Tuesday is not Monday, except when it is
A very happy birthday to katie_m!
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6.03 - "Descent"
* Why would the goa'uld abandon a mother ship? It's either full of replicators or it's booby-trapped.
* Harsh. Jonas has to stay on the transport with Teal'c, who is not a chatty guy. Then again, it's Teal'c's job to haze the newbies, and he does it so well.
* Jack seems insufficiently skeptical here, given that (a) he's a really skeptical guy, and (b) a goa'uld booby trap almost killed him.
* The ship has super secret Jaffa ninjas! I like it!
* Hm. Maybe Thor's mind is still stuck in the ship's system and he was the saboteur. Or maybe the ship's haunted. Haunted by ninjas!
* And now they've crashed into the ocean. Oh dear. And the ship's leaking, as they do.
* Please don't give Jonas survivor's guilt over Daniel's death. Just, no.
* Wah. The Jaffa weren't ninjas after all. And it was Thor's consciousness, uploaded to the ship, that caused the original damage. At least Thor can be downloaded into a new body. Anything that keeps Thor around is okay by me. ::handwaves determinedly::
* Aw. Jack loooooves Thor too. It's beautiful when it's mutual.
* Jonas saves the day and proves himself worthy of SG-1. I wish the writers weren't trying so hard with him.
6.04 - "Frozen"
* Excellent. More backstory on the gate in Antarctica. I'm glad they're investigating it.
* A 50,000-year-old woman found frozen by the gate? Hm! I can tell that she's going to wake up, because I have watched television before.
* Jonas's wonder is a nice touch. By now, both the characters and the viewers have gotten used to fantastic occurrances.
* She's alive! I know that this will not go well, also because I have watched television before.
* Ayana might be a highly evolved human. Human evolution may not be an accident. But Janet, as a scientist, you should know the difference between a hypothesis and a theory.
* Francine's down, the two scientists are missing, a storm's bearing down, and they're quarrantined. Yikes!
* Ayana's over 3 million years old? She must really moisturize.
* Did I miss the episode where Sam went to medical school and became fully trained in emergency medicine?
* So Ayana brought an illness, but she has magical healing abilities, but she weakened herself and died before curing Jack.
* Yeah, Jack would not be down with being a tok'ra host. I actually guessed that he'd say, "Over my dead body."
* ... and yet he finally agrees? What?
6.05 - "Nightwalkers"
* What the-- Who is this guy? Why is he calling Sam in the middle of the night?
* Small town on the Oregon coast, missing doctor, shadowy corporation, townspeople behaving like zombies. Does Chris Carter know about this?
* For once, Teal'c's hat is appropriate! Way to work the stocking cap, Teal'c.
* I'm still not buying Jack as willing tok'ra host. It doesn't help that it's all happening offscreen.
* At least the local sherrif isn't in on whatever it is. That's different.
* I like the Teal'c/Jonas alien bonding, and the fact that while they're both outsiders here, Teal'c plans to go home eventually while Jonas has to make a new home for himself.
* Oops! Nevermind, the local sherrif is in on it.
* Hm! People are being creepy at night and not remembering it in the mornings. I bet aliens did it! (Seriously, does Chris Carter know about this episode?)
* Yep! Ancient Egyptian, plus spaceship-building, means goa'uld. Although did I also miss the episode where Sam learned to read goa'uld fluently?
* Cloned symbiotes from Adrian Conrad's research? I'm glad there's some followup from "Desperate Measures," so I will also pretend it makes sense that the symbiotes aren't detectable and that they're weak, so they can only take people over when they're asleep.
* NID is monitoring the situation to get their hands on the finished spaceship? Those bastards!
* I was a little worried that Sam had been taken over by a goa'uld, but even my relief can not make me pretend that it makes sense that she innoculated herself against implantation using antibiotics that the goa'uld symbiotes were genetically engineered to respond to like a kill switch. Still, she's been delightfully capable in this episode.
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There's a very interesting article in today's New York Times (registration required) about student email to professors.
At colleges and universities nationwide, e-mail has made professors much more approachable. But many say it has made them too accessible, erasing boundaries that traditionally kept students at a healthy distance.
These days, they say, students seem to view them as available around the clock, sending a steady stream of e-mail messages - from 10 a week to 10 after every class - that are too informal or downright inappropriate.
In my day, when we wanted to communicate with professors, we had to carve our missives in stone and then hand-deliver the tablets by riding dinosaurs uphill (in the snow! Both ways!). I exaggerate, but I went to a very large public university that often had 200-500 person lectures for introductory courses, and I did it right before email started becoming a prevalent mode of communication. If you couldn't catch the professor after class, office hours were it. I see the upside to being able to communicate with them via email. And I also see the downside of a bunch of 18-year-olds who do not have any background in professional standards of conduct, or perspective on their degree of entitlement, but do have the professor's email address. I guess it boils down to common sense.
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The scarf I'm currently knitting is going to clock in at about 6' long and 9" wide, with a complicated 44-row cable pattern. At about the 4' point, I thought about the time it was taking to make and the square inchage of fabric I was creating and decided I should just make a freaking sweater already. So I have just received the yarn (Elsebeth Lavold Cotton Patine in #09, sage green) to make this tank top, which should theoretically be an easy first garment. I hope.
