pretty random

Starbuck: "Don't freak out on me."

Narrator: "He freaks out."

• I will be in Calgary from tomorrow until late Thursday night. Woo!
  
• The weather there is all negative. Literally.
  
• Renovating and painting and replacing and all that jazz is nice in theory, but in practice there's a limit to how much we can stand to do. We appear to have hit it for today. Shame that there's all sorts of crap around still to be dealt with.
  
• I'm happy to tell you that the kitchen cabinets and floors now coexist peacefully. The tiles are higher than the original vinyl, so the toekicks had to be sanded or sawed down, variously.
  
• Purchased transition strips, but now we need a way to attach them to the floor. One is supposed to purchase a special strip that the tiles are laid on top of, so the transition strip is held in place. We didn't do that. so the little plastic guide that grips the wooden strip needs to somehow be held down. Plastic against concrete is not an easy combination. Super-glue maybe?
  
• I don't have a screenshot because it wouldn't do it justice, but can I just say that the Galactica hot-dropping into the atmosphere in the last episode was the most indescribably awesome sci-fi moment I've seen in years?Now I'm going to actually watch my first on-television episode of BSG ever. Whee!

simplisticton

• Atmosphere: the cinematography, the music
• Scripts: Several characters were believeable from day one, which is rare. There's a few that are still caricatures, but less and less so.

• The use of "frak" everytime a character would normally say "fuck." Very distracting.

• The fact that they use obsolete technology and pray to COBOLKobol.

jwz

"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."