and i have it all here in red blue green

radiohead just did some crazy shit with lasers that i really don’t understand for their house of cards video. i mean, i’m fascinated. and i’m a scientist, and i’m curious, so i tried to get it. i read all about the various technologies, i went over it all several times, but to be quite honest with you, i couldn’t make sense out of even one sentence. it’s funny how certain sciences come naturally to me, but that doesn’t mean i can use that basic good-at-scienceness to accomplish even a feeble understanding of certain other sciences. statistics, neuropharmacology, genetics, evolution, immunology - forget about it, it’s cake. but if i veer off into the land of lasers and particles and vectors… oh, i’m so fucked. i have like the equivalent of a marmot brain when it comes to that shit. i can’t even tell you how things i use EVERY DAY ALL THE TIME work - television, radio, internet, computer - none of that shit. i just get so stuck and lost when i try and figure out how like little electrical impulses on a circuitboard allow me to view a hilarious animated gif, or save a document, or haxx0r my registry. i don’t understand the relationship between the hardware and the output, and i don’t understand the interfaces (me, the software, peripherals, etc). i don’t know how images are captured on film, so when i tried to read about how they filmed this video without film and cameras, i was just done… never even had a chance. it just all came out jargon to me. how can someone so cocky feel so small, i ask you?

and i know i’m going to feel really guilty for saying this, like when i killed a spider yesterday and cried, but i’m just a *tiny* bit annoyed that this super awesome laser video spectacular is going to be “wasted” on the song i like least on the album.

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she promises not to airlock you if you give her a nomination

clipped from community.livejournal.com Patricia Arquette, “Medium” ( “Aftertaste”) Glenn Close, “Damages” (”Pilot”) Minnie Driver, “The Riches” (”Dead Calm”) Sally Field, “Brothers and Sisters” (”History Repeating”) Mariska Hargitay, “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” (”Undercover”) Holly Hunter, “Saving Grace” (”Tacos, Tulips, Duck and Spices”) Elisabeth Moss, “Mad Men” (”The Hobo Code”) Mary McDonnell, “Battlestar Galactica” (”Faith”) Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer” (”Manhunt”) Jeanne Tripplehorn, “Big Love” (”Take Me As I Am”)

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FRACKING TOASTERS!!!

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even a cylon easter egg couldn’t salvage the application

aww, i love you ff3, because you love cylons.

however, i do not love the new awesomebar suckbar. i asked the Internet what to do to fix it, and it told me basically what i already knew, which was that i could get rid of the annoying bookmark star and rss button in the suckbar, and i could install an add-on that eliminated the space-wasting two-lined giant-font monstrousness of the drop-down address history, and make a few more cosmetic changes. BUT, as far as i could tell, there was as of yet no definitive way to override the new url bar search protocol which makes it so when i type in “d,” as if, say, to go to “drugs.com,” it doesn’t just show me a drop-down of all the places i’ve typed in that have also begun with d, it shows me the obscure url of the firefox options winDow. useful, right? IN WHAT FUCKIN UNIVERSE? i fucked with all the chrome/aboutconfig/etc. settings that people online were suggesting, but none of them ever solved the whole problem - just certain features. so until i find a killswitch for the suckbar that fixes it completely and makes it basically like it was in ff2, i’m livin’ in the past, man. first vista, now this! downgrade is the new upgrade, apparently. at least i’m up to date on the trends.

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omg radiohead!!!!!!!!! [part deux]

clipped from www.ateaseweb.com Encore 1: 18 Karma Police 19 There There 20 Bangers and Mash 21 Climbing Up The Walls 22 Street Spirit

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this reminds me of the time i was in the school play and i asked my dad to bring me flowers, so he brought me multiple types of flour

clipped from www.tvloop.com Incorrect. Correct answer is: The visual effects department was told to cut corners Why are there missing corners on books, tv, etc Answer Choices The visual effects department was told to cut corners (22%) It’s a reference to Battlestar Galactica(1978) (47%) The greeks used to dislike corners (14%) > They thought it would look cool (17%)  See ExplanationReport Question Explanation: They did it as a joke and now they have to do it.

