mean no nukes. nuclear radiation lasts a long time, and is very unhealthy. hopefully we don't find out when another disaster occurs, which is inevitable. play with fire...
Kent:
I've actually seen Atomic Train.
Not the worst thing of all time,
if you can believe it.
Did you know that he and Marlon Brando were very good friends.
Yes, Shaw Kenawe, my range of such knowledge is damned near boundless. Pointless, but boundless.
And once I attended an anti-war demonstration in LA, where we all linked hands and did- damned if I remember what we did, but I will tell you I was linked between William Shatner AND Leonard Nimoy. Shatner's 5'8", Nimoy's 5'9". I had not yet achieved full growth and we were a nice matched trio.
AND, I loved the Greatest American Hero and am well aware that the GAH is the son of Della Street, and Quantum Leap was superb, not only for Bakula, but for Dean Stockwell....
I also just returned from the frame shop where I dropped a very heavy, all-wood 16" square Thai frame on my broken foot. The frame's fine. And the GWPDA server is back up.
"beware of Geeks wearing lifts"
I always thought it was 'beware of Geeks bearing GIFs'.
Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report
By Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual
report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism
center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than
in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.
...
Condoleezza hits one out of the park
for President AWOL
--bks
The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual
report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism
center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than
in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.
Wouldn't it be great if the home team always got to change the score if they're losing badly? Almost like when the Harlmen Globetrotters beat up on their token team.
chicago dyke:
did you ever see the DS9
episode where they wind up in
a parallel universe and there
are two kiras?
And one of them has major hots
for the other?
Yowsa!!!!
totally OT but
guess who really wants to get rid of the Alternative Minimum Tax.
(those earning 50K should see the bottom of the post)
[All is based on Married Filing Jointly]
Many people are worried that they will have to start paying more taxes because of the alternative minimum tax. This is true. However, if all your income is from wages the AMT may increase your taxes by 1 to 5 percent (if you now have deductions amounting to 20% of your income).
However, if all your income is from dividends from stocks that Daddy left you, the AMT might double the taxes you pay. Isn't that terrible? Well maybe not because even after the AMT takes effect you may still pay less than the guy who actually has to go to work everyday.
Example: If your total income is 150,000 from wages and you have deductions of 30,000 without the AMT you would pay 21,925 and the AMT would add 1,995 for a total of 23,920. If your income was the same 150,000 from dividends without the AMT you would pay 11,260 + 12,660 AMT for a total of 23,920.
With only the standard deduction (9.700 this year) the wage earner would pay 27,506 and the dividend collector would pay 14,305 + 9,615 AMT for a total of 23,920.
For very high incomes the dividend collector would pay less than one-half the amount paid by the wage earner if the AMT did not exist.
If you earn 50K from wages with only the standard deduction you will pay 4,404. The coupon clipper with 50K would pay 1,705 and will not be hit with the AMT. The coupon clipper with 75K would pay 3,055 before the AMT and a total of 4,420 including the AMT.
100K from wages 14,506 taxes.
100k from dividends 6,805 + 4,115 AMT for a total of 10,920 taxes.
Re: NO NUKES
about 80 percent of current US nuclear development, testing, packaging and marketing is base here in poor, old, glowing New Mexico...
The first man-made nuclear explosion was lit off here, at Trinity Site, south and east a bit from Socorro, on Jul 16, 1945. The bombs were built in Los Alamos (much of the lab land was expropriated from two Pueblos, Santa Clara and San Ildefonso...Sandia Lab, in ABQ, along with Los Alamos, are the two busiest US military nuke sites in the world...
ceteris paribus, ending US nukes would put about 10,000 phds out of work overnight...most of 'em are nothing more than fancy technicians, of course; a bunch of mechanics, at best...and many are Pukes...
just sayin.
geeky saturday feral cat and critter blogging...
why am i hang'n out on the geek thread when i could be down below calling joe scarbrains a beady eyed, anti american fuckwit?
NTodd--I saved you a slice, but BlakNo1 got there first. You're late!
