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[Elessar]

I'm kind of wondering what this "younger audience" crap is about, too. How do you market Sci-Fi towards a younger audience? Wouldn't that be.... BAD Sci-Fi?

Plus, what happened to this show being about The Ninth Chevron? You know what I'm afraid of - in the past, Stargate writers have shown that they panic under pressure. When it came out that SG1 would not get an 11th season, they made all these panicked decisions for the end of Season 10 and it was crap. I mean, all of Season 10 was crap, but you could tell the way they re-wrote the 2nd half that they panicked and tried to finish things off too quickly. Same with Teyla/Rachel Luttrel's pregnancy. They made one bad decision after another about how to handle it in the show, all the way up to our presently absentee-father, Konon, or whtever Poptarts calls him

So what I'm wondering now is if the Stargate writers were working through their idea for how this Ninth Chevron would be involved, and then OOPS, SGA is cancelled, they go "ok screw that let's just do a space ship show!"

[JadziaKathryn]

I've officially gotten hooked on "Dr. Who." Series 4 of the new version is playing now in Australia, and I'm even more into it than the person who introduced me. She doesn't like David Tennant, who I think is a great actor.

[Alelou]

And I'm just thinking, hey, give Connor some steady work with this new Stargate. But I guess he's too identifiable as MK, huh?

[Elessar]

And I'm just thinking, hey, give Connor some steady work with this new Stargate. But I guess he's too identifiable as MK, huh?

That exact same thing occured to me, actually, when they said "established actor". I don't know... they've repeated actors/actresses before. Jewel Staite originally played a half-wraith chick I think... maybe that was someone else... not sure. But he is pretty recognizable.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

The same can be said for Jolene, since she did star in SG-1... So I'm not counting on her either!

Hey, what about Nicole deBoer?

[Elessar]

The same can be said for Jolene, since she did star in SG-1... So I'm not counting on her either!

Hey, what about Nicole deBoer?

:D That'd be awesome

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

My Firefox has asked me if I want to upgrade to Firefox 3.0. I know it's been out there for a while already but I'm sometimes cautious to upgrade since often there are bugs that haven't been worked out. Or the new versions hog up more memory and/or are slower.

So before I do this I'd like to ask if anyone is using Firefox 3.0 and what your experiences are!

[Entilzha]

I haven't had any problems yet and if you use noscript add on it seems to take even less memory(I usually have around 100 tabs open)

[Escriba]

I'm at home at last, after expending this week mostly at my grandma's place because she had injured her hip (her pelvis; let's be exact). Could she come to our place? Yes, of course. Did she? No, because yesterday the prodigal son (my Uncle the Radical) was coming and she had to be in her home for him So we've been looking after her with my Aunt the Only Daughter, her husband (Uncle Watshisname) and their children (Cousin "I'm a Clueless Teen" and Cousin "Damien the Second"). My grandma has ordered us around as if she was Patton and she's had a lot of visits (which she hates), even of those family members that supposedly don't talk with us (Uncle "I Overestep The Line When I Drink" and his wife "Blame Everybody Else Except Myself Of My Problems").

It's been lovely.

As every time I've gone out to the street I've showed my renowned big mouth. That's because I was walking with my Uncle the Radical and he has to talk with his Radical Friends. Precisely what has happened today: he has spot an old friend and we've started to talk. Since I wanted to seem polite and nice (I came from a large tradition of hypocrites) I've told him I saw one of his children some weeks ago. "Which one?" he has asked. "The one who isn't in jail," I've answered matter-of-factly. My Uncle the Radical has almost broken my ribs when he has elbowed me. What wht did he want? His friend has three children: the oldest girl is in jail and the youngest son is in jail too; the only one free is the middle son. So who was I going to see? Geez...

[enterprikayak]

^^^ I love this post.

No, because yesterday the prodigal son (my Uncle the Radical) was coming and she had to be in her home for him...

So here's how one gets roped into spending hours and dollars all because of darn Toys R Us.

I was there with Aureilia and she was picking out stuff for the gift certificate she got 4 her bday the other day.

She picks out a Thomas Train software for kids with numbers/letters. Fine. I get to the cashier, and JUST as the kid swipes my credit card, I realise that this Thomas game is NOT a CD, but a proprietary cartridge for some console we don't have. Too late. Card's gone thru. Refund? Yeah, just trot to the back of the toy warehouse and wait in line @ cust service.