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but i guess that’s why she’s president

laura roslin. dying from cancer, dying from the treatment or absence thereof. already hallucinating, she gets to visit a basestar for the first time. it’s a lot to take in. add in the constant, random jumping - the time distortion, the visions in between light years - as well as the need to shout nonsense over gaius baltar’s nonsense, to communicate with a human-ship-goo hybrid that only speaks in riddles and nonsense. none of it makes sense. it can’t create a very stable environment for an already fragile mind, both physically and psychologically wrecked beyond belief. i don’t know how she manages to form words and coordinate basic muscle movements, let alone MAKE A FRACKING IV BAG FOR HER ARCH-NEMESIS IN THE LOBBY OF A BASESTAR. i mean seriously, how dumb are you trying to make me feel, galactica? laura roslin - in the most chaotic environment/situation/mindset EVER, without any medical training, barely having reached the decision to not kill gaius baltar - just somehow knows how to hook up an iv bag, put all the right pins and connectors and clamps in the right places and in the right order, so that the end product is a useful life-saving tool. and not an uncontrollable geyser of saline spraying the entire room, as per yours truly, *with* the medical training and the calm environment and the relatively stable psyche.

so wtf, laura roslin? are you magic? are you a witch? am i really just absolutely dumb as a box of rocks? how is it that you made gaius a perfect IV, and i try with every cell, every molecule of my body, and the best i can do is spectacularly flunk aseptic AND its sequel??! i must be the greatest failure the pharmacy technician program has ever seen, let alone the colonial fleet. but i challenge you this, madame perfect: can you name every single tiny little plastic twisty thing and every single itsy bitsy clampy thing and can you tell me what size that needle is just by looking at it and can you tell me what type of plastic bag it is and how long until your mixture expires and is your drip rate continuous or funky?

you probably can. because you’re laura roslin and you’re the president AND the dying leader who will lead us to earth (well, maybe ONE of the dying leaders leading us to earth). you are the woman worthy of the admiral’s undying affections. you inspire faith in those who thought they already knew it. you survive the destruction of your people, a military coup, cancer, centurions, gaius baltar, everything. i guess it takes all sorts of knowledge to make a person as resilient and as unforgettable as laura roslin. even sterile and aseptic technique, apparently. sigh.

perhaps this montage will help me learn. or help me decide to abandon the pharmacy technician program and shoot straight for the presidency.

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the space between bricked and…

usually i can recover from my xp mis-hacks through reversing my steps, system restore, uninstalling/reinstalling shit, or by finding a solution in a post in some forum somewhere. but what i’ve done this time has left me perplexed. not only do i not know how i got here, but i can’t seem to find any information on similar blunders anywhere online, and all of my usual fix-it methods have failed me. i’ve done everything but an installation repair and a full re-install. i’m usually hesitant to perform xp/repair because it usually messes with my drivers/WGA validation/preferences/whatever. while it’s the one thing short of a a full wipe/re-install that i can still try, i have my doubts that it will fix anything in light of the other tricks that have failed me. so anyway, what have i done? how’s this random assortment of errors:

1. splash screen of certain program(s?) looks all jacked up:

2. in help pages of certain programs, can no longer see images:

3. can no longer use system restore from within xp itself (but works from within software); first you get infinite debug errors:

… then it doesn’t show any dates/restore points/anything useful:

so. it’s this package of annoyances that i can’t fix. they’re not really getting in the way of any actual computer functions so far, but goddammit, it’s driving me crazy! is it really worth reinstalling xp and everything else just to be able to see the pictures in all the help files? so i can use the built-in system restore function? it doesn’t seem worth the hassle when i look at it like this but… it makes me insane to just have NO clue how to fix my shit.

so anyway, galactica! the hub totally made up for sine qua non. i mean, elosha, wtf? that was a more random character resurrection than romo, but it was totally executed 10000 times better. laura and gaius shouting over the hybrid, vying for the Best Hybrid Whisperer position? comedy gold. gaius preaching to the centurion about god? comedy gold. also, “boomer is my pet 8;” totally the cavil quote of the year. and d’anna’s retort, “until she sees a shiny object,” equally brilliant. d’anna is a badass. i’ve missed her. lots of helo, penikett was incredible. and the adama/roslin lovefest made me cry and cry and cry in the most embarrassing sentimental chick flick kind of way.