NTodd, Cairo is beautiful. Is she scared of the cats?
I've actually seen Atomic Train.
Not the worst thing of all time,
if you can believe it.
I believe you, I have watched the thing myself, and you are right, it is not "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" Bad, but a cliche ridden farcicle just the same.
steve s- i own all of DS9 on dvd, i bought them used and plan to do the same eventually for all the series. kira on kira (and avery's old wife) action was tres hot. mmmm, you people are terrible. it's too early to start thinking about tonight and i only made to second base last night. where's a good trekkie convention when you need one?
Wouldn't it be great if the home team always got to change the score if they're losing badly? Almost like when the Harlmen Globetrotters beat up on their token team.
I just have to throw in a wonderfully appropriate Homer Simpson quote. As he's watching and laughing at a WWII documentary:
"Ah, the Luftwaffe. The Washington Generals of the History Channel."
Take What's Your Tort test.
It'll make a lawyer happy.
GWPDA,
Broken foot? Ouch.
why am i hang'n out on the geek thread when i could be down below calling joe scarbrains a beady eyed, anti american fuckwit?
I don't think you have to limit yourself to a single thread.
NTodd--I saved you a slice, but BlakNo1 got there first. You're late!
DAMN IT! I'm going to ban BlakNo1 from my blog for that...
ceteris paribus, ending US nukes would put about 10,000 phds out of work overnight...most of 'em are nothing more than fancy technicians, of course; a bunch of mechanics, at best...and many are Pukes...
woody, they can all go to community college and get some training. i'm sure those phd's prepared them for something truly useful, they just need help finding out what that is.
NTodd, Cairo is beautiful. Is she scared of the cats?
Only of Sam. He likes to bop her in the nose, and she hates that. 'course, he also does that to me in the middle of the night to get my attention, the little shit.
"Ah, the Luftwaffe. The Washington Generals of the History Channel."
LOL!
Taking a break folks.
Wang chung while I'm gone.
Funny thing about Shatner morphing into a kind of "goofy elder statesman" is that way back in the day, he was quite a talented Shakespearian actor who performed at the Stratford Festival (just up the road from me a piece) with Olivier and other suchlike luminaries. (Incidentally, I think that's partly where he gets his weird diction full of pauses, myself.)
Myself, I'm rather into his show horses. Does he still have them?
Interro - yeah, that's where he got his performance style. I think it worked great in his role as Tiberius Kirk.
Take What's Your Tort test.
It'll make a lawyer happy.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
The "fease torts" button is priceless.
As I'm trying the throw together a piece on governmental tort immunity, I'll take that as a sign from Ye Gods to get back to work. I hate it when they communicate to me via the Internets instead of a grilled cheese sandwich...
so i'm scrolling a few of yesterday's threads- i don't get what happened to atrios. someone was spamming him or messing with the blog itself? sounds like eschatonia took care of the problem rather quickly thought. nice work, gang.
that's *to* throw together. *cough*
I don't think you have to limit yourself to a single thread.
well of course you don't, but then again NTodd is everywhere. by the way good work on your podcasting, very interesting. digital may be evil, but it is amazing.
and joe is still a beady eyed fuckwit.
Woody, does it still glow green when you drive past Los Alamos at night? it's probably just mercury vapor lamps, then again...
jay- spelling well is optional around here, as you can tell from any of my posts. grammar= fascism, also.
ChicagoDyke - Yeah, I'm always surprised at the talent for running down information that hangs out around here.
The end of the week got ugly in general around here.
Missed you.
Geek, schmeek. This was the best part:
Dominic was in NYC filming a mockumentary about Jonathan Winters. He's the role of the guy who "discovers" Winters, they were filming earlier that day outside the MOMA...
LA Times and AP have reported today that Chuck Hagel is wavering on support for John Bolton for UN amb. This is good news, because Hagel's wavering is better than Chaffee's. Chaffee is a perennial waverer. Dems have their work cut out for them this wkend; they are investigating 4 new cases of Bolton's employee/colleague abuse, besides the 3 that were documented this past wk. One of these new ones was documented through Dailykos. Hurray for bloggers!
