Glee part 2 - this time with pictures
I've been having a very good weekend so far, which is surely a sign that even as I type this, an asteroid is hurtling through space on its way to flatten the entire Western half of the United States.
I got a new laptop, another Vaio, since I liked my last one so much and a nice bonus allowed me to move up my timetable for replacing the old one. It's very sleek and fast and quiet and the screen display is terrific. asta77, I think we're laptop twins now, or at least laptop siblings, since my model looks very much like yours. I've moved my data over and am now wiping the old one so that I can give it to my mom. This is going to sound wierd, but I spend a significant part of my time thinking about how computers work and how people interact with them; my computer is more than just a tool, it's an extension of my brain. Okay, that's kind of sad. But the old one needed, at minimum, to be wiped and have everything cleanly reinstalled, since I'd installed a bunch of incredibly performance-wrecking software on it during my contracting days and hadn't been very punctillious about cleaning it up. I am loving the new machine, and the old one will work much better for mom. ::loves it and pets it and calls it George::
Also, I had brunch this morning at the Beach Chalet with D. and Mrs. D. and the puppydog, who actually had to stay in the car while we ate, and did so in the manner of someone at the mercy of the Spanish Inquisition, staring out the window at the nearby beach with a look of intense suffering. The weather was glorious, sunny and clear and still but not hot (the wind has, unfortunately, picked up quite a bit since then).
Cliff House (the building halfway up the hill by the road on the right), the entrance to the Golden Gate, and the Marin Headlands beyond, from Ocean Beach.
An obligatory windmill shot--Golden Gate Park across the Great Highway.
Notice the puppydog's laser-like focus on the kong, which is at the end of the rope you can see dangling in shadow there as D. prepares to throw it. Normally, this dog has the attention span of a gnat coming down from a meth binge, but he's very serious about fetch.
Is there anything happier than a dog at the beach? No, I don't think there is.
* * * * *
8.03 - "Lockdown"
* What the frilly heck just disappeared into the hull of the Russian space station?
* Russian Guy really, really, really wants to be on SG-1, or any SG team. Jack's not going to go for that. But since Russian Guy also has an ominous and mysterious rash, that's probably the least of his worries.
* Teal'c's getting an apartment! But I know from Season 9 that that's not going to go well either.
* It's bad enough that the doctor thinks Russian Guy has a mysterious infection and the base goes into lockdown; but the infection is Anubis. Button, button, who's possessed by Anubis?
* Wow, SG-1 has had some dodgy plans, but forcing Anubis to use Ancient power and bringing the wrath of the ascended Ancients down on him is one of their dodgiest yet. And it means indefinite lockdown.
* Aaaaaand the President isn't going for that at all. This episode is full of uncooperative people and/or infectious black mists that were once the corporeal form of a partially ascended goa'uld System Lord.
* He's in Sam! And then he's in Jack! And Jack sets off the self-destruct, but Sam stops him.
* Nice--Anubis dials out and they switch the address to an ice world. Couldn't happen to a nicer infectious black mist that was once the corporeal form of a partially ascended goa'uld System Lord.
8.04 - "Zero Hour"
* Heh. Jack is not taking naturally to the generalling.
* Poor Walter is so relieved when Jack gets an assistant. Too bad the assistant seems to be up to something shady.
* A plant that grows very fast? Hm. That's not going to cause any problems whatsoever. No siree.
* Jack won't even let SG-1 do recon without backup? A little overprotective and control-freakish of him? Maybe, just maybe.
* Jack's in charge of hosting diplomatic talks? ::cringe::
* That's one fast-growing and indestructable plant, all right.
* Oh dear, Baal is looking mighty good has captured SG-1. And hey, the writers remembered that Jack was horribly tortured by Baal for days, and they even have Jack acting mildly annoyed at the memory!
* A ZPM! They could sure use one of those on Atlantis.
* Uh oh. The plant's in the walls and they can't dial out. Oh, Dr. Lee, you are such a disaster.
* The gamma radiation used to kill the plant revealed that the ZPM was booby trapped, and that goa'ulds are untrustworthy, sneaky rat bastards. Stop the presses!
* Speaking of sneaky rat bastardy, Baal didn't really have SG-1, he just used the fact that they were missing--stuck in Anubis's lab--to try to extort SGC into handing over Camulus. Nice.
* At least the assistant was on the up and up, sort of, in that he was just checking on Jack for the president.
And speaking of Atlantis...
1.01 & 1.02 - "'Rising"
I remember now that I actually saw most of this episode when it aired, because D. was still living here and he was always trying to get me into these shows. At the time, all I could think was--oh, for crying out loud, SPACE VAMPIRES? And, yeah... But the pilot is actually pretty spiffy--the pacing moves at a nice clip, there's a wonderful feeling of determined hopefulness at the start of the expedition, of seizing this once in a lifetime chance and making this journey, and a good introduction to the characters and their various movitations for getting involved. I like that Sheppard starts out as a pilot and basically gets sucked into it because of the gene, and sucked into it further when Sumner dies and he's the ranking military officer, because I'm attracted by the idea of people getting pulled into situations they aren't prepared for and having to rise to the occasion, even though I know that on this show that doesn't really go anywhere. But at this point, there's a nice momentum to the story, a balance of heroism and precariousness, and now that I've had time to deal with the Space Vampire thing, I can see where the appeal lay.
