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serynI've been watching MacGyver from the Netflix streaming. I'd almost forgotten why I thought the show was awesome. I especially like the prologue stories before the main story starts. Those are tight.
Funny post on being way older than everyone around you: Life as an old fart This was locked, sorry.
Still watching the Mythbusters streaming stuff, but even though I'm in season 1 still, it's being taken over by the trio of "can we make this more lame?" I really dislike them. Not because they're not smart... we've seen evidence that Grant's really great at electronics (though we're not at Grant season yet) and Tory has this subtle vibe around explosives and guns that makes you think he had experience. No idea what Kari was good at. But they don't play to those strengths, ever. No one on their team thinks anything through. It's sort of the anti-science whenever they're on board.
Strangely, Simon IM'd and told me I was cool. He was indicating a comparison with some other thing, but I didn't take it that way. I said, "Oh. I will get a sweater."
Simon has me watching the new Doctor Who show. It's available streaming from Netflix, well, sort of available in that it's like years behind what the BBC is actually showing. It's BBC, BBC-America, SyFy, Netflix. And it seems to take an extra year at each locus. I don't like Doctor Who. This incarnation seems vaguely tolerable in that if I didn't already have preconceptions causing there to be dislike to overcome before I even watched one, I might enjoy it. But I find that it's too scary. I loathe time travel. And I hate incompetence. The very first episode I saw, the Doctor seemed like he had a clue. The Tardis ended up where/when it was supposed to be, the people who were assigned various tasks, although idiotic, were aptly suited for those tasks. Normally, in the Doctor Who episodes I've seen, filmed back when they used actual film and the world wasn't all the way in color yet, The Doctor is a fuckwitted moron and the people who travel with him are cretins. So this is a tremendous improvement. (To clarify, I'm watching the bow-tie current doctor, not the one who was on Weakest Link and sang his themesong (which is instrumental). I watched a couple of those and had this tremendous desire to hurt myself to make it stop.)
There's a restaurant here that puts giant homemade egg noodles in tom yum soup. It's fantastic and I'm kind of wondering why more places don't do that instead of those nasty looking mushrooms. I really hate those. Not just because I hate mushrooms, which I do, but these always look like small penises. And it makes me wonder why anyone thought they might be worth eating.
I watched a Good Eats recently where Alton Brown cooked with ramen noodles. I have had issues with him for a while now, but is there anyone who doesn't see that as a shark-jumping moment?
My home is not arranged correctly. It seems like I should be able to fold and put away clothes while watching TV, but we don't like having electronics in the bedroom (so there's no TV and no computer in there, there's an alarm clock but that's it.) Then I'm wondering why we have clothes in the bedroom. I don't change clothes after sleeping, I change clothes after bathing. So it seems like a small room that has no closets and just room for the bed and a couple hooks for robes would be ideal. There would be a room for clothing storage elsewhere. Preferably adjacent to the viewing room. It just doesn't make sense that sleeping and dressing are conflated. It's probably leftover from when we were children and bedrooms were where we kept our personal stuff. It's probably also leftover from when people had families. My whole apartment is my space for my stuff. Simon uses the whole apartment as his space for his stuff too. So why does this have to be like that. I will have to think on it. It might make a difference in terms of what I'd like in an apartment.
There's some really stressful stuff going on here this week. Not about me. And I can't really talk about it. So I'm mostly trying to keep going since an engine stall from this height could be crash-inducing.
Still watching the Mythbusters streaming stuff, but even though I'm in season 1 still, it's being taken over by the trio of "can we make this more lame?" I really dislike them. Not because they're not smart... we've seen evidence that Grant's really great at electronics (though we're not at Grant season yet) and Tory has this subtle vibe around explosives and guns that makes you think he had experience. No idea what Kari was good at. But they don't play to those strengths, ever. No one on their team thinks anything through. It's sort of the anti-science whenever they're on board.
Strangely, Simon IM'd and told me I was cool. He was indicating a comparison with some other thing, but I didn't take it that way. I said, "Oh. I will get a sweater."
Simon has me watching the new Doctor Who show. It's available streaming from Netflix, well, sort of available in that it's like years behind what the BBC is actually showing. It's BBC, BBC-America, SyFy, Netflix. And it seems to take an extra year at each locus. I don't like Doctor Who. This incarnation seems vaguely tolerable in that if I didn't already have preconceptions causing there to be dislike to overcome before I even watched one, I might enjoy it. But I find that it's too scary. I loathe time travel. And I hate incompetence. The very first episode I saw, the Doctor seemed like he had a clue. The Tardis ended up where/when it was supposed to be, the people who were assigned various tasks, although idiotic, were aptly suited for those tasks. Normally, in the Doctor Who episodes I've seen, filmed back when they used actual film and the world wasn't all the way in color yet, The Doctor is a fuckwitted moron and the people who travel with him are cretins. So this is a tremendous improvement. (To clarify, I'm watching the bow-tie current doctor, not the one who was on Weakest Link and sang his themesong (which is instrumental). I watched a couple of those and had this tremendous desire to hurt myself to make it stop.)
There's a restaurant here that puts giant homemade egg noodles in tom yum soup. It's fantastic and I'm kind of wondering why more places don't do that instead of those nasty looking mushrooms. I really hate those. Not just because I hate mushrooms, which I do, but these always look like small penises. And it makes me wonder why anyone thought they might be worth eating.
I watched a Good Eats recently where Alton Brown cooked with ramen noodles. I have had issues with him for a while now, but is there anyone who doesn't see that as a shark-jumping moment?
My home is not arranged correctly. It seems like I should be able to fold and put away clothes while watching TV, but we don't like having electronics in the bedroom (so there's no TV and no computer in there, there's an alarm clock but that's it.) Then I'm wondering why we have clothes in the bedroom. I don't change clothes after sleeping, I change clothes after bathing. So it seems like a small room that has no closets and just room for the bed and a couple hooks for robes would be ideal. There would be a room for clothing storage elsewhere. Preferably adjacent to the viewing room. It just doesn't make sense that sleeping and dressing are conflated. It's probably leftover from when we were children and bedrooms were where we kept our personal stuff. It's probably also leftover from when people had families. My whole apartment is my space for my stuff. Simon uses the whole apartment as his space for his stuff too. So why does this have to be like that. I will have to think on it. It might make a difference in terms of what I'd like in an apartment.
There's some really stressful stuff going on here this week. Not about me. And I can't really talk about it. So I'm mostly trying to keep going since an engine stall from this height could be crash-inducing.
