The big bang thory...a must watch for any geeks out there. (those guys where me and my friends growing up....i was the cool geek...realy i was)
freinds wedding thsi weekend...jerk has me in a tux...better then the last wedding, thse of us on the grooms side where in suites, the brides family cleand off their best blue jeans and falnals
I watch 6 shows on TV, period:
1.Dr Who: Great SF and great social commentary. Character driven. The new season series finale was astounding, essentially making the master into Tony Blair. Serious brutality to W's poodle.
2. Torchwood: Dr. Who spinoff. Heavy GLBT content. Seriously fun but irregular, season finale was very good. Capt. Jack is always great.
3.Blood +: Anime Irregular but getting good, Oshi has a hand in this one. Complicated vampire drama based on the movie "Blood the Last Vampire"
4.Bleach: Anime Very good, basically a buddist/shinto samurai anime version of Orpheus. While superficially silly it gets into a lot of deep meditations on the relationship of the sword and the swordsman and the necessary unity and synergy between the two. Also features a lot of unlikely heros esp. Orihime.
5. Lucy Daughter of the Devil: Free excommunication w/ each episode. The devil has sired the antichrist but she turns out to be a San Fransisco art student w/ cute lil' horns. Usually ends the show making out w/ DJ Jesus.
6: Frisky Dingo: Insane superhero parody turned Election parody (from the guys who did Sealab 2021)
Actually I stand corrected, I watch one more show:
7. Reaper: Kevin Smith is the director it, dumbed down for American TV. The devil has a suburban couple sell their (yet to be conceived) firstborn to him to cure an illness. Our hero is the firstborn, and on his 21st birthday is pressed into service as a bounty hunter returning escaped souls to hell. The slackers in home depot bits are weak, but Ray Wise is perfect as the devil. He plays the devil as a sharp dressed goodfella who is usually trying too hard to be likable but always has quite the air of menace to him. Quite literally the Original Gangsta.
reaper is damm funny
No reservations. i very good take on food adn travle
Those are some very talented illusionsists in that video.
This weekend, I'm going to get a haircut and try to finish reading Daniel Quinn's The Story of B.
Best new show this year hands down is Pushing Daisies. It's not for everybody. The subject matter is very dark..a person who can bring back the dead by touching them, but after a minute, someone else would need to take their palce as dead, the next touch puts them back to death. He works with a PI who makes reward money by asking the dead WTF happened to them. Easy enough. Until he uncovers a sheet that contains his boyhood crush underneath it. He brings her back to life, but just can't end it. A minute passes, and well. At that point it's elementary. Killing her isn't going to bring the newly dead person back anyway. So they fall in love, but he can't touch her or she'll die again.
In this dark story, the presentation is very light. It's a bright show with interesting cinematography. The most striking part is the constant narration by an outside voice, who refers to the main character as the "piemaker", and describes people by their exact age.
I love it. The more I watch it the more I love it.
I'll second Bleach. It is the epitome of the Shonen style IMO. The main character is kinda bleh, but the backstory, secondary characters, and how the story flows as a whole makes it sing. Especially Orihime. In a nutshell, you have a character who just because her power isn't offensive in nature, curses her weakness and her inability to prevent pain to her friends, however it's clear that her power (the power to heal and protect) is the most powerful one of all.
Karmakin:
Well the sixth "fairy" does have offensive power by penetrating the enemy and then rejecting, it's just that Orihime wouldn't use it against anything but a hollow. The really cool thing is that when Tatsuki and Orihime are attacked it was Orihime who manifested power, that and the fact that Chizuru really cared about both Tatsuki and Orihime.
Also, actually Orihime is always bittersweet because she's suffering from Kon envy.
True, but the cutter really hasn't been shown to be that strong. Although it COULD be if she had enough will to kill. And I think that's the point. That's not her path.
And yeah. How that was done is really the point where I fell in love with the story. It isn't what is usually done, but it made sense.
I got my phone turned back on today! Forgot.to.pay.the.bill. That's right.
I'm just waiting for LOST to come back on mid season. I did happen upon a kind fun show "Don't forget the Lyrics". I could win on that show!
I have never watched a single show you've mentioned in this string... haven't heard of them. I'll look out for them though.
