Stargate SG1

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As I mentioned in a recent post, I recently finished a pretty much yearly rewatch of Stargate SG1. Even the follow-up movie Arc of Truth. The only thing I haven’t rewatched yet is the Continuum movie. Not totally sure I’m going to, either, because, not my favorite.  Anyway, all this Stargate binging got me to thinking that I needed to work on a favorites page for one of my all-time favorite TV series. So that’s been my focus for this week and Stargate (TV series) is now a page. While doing some research for that, though, I ran across a few videos I wanted toRead More →

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I was feeling horrible the last part of last week. Nothing major but I think my allergies finally got me down to the point I was feeling like I had a sinus infection. So basically I spent the weekend chilling and reading. Honestly, I just started feeling like doing anything at the computer in the last day. And that was only to finally get some much needed site maintenance done. Hopefully I can get some writing done tomorrow. But at this point I ain’t promising anything specific. Just saying.Read More →

Stargate SG1

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I’ve been thinking about this for awhile, off and on. Most recently while re-watching some Stargate SG1 episodes. For the umpteenth time.  And it’s not that I don’t still love Star Trek! Because I’m a longtime fan of almost all variations of Star Trek. My favorite is probably Star Trek: The Next Generation. For a lot of reasons. Just saying that up front before the next paragraph.  However while I “grew up” with Star Trek and love it, I think I may have outgrown it. Why? The short answer? The Star Trek universe can get a bit… well, I don’t want to say repetitive but that’sRead More →

Let's get comfortable!

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I’ve been in a really big reading mood this week. I’ve already reread several of Shelly Laurenston’s Pride books. It’s my absolute favorite comfort food romance series right now. And I read it over and over again. Sometimes multiple times a year. Here’s the thing, though. I was looking something up about one of the books and realized I hadn’t actually installed a library app on my new phone yet. I’ve been using an app called Book Catalogue for years. Which has always been a good app. However before putting it on the new phone I noticed it hadn’t been updated in… well, years.  Not aRead More →

smartphone browsing

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You might have noticed that I finally threw in the towel last week and simply did a placeholder post. Why? The main reason was I knew I had to get a new phone. The old one was actually telling me a little over a week ago that Android had stopped working. Repeatedly. Since that’s the operating system I knew it was close to being dead. I do most of my thinking work on the phone and finalize posts on the computer. So, not having a working phone was distracting to say the least. And an almost dead phone was simply the final straw of severalRead More →

rocket ship

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Lately I’ve been binging the last seasons of Smallville. I didn’t actually like Smallville when it first started so I’m rarely going to re-watch all of it. I do, however, like seasons 7 through 10 for the most part and that’s usually what I binge when in the mood.  Okay, full disclosure here and possibly minor spoiler. The fact that season 6 ends with Lana Lang leaving the show except for occasional guest appearances has a lot to do with it. It’s not so much that it clears the way for more Lois Lane either. I just don’t like Smallville’s Lana in particular.  Anyway, backRead More →

dragon

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I’m currently working on a couple of long posts. One book related and one TV series related. However, neither of them is anywhere near being ready so I thought I’d do a quick update post for one of my ongoing reading projects. With a little extra at the end. I’ve recently started listening to Wheel of Time again. Well, off and on. Okay, I’m working on psyching myself up to it, anyway. Hey, I’m on the sixth book, Lord of Chaos, and right off the bat I realized the prologue is almost 2 hours long. (The chapters probably average around 45 minutes for comparison.) My eyesRead More →

Megamind is a hidden jewel

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I can’t believe I’ve never mentioned Megamind here. I actually had to do a site search to convince myself I hadn’t.  Anyway, I re-watched it recently and, boy, is it a gem of an animated movie about superheroes. I even got into a debate with my son about whether it’s a flat-out spoof of the superhero genre. I don’t know, but after thinking about it some more, I think it’s more in the line of a superhero fractured fairy tale. Showing my age there, I know, but there it is. I say fractured fairy tale because in this story the villain becomes the hero whoRead More →

Ending Happy (CSI “Vegas” s7-e21)

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I got in the mood to re-watch some of the original CSI : Crime Scene Investigation (hereafter called CSI “Vegas”) recently. The urge to rewatch this one doesn’t happen often. I mean, I watched the entire series when it was airing. All the way to the end. For the most part I really enjoyed it even with all the character changes. Now, however, I only re-watch selected episodes. And not necessarily the ones anyone else might pick to re-watch either. Outside of episodes that have intriguing detective work or science, I tend towards favoring two distinct types. First are the ones I call Chaos episodes,Read More →

Holy Ravioli

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I’ve actually been in a reading mood this last week and zipped through the entire Dana Marie Bell Maggie’s Grove 5 book series. I’m still working on a post related to that little binge. So I thought I’d share this one link I ran across. Don’t ask what I was looking for. I’m not sure I know. But this is what I found.  The Definitive Ranking Of Robin’s 359 Exclamations From ‘Batman’ You know it’s kind of amazing that there are 359 of these “Robin exclamations” when there were only 120 episodes of Batman (1966). Seriously, I knew there would be a lot of themRead More →

at the bookstore

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Sort of. Or maybe it’s definitely an idea ahead of its time. Maybe technology is finally catching up with the concept. Again, sort of. I found this article several weeks ago but didn’t feel like doing anything with it. To be honest I wasn’t even sure I was going to use it on the site. Then I actually reading the whole thing. I was amazed. Seriously amazed. Piggly Wiggly was the first… what? Of course, I first got stuck on the part about Piggly Wiggly being the first self-serving store. And had to look that up. I think my brain short-circuited Within a generation, first,Read More →

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thinking deep thoughts while healing I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately while recovering from surgery. One topic that kept coming up is how I mentally divide most stuff into “re-enjoyable” and “once and done”. It kept coming up because I kept looking at my shelves and trying to find something to re-enjoy. I say re-enjoy because I’m not just talking about reading here. There’s also watching and playing. Okay mostly watching for the last few weeks. But I have gotten some reading in too. Games not so much because, you know, moving hurts. Much better to just sit and absorb. No thinking orRead More →

Let's get comfortable!

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I had gallbladder surgery a week ago and am just now starting to feel like I can sit at the computer for any length of time. Mainly I’ve been sitting around between bouts of walking and binging on some of my favorite TV series. Plus one that I never got around to finishing that I’ve almost completed. So maybe, emphasis on maybe there, I will be able to put together a post later this week. Here’s hoping.Read More →

weather

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I’m not a writer and I have no ambition to be one. There was a time I played around with writing fan fiction. That urge kind of passed. At least for now. Occasionally I do play around with characters I’ve created and their stories and their worlds. I see it more as creative exercise for my mind than anything else. Besides it’s just fun. Recently I was doing some research for an idea I had related to using auroras in a story. I don’t live where they appear and basically know very little about them. So lots of research involved. But I love browsing stuff about weatherRead More →