Pilot's Log

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Entertainment Weekly's Top 25 Science-Fiction Films and TV Shows from the 1982/2007 Era:

25. V: THE MINISERIES
24. GALAXY QUEST
23. DOCTOR WHO (the current revival)
22. QUANTUM LEAP
21. FUTURAMA
20. STAR WARS: CLONE WARS
19. STARSHIP TROOPERS
18. HEROES
17. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
16. TOTAL RECALL
15. FIREFLY/SERENITY
14. CHILDREN OF MEN
13. THE TERMINATOR/ TERMINATOR 2
12. BACK TO THE FUTURE
11. LOST
10. THE THING
9. ALIENS
8. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
7. E.T.
6. BRAZIL
5. STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
4. THE X-FILES
3. BLADE RUNNER
2. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (the remake)
1. THE MATRIX

And from this my comments:
* V -- I felt it was overhyped, got into soap opera territory quickly (in a bad way) and got too cute with referencing other sci-fi shows.
* Quantum Leap -- Liked the pilot but the rest of the series lost me rather quickly.
* Clone Wars -- Haven't seen much of it but would rather put forth Disney's Gargoyles as an alternative. Way underrated as a sci-fi/fantasy/myth fusion concept.
* Starship Troopers -- When I finally got to see some of it, I wasn't much impressed. I mean, I sat through Space: Above & Beyond hoping for it to get better, and all I got from STroopers was deja vu about that.
* Firefly -- I used to joke that I didn't know it from Mantis. Now I really don't know it from Andromeda and Farscape.
* The Matrix -- I'm a big fan of William Gibson, dig. I'd like to have all his books, but I'm rather behind on that due to my anime and model kit habits. I have NOT seen any of the Matrix movies, tho'...because I'm afraid of how much they may have stolen from Gibson. And another thing while I'm on the subject: "Johnny Mnemonic" the short story and the movie of the same title have precious little relation to one another...but I also have to say that one version's strengths and the other version's weaknesses are cross reflected and balance each other out.
* Brazil and Blade Runner -- I want the special editions of both of these and somehow I will get them.

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After suffering yet more Stop Errors with my compy today, I decided to take the original motherboard fan and heat sink off and get them replaced.

Went to the Sevierville Staples. They didn't have any motherboard fans. They stopped carrying motherboard fans in the time since I bought my current CPU fan from them.

So on the morrow (or a few hours thereafter), I will take compy to Knoxdad and have the guys who put it together put a new fan in it, and perhaps make elsejustments.

I'm posting this message from my mother's compy, by the way, if you hadn't already surmised the fact.

FP

It looks like that problem I was having earlier was due to the computer possibly overheating. I looked inside the CPU case and found that the case's fan was only set on LOW. So I put it on HIGH and I'm seeing how it does.

I still want to replace the fan on the motherboard itself. It makes just enough noise to discourage me from writing very long documents.

FP

PS: I forgot to cruciform my phalanges and apply knuckle to dead cellulose matter in noisemaker fashion. About an hour after making this post, I had another Stop Error. I suppose I need to take this compy in for a service.

Do you like elves?

This is a postscript to that post about the weird Hogwarts dream I had earlier.

When I thought about it, I came up with an invention of sorts. I bet somebody else in Harry Potter fandom has already come up with it, so I doubt I'm stealing anybody's thunder.

It's a parody of the 1920s "Tommy Gun". How it works: you slip your wand into the space on the "gun" where the breech would be on a real Tommy, and then you'd speak your spell into the magazine. The magazine would multiply your spell by fifty, and then you'd fit the magazine to the underside of the "gun". Flip off the safety, and you're ready to cast.

Because of its construction material, it's called a Chicago Woodwind. :)

If something like this is really in any of the post-movies books, then I plead ignorance. As said, I haven't read any of the books. Nor do I read fanfic. *shrug*

FP

1) Just replaced the main fan. Cut the db's to a third. So now I'm cool running, if not yet silent running. I don't know if I'll get the motherboard fan at Staples or somewhere else.

2) On National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", The Ninja of Ask-A-Ninja just reviewed Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Very funny review. It'll be up on their website in a few hours...when it does, I'll post a link. NPR promises that the next time a Ninja movie comes along, they'll have a Pirate review it. Does that mean, when a Robot movie appears, they'll get a Monkey to review it, and vice versa?

NPR also gave a good review of Scanner Darkly. I dunno...I have an aversion to Woody Harrelson. *shrug*

PS: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5542014 For Your Daily Requirement of Ninjitsu.

Hey.

As some (if not most) of you know, inside the CPU case of a computer is two electric fans, one for the motherboard's chip and one for everything else.

As my computer is sitting atop my desk, and is open on all four sides, my thinking was that it got adequate air circulation, so I originally disconnected the everything-else fan because the two fans together are just too noisy.

Today I re-connected the everything-else fan for summer, and I'm trying to get used to it. Man, I wish these things were quieter.

FP