Also, is that Agent Doggett? Or rather, I should probably say, was that Agent Doggett?
I got a new laptop, another Vaio, since I liked my last one so much and a nice bonus allowed me to move up my timetable for replacing the old one. It's very sleek and fast and quiet and the screen display is terrific. asta77, I think we're laptop twins now, or at least laptop siblings, since my model looks very much like yours. I've moved my data over and am now wiping the old one so that I can give it to my mom. This is going to sound wierd, but I spend a significant part of my time thinking about how computers work and how people interact with them; my computer is more than just a tool, it's an extension of my brain. Okay, that's kind of sad. But the old one needed, at minimum, to be wiped and have everything cleanly reinstalled, since I'd installed a bunch of incredibly performance-wrecking software on it during my contracting days and hadn't been very punctillious about cleaning it up. I am loving the new machine, and the old one will work much better for mom. ::loves it and pets it and calls it George::
Also, I had brunch this morning at the Beach Chalet with D. and Mrs. D. and the puppydog, who actually had to stay in the car while we ate, and did so in the manner of someone at the mercy of the Spanish Inquisition, staring out the window at the nearby beach with a look of intense suffering. The weather was glorious, sunny and clear and still but not hot (the wind has, unfortunately, picked up quite a bit since then).
Cliff House (the building halfway up the hill by the road on the right), the entrance to the Golden Gate, and the Marin Headlands beyond, from Ocean Beach.
An obligatory windmill shot--Golden Gate Park across the Great Highway.
Notice the puppydog's laser-like focus on the kong, which is at the end of the rope you can see dangling in shadow there as D. prepares to throw it. Normally, this dog has the attention span of a gnat coming down from a meth binge, but he's very serious about fetch.
Is there anything happier than a dog at the beach? No, I don't think there is.
* * * * *
8.03 - "Lockdown"
* What the frilly heck just disappeared into the hull of the Russian space station?
* Russian Guy really, really, really wants to be on SG-1, or any SG team. Jack's not going to go for that. But since Russian Guy also has an ominous and mysterious rash, that's probably the least of his worries.
* Teal'c's getting an apartment! But I know from Season 9 that that's not going to go well either.
* It's bad enough that the doctor thinks Russian Guy has a mysterious infection and the base goes into lockdown; but the infection is Anubis. Button, button, who's possessed by Anubis?
* Wow, SG-1 has had some dodgy plans, but forcing Anubis to use Ancient power and bringing the wrath of the ascended Ancients down on him is one of their dodgiest yet. And it means indefinite lockdown.
* Aaaaaand the President isn't going for that at all. This episode is full of uncooperative people and/or infectious black mists that were once the corporeal form of a partially ascended goa'uld System Lord.
* He's in Sam! And then he's in Jack! And Jack sets off the self-destruct, but Sam stops him.
* Nice--Anubis dials out and they switch the address to an ice world. Couldn't happen to a nicer infectious black mist that was once the corporeal form of a partially ascended goa'uld System Lord.
8.04 - "Zero Hour"
* Heh. Jack is not taking naturally to the generalling.
* Poor Walter is so relieved when Jack gets an assistant. Too bad the assistant seems to be up to something shady.
* A plant that grows very fast? Hm. That's not going to cause any problems whatsoever. No siree.
* Jack won't even let SG-1 do recon without backup? A little overprotective and control-freakish of him? Maybe, just maybe.
* Jack's in charge of hosting diplomatic talks? ::cringe::
* That's one fast-growing and indestructable plant, all right.
* Oh dear, Baal is looking mighty good has captured SG-1. And hey, the writers remembered that Jack was horribly tortured by Baal for days, and they even have Jack acting mildly annoyed at the memory!
* A ZPM! They could sure use one of those on Atlantis.
* Uh oh. The plant's in the walls and they can't dial out. Oh, Dr. Lee, you are such a disaster.
* The gamma radiation used to kill the plant revealed that the ZPM was booby trapped, and that goa'ulds are untrustworthy, sneaky rat bastards. Stop the presses!
* Speaking of sneaky rat bastardy, Baal didn't really have SG-1, he just used the fact that they were missing--stuck in Anubis's lab--to try to extort SGC into handing over Camulus. Nice.
* At least the assistant was on the up and up, sort of, in that he was just checking on Jack for the president.
And speaking of Atlantis...
1.01 & 1.02 - "'Rising"
I remember now that I actually saw most of this episode when it aired, because D. was still living here and he was always trying to get me into these shows. At the time, all I could think was--oh, for crying out loud, SPACE VAMPIRES? And, yeah... But the pilot is actually pretty spiffy--the pacing moves at a nice clip, there's a wonderful feeling of determined hopefulness at the start of the expedition, of seizing this once in a lifetime chance and making this journey, and a good introduction to the characters and their various movitations for getting involved. I like that Sheppard starts out as a pilot and basically gets sucked into it because of the gene, and sucked into it further when Sumner dies and he's the ranking military officer, because I'm attracted by the idea of people getting pulled into situations they aren't prepared for and having to rise to the occasion, even though I know that on this show that doesn't really go anywhere. But at this point, there's a nice momentum to the story, a balance of heroism and precariousness, and now that I've had time to deal with the Space Vampire thing, I can see where the appeal lay.
Also, is that Agent Doggett? Or rather, I should probably say, was that Agent Doggett?