That's a really cute movie... or, er... show? I mean, the format would make it right for an hour episode.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/28343/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog?c=Music

This Hulu video is, according to Wikipedia, anyways, an international release, so... hey, you might as well try.

It's a grade 9 piece. That's strangely appropriate.

Although, I think I could stand going back a few grades instead of jumping right back into RCM 9...

Damn... why'd my WiFi start messing up my digital food scale? :-/ I suppose I'll never lose again if teh intarwebz can make me fat just by existing...!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food

I knew it was generally not good for various reasons, but I didn't realize quite how bad it already was. I figured the worst part was the potential for monocultures (which I realize is a huge problem). I suppose it's all stuff I know, just things I don't tend to think about... but really, it's quite disturbing. God damn patent laws. They're far, far too powerful, in so many ridiculous ways... :(

We really are too powerful, as a species, for our own good.

Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both
parties

But Cummings was wrong... it's all of humanity that's dangling there, counting down the minutes... the black boots of success, that's just part of a fractal.

Ahhhh. Documentaries are depressing...

Hey, Hulu's got Jesus Christ: Superstar on! Woot! Being in the US is fun, when it comes to getting entertainment... Canadian folks, see if you can get on http://listen.grooveshark.com/

Geez, Amazon...

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy

Sign this! :)

http://grandamericanpiano.com/free_pianos.html#free_pianos

I want that second one, the Spanish Revival Style... isn't it beautiful? But there's no way I can justify that price, with how much I know I would (or rather, wouldn't) play it. Plus, I don't even want to think about how I'd get it to my apartment, or where I'd put it in my apartment. Oh well.

I should just buy myself an electric violin or a digital piano if I really want to play stuff...

http://wannafeelold.tumblr.com/

I kind of love their first (or is it last?) post:

"The Matrix came out ten years ago today... but, if we're being fair, the franchise became old about three months later."

So very true. Ooh, perfect music for this post!

Shark, this is House. I know you've met him before, but you always seemed to swim around him, never attacking despite the blood in the water. But now... ah, now! You have jumped! Or perhaps, been jumped? Though, to me, that really sounds like someone's mugging the poor shark. 

You know what sucks? I didn't find it interesting. I just found it annoying. Here they have this kind of fun character, and they kill him off without having us know anything about him. And instead, they leave us with the Huntington Romance, increasingly boring medicinal puzzle-characters (which I understand, I mean, how many times can you really come up with an interesting case, right? Still, it's like they're barely trying)...

I'm more.... annoyed that they killed him than sad that he's dead. I mean, I'm normally a weeper. I often cry, though am annoyed at myself for it, when the Law and Order violins start their stupid formulaic playing. This... just left me confused and annoyed. I mean, surely that's not what they were going for...? Surely they weren't going for "wtf." I mean, no one goes for "wtf." They go for "omg traaaajaaaadeeee." They go for "wahwahwah, i r teh sad!" They go for "noo, how could he!!!" This just ... 

You know, in a way, I guess it upsets me, but just because... it was pointless. I don't understand why they got rid of him, as he was an entertaining character, more so than Taub, Thirteen, or Foreman. Or Cuddy. Frankly, or anyone except for Chase, just because he and Chase didn't have actual storylines, so they can still be interesting. (But that doesn't mean I want Chase back on. Please, no. He's fine as a bit part, I have no desire to see more of him or Cameron.)

This is the second time they've killed off a character I didn't dislike. (You know, that's the problem with this show. Too many characters I actively dislike.) At least Amber had a reasoning behind it, plot-wise. I see nothing interesting coming from the death of Kutner... and that just makes me annoyed. Why kill a character I like when there's no reason for it? It's like when they cut out ridiculously old guy! I loved Scooter, but they got rid of him, "because he was too similar to House" or something. Well, I can accept that as a reason, I guess, but Kutner didn't even have that. Just... meh.

I guess I'm strange though. A lot of people apparently cried over this episode. *shrug* If I weren't a crier, I'd not question it, but...

Ah well, my cable will be getting cancelled next week, so... yay! Nothing to regret! (But the Dog Whisperer...! *sniff* I'm gonna miss that show. And Psych and Monk. And maybe Law and Order: Criminal Intent, though that is a maybe.)

