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A brief service interruption...
I'm going to be going back into the hospital on the 4th for a bit of fine tuning, ideally for a week at most. Since the hospital is sort of pissy about having a laptop in the room because it could be stolen and since I don't have an easily hideable iPad (Santa missed a bet here), I'll be limited to the Nexus One I was given when I was laid off. ( Read more... ) -
Notes from the hospital.
Busby Berkeley musicals are profoundly creepy. I think TCM schedules them late at night to get ready for Halloween. -
My moped was stolen today.
Not only can't I afford to get a replacement, I couldn't afford to get it fixed in the first place. I'm going to bed: maybe things will look better tomorrow. -
A SF/Fantasy clothing question.
Are there any uniforms in SF/Fantasy as dorky as those in Space Battleship Yamato/Starblazers? (I'm provisionally excluding the Dirty Pair uniforms for now because I've seen an explanation somewhere (one of the books?) that the monatomic transparent bullet/zapgun proof shielding that covers the whole rig didn't work over a lot of cloth.) Because ( Read more... ) -
A brief follow-up.
Sorry about the brevity of this, but I'm sick with a hellish head cold. Anyway, I watched the other two Derren Brown specials. One, "The System," is an interesting lesson in probability: Brown is sending tips to a woman as part of a documentary that shows he has an unbeatable system to pick racehorses to win. No problems with that one ( Read more... ) -
And now for something brilliantly done.
There is a well known European mentalist who has done several series for television in the U.K. (I'm told that SyFy/SciFi channel carried one) named Derren Brown. I was tempted to get the series but as far as I know Amazon does not support it for the Mac. Then I realized that you could get some of his material on DVD from the UK at reasonable ( Read more... ) -
A question for the Dr. Who fans out there.
Up front, I have to admit I never saw more than ten minutes of the earlier incarnations of the show: every time I turned the local PBS affiliate on to watch one it rapidly ended up in the British Gravel Pit version of Bronson's Canyon. So, I have to ask questions based on the current version and on the Fox TV movie version--please bear with me ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes you just miss the bus. Or elephant. Or auction.
When the snack Screaming Yellow Zonkers came out in the late 60's-early 70's there were a lot of comments that what was on the boxes were better than what was inside. The high point of the original box, for me, was the add on the back at the bottom: "Win a Continent! Now Zonkers offers you the chance to win the continent of your choice. And all ( Read more... ) -
Weekends are wonderful!
Last night someone smashed in the front driver's side and passenger's side windows of the car. They pulled a TrafficGauge unit off the windshield (breaking the mount but not the windshield), but left everything else in the car. Insurer will send a glass repair outfit out soon, but traveling in the car is out of the question for right now. I am ( Read more... ) -
Telephonic adventures
The old Nokia telephone was knocked into a sink yesterday, so I found the unused Palm Treo 650 and am trying it out. Since at some point I loaded a LJ client on it I'm giving it a whirl as well. So far the built-in keyboard is better suited to Twitter (don't have the BT keyboard with me), but I can't find a stable Twitter client for the 650. ( Read more... )