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6.03 - "Descent"
* Why would the goa'uld abandon a mother ship? It's either full of replicators or it's booby-trapped.
* Harsh. Jonas has to stay on the transport with Teal'c, who is not a chatty guy. Then again, it's Teal'c's job to haze the newbies, and he does it so well.
* Jack seems insufficiently skeptical here, given that (a) he's a really skeptical guy, and (b) a goa'uld booby trap almost killed him.
* The ship has super secret Jaffa ninjas! I like it!
* Hm. Maybe Thor's mind is still stuck in the ship's system and he was the saboteur. Or maybe the ship's haunted. Haunted by ninjas!
* And now they've crashed into the ocean. Oh dear. And the ship's leaking, as they do.
* Please don't give Jonas survivor's guilt over Daniel's death. Just, no.
* Wah. The Jaffa weren't ninjas after all. And it was Thor's consciousness, uploaded to the ship, that caused the original damage. At least Thor can be downloaded into a new body. Anything that keeps Thor around is okay by me. ::handwaves determinedly::
* Aw. Jack loooooves Thor too. It's beautiful when it's mutual.
* Jonas saves the day and proves himself worthy of SG-1. I wish the writers weren't trying so hard with him.
6.04 - "Frozen"
* Excellent. More backstory on the gate in Antarctica. I'm glad they're investigating it.
* A 50,000-year-old woman found frozen by the gate? Hm! I can tell that she's going to wake up, because I have watched television before.
* Jonas's wonder is a nice touch. By now, both the characters and the viewers have gotten used to fantastic occurrances.
* She's alive! I know that this will not go well, also because I have watched television before.
* Ayana might be a highly evolved human. Human evolution may not be an accident. But Janet, as a scientist, you should know the difference between a hypothesis and a theory.
* Francine's down, the two scientists are missing, a storm's bearing down, and they're quarrantined. Yikes!
* Ayana's over 3 million years old? She must really moisturize.
* Did I miss the episode where Sam went to medical school and became fully trained in emergency medicine?
* So Ayana brought an illness, but she has magical healing abilities, but she weakened herself and died before curing Jack.
* Yeah, Jack would not be down with being a tok'ra host. I actually guessed that he'd say, "Over my dead body."
* ... and yet he finally agrees? What?
6.05 - "Nightwalkers"
* What the-- Who is this guy? Why is he calling Sam in the middle of the night?
* Small town on the Oregon coast, missing doctor, shadowy corporation, townspeople behaving like zombies. Does Chris Carter know about this?
* For once, Teal'c's hat is appropriate! Way to work the stocking cap, Teal'c.
* I'm still not buying Jack as willing tok'ra host. It doesn't help that it's all happening offscreen.
* At least the local sherrif isn't in on whatever it is. That's different.
* I like the Teal'c/Jonas alien bonding, and the fact that while they're both outsiders here, Teal'c plans to go home eventually while Jonas has to make a new home for himself.
* Oops! Nevermind, the local sherrif is in on it.
* Hm! People are being creepy at night and not remembering it in the mornings. I bet aliens did it! (Seriously, does Chris Carter know about this episode?)
* Yep! Ancient Egyptian, plus spaceship-building, means goa'uld. Although did I also miss the episode where Sam learned to read goa'uld fluently?
* Cloned symbiotes from Adrian Conrad's research? I'm glad there's some followup from "Desperate Measures," so I will also pretend it makes sense that the symbiotes aren't detectable and that they're weak, so they can only take people over when they're asleep.
* NID is monitoring the situation to get their hands on the finished spaceship? Those bastards!
* I was a little worried that Sam had been taken over by a goa'uld, but even my relief can not make me pretend that it makes sense that she innoculated herself against implantation using antibiotics that the goa'uld symbiotes were genetically engineered to respond to like a kill switch. Still, she's been delightfully capable in this episode.
* * * * *
There's a very interesting article in today's New York Times (registration required) about student email to professors.
At colleges and universities nationwide, e-mail has made professors much more approachable. But many say it has made them too accessible, erasing boundaries that traditionally kept students at a healthy distance.
These days, they say, students seem to view them as available around the clock, sending a steady stream of e-mail messages - from 10 a week to 10 after every class - that are too informal or downright inappropriate.
In my day, when we wanted to communicate with professors, we had to carve our missives in stone and then hand-deliver the tablets by riding dinosaurs uphill (in the snow! Both ways!). I exaggerate, but I went to a very large public university that often had 200-500 person lectures for introductory courses, and I did it right before email started becoming a prevalent mode of communication. If you couldn't catch the professor after class, office hours were it. I see the upside to being able to communicate with them via email. And I also see the downside of a bunch of 18-year-olds who do not have any background in professional standards of conduct, or perspective on their degree of entitlement, but do have the professor's email address. I guess it boils down to common sense.
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The scarf I'm currently knitting is going to clock in at about 6' long and 9" wide, with a complicated 44-row cable pattern. At about the 4' point, I thought about the time it was taking to make and the square inchage of fabric I was creating and decided I should just make a freaking sweater already. So I have just received the yarn (Elsebeth Lavold Cotton Patine in #09, sage green) to make this tank top, which should theoretically be an easy first garment. I hope.