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i am a comic genius even if you don’t understand

ok, so we’ve been watching dark angel. shut up, i don’t care, it has cheap entertainment value AND it has a wide sampling of all our favorite characters from all our favorite (and less than favorite) science fiction shows. just when you’re least expecting it, your screen at once will contain jensen ackles, grace park, nana visitor and jessica alba! it’s exciting! and let’s be honest, really honest - you know how everyone always tells you how much you’ll love serenity and firefly if you love galactica, blah blah blah? all these years i’ve been biting my tongue and saying, “it’s not my thing,” to endless deaf ears. i just knew. so they’d be like, “but have you ever watched it?” and i’d say no, i don’t have to, i just know it’s not for me. but they’d insist i’d change my mind once i watched it. so SID netflixed it for his own ungodly purposes, and now i can claim to have seen at least six episodes. and guess what, it’s not my thing. it’s really formulaic and i don’t relate to/care about any of the characters, and there’s all this random bullshit thrown in to create this weird freaky future where everyone wears chaps and mutters obscenities in mandarin, and it just seems ridiculous and kind of sloppy and boring to me. so anyway, the point is, one, I WAS RIGHT, and two, not only was i right, but i will openly admit that i find dark angel vastly more compelling than firefly. sure, it’s also formulaic, and there’s the cheesy james cameron comic book action hero dialogue, but whatever, at least the universe it takes place in makes sense in my mind. and it’s often unintentionally hilarious, unlike firefly, which, to me, seems like it’s intended to be hilarious, but just so isn’t most of the time. so call me crazy, i don’t care. i gave it a shot, now everyone can stop trying to make me like it.

but anyway, that was all not the point. the point is that I. AM. HILARIOUS.  so yesterday we watched a lot of top model and a lot of crappy season 2 dark angel, and i figured out the most beautiful, seamless, delightful way to combine the two! so on dark angel, this rich douchebag logan calls himself ‘eyes only’ and, in a post-apocalyptic seattle, transmits these daily 60-second “untraceable” tv messages detailing the corruption of those in power, whatever. “this is an eyes only streaming freedom transmission!” it looks sort of like this, except with more cool futuristic static and shit:

okay okay, so then we have tyra, right? and her favorite speech to give at panel is DEFINITELY the “smile with your eyes” speech. so i figured tyra should really take over for eyes only, and she could transmit a “[smiling] eyes only streaming freedom… TYRA MAIL!!!” which would look something like this, except with less shitty photoshoppery:

so basically, yes, i am the funniest person alive. in my own opinion, of course, which is the most important of any opinion. tyra mail!!!

and PS, sine qua non was lame and it hurt me, but up until then, every second of season 4 had been perfection unlike anything else. but i’m pretty positive we will return to our regularly scheduled perfection next week and the week after. and i’m going to pretend like i’m not experiencing any premature separation anxiety. something to live for, something to live for.

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OMFG RADIOHEAD

clipped from www.ateaseweb.com setlist 01 all I need 02 there there 03 lucky 04 bangers and mash thom ‘now you’ll get some really good drumming’ 05 15 step ‘anyone in a rush? that’s cool cause he isn’t’ pointing at jonny 06 nude 07 pyramid song 08 optimistic 09 arpeggi 10 the national anthem 11 idioteque 12 you and whose army 13 reckoner 14 everything in its right place 15 airbag 16 bodysnatchers 17 videotape encore 18 the gloaming 19 the tourist 20 just 21 faust arp (thom and jonny, both on electric guitars) 22 exit music encore 2 23 the bends 24 house of cards

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