I saw these when I was out Bra hunting on Oxford street ... That metal box looks like the things from P2X-416 where SG1 were held by the hostile forces on the planet in New Ground and no, I wasn't scared off, but also, no, I didn't find a bra to fit me.
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Well we are familiar with the idea that the Ancients sometimes took the forms of characters from history, and we even have our own British one living under a hill in Glastonbury for a while.

I shall be getting round two writing about Merlin / Arthur / Morgan-le-Fay and everyone to do with Camelot when we get round to Season Ten in redial_the_gate meta ( Read more... )

Two carnivorous plants from Cambridge taken on our trip up there a couple of weeks ago.
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Having spent Easter with garienos and spending a lot of time with him in his inner sanctum getting access to the computer I found myself squeaking when I spotted swords on one of his walls. Yes, SWORDS. I know they were there before (they are on the same bit of wall that has the googly eyed mask and various African carvings) and I yes, I know they are part ( Read more... )

What I find fascinating about writing this stuff (please be patient, it could take time) is that I am writing Adria but thinking Servalan, and it works ( Read more... )

Oh dear ...  When they did that thing with the language coach who gave Daniel a strange German accent some people were able to spot it. Recently I have been involved in doing an on-the-fly translation of Middle Egyptian for a fiction sgbetty has been writing. I an not going to let on what its about (that is for her to say when she finally posts it) but ( Read more... )

Here, finally, is a report on the lecture I gave to the media studies students last week ... I very quickly learnt several things ( Read more... )

I a currently reviewing The First Ones for the meta I am doing on that episode for redial_the_gate  later this month ...

Its going to talk about Dr Robert Rothman because this is the episode where he gets killed, and Geeks in general, but I was also going to put something in about Rothman's asthma.

Now the last time I watched this it wasn't on this computer with ( Read more... )

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I have just seen the second part of the Stargate Atlantis thing with Dr Jackson in ... and let us say I am not amused. I know it takes actors a lot to get back into roles they haven't played for a while, but that was definitely a lot of Not!Daniel (and quite a lot of Jack) and the writers were really showing they should have known better. Not to do ( Read more... )