A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

So Lost ended, and ( poop. )

The rest of you may all commence making fun of me for grousing about this but still liking Battlestar Galactica.

This has been a pretty strong and satisfying season. After last night's mid-season closer, I thought that ( bloop )

I really liked it, though there was a couple of confusing bits.
( La la la. )

My Starbuck Mii is winning now. Since you can only identify your uploaded Miis with initials - I used "K.T." for her - I have no idea how many people recognize her, versus just liking her looks. Not that I have a problem with that either.

I have to say that it was right neighborly of Nintendo to release a free toy like this alongside the big-big release of the new Super Mario game. Even though I'm flat broke I feel like I got something new and Wii-ish to play with.

Today was a stomachache day so I didn't do much. Though it was axe-in-the-gut bad at its apex, I note that it was my first in over three weeks (I've been keeping a log ever since my zomg it must be cancer dealie in December), and the ache faded before bedtime. After an entire afternoon of reading and napping on the couch (I also got up unusually early to take a business call), I let myself have a little bit of coffee to clear away the mental fog, and I did not double over in agony. So that's all good.

I hypothesize that it was from eating poorly yesterday. Among the things I ate was a Grade D cheeseburger (seriously, it was like unto an elementary school's cafeteria output) from the probable source of my food poisoning last winter. Don't ask.

Yes, I will bring up the stomachache days when I go to the doctor next month.

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I am reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by the way, lent to me by dictator555. I'm enjoying it a great deal. So far, it's my favorite of the series. I know, in two short sentences, what the big reveals are, but I don't know any of the details and am having a tasty time discovering them. It reminds me of my going back and watching the first two seasons of BSG after watching most of the third one, actually.

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Yesterday I played some games at one of dougo's occasional game parties and felt like a cranky little shit for a lot of it. I hate when I get that way; I will say or do something cranky and then try to make up for it with a display of forced non-crankiness and really I don't think it fools anyone. So, if you happened to catch a whiff of that, sorry.

I will try to be better about it later. I think that I didn't really feel like playing games, and kept agreeing to more games even after recognizing this. What the hell? Eh.

[13:14:47] <zarf> The podcast is going to be 44 minutes of giggling

I want there to be a spinoff show about the donut ship. It has been my favorite since the start, but they've never even given it a name.

13,001 13,002 spams in search of a home called Earth.

I heard an interesting "On Point" last week that today's spam largely comes not from misguided entrepreneurs but organized criminal groups, many in Eastern Europe. I was not aware of this.

They had cheap and accurate FTL, but they didn't themselves establish additional sub-colonies all over everywhere? To say nothing of manned exploration and mapping missions in all directions, constantly active?

oh well. (If this gets explained after ep 3 I'll be fine with it.)