I am starting to have many jitters about doing independent research this year. I woke up in a panic about it in the night. I need a good forum where people discuss dissertations, research etc, if anyone knows of any, so that I can jitter in the direction of some fellow sufferers. I am going to be bold and put adverts in relevant magazine soon. I am. I am, I am, I... Probably.
ND, your commitment to naming your hard drives is impressive. I name my wheelchairs after appropriate characters from science fiction, but that's not difficult. My powerchair was Marvin (he was an entirely paranoid android) and my current manual chair is Luna. I forget the rest. As for cars, I've had a Delta Flyer and a Defiant (it was not), and my current storage-miracle-on-wheels is a little Tardis.
OK, so I'm about 1/3 of the way through watching the original BSG, and episode 9 had me wondering.
Apollo crash lands on a planet that seems perfectly good, but the fleet keeps going on to "Earth", a planet they don't even know exists. If the council was ready to stay put on the mining planet with the Vegas thing where the locals ate the humans, why wouldn't they want to settle down on this other planet?
I guess I'm looking for logic in a TV show. Silly me, I should know better.
omnis, it's because the original was pseudo-Mormon pseudo-scripture, and all other waypoints on the way to the Promised Land were temptations from the Dark One.
No, I'm not 100% kidding. (I'm being very meanly snarky, though.)
The point is to follow the scripture of the Lords of Kobol, not just to settle for 2nd best. It's not supported in the *show*, of course.
ah. Right. That's why logic is out the window.
Logic? In Battlestar Galactica? Hahaha...
I love it anyway, though.
Logic deteriorates as time goes on in BSG, but there was much to love.
Phew. Yours Truly and her family won't be living in a settlement, after all.
They'll probably live in a neighborhood beyond the green line, but then again, about 70% of Jerusalem post-1967 was built beyond said line.
You cannot imagine my relief. It's not final yet or anything, but damn, it's starting to look like it.
That is good to hear, Shir.
That's excellent news, Shir.
That's a relief Shir.
Took a few hours off from my current chained-to-desk status to take the most awesome bike ride (and a new post to TWC yay) with d ( [link] ) and DH and HelloKittyFan#1 ( [link] ).
The NPH vid at the emmys is too funny.
a hard drive named Yamamoto anything has to be pretty well encrypted i'd guess, ND.
now back to my desk. mwah.
