Bush envisions U.S. presence in Iraq like S. Korea

As a military situation, Iraq is absolutely nothing like Korea. The limited U.S. military presence in South Korea is able to focus it's attention on essentially a single, clearly defined, not particularly large border. They're on the one side, and the "enemy" is on the other side, and South Korea ( Read more... )

Two hours and forty-five minutes of piratey goodness!

AFLKJU AGOUAGOUOUA A LAFGUOETOU !!!!!

AFLADUGHEOALA;LG;LJ!!!

AHDHGHKSD;ASF??!1!!! ???!! A AKJFADIASDF!

That is all.

Man, Tim Minear has some bad luck.

His newest series, Drive, has just been cancelled by Fox after only two weeks and four episodes. He's probably used to it by now, though, as his previous Fox series have met similar fates: 2002's Firefly (cancelled after eleven episodes), 2004's Wonderfalls (four episodes), and 2005's The Inside (seven episodes ( Read more... )

I recently posted in kateorman's journal that I got a little annoyed when people wrote "Tardis" instead of "TARDIS". Well, according the script for Smith and Jones that's been posted to the BBC Website, Russell T Davies apparently uses "Tardis". So much for that, then. I guess I can't argue with the showrunner ( Read more... )

Leon (my director for Armide, the opera I'm working on right now) was doing an exercise with several of the principal singers this afternoon -- they were wearing masks that covered their entire faces, and then they were videotaped so that they could watch the tape and analyze their the movements of their bodies without being distracted by facial ( Read more... )

...hurt worse than banging your head against a wall studded with spikes of doom.

I'm going to need another martini when this is done.

Holy shit.

And I'm going to have to wait 9 months for more?!

I am so freaking happy that I work somewhere that gets a whole week off in the spring. It's like having the good parts of being a student, without the tests and with a paycheck ( Read more... )

Okay, so fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation will find this piece of technology very familiar:

Vocera Communications

Yep, I think we've invented the communicator badge 250 years ahead of schedule. Now if only someone could work out that transporter!