April 29, 2012
Episode 17 of Bodacious Space Pirates was full of all sorts of surprises...
...and had a thoroughly satisfying story that...
...that...that... ENDED!!1!?
I gotta wait a week? A whole week? GHAAAH!
UPDATE:
more...
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Monday is my exam day.
Blogging will resume shortly thereafter.
In the meantime here here is an important life lesson from HELVITICA STANDARD.
If you can figure out said lesson...please tell me.
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April 23, 2012
All those arrows on the Drudge Report point to ME!
Not only that, there's big red "L" hanging over me! ...oh wait.
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April 22, 2012
Also: I didn't see this coming.
The XO is shocked too! At what, we won't tell.
One of the things that has impressed me is that it actually deals with leadership. I mentioned in an earlier post that Marika, the young CO, was initially thrown into a position not unlike that of a green ensign or "90 day wonder". That is, she had considerable skill, but zero experience and found herself in command of a small unit, virtually every member of which has been doing their jobs far longer than her. She had to learn to delegate, take advice and cope with the fact that the buck stops with her. It is upon her decisions that the crew will live or die (or go bankrupt...the privateer is a business after all). This has been handled with far more intelligence and subtly than one has any right to expect from a sci-fi cartoon.
Now they've turned this on its head and Marika is in a situation where SHE is the veteran and has to train, mentor and direct people who, while they are volunteers, have very rudimentary training, and not all of them have gotten their heads around the fact that this is a real job, and not just a lark. Marika and her acting XO handle this quite well. The writing on this is impressive. It's like 12 O'Clock High with zap guns.
This show has a 16 year old female protagonist and it is (very occasionally) set in a high school, and yet it is not a teen angst show, or a show about slacking or raging against an unfair world.
If I had a daughter, I'd want her to watch this.
This show actually has a lot in common with Heinlein's juvies in that it's is aspirational. Marika is a young adult who is dealing with life's challenges as an adult. She does not run from her responsibilities, and while she takes them seriously she does so with good humor.
The treaty loophole** that allows the planet to keep highly regulated privateers as naval auxiliaries, combined with the "official" synergy between the insurance companies, the Cruise Lines and the Privateers...is just inspired.
The action is superb, the characters are likeable and 16 episodes in we haven't had a single upskirt shot yet. I'm quite impressed.
UPDATE: Slightly spoilerish explanations for * and ** added below the fold.
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April 21, 2012
This was much better than it ought to have been. I ended up watching both of the episodes that have aired as of tonight and I'll add it to my list. The shows premise is that the Lovecraft Mythos is real, but Lovecraft, perhaps because he was a paranoid bigot , got a lot of stuff wrong. The magical girlfriend (seen holding the blasphemous, baleful big-gulp above) is Nyaruko, an alien. Nyarlathotep is actually the name of her race. She claims to be an intergalactic cop who's been in Tokyo trying to disrupt the lucrative hentai smuggling trade (Tentacle pr0n is popular with several mythos races. Who'd've thunk it?), She claims to have then stumbled onto a related slavery operation that involves a plot to kidnap a fellow named Mihiro Yasaka for ghastly and indescribable purposes. With the help of an "unspeakable tire iron" she saves him from several night-gaunts (which Lovecraft was largely right about) and proceeds to inform him that to keep him safe she'll have to move in with him...and he is totally her type.
Cyclopean hijinks ensue.
This show made me laugh out loud. I'm very surprised that they got so many mythos jokes to cross the language barrier. It's a fun show that uses the 'shotgun method' of humor and aims at targets far removed from Lovecraft as well. Despite the implied love dodecahedron in the credits it appears to actually involve a love...umm...line and not be a harem show.
Of course its geometry is less Euclidian in other areas.
Be advised though that It manages to be at once quite clever and bone-crushingly stupid ...which in itself risks some san loss.
An abominable, aberrant, anomalous, appalling, atrocious, and animated alien ahoge!
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April 19, 2012
" Dekka Blue...Something about that dish we had at the White House is eating at me. "
Of course I'm talking about Bositang-gate.
James Taranto has an overview of how exactly it transpired that U.S. politics went to the dogs this week. Be warned though...there is a reason that he's a pun-dit.
More here, here and here.
Disclaimer: Though I'm by no means a fan of his, I don't actually begrudge the President this but it made me laugh and it's rare to be able to so effortlessly work Doggie Kuger into a post.
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April 16, 2012
One possible result....
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April 14, 2012
Update 3: On the radio, I’m hearing phrases such as "stovepipe†and "half-mile wide.†I really may be communing with the spiders in my basement shortly.
Stay safe!
It's going to be a bad night.
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April 13, 2012
This is one of those times.
Squid Girl has thoughts...
It's not reel it's not reel..It's all a load of pollacks!
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April 07, 2012
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April 05, 2012
A few quick observations:
There is a new trailer out for Ridley Scott's Prometheus. This looks cool too!
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This coincided with plumbing issues.
I just got my first shower in 4 days.
I am happy now.
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Now with Marion Barry's new idea involving... well I'll let him tell it...
"We've got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses -- those dirty shops," Barry said Tuesday night. "They ought to go. I'll just say that right now, you know. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too."
Anyway, it looks like a good time to post those pics.
DC has two Chinatowns....official Chinatown and Actual Chinatown. You see, some years ago DC noticed that it HAD a Chinatown and it was shrinking, so they passed a bunch of strict ordinances to maintain the asian aesthetic, sponsored a big sports and entertainment center ( Now the Verizon Center) which made it a happening place. The appearance ordinances were a burden on small businesses, the influx of capital around the new entertainment complex raised rents and the small businesses run by Chinese-Americans had to leave. Note that those ordinances are still in place so Official Chinatown is now...this...
Aside from a few justifiably expensive restaurants Chinatown proper begins about half a block down.
We dined at the Chinatown Express, near the corner of 6th and H. It had two things visible that tend to bode well. WindowDucks* and a gentleman hand making noodles.
We noted upon entering that they had WindowPigs and WindowCuttlefish too. This looked exceedingly promising and we were not disappointed. About the only issue we encountered was that we both ordered rather too much...and ate rather too much...but this is not a reflection upon the establishment. The food was top notch! Even the fried rice was better than average. The noodle dishes were astounding.
In any event DC's ChinaTowns are only about two blocks square each. In Actual Chinatown there is a lot more to see, there are groceries, gift shops little drugstores and basically anything that isn't a gas station. Regrettably,we did not stay long nor peruse widely as our main business was elsewhere.
*Windowducks are utterly distinct from Wonderducks and the two should NEVER be conflated.
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April 03, 2012
UPDATE: Steven Den Beste has posted a damned scary pic of a hailstone from here.
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April 02, 2012
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April 01, 2012
Siergen, this one's for you.
Also, I finally figured out how to use fancy Kanji fonts in Paintbrush.
For the sake of posterity the original post is below the fold.
For legal purposes this was all Wonderduck's fault.*
I hope April is good to you all.
*That is my story and I am sticking to it.
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