The machines are doing science for us now? That's cool, if somewhat disturbing. Because, you know... humans are kind of lazy, and if computers do our thinking for us... well, then again, who knows, maybe the world will be a better place for it. We might not survive the next century, after all. It'd be nice if something we did survived. All we need to do is figure out how to make something that programs an Adam-like machine with all the data it needs.

I for one welcome our new scientifically-minded robot overlords.

Yay!

(Doncha hate having to do taxes? Yessiree, taxes are annoying. But now they're done, and now I can do other things with my day, and feel good that I've completed them.)

Ed adesso, studio l'Italiano!

I clearly have mom's name disability. Bah! Mind you, it's not like it was a close friend or family, but I couldn't come up with the right name at all. And I've said his name before, I know his damned name. *hates on names*

*sigh*

Just not... chemical engineering. It makes me kind of sad. MIT's "Principles of Chemical Science" stuff is much more interesting than the pure memorization crap that we did in chem eng. If classes had started out like that, I'd have done much better. I wonder if it's UofT's chem eng that sucks, or all chem eng? Then again, maybe it would have just meant I'd have gotten further in Chemistry before I realized it wasn't for me... I wonder. Maybe she's just a better presenter... hm... actually, maybe so. Looking at these courses, and remembering what I knew then (I don't remember all of it now, but anyways), it seems like a lot is a repeat of high school, which was honestly what made me so upset about university at first...

Seriously, Hulu is awesome. They have season 1 Sliders. They have Quantum Leap. They have NatGeo shows. They have Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen. They have frikkin' Dilbert. I never realized they had such awesome shows... (Ahahaha, they've got Supersize Me, too, and Howard the Duck. I remember Howard the Duck. I loved that movie when I was little. And Dr. Phibes Rises Again. That's awesome.) Hm. Muppets from Space... I wonder if that has anything to do with Pigs In Space?

Seriously, who wants cable in the US, when there's Hulu?

I like this song, and I can never find lyrics for it anywhere, so I'm posting it to my journal here. David Ackles was pretty awesome... but honestly, I don't like most of his songs. The lyrics are great, but the music, not so much. Too bad, really. This song actually has cool music, too... most of the others that I've tried on Amazon/iTunes are just... uninspired, when it comes to the music. I guess you can't be everything, right? I mean, Leonard Cohen is a great poet, but his voice is just awful. (That said, I still like a lot of his own work better than the remakes. He puts more passion into it than the multitudes of artists who can't seem to sing anything but Hallelujah all the damned time. I wish someone would sing Take This Waltz, or Joan of Arc, or Closing Time, or Famous Blue Raincoat, or any of the other really awesome songs. Seriously, why is Hallelujah so popular? It's not that it's a bad song, it's just getting really overdone, especially lately.)


( American Gothic )

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Vulcan/kaiidth

Is that ACTUALLY Webster's? 'Cause... um... hahaha.

Anyway, kind of bored. Maybe I should listen to another lecture on relativity? I'm certainly not BORED when I listen to those, though often the historical background of why some things are as they are seems... not explained enough. I guess the problem is that I kind of want to have an "interesting science history" course, with physics explained in the middle of it, more than a first year physics course...

Too bad Connections is gone. That show was really awesome...

Mind you, I also want to understand the physics. Sure, I know I'm not, but I feel like I'm the only one who can't just bring the theoretical underpinnings of String Theory to mind when people start talking physics in a chat room. I mean, I absolutely KNOW that I'm not, but... hmph.

People own the water that falls out of the sky in Colorado? Collecting rainfall is illegal? And they enforce it?

Do they jail children for dancing in puddles, I wonder?

Okay, I gave in and saw it.

Yeah, acting was meh. OMG, WTF, gratuitous sex scenes pretty much always imply "we lost our creativity," and that's about when they started showing up. Parents took their five year olds out of the theatre at about 10 minutes in. (Seriously, parents... rated R means not for kids.) That ending? Oh, David Hayter........ I'm sure it was worse than it should have been because of girlie. I kept having to look away because it was embarrassingly bad. It wasn't really bad up until the ending, either, and the ending is what the Watchmen movie didn't copy off of the Watchmen comic. That is really quite sad... and makes me think, "KEEP HAYTER AWAY FROM THE METAL GEAR MOVIE." I mean, since we're going to have one. Preferably there wouldn't be one at all, you know, but I guess we can't stop game movies any more than B-movie horrors. (I mean, okay, I can see how the giant squid thing wouldn't have worked on film. I mean, of course it wouldn't have. But this wasn't any better, so they might as well have kept it.)