To add insult to injury, Wapo's fashion reporter Robin Givhan struck again (she of Condi's nazi boots and Cheney's hunting outfit at Auschwitz fame). She wrote yesterday about what is wrong with Bolton - his haircut or need of one, moustache, neck-choking shirt, crooked tie, plain eye glass frame, everything. She pretty much pronounced him unfit to serve at the UN, just based on his personal style.
NTodd:
I hope there's still some cake left. Cairo and I had to go play at the school...
It was pie and we finished it all!!!!!!!!!!
I'll confess I like all of Sci Fi fridays.....even Stargate Atlantis - which took some time.
And all of them are in reruns till July. Waaaaaaah!
The baby's crying. Can one of you go and see what she wants?
"personally, i'd rather talk to geeks all day than sports fans, but that's just me."
Aren't sports fans geeks, in their own way?
Did you know that (Wally Cox) and Marlon Brando were very good friends. Shared an apartment in NYC in their early careers.
I've also heard they had a little fling. In fact, I read somewhere that Brando's and Cox's ashes were to be scattered together after Brando's death (don't know if that's true, though).
And it's long been said Wally Cox was one of the wildest cocksman in Hollywood history.
i like this time of year on the east coast. everybody has taken their special rides out of the garage. corvettes, classic cars, street rods, harleys. they have been polishing them all winter. now the focus will be on cruisin in them. they will still be shiny, but right now they all gleam like diamonds.
Woody, does it still glow green when you drive past Los Alamos at night? it's probably just mercury vapor lamps, then again...
I knew a guy who said that the above ground storage tanks at Hanford that were filled with radioactive waste visibly pulsated because of all the heat and gases from the reactions going on inside them. I got the impression from him that it was pretty scary and I don't think he was someone who scared easily.
hi tena! if it was ugly yesterday i'm glad i missed it. ha ha, i was really working hard all day and night to keep up with the various joneses in my schedule.
totally OT: i went to a pro wrestling match last night, a local affair in a suburban church, plenty of families and kids and the like. wholesome (no beer sold) play violence that wasn't very expensive and made me giggle quite a lot. but i have thoughts about homoerotism and our culture derived from the experience. it's a cliche to question wrestling's homoerotic nature, right? but i swear- there were all these older men watching and changting like the little boys, but with a slightly different kind of enthusiasm. maybe i just imagined it.
The baby's crying. Can one of you go and see what she wants?
She just found out they cancelled Enterprise. You didn't tell her?
To add insult to injury, Wapo's fashion reporter Robin Givhan struck again
She can be really snarky when she wants to be. I think that her choice of targets sometimes indicates her political leanings.
As for "Enterprise"... the Star Trek movie "Contact" fucked up the whole how-warp-drive-was-discovered thing to begin with, and "Enterprise" just pounded the stake deeper into the heart. Consistency, of course, is the hobgoblin of etc, but the wholesale ignoring of the Trek universe's well-established history (which the producers were more than happy to milk when it suited their purposes) was particularly infuriating. And most Trekkies I've read seem to think the show's main problems (and those of "Voyager," "DS9" and the NG movies) rested solely with Rick Berman and not with any "suits"...
TJ
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well i remember driving by at night in the early 90s, and always that green glow. didn't see that in Sante Fe or Albuquerque. it was eerie.
personally, i'd rather talk to geeks all day than sports fans, but that's just me.
CD you are not alone.
Aren't sports fans geeks, in their own way?
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been a jock, and am a geek, and i'll say this: while it's probably true that geekiness (as obsession with something and fine detail no one else outside the group cares about) can be applied as a label to sports and sci-fi fans equally, sci-fi geeks seem to me to be able to do something sports fans often can't- remember the fine details of the other Circus: politics.
i get so mad when i hear sports fans go on and on with the most detailed baseball stats, but who couldn't tell you their elected representatives if you put a gun to their heads. i don't encounter that in science geeks so much. just my opinion.
