wandering among topics
Jul. 31st, 2011 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynHmm. I think I don't like chai-tea iced tea. Or at least not when I make it at home. Maybe I need a new brand of teabags.
I was amused by the Scooby Doo drabble that was on the top of my reading list today. Velma/Fred. Which causes me all sorts of WTF, even though on the newest incarnation of the show it's dead obvious that Velma tried to settle for Shaggy and just can't make herself do it, she seems absolutely disgusted by Fred's monofocus on traps instead of the mystery aspect. Plus this incarnation's Velma admires Daphne and doesn't think she's anywhere nearly as vapid as everyone thought she was from the original series. (I didn't watch any of the series between the original and this latest one.)
We're watching Alphas, but so far we're not hooked. We're probably 2 weeks behind everyone else, we've only seen two so far. I can't tell if I'm going to like it or if it's going to turn out like Lost and Heroes, where it shows a lot of promise but the writers have no bloody clue where they're going and they keep promising that it will make sense at the end but after 5 years and zero progress along the overarching plot rainbow, the show just ends without the resolution we all were craving. If it's going to be like that, then I don't want to waste my time. The second episode had the "actress" who played Murphy on The Dresden Files. She doesn't have a lot of range from what I've seen. I was surprised her character on Alphas wasn't named Murphy... it's the same character.
We're into the David Tennant era of Doctor Who now. I didn't expect that I could possibly like David Tennant because he was such an ass whenever I saw him... I saw the Doctor Who cast on The Weakest Link and he was so annoying. His character was blindingly annoying in "The End Of Time". But I have been really enjoying his interpretation as progress from the Eccleston version. Eccleston's Doctor was bitchy and mean and biased against anyone who wasn't a Time Lord. Tennant's Doctor is less so. Clearly has a bias still, but willing to accept that there might be individuals within other species who are worthy of knowing. Certainly the early Tennant Doctor still carries that sense of responsibility and pain, unlike right before he regenerates into the Matt Smith Doctor. It's been really enjoyable watching this show. I had no idea why anyone watched it because I hadn't seen but a few episodes from long before Star Wars came out, and it just wasn't interesting. I generally loath time travel as a trope in science fiction. And I don't like forced humor in my drama. (Dramas should have humor contained within but it should be humor because we all share common references, not because they're trying to be funny at times when it is inappropriate.) So I really assumed I was going to hate it. Having gotten glimpses during the Eccleston era when it was new, I patted myself on the back for good judgment. Having seen David Tennant all over the place when he was the current Doctor, I patted myself on the back for good judgment. But glimpses of the Matt Smith Doctor captured my attention and I really appreciate seeing the "prequels" that were actually filmed previously.
In terms of computer stuff, having 2 external mice, 2 monitors, 3 keyboards and 2 computers all running at once on my desk has my body confused. I keep reaching for the wrong mouse. But my learning curve is improving. I was able to fix the task bar behavior in W7. I still haven't figured out how to change key behavior, but I'm going to work on that next. I should also import some of my music and make sure the headphone jack is tolerable since 5 years with a defective one really sucked. All in all, I feel like the new machine is great. Enough things have been brought up to speed, even without grabbing old data, that I'm doing quite well. A lot of my stuff was on-line stuff, so as long as I had the usernames and passwords, I was all set. So far the only thing I haven't been able to get set up right was Hulu.
I really don't like the foreshortened screen proportion. I thought I would like it for video watching, and I do, but when I'm typing, I'm really bloody annoyed that almost nothing fits. I've got these big dreams of dual screening with two normal monitors... though that will probably require one of the more expensive docking stations.
Things are going mostly okay, but I think I might go lie down and read. I should go read while running at the gym instead, but having skipped for two weeks already, I'm finding continued skiving to be quite easy to justify.
I really cannot wait for DW to get off their "technical debt repayment" asses and actually put up the new posting page. I hate that the subject line is at the top, I hate it even more now that scrolling is really fubar (the external mouse wheel doesn't get along with the standard drivers on the laptop). And I hate having to tab through 8 things and 3 buttons before getting to the post button. I would also like for this page to not waste half the screen. With all the wasted horizontal space I normally get from webpages doubled by the wide-screen monitor, I find myself even more irritated than usual by legacy sites that assume 640x480 screens are necessary to accommodate.
I bought the hardcover of the latest Dresden book, but haven't started it yet. I've got I Am Number Four from the library in hopes that there's more to the book than there was to the movie, but I haven't started that either. And I bought the paperback of the new Wilks book, I would have just borrowed it from the library like I did the Jeanienne Frost book--- even though I really like Frost, I don't like the Cat & Bones books anywhere nearly as well as the ones where she brings in the side characters. I lost a lot of respect for Cat early on and I still hate her as a character. But the main reason I don't buy the Frost books anymore is because she is another author who thanks God for her success.
