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It's been a while since I've had a substantive LJ post... Just not been much in the mood for journaling I guess.

The past week was pretty quiet in general, and this past weekend was a mix of company and lots of alone time spent watching some of the backlog of recorded eps I have on tape. Spent a very enjoyable Friday evening with jeliza and family and ran into them again Sunday afternoon at Alki Cafe. Went down to Tacoma for a gameday, but turned out there wasn't really a game for me to play so I just hung out with some friends for the afternoon. The Sierra company Holiday party was Saturday night, which was enjoyable (free pool and decent food) but didn't really provide much opportunity to get to know anyone new outside my current social scope at work. Spent most of Sunday doing some house cleaning, laundry, and buying the last of my immediate-family Xmas gifts--gods, do I hate shopping at this time of year. Need to ship them off early this week.

I'm headed to GenCon SoCal this coming weekend, which will hopefully be fun. I'm scheduled to judge quite a bit so hopefully I'll manage to not be needed for all those slots and play a few extra rounds. I'm mostly going to see if GenCon SoCal is going to be worthwhile or if I should skip it in favor of GenCon Indy next year... Hopefully I'll run into some folks I only see at these kinds of cons, though I suspect I won't see any of Texas friends or many of the East-coasters...

Because of my vacation plans, it will be a short week at work. Finally got a real computer in today instead of the temp machine I've been working with, so I'm spending most of the day getting it setup.

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Great humor from The Onion...

Infograph: The Clean Air Act

"Polychlorinated biphenyls now part of a complete breakfast"

"Any translucent substance with a viscosity lower than that of Karo syrup now fits legal definition of air"

Scifi's Battlestar Galactica

Wow, it's like The Day After meets Space: Above and Beyond. Damn. Very cool, but dark as crap. I always thought the original series was a little fluffy for dealing with survivors of the destruction of 12 worlds, but this one is seriously harsh.

I fickin' love that the vipers shoot bullets and the "solid-state" being immune to the cylons influence is very cool. Hell, Richard Hatch may want to do 'his' version of Bstar--it's a shame he didn't get a chance to do it 20 years ago--, but I'm not interested in seeing Apollo and Starbuck hanging out at the old-folks home... Give me butch angrygrrl Starbuck any day!

I do find it ironic given the sponsors: Life insurance (natch), AOL (very much like a nuclear winter), and diamond sales (I'm thinking they have no clue about the content of the movie and just figured geeks would be watching it "geeks have money and chicks they have to impress somehow").

Update: First part was pretty good. The action sequences were very much "warfilm" quality and I think they did a good job of what they set out to do. It is definitely not 'true' to the original series, but frankly the original series was more 'wagon-train in space' than anything else. This was much more of a military flick, which frankly it really should be. It wouldn't suck if they made it into a series, but then again I was a huge Space: Above and Beyond fan...

And for the record, all the 'firefighter' stuff is definitely true to the original. There was an entire episode that turned the Galactica into Towering Inferno...