But this takes the cake.

Wow.

Ganked from cavalorn

This is not a satire.

Amazing what you find on the CoH forums. 😀

I could kiss this woman. Seriously.

And on a completely opposite note, Orson Scott Card is an ass. I understand that Star Trek isn’t the finest Science Fiction ever, and that most of it is pretty lame to tell the truth, but some of the comparisons that he makes are totally fucked. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Being John Malkovich? Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Sci-Fi? Ok, I understand that they technically might fit the bill, but comparing Star Trek to Buffy is like comparing Northern Exposure to Days of Our Lives. While they may very well be in the same genre they are by no means the same thing. The only Space Opera type of show that he mentioned was Firefly, and I will totally agree that the few episodes that came out were better than most of what came out of the Star Trek franchise.

But that doesn’t mean Star Trek completely sucked.

To top it all off he points out that the people who originally watched the series did so because they didn’t know there was anything better out there. Ok, maybe that’s true in some cases but not all of them. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that most of the people who are “rabid” Trekkers have also read most of the authors on his list. Even if what he says is true, how many people wouldn’t have a clue who Harlan Ellison was if they hadn’t watched “City On The Edge Of Forever?”

My personal take? For one, he’s being a total fucking hypocrite. How much money has he milked out of Ender’s Game? He’s written at least 10 books that I could find in that series, and he’s also negotiating Movie and Video Game rights. Sounds to me like someone is just jealous that his shit hasn’t been milked for as much cash as Roddenberry’s. Secondly, and more important, he’s being damned ungrateful. In the 60’s Star Trek was to many children what Star Wars was to kids in the late 70’s – An eye opening look into a world that they had never seen before. Orson Scott Card would do well to remember that he probably owes the Star Trek franchise for igniting the Science Fiction spark in many of his readers.

And no, I’ve never read any of his books. After this, I may not. While I don’t dress up or speak Klingon I consider myself a Trekker, and Mr. Card has just slapped me and those like me in the face.

So to hell with him. Live long and prosper, beeyatch.

Ha Ha! I’m using the internet!

…but it looks like I’m going to be in Las Vegas from June 19th – 25th for a MySQL training seminar. It’s all approved on this end, I’m just waiting to hear back from the MySQL people about payment methods for the class. I’ll be staying at The Golden Nugget.

Do I even know anyone in Vegas??

Edit It’s official. I’m going.

I guess it’s just an odd coincidence, but yesterday I pointed out a bird I had never seen before to netgoth and frith_lord after it started using our new bird feeder. It was really quite pretty, but none of us had any real clue as to what it was. Today there was a picture of that type of bird on the front page of the St. Petersburg Times Floridian section.

It was a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak.

Kind of long and rambly thoughts that were sparked by my Weight Watchers meeting last night.

I’ll bet my co-workers think I’m musically retarded.

Nothing like good music to make the day flow. Got some O-Zone action going on to start the day, and now I’m just relaxing to classical music.

Another round has begun. This morning I looked up at my desk, and the massive amount of dust on top of it, and said “Which of those things really means something to you, looks amazing, or is worth something?”

The dust catchers that did not fit any of those criteria are gone.

It’s funny, really. I went through this frenzied toy buying frenzy a few years ago. Had hundreds of them. Opened them all and proceeded to put them on a shelf and forget about them. I’m really trying to figure out just what exactly I was trying to accomplish. Reclaiming my childhood? Trying to impress geek chicks? Trying to look cool to my geek friends? All of the above?

I dunno. I just know that now they are not serving whatever purpose they originally had. So they’re gone.

Hot tub bukkake??

Ya’ll are some sick mother fuckers.