I really didn't like Ms. Jupiter (who was known in the comic as Silk Specter 2, right? Why'd they change her name? They allowed the retired Night Owl), though. I wish they'd cut more of her scenes. Rorschach was way more fun. Night Owl was more fun. Hell, Silk Specter was way more fun. Although, it kind of makes me sad when Rorschach can't figure out Ozymandius from pretty early on-- if they'd just been looking for proof on him, instead of looking for answers, I'd have been much more impressed. Guess it's because I'm from the Columbo school of detectives. Oh well.

But... the 1984 commercial just distracted me too much. Hahaha... wonder how many people noticed that 1984 was not like 1984? (Kind of made me laugh, since it's an alternate universe, and 1985 was nothing like, you know, 1985.) Oh, and the Star Trek trailer before the movie? HELLO, PEOPLE, STAR TREK NOT STAR WARS!!! Is it just me, or are they lifting lines here? Destiny this, destiny that. Geez... You know I'll still end up watching it, but I'm really thinking it's going to suck, because it's harkening back to Phantom Menace, not even one of the good Star Wars...

I suppose I should eat dinner now... hm. Yes.

Well, Chase officially sucks. Thier response to my "hey, look, I have money here, shouldn't I expect something from you guys?" was, "well, try getting a card at Target or something... or try a bank that has lower standards..."

Uh huh. Yeeeaaaaah. Sure. Go to another bank? Really? That's your response to someone with 45K in their account? I didn't even tell them to give me a credit card, I asked them what we could do together to make things right. Clearly, Chase is a pretty stupid bank that doesn't care about keeping customers' money. Someone with that much money in your bank for that period of time, when you can see exactly what is in their account and what their real history is, I'm sorry, but that person is not a risk. If I'd had 5K, if I'd not saved anything there in the time I've been there... okay, I could understand. If I had declared bankruptcy or something, sure. But... that wasn't my situation.

Anyways, I did what they said.

I have now opened an account at Bank of America, and have a partially secured credit card, or, I will when it gets here. (99$ security, $500 limit, they'll evaluate changing it to an unsecured credit card in 9-12 months.) I'll grant you, the credit is kind of sucky, but it's not "hey, why don't you try another bank." 10,000 dollars is gone from my Chase account today, and the rest will follow soon. I have to make sure all my current bills start getting paid from BoA before I close the other account, after all.

Oh well. I hope it won't take more than 2 months.

Well, I guess I'll be closing my account at Chase (formerly WaMu) and taking my 45K with me-- they've rejected my application for a Master Card. I mean, it's not that I really want a credit card, but I need to build credit. I suppose I should talk to their manager and see if he/she can do anything for me before I take my money to some other bank, or to a credit union or whatever, because it's ridiculous to have that much money in their bank if they're not going to give me the service I require-- which at the moment, is a credit card.

What's going on?

Feb 12: Plane falls out of the sky in Buffalo
Feb 13: Two satellites hit each other in orbit
Feb 14: Plane's wheels fail to deploy during landing
Feb 15: UFOs rain down near Austin Texas (well, I mean, not alien UFOs, but last I heard NASA said "but it can't be the satellites! we don't get it!")
Feb 16: Plane crashes in Brazil
Feb 18: "Rare" helicopter crash
Feb 21: Crazy-bad turbulence injures 47 passengers
Feb 24: NASA's rocket crashes after launch failure
Feb 25: Flight 1951 crashes
Feb 25: Two completely weird, non-reproduceable bugs at work (okay, okay, not QUITE part of the pattern, but still.)

Is it sunspots? Comet Lulin? Crazy random coincidences that happens every now and then for no real reason, but confirmation bias makes it seem like it's a lot all at once? I'm sure this is more aerospace issues than normal, isn't it?

You know, air travel just seems like a really bad idea right now.