I just watched "Battle for Milkquarious." And that's all I have to say.

Do you believe in God? Have you ever wondered why we don't have the power of flight? I want the power of flight! Why didn't God give the birds something else, like beards?

I'm just wondering!

I ignored it for a long time, but... Pink Floyd's "Wish You were Here" has some of the most beautiful lyrics...

Somehow I stressed my right hand- something to do with using the mouse at the wrong angle I think (I'm still using my old G3 round mouse). So my fingers are sore, kinda like RSI I guess, but should be temporary. ouch

Even though I rarely collect movie/TV stuff, I noticed that the company that made the properties for Battlestar Galactica is selling a lot of items from the series. It would be way cool to have some li'l something in my living room. Nothing big, like a metal door or a full costume- that would just collect dust since I don't have any room to display it. Some thing cute (like a deadly blaster gun), fairly small, and unique.

Aww, look, I got a love letter. Isn't that cute!

"My name is Jessica Orion Female, I saw your profile and it was interesting so I would like to know more about you. It will be a pleasure to read from you, if you wouldn't mind, I want you to know that real love matters. I will be expecting your mail soon, kiss.

Your lovely new friend,

Miss Jessica."

I'm not dating anyone from more than 5 light years away, though.

The Mojito is a strange tasting drink. Try it.
(or not)

Did I mention this before? Cuz I don't think I did. Anyway, I love '50's era robots and toy robots and hani just happens to be taking a class on artificial intelligence and I've been listening to some "Dimension X" shows from the fifties on a website. Co-inky-dink? Maybe.



If you have 25 minutes, here's a fun story about household robots in the world of tomorrow.

Have you ever seen the American Express commercial with all the travel related objects that look like they're smiling or frowning (a clothes hanger, a suitcase, a yellow airplane, etc.)? I think it's really clever.

On the other hand, I'm sure there are people who see it and think it's just a bunch of random objects. If you tell them what the point is they'll go "Ohhh, now I get it!"

I upgraded my tiny computer today. I was a little afraid that it wouldn't survive the operation, but all is well and I saved about 80 berries (that's 1930'3 slang for money that I picked up reading Dashiel Hammett). I had to use a pancake turner to pry the case open, but the turner and the 'puter both survived. She now has a 320GB drive and an extra 512MB of memory, so I guess I'm king of the world. Or duke anyways.

"Dear yahoo account Owner,

This message is from yahoo messaging center to all yahoo email accountowners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center.We

are deleting all yahoo email account to create more space for new accounts.To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so that

we will know that it's a present used account. Your response should be sent to admin manager Email:upgrade.team_2009@yahoo.com.hk
******************************************************************
CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Email Username :
EMAIL Password :
Date of Birth :
Country or Territory : "

Oh, please not delete account. Delete account bad! I supply all information you in Hong Kong!

-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story, all I can
think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell
my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.

-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize
you're wrong.

-I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to
drink to have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with
flint and sticks when they've invented the lighter?

-I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I
was younger.

About a week ago I heard two TV news mentions of a study that said men who stare at women's breasts for 10 minutes a day are healthier for it. This is one of those stories that make you check the calendar to see if it's April 1!

Some Internet research turns a report up on a Fox News page. Take a look at this story . If you read down toward the bottom of the page, you'll find a link to another story on the original "German study" which turns out to be a hoax. That the whole thing is just a joke is not mentioned on the original Fox web page.

So maybe this post is about boobs... in a way.

You can find the president's education speech on MSNBC's site. When you read it, you can click on certain words and be taken to shopping pages for bedroom furniture and kitchen appliances. Gotta love capitalism!

I particularly liked this quote from the speech: "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."-- Michael Jordan

Hmm. I wonder what happened to Tiny Rockets?

Posted on Yahoo today (re the president's upcoming education speech):

"just tell them their your children and that they can have there dam unions but we will not let you teach your dam liberal s*** and we will take our schools back .and those dam magnet schools and c schools no more government grants for there ass either.and those who break the law will pay and pay big even there freedom for a long time behind bars.(USA take back our schools.)oh and now whos crazies."

Not God bless the magnet schools, but...

Nobody was around today and I needed an excuse to get out of the 102 degree heat. Once again So Cal is on fire. You know, the root of California is "cal" as in "calorie" so I suppose that might have something to do with burning. Or I'll pretend it does for now.

Yep, remarkably, I saw another movie today, "District 9." It was the best SF movie I've seen since, hmm... "Minority Report" probably. "Start Trek" was very good, but that's more of an adventure than science fiction because it didn't pose any interesting questions about who we are as humans or the nature of the universe or technology, et and cetera.

I need to go icon shopping soon.

I finally saw "Groundhog Day." It wasn't quite what I expected and I was delighted. What next? Maybe "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." I've always wanted to see "Modern Times" (Chaplin) too.

Are there movies you've always meant to get around to seeing but haven't yet? (It's only 2 hours out of your life after all and you'll probably spend it with LJ otherwise.)

Capsule review.

Defying Gravity = Battlestar Galactica lite. Which is OK I guess.

Do you like Space Music? I do! Sometimes.

Interesting that several musicians had parents who were (or are) scientists, including Thomas Dolby, KT Tunstall, and Mark Everett (Eels). There must be more, I suppose.

Mark Everett's dad was somewhat responsible for the theory of multiple universes. There was a Nova episode about it this season. I was listening to the Radio 2 show about astronomy and rock music yesterday. You can hear it here, thru next week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ltlrw

Favorite Space Movies that take place mostly on Earth: "Apollo 13," "The Right Stuff," "In the Shadow of the Moon (documentary)," "October Sky," "The Dish"