Here's the song I'm learning. Had the lyrics for a long time and happened (from a Drifty commenter's comment thread) upon Lost Hills doing it so I can stealz the chords.... in the finest folk tradition that is 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y...h?
v=YZBjjRgTpOY
Also, in the amazing 'tubes department. I've been blown away by this one all week..... errr its bluegrass... be aware there is a banjo in it 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4...0banjo%
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And, finally, for those who are wondering. Rocky Grass Academy tix lottery starts the 29th, with fest camping lottery the week after it closes on Nov 4th. I'm sure I'll see you all there.... if I go 
http://www.bluegrass.com/rga/
Karmakin:
I'd say the cutter is dependent on the will and training of Orihime, much like a zanpakut
ō. It totally blew away the big hollow that threatened Tatsuki and Chizuru because her friends were at risk and the enemy was pure evil. It proved ineffective against soul reapers because they were not perceived by her to be inherently bad, and her friends were not in immediate mortal danger.
That said I agree w/ you that it is Orihime's pacifism and Chad's refusal to engage in self-defense that makes the show so good. That and Yachiru cheering on "Kenny and Itchy".
playing incidental music and accompaniment to the vaudeville acts at the birdcage opera house, tombstone arizona.
stephen fucking foster rules.
"Pushing Daisies" is definitely the top new show, but this season is IMO a pretty good one for new shows. (self-plug -- I blogged about it at too much length recently. ) "Journeyman" and "Life" and "Chuck" are also great. "Aliens In America" is brave and funny, but that brand of awkwardness humor isn't my favorite thing. I'll watch it, but it makes me cringe a bit too much in sympathy for the protagonist. I need to catch up on "Mad Men", too, and I'm enjoying "Next Iron Chef" a fair bit.
For returning shows, I like "30 Rock" and "My Name is Earl" and I have finally, at this late date, gotten into "The Office". And "Top Chef". I'm still watching "Heroes", but to date I have enjoyed "Chuck" and "Journeyman", its two NBC Monday night sci-fi partners more -- one's more outrageously stupid fun, and one's got more compelling drama and dialogue that isn't horrendous.
"Reaper" started out strong -- stronger than "Chuck" for my money -- but faded very, very fast. It's super-early in the season and they can definitely improve, but so far I'm way less jazzed for it than I was after the pilot.
For the past couple of months I have been hooked on past seasons of HBO's The Wire. It is excellent and has often been described as the best show on TV ever. That's not an exagerration. I don't have HBO so I never saw it when it originally aired. I watched seasons 1 & 2 and am halfway through season 3. Season 4 comes out on DVD next month and the 5th and final season will start airing in January on HBO. I will subscribe to HBO in January just so that I can watch The Wire. Highly recommend.
Not watching TV, period.
I haven't had the goddamn thing hooked to cable for the last 12 years. I got a forced reacquaintance with it two years ago, when I was in the hospital for gall bladder surgery, and my loathing was only further reinforced.
OMFG, it actually managed to get WORSE over the intervening decade. In my naivete, I didn't know that was possible.
I'm catching up on reading. There's a new book out on Linux firewalls that looks interesting. The Metasploit Toolkit book finally got published, only 15 months late. There's a recent book on cross site scripting attacks I've been meaning to get to. Of course, there's exactly NFW I'm going to get through all that before Monday rolls around. But I can dream.
I'll also be catching up on my sleep (alway in arrears). And working on the new XP box to replace the Dell that went south last week.
Note to self - Never. Ever. Buy. Dell. Again.
And, probably, some gaming. The Dark Side is getting rambunctious, and could do with slaughtering a few Strogg.
The cats, of course, are going to need some attention. Bou-girl has me scoped - she lies upside down on the carpet and wiggles those feet in the air, and she knows damn well what's going to happen next.
About that cross site scripting business ... if you don't know this next, then be warned. The New New Thing is client-side attacks, delivered fresh to your computer through your web browser. This, and fourth generation worms like the Storm Worm, are going to make all our lives really interesting over the course of the next five years.
If this goes the way I suspect, then in a few years, anti-malware proxies of one sort or another are going to be as prolific and irreplaceable as firewalls are today. And the more cautious of us will be going to either virtual OSes, or LiveCD/LiveDVD based systems, when interacting with more risky environments.
Think about using a Linux box to visit Badland with. Or a Mac. Or a virtual OS running off VMWare. Or a "glass OS" like Knoppix - how the hell is a bad guy going to compromise that past a hard reboot?
Microsoft is working a lot harder and smarter on security now than they did five years ago. But they've got 20 year old source code trees to deal with. These have NEVER been comprehensively audited for security flaws, and now cannot be; they're just too big. And they've got a security model that "just grew", from the days when their "OS" was a glorified bootloader.
And think about using strong crypto routinely, for everything you send over a public network wire. You know by now that the Feds read your email whether it's legal or not. Don't expect that to change, no matter who "wins" in '08.
Ok, skipping the tv question---- I have to say HOW THE HELL DID THEY DO THAT?????
I mean it, that totally freaked me out.
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