The Minbari on Babylon 5 use base 11 mathematics.  When Lennier says he studied mathematics after his eleventy-seventh year (s1e21) he means 18, not 117.

This was a source of great confusion to me, having previously heard "eleventy" only from Bilbo Baggins.  In s4e22 we learn that Delenn was 40 when the ISA was formed, and I have a lot of trouble ( Read more... )

Weird and awesome scientific phenomenon in my shopping basket:

I stopped at the little grocery store on campus looking for soy milk (they only had the dairy stuff, I've never understood the point of dairy soy milk) and saw that they were selling my favorite Honest Tea flavor, so I grabbed a shopping basket.  The tea was on an open refrigerated shelf ( Read more... )

...just as soon as the new scripts are written.  The writers' strike is finally over!  The new contract has not yet been voted on, (that'll take until Feb 25) but the WGA has agreed to go back to work now.  I think the contract will probably be approved, but what if it isn't?  Will the strike resume?

Some shows have run out of episodes, and fans ( Read more... )

Last night I saw a raccoon at school.  I've never seen a raccoon in the wild before.  It was walking on its front paws with its tail and hind feet in the air.  Is it normal for raccoons to do that?  It went into the bushes, and looked out with eyes that reflected the light the same way cat's eyes do in the dark.  

(points to icon) 
The elephant will resume bouncing when the WGA strike is over.  Spread the word to other fans.  Find similar icons for many different TV fandoms here.

Here is an explanation of the reason for the strike.

Jericho fans may remember the peanuts campaign.  There is a multi-fandom pencils campaign going on now in support of the WGA.  ( Read more... )

Magnificent Seven:

Isaac and Tamara, hunting as a married couple.  That was so awesome.  I wish Isaac hadn't been killed.  That death was so, so nasty.  In fact, all the deaths seem to be nastier this season.  Which is as it should be, really.  It's not good to trivialize murder.  In previous seasons we could just say oh, he's not an important ( Read more... )

 A few weeks ago I saw a man walking down the street with a parrot on his shoulder.  It was a very lovely parrot, the red kind with the yellow and blue wings, not the dead Norwegian Blue kind, and if I hadn't been on the bus at the time, and on my way to class, I would have said hi, that's a beautiful parrot you've got. 

Welcome to my livejournal.  I'm just starting out.  If you're here because you're wondering "who is this random person who friended me?" it's probably because you've written something, or maybe several somethings, which I like.  I'm notoriously shy at reviewing.