Umm, I don't think so. The consoles are closer than the refund counter. I grab one for $45. Go home. Unload child and toys. Child starts up mantra: I want my PEWter. I want my PEWter. I am feverishly trying to cut several twist-ties and other atmospheric re-entry style wrapping apparatus from said comPEWter package.

Finally. Computer's out of the box. Oh. It needs 4 AA's and 4 C's worth of batteries to work.

I go and fish batteries out of various and sundry toys until I have enough to bring this stupid thing to life. It connects via a simple RCA audio and composite video jack to "any television!" So simple!

Well I do not have "any television". But.... my trusty new HP has these fabulous onboard front panel composite video/audio jacks! No prob!

I plug it in. ("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.")

Nothing happens.

I Google "composite video input"+m8200n.

("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.")

Turns out that everyone online but me has been ranting about the "just for show" jacks on the front of the HP m8200n since last July. They don't work due to some Vista shit.

Ergo: PEWter doesn't work.

("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.")

Okay, okay, I'll go to Future Shop tonight and buy a female RCA to S-video cord, and maybe the S-video will work. Go out. They don't even HAVE the cord (stupid Future Shop). Buy combo of joiners and male/female thingies to make all the cords go together. Bring cords home. Hook it up. Doesn't work.

("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.")

Call my mom. "Can I have your old TV?" "Sure, drive 30km and pick it up tomorrow." "Okay. *sigh*"

(I mean there must be 300 million old TV's rotting out there in the world that would work fine.)

("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.")

Next day: drive 30 km. Let myself and Aureilia into Mom's house. Tv is in the hall.

Tv is so old, it was old when I was 4. I try not to scream aloud at my absent mother, who works at the CABLE company and KNOWS about these jacks. WHY WOULD YOU EVER THINK THIS WOULD WORK? THIS "TELEVISION"'s INPUTS REQUIRE USE OF A FREAKING SCREWDRIVER MOTHER!!!! Leave fossilized cretaceous TV there. Internalize rage for sake of child. Lock house. Drivve 30 km home again.

("I want my PEWter! I want my PEEEEEEEEEEEEWter.")

Losing it now, I feverishly place a (free) ad on a local classifieds site for a TV...ANY tv with jacks!!! A guy emails me. He has an old TV with composite jacks and I can have it 4 free. Pick it up tomorrow. 35 km away.

("I want my PEEEEEEEEEEEEEWter! I want my PEWter.")

Next day, with a doctor's appt AND a swim lesson to get to, we speed out to this guy's neighbourhood by the sea and he comes out of his house carrying something that looks suspiciously ancient and cretaceous, and I go, (admirably without screaming,) "But I need a TV with video/audio inputs."

And he turns the thing around and it's an old Commodore 1702 monitor from the 80's with...with...

with.....

COMPOSITE JACKS ON THE FRONT!

(Faithful $7000 colour 80's Commodore monitor from way back when technology was crafted with loving care.)

("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.") ("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.") ("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.") ("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.") ("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.") ("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.") ("I want my PEWter! I want my PEWter.")

Run to doctor's. Run to swimming. Run home.

Plug. In. Pewter.

And it worked!

THANK ALMIGHTY GOD AND ANY OTHER DEITY WHO HAD A HAND IN THIS MADNESS!

[Alelou]

Wow. You are a very good mommy.

[Distracted]

ummmm... I think I would've just sucked it up and gotten in line for the refund, but Alelou is right. You're some mommy. I wish I could say the same. I nearly killed my 16 year old today. Of course, this was AFTER she totaled the car we just bought her last week. She's fine, but one of the kids in the car with her (who wasn't supposed to be there because she'd been forbidden to give her friends rides) has a concussion, and two ambulances came for the kids in the other car, apparently...one broken arm and one head laceration requiring a neck brace. This is going to be expensive.

[Alelou]

Yikes! Hopefully a good learning experience....

One of our landlords in NJ bought his younger daughter a giant old Cadillac because he just KNEW she would have an accident right away -- and she did. He figured at least she'd be safer in the big car. And indeed, after that she was a lot more careful.

[Elessar]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? THAT MONITOR IS FRIGGIN LEET!

You're so cool, Ek. My mommy's in Canada, will you be my mo.... wait, you're in Canada too. Scratch that.

BY THE WAY! Did I miss the welcome home party? Where the hell have you been?! Jk. i'm sure you've been mommying. But I missed you

[CX]

My mom would've paddled my ass after the second time I demanded to play with the thing.