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| Wednesday, October 6, 2004 05:16 AM |
| My Secret Admirer |
 by Fëanor |
I've been meaning to say thank you to whoever signed me up for hyperspace on starwars.com. So, thank you! I haven't had a chance to check it out too much, but I'm hoping to see some cool stuff on the web cam, or something.
Of course, it's possible I signed myself up and totally forgot about it. In which case, thank you, me! But I really don't think my occasional fits of amnesia have gotten that bad yet.
In other news, I finally got around to watching the first episode of Joss Whedon's short-lived sci-fi show "Firefly" last night (thank you, Netflix!). Peccable told me it wasn't very good, but I think it's quite cool. Maybe the low expectations helped, or maybe it's just because I give movies and TV shows more of the benefit of the doubt than Peccable does.
Anyhow, now I'm sorry I didn't watch "Firefly" when it was actually on live, real TV. I think I'd say that it definitely starts off at a higher quality than "Farscape" (which I've been watching via Netflix, too, and I'm still waiting for it to get really good). The characters are interesting, the dialogue is good, the story ocassionally takes some unexpected twists. And the whole sort of style and look is rather different and fascinating. Ocassionally the characters will use odd slang or drop into Chinese. I like that. I like the sense of a history behind everything that we don't know about. It's part of what makes the Star Wars universe so intriguing. The show also sort of goes back to Gene Roddenberry's original conception of "Star Trek," making even more literal use of his metaphor of the outer reaches of space as American Western frontier. There are cowboys and horses and gun fights and showdowns and all kinds of stuff like that. But in space! And in the future! Yay!
Anyway, I'm not saying it's the greatest thing ever, but it's decent, and I'm going to keep watching it. I mean, it's certainly better than that crappy "CSI" show. Why the hell is that thing popular? It's brainless, predictable, totally unimaginative, and completely unbelievable.
But tonight is movie night, and that's cool.
Btw, did you know that if you enter any woman's name into Google's image search, you will always get back at least one picture of a naked or mostly-naked lady? Providing you have SafeSearch turned off, of course.
You probably shouldn't test this theory at work, though.
UPDATE: I meant, just on the first page, you'll find at least one. But actually it looks like this is true of just about any word you search for, let alone women's names. So basically, the internet has a lot of porn on it. I guess this wasn't that exciting a discovery, huh? |
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