Having seen the new 2-parter by Stephen Moffat, I'm finally going to give a review of less than excellent. That's not to say that it's not a high point of a lackluster Season 4, but compared to "The Empty Child", "The Doctor Dances", "Blink", or even "The Girl in the Fireplace", but the new two parter is merely Good ( Read more... )

After such a long absence, this may seem like a trite post, but I assure you, it isn't!

I've learned a disturbing truth about the world today. No matter how many times I hit "Refresh" on the UPS package tracking website, my packages don't seem to move any faster.

So I'm back from yet another trip to Vegas. I hadn't planned on going 3 times in less than 12 months, really ( Read more... )

I hate taxes. They are bullshit.

That is all.

I've got this strong craving for Tim Hortons, and no way to scratch the itch. The closest Timmy's is Canada, and there's no way I'm driving 2 hours to the border for a doughnut. No matter how sweet a canadian maple sounds right now. Or a double chocolate dip. And timbits. Lots of delicious timbits.

*drool*

I was just finishing up some shopping, and started up my car to hear The Eagles "Life's Been Good". The tagline really got me, "Life's been good to me so far", and it truly has ( Read more... )

So I'm going on to my 5th straight night with no power, and temperature dropping (last night was -2 degrees). It sucks, but Steve regained power yesterday, so if I don't get power back this evening, I'm going to crash at his house ( Read more... )

Probably not of interest to everyone, but fascinating to me, I just watched a live webcast on the laser inferometry xray scan of a folio of the archimedes palimpsest, containing the earliest known copies of some of archimedes work, including "The mechanics of floating bodies" and "stomachion ( Read more... )

I'd just like to tip my hat to ridethesainted for this wonderful new userpic. For all the once and forever Groo fans out there, I am THE Prince of Chichester.

My first post in ages, and it's just to post this silly thing. You may all proceed to berate me (but berating counts as a comment ( Read more... )