There are no good TV shows. Not 24, not deadwood, not sci-fi. There is nothing good on tv except a few old movies. Anyone who claims there is good tv is in over there head in pop culture.
the Star Trek movie "Contact"
if you mean the movie based on the carl sagan novel, then you are confusing franchises. contact had no ST connection.
Right now I'm trying to guess what this movie is I'm watching on TCM without going to the web site and finding out. It has all manner of good people in it.
charley, ___League...
los alamos lab is still a tightly guarded, impenetrably fenced, patrolled, and guarded place...
there was a big fire in the Jemez Mts, in which LA reposes, and the fires spread to within mere feet of the fence behind whihc the lab has historically dumped its mst toxic shit. They were NOT going to let the fire fighters in to the restricted area to fight the fire which, if it had consumed the area, would certainly have released enough radio-activity to pretty much chernobylize the place...close call...
She just found out they cancelled Enterprise. You didn't tell her?
No. She must have read it on the internets...
cs--You rang?
Charley
Back in the 40's and 50's nobody worried much about the stuff that was left over from making the bombs. Dumped it in a pit or pumped it into a tank and just left it alone.
Of course, I grew up with an alarm clock with green glowing numbers right next to my bed. Many of the women who painted those numbers died of radiation caused diseases.
GWPDA,
If you are watching a movie with cronyn and Lancaster the initials of the movie are "B.F"
if you mean the movie based on the carl sagan novel...
Sorry, I meant "First Contact."
Somewhere in my house there is a copy of the book "My Life as a Small Boy" by Wally Cox.
Directed by Jules Dassin, no less! (I peeked).
BTW, speaking of gays and Star Trek, found this interesting little tidbit over at IMDB.com in the "Trivia" section for "First Contact":
The character of Lt. Hawk was originally scripted as a homosexual, with a long-term partner who also served aboard The Enterprise. Scenes depicted their involvement were filmed and ultimately deleted due to objection from producer (Brannon) Braga, who has long been credited as a force striving to keep gay characters out of the Star Trek universe.
woodygg, sounds like it's a good thing that there are hardly any fires around there. lucky break, huh?
JDW: Points well taken. Doesn't everyone have some geek thing they're involved in? Confession: I make wine.
Chicago Dyke: IMHO, the reason Voyager was the least favorite was a sexist thing ... it had a woman as captain. I loved Kate Mulgrue (spelling also = fascism); her character had bigger balls than some of the male captains.
TJ -- Oops! I think I still had your initials in paste, stuck 'em in the window and forgot about 'em when I hit ok just to refresh.
Pimp--I'm a biostatistician and teach math. I married a software engineer. I'd say that should give me some geek standing
sallyh oozes geek cred.
That's okay. I just spent 15 minutes at your blog trying to figure out what was going on, and feeling more dense than usual.
I liked your critique of the National Press Club Jimmyjeff debacle.
Way OT, but I have a question about the student food-bombing epidemic. Did it begin after legislators started proposing "Academic Bill of Rights" laws in response to them? Don't the food attacks seem to help hype the bills and put them in a more favorable light?
I was growing up in Indiana when the governor actually banned Louie, Louie from the radio. It seems like such a perfect state to stir up a hyper-over-reaction response . . .
cs--can you bring us up to speed on this one?
louie, louie was banned in response to what? do you remember? i remember after the columbine thing a lot of high schools banned trench coats as a response to it. had to do something, i guess. or appear to be doing something. i was hoping that the response would be to ban high schools.
sounds like it's a good thing that there are hardly any fires around there. lucky break, huh?
Olaf glad and big -2:42 pm
yup...we've only got about half the state covered in national forests... and fires? well, only a couple dozen a year...got lotsa hot-shot teams nearby, though, so that's good, right?
i thought so too...
I was surfing the tube and ran into Tucker Carlson interviewing Jonah Goldberg. I stopped for 3 seconds to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. Nothing plus nothing equals nothing. I hear that PBS is going to turn into another right-wing propaganda machine with new Rethugs at the top.
