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If Levi Johnston was my son…

Posted: August 4, 2010 by datechguy in oddities
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…I’d whack him upside the head.

You IDIOT! You’ve fathered a child with this girl, you’ve known her for years, she is willing to take you back and you can have a proper relationship with your child. Even her parents who don’t trust you are willing to give let it slide, and what do you do? YOU BLOW IT AGAIN!
I understand you are young and young adults made stupid mistakes but here you had a chance to make things right and you wasted it. Don’t you realize the person who is going to be hurt the most by it is your child Tripp?

This didn’t have to happen, you could have made this work. It wouldn’t have been easy but it would have been worthwhile. Second chances come so rarely in life, there is nothing so frustrating than to see someone waste theirs.

Too bad I’m not his dad, maybe with the right advice he might not have blown it twice, but who knows, maybe his family did give the right advice and he just wouldn’t take it. There is only so much a parent can do.

Well, they’re both young and have their lives ahead of them, may they both do something good with them.

The people article is here. Memeorandum thread here

I may disagree with Seth MacFarline on lots of things…

Posted: July 27, 2010 by datechguy in oddities
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but even though I resent the anti Palin stuff, why not focus on areas of agreement? After all some things just can’t be argued with:

The team also declared the show’s upcoming spoof of “Return of the Jedi” would be the show’s last full-episode “Star Wars” parody, a venture that’s generated healthy DVD sales for 20th Century Fox TV. In addition to increasing the creative team’s workload, the more recent prequels, MacFarlane explained, would be “too expensive” to recreate.

The problem is, we try to be as faithful as possible to the look of those movies; to do that with the prequels, I don’t think TV budgets have reached that level yet,” MacFarlane said.

Added Alex Borstein, who plays Lois: “That, and they sucked.”

Emphasis mine, well actually emphasis pretty much everybody.

Grace Unsaved, my take on the Saving Grace finale

Posted: June 22, 2010 by datechguy in catholic
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My wife and I watched the final episodes of Saving Grace last night.

The first was actually pretty stupid and seemed to both of us generally a waste of television time. You really get the feeling that the writers needed a filler since they weren’t ready to end the series not expecting to be canceled.

As for the last episode I thought there was too much filler and the resolution was hurried. SPOILER ALERT.
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The first of thousands to come…

Posted: April 18, 2010 by datechguy in oddities, tech
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During the Doctor Who special I mentioned yesterday they showed a clip from episode 4 of this year. (Not broadcast in either England or the US yet). The episode features the return of Alex Kingston as professor River Song who keeps meeting the Doctor in different relative timelines.

In the clip she points out something called “blue stabilizer” and insists they are needed to land TARDIS. When the says the ship has landed the Doctor disagrees pointing out there was no “Woosh, Woosh”. Song replies “It’s not supposed to make that sound, you leave the breaks on.”

Now this post isn’t about the canonity of that statement (Cough: episode 1 of the Pirate Planet 4th Doctor and Romana: Cough) nor the fact that the sound is the most unifying item in the show, constant since that first episode back in 1963. it’s about something more interesting.

Update: Well Luke cancels out the hole premise of the post in comments, but he’s right.

Shortly after the show I googled the phrase “you leave the breaks on” and the word “Tardis” to see what people were saying about it. Nothing, no results at all. I ended up falling asleep on the couch waking up just before 5 a.m. the next morning, the machine was on standby so I logged back in and repeated the search and this blog entry came up:

There’s a section in the special where they talk about the TARDIS, and they inserted the cutest scene where River lands the blue box and Eleven starts wondering where a certain noise was and he made the little sounds. Then River was like, “It’s not suppose to make that noise. You leave the breaks on.” Eleven replies, “It’s a brilliant noise.”

Mind you this was the ONLY entry that came up. Nothing else. Now I don’t know this blog from Adam but I do know that within a few weeks there will be hundreds upon hundreds of web sites with that phrase in it and by the end of the year it will be thousands or more.

It’s very rare to see the very first entry on something that will become part of Science Fiction pop culture, so proprietor of the blog Timey wimey, take a bow you, are the first ever blog to use the phrase. It’s an odd and in the scheme of things unimportant distinction; but it’s all yours.

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