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Oh really? Which nation, and which day. Living in Australia west of the International Dateline means that I often seem to read "yesterday's" posts from other countries.
One hit wonders are vicious music memes that should be stamped out (unless you like them).
Well, today was much better than yesterday.
Yesterday, I barely got 4 hours sleep and was woken up by Kevin's dog in the morning just as I'd dozed off. Felt really sick and sad and down. Today, I had much more sleep (including a nap this afternoon) and had much less coughing and staggering about. I even walked Bobby and Peggy this morning, though I discovered that if I forget to take the anti-inflammatory medicine the pains in my left knee returns.
But it was an OK day. I phoned the library and the stuff ready for me can wait until next Friday if need be, and we all had pizza tonight (so I don't have to do any washing up until tomorrow).
One of the things I've been doing to keep me from totally vegetating has been watching Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.
Cathy sent me copies of the first 18 episodes years ago on video tape, but when I found that the whole series is now (and at an affordable price) available on DVD I started watching from the start. I'm working my way through season 2 just now.
The thing about this series is that it has it's creator's mark all over it. The basic premise is...
Captain Dylan Hunt is captain of the star ship Andromeda Ascendant. The ship was one of many in the Systems Commonwealth military. When the Nietzcheans turned against the Commonwealth and went to war, Andromeda and Dylan became trapped on the edge of a black hole, frozen in time for three hundred years. Three hundred years later, the Commonwealth has fallen and salvager Beka Valentine, captain of the Eureka Maru rescue the ship. Dylan finds the universe very different from the one he left. It is a chaotic mess and he's determined to fix it and re-establish the Commonwealth. SCIFIPEDIA
Now you could easily substitute Captain Kirk or Picard for Hunt; The Enterprise (though probably the 'D') for the Andromeda; The Federation for Systems Commonwealth; Klingons for Nietzcheans; and maybe either The Borg or Species 8714 for a species (and ultimate threat) of the Magog (not mentioned above). The show was initially developed further by Robert Hewitt Wolfe and of course not by Paramount, so that's why they're all different.
It's a Canadian production and I like that. There's a certain "cheesiness" to the show that I like. It stars <th></th> <td>Kevin Sorbo (have you seen his force lance?) for a start! </td>The plots and ideas are better than they ought to be, but often the show doesn't seem to take itself seriously, even playing with the format:
Also today I visited the Star Trek Museum in Second Life. Once again things were better than I expected. There was a recreation of Ten Forward in one area, and another building had replicas of the main ships from all five series (the one shown above being the best) and lots of other stuff too.
Sometimes it's fun to veg out on fan type stuff, even though I no longer have anything to do with organised fandom. Some folk however might have too much time on their hands - check out the Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel listing at Memory Alpha to see what I mean!
I've been using WinAmp to listen to Internet radio Chillout and they repeat these absolutely cool tracks by someone called Amon Tobin. One set in a particular is Stoney Street from his album Bricolage. I absolutely love it (conjures up images of black cats roaming around on full moon nights)!
Youtube seem to have a lot more of his stuff too.
Just discovered that something was wrong with Thunderbird, and the folder with all my Live Journal replies wasn't showing incoming comments. I thought it odd that I wasn't getting any comments - but now I know I did.
Expect lots of comments back!
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