I was amused by the Scooby Doo drabble that was on the top of my reading list today. Velma/Fred. Which causes me all sorts of WTF, even though on the newest incarnation of the show it's dead obvious that Velma tried to settle for Shaggy and just can't make herself do it, she seems absolutely disgusted by Fred's monofocus on traps instead of the mystery aspect. Plus this incarnation's Velma admires Daphne and doesn't think she's anywhere nearly as vapid as everyone thought she was from the original series. (I didn't watch any of the series between the original and this latest one.)
We're watching Alphas, but so far we're not hooked. We're probably 2 weeks behind everyone else, we've only seen two so far. I can't tell if I'm going to like it or if it's going to turn out like Lost and Heroes, where it shows a lot of promise but the writers have no bloody clue where they're going and they keep promising that it will make sense at the end but after 5 years and zero progress along the overarching plot rainbow, the show just ends without the resolution we all were craving. If it's going to be like that, then I don't want to waste my time. The second episode had the "actress" who played Murphy on The Dresden Files. She doesn't have a lot of range from what I've seen. I was surprised her character on Alphas wasn't named Murphy... it's the same character.
We're into the David Tennant era of Doctor Who now. I didn't expect that I could possibly like David Tennant because he was such an ass whenever I saw him... I saw the Doctor Who cast on The Weakest Link and he was so annoying. His character was blindingly annoying in "The End Of Time". But I have been really enjoying his interpretation as progress from the Eccleston version. Eccleston's Doctor was bitchy and mean and biased against anyone who wasn't a Time Lord. Tennant's Doctor is less so. Clearly has a bias still, but willing to accept that there might be individuals within other species who are worthy of knowing. Certainly the early Tennant Doctor still carries that sense of responsibility and pain, unlike right before he regenerates into the Matt Smith Doctor. It's been really enjoyable watching this show. I had no idea why anyone watched it because I hadn't seen but a few episodes from long before Star Wars came out, and it just wasn't interesting. I generally loath time travel as a trope in science fiction. And I don't like forced humor in my drama. (Dramas should have humor contained within but it should be humor because we all share common references, not because they're trying to be funny at times when it is inappropriate.) So I really assumed I was going to hate it. Having gotten glimpses during the Eccleston era when it was new, I patted myself on the back for good judgment. Having seen David Tennant all over the place when he was the current Doctor, I patted myself on the back for good judgment. But glimpses of the Matt Smith Doctor captured my attention and I really appreciate seeing the "prequels" that were actually filmed previously.
In terms of computer stuff, having 2 external mice, 2 monitors, 3 keyboards and 2 computers all running at once on my desk has my body confused. I keep reaching for the wrong mouse. But my learning curve is improving. I was able to fix the task bar behavior in W7. I still haven't figured out how to change key behavior, but I'm going to work on that next. I should also import some of my music and make sure the headphone jack is tolerable since 5 years with a defective one really sucked. All in all, I feel like the new machine is great. Enough things have been brought up to speed, even without grabbing old data, that I'm doing quite well. A lot of my stuff was on-line stuff, so as long as I had the usernames and passwords, I was all set. So far the only thing I haven't been able to get set up right was Hulu.
I really don't like the foreshortened screen proportion. I thought I would like it for video watching, and I do, but when I'm typing, I'm really bloody annoyed that almost nothing fits. I've got these big dreams of dual screening with two normal monitors... though that will probably require one of the more expensive docking stations.
Things are going mostly okay, but I think I might go lie down and read. I should go read while running at the gym instead, but having skipped for two weeks already, I'm finding continued skiving to be quite easy to justify.
I really cannot wait for DW to get off their "technical debt repayment" asses and actually put up the new posting page. I hate that the subject line is at the top, I hate it even more now that scrolling is really fubar (the external mouse wheel doesn't get along with the standard drivers on the laptop). And I hate having to tab through 8 things and 3 buttons before getting to the post button. I would also like for this page to not waste half the screen. With all the wasted horizontal space I normally get from webpages doubled by the wide-screen monitor, I find myself even more irritated than usual by legacy sites that assume 640x480 screens are necessary to accommodate.
I bought the hardcover of the latest Dresden book, but haven't started it yet. I've got I Am Number Four from the library in hopes that there's more to the book than there was to the movie, but I haven't started that either. And I bought the paperback of the new Wilks book, I would have just borrowed it from the library like I did the Jeanienne Frost book--- even though I really like Frost, I don't like the Cat & Bones books anywhere nearly as well as the ones where she brings in the side characters. I lost a lot of respect for Cat early on and I still hate her as a character. But the main reason I don't buy the Frost books anymore is because she is another author who thanks God for her success.