I guess I better block PBS out along with the rest of the cable propaganda stations.
clean and policy geek sheets upstairs. pimp- i agree. B&B were the forces that brought the franchise down, they hated strong women, gays, and were probably racist in that old school imperialist kind of way.
Be All That You Can Be, in the Army
what they don't mention is, that includes 'crippled,' 'maimed', 'blinded', 'poisoned', and, ultimately 'FUCKIN DEAD.'
An army on one ain't much use as a corpse...
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TJ -- Thanks!
Hey, why not?
At this rate Rampaging PMS' Hunk of the Week is going to have a lot of contestants, and I don't just mean bloggers...
Pimp, agreed, Mulgrew as Captain Janeway was as much a shot in the arm for the ST franchise as Judi Dench's M was for Brosnan's James Bond. Gutsy and intelligent.
SallyH: A biostatistician, I'm impressed. I teach physics.
Re: the OT,
One of my students (a teenager)said something interesting the other day.
He thought the atmosphere of guards and metal detectors (we don't have any on our campus) can lead to the mental state that can cause the indian reservation high school shooting.
got lotsa hot-shot teams nearby, though, so that's good, right?
Well, if by nearby, you mean, um, New York State.... Tho, to be fair, AZ did just turn out its first class of women/cons/Hot Shots the other day. However, everybody else is over in that other, dry, hot place in 'Southwest Asia'
About Louis, Louie -- The governor banned it for the "dirty words". I was a freshman or sophomore in high school, so around 1963-65. There was a weird, state-wide hysteria about it ( and lots and lots tiny, folded-up notes with lyrics passing around in school).
Peter Guralnick, I think, actually wrote a book about this and included a bunch of FBI field reports from agents trying to slow down recordings and transcribe the words!
I've been noticing Indiana newspaper editorials about the food-throwing epidemic, usually hyping the "Academic Bill of Rights" as the same time. The current affair just reminded me of how wacky little-ol' often overlooked Indiana can be.
TJ -- For instance, it's eugenics law.
I didn't see all the Bolten hearings, but I am surprised I haven't heard of any statements by Mr. Moose or Bunnyrabbit. To say nothing of Mr. Greenjeans.
Or was that someone else?
" sci-fi fans equally, sci-fi geeks seem to me to be able to do something sports fans often can't- remember the fine details of the other Circus: politics."
Well, there do seem to be a lot of sci-fi geeks here. Good point.
Upthread you mentioned only gettinmg to second. men refer to this as blue balls...is there a colorful female equivalent term?
"dirty words"? you mean like "uhnahnama" and "aaayuh"?
Oops. Louie, Louis book is by Dave Marsh.
"Louie Louie" was infamous in my day for being dirty. It wasn't - it was incomprehensible. But we all were so convinced that it had the line: "fuck all the girls" that I guess the idea became common.
Silly silly silly - I can't believe it was banned because we couldn't understand what they were singing. It's still one of the best party songs of all time.
Tena -- Yeah, it was absurd and yet it happened. Sometimes I think a lot of what's going on now is a replay. The fundies were comin' on in the late 50s but got stomped on by the Civil Rights Movement and the war. They retreated, went quasi-underground, took over a major political party and, by god, are going to get it right this time 'round.
The dirty part I remember from "Louie Louie" came near the end:
"I'll take her in my arms again
Tell her I'm never gonna lay her again"
There were also "dirty" lyrics to the Standell's "Dirty Water":
"Down by the river
Down by the banks of the river Charles
That's where you'll find me
Along with mother fuckers and thieves..."
And you don't want to know WHY the "water" was "dirty"!
dave -- Well, in the notes goin' round my school there was "fuck your girl, oh by the way" and "I felt my bone in her hair". God, I'm laughin' as I remember this . . . And Dirty Water is a truly, truly great song!
Ah, evil Kira.
Been after Mrs. cory to dress like that and make me call her "Intendant" for years....
men refer to this as blue balls...is there a colorful female equivalent term?
i think they call it "lavender majora."
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