SGU: lost a fan

I really tried to like SGU. I was a big fan of the previous series. This one takes too much from Cattlecar Galactica and too little from StarGate. The turning point for me was the show “light”. They’ve run from one hopeless disaster to the next with everyone at each other’s throats it was really getting tiresome. In this episode they’ve finally caught a break and I thought things would turn around. At the end of the episode their leader, who should have known better, acuses the mad scientist of knowing all along they weren’t all doomed. He does this in public with lots of witnesses. Even the others in the room tell him to ‘give it a rest’. A better way to induce paranoia and ensure trouble I can’t imagine. This from someone who’s supposed to be a leader. If I wanted crappy drama queens I’d just spend more time at the office.

Sorry SGU. You’re voted off the island.

Stargate Universe a Battlestar Galactica clone?

You decide!

Crazy Scientist: Doctor Baltar vs Doctor Rush

Authority figure: Col Young vs. Admiral Adama

Power mad politician: Senator Armstrong vs President Roslyn

There must be a hot chick: Chloe vs Number Six

Hot Asians are always good: Ming-Na vs Boomer

Plot comparison
Big attack by unknown forces, forced them to flee	BSG: Big attack by cylons, forced them to flee
Trapped on a spaceship, lost in space	BSG: Trapped in spaceships, lost in space
Big attack by unknown forces, forced them to flee	BSG: Big attack by cylons, forced them to flee
Betrayed by a crazy scientist	BSG: Betrayed by a crazy scientist
Stuck with Politicians	BSG: Stuck with Politicians

There must be a hot chick

Why I will never buy a kindle/ebook reader

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

I will never pay for a device that allows other people to use my property in any way they desire without my consent. If necessary I will do without.

Is Warehouse 23 dead?

Hey, I’m not above using one of the tricks from schlock journalism school 101. Take something big/popular/ubiquitous and plaster a big headline “IS XXX DEAD?”.

But really. The writers of Warehouse 23 are falling down on the job. Here are my beefs:
* The science has been silly so far.
* With a gold mine of fantastic gadgets to choose from they’re doing shows about chair springs? Ugh!
* The characters constant bitching at each other is almost intolerable. In the last show if I’d been their boss I would have used the taser gun on them, repeatedly, until I got their attention.

Come on guys! Time to make your move or you’re going to fold.

Warehouse 23

I’m still reserving judgement. So far it’s not too bad. The second episode was kind of weak but there haven’t been any major gaffs so far…

spamhaus

Spamhaus.org. An organization that masquerades as a public service. I think what they’re really doing is making sure big companies have a lock on email traffic. This makes it easier for big brother to spy on us too. They’re making it impossible for individuals to send email. Spamhaus, you guys suck

Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host0 solutia-mxa.mail.eds.net[192.85.154.77] said:
550 5.7.1 … Mail from xx.xx.xx.xx refused by
blackhole list sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, please see
http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso, sender is xxxx@xxxxx (in
reply to RCPT TO command)

warehouse 23 comes to TV

Woo hoo! I’m looking forward to seeing this. I thought this was one of the most fun supplements Steve Jackson Games ever put out. I hope they don’t muck it up, but I have this suspicion that they will. The anticipation will be nice though.

Why the GIMP image editor will never be popular

I want to rotate my image, The camera was turned. I navigate to tools->transform->rotate. I have to manually enter 90 degrees. The result is clipped on the top and bottom because the rotated result doesn’t fit in the canvas any longer.

I try to save it thinking it might be what I want but just looks funny. It tells me the jpg has to be exported because the picture had transparency.

You guys are missing the point.

Users don’t know transformations and matrices. Why are you categorizing operations by things the users don’t understand?

Why aren’t commonly used settings (like rotate 90/180/270) somewhere that I can choose them easily?

What is up with this export drek? I don’t care whats different between exporting and saving. When I hit save I want you to save the **** picture.

Oh, and ditch the stupid multiple window UI.

You guys really need to get a clue

Dear Joss Whedon, what happened to dollhouse?

Dear Joss,

I used to be a big fan. I really loved Firefly. So I decided to give Dollhouse a fair shot.

I just officially gave up on the series.

Mike and Sierra corner the guy who involuntarily put Sierra in the Dollhouse. She wouldn’t sleep with him so he sold her into involuntary slavery. In a place where they erase your memory and make you like the slavery. They know all this. He tells them they’ve erased their existence and “I have a good security system, people are coming to get you.”  So they turn and run?

NOT.

You stop and kill the sleeze ball. You don’t exist. What penalty could they possibly impose on you?

This show has been degenerating steadily and has just reached the point where it’s too stupid to continue watching. If you’re letting other people modify your work and this is the result I certainly hope you got paid well for putting your name on this drek.

Your next show is going to have to be very good for me to even give it a try.

Who pays for this drek? More “History” Channel garbage

So I’m watching the special on the symbology on the United States dollar bill. This show interviews a conspiracy theorist with very little intelligence and a book to sell. They don’t present any kind of fact checking. He states there are 13 stars and 13 arrows in the seal with the eagle because they’re a symbolic number for the free masons. Duh, did it ever occur to you there were 13 original colonies? They make the claim “The evidence for a conspiracy is piling up”. I have to agree with this statement. It did get pretty deep. Geez guys, get a clue. How about some HISTORY on the History Channel?