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| I hate Big Brother, week 1. Too many new people. No idea of how the personalities are going to fall out. And it's too early to get attached, as the next two weeks are going to be almost entirely at random. But I will persevere, and about week three or four it is going to get good. Even if this group are dumber than a box of rocks. By the standards of BIG BROTHER they are dumb. And that's. That's a really low standard. Meanwhile, I should be cleaning the hosue, but I'm gonna go to bed early like a good girl, so I make it to class in the morning. Yippie. Not. | ||||||
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July 14th, 2009
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First posted at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} omg_trek_wtf. Please comment there.In Corona, a young reporter, Rowena Mason, is on the Enterprise to see what exactly Star Fleet does. For reasons that are unimportant at this juncture, she has been assigned to share quarters with Uhura. Which brings us this: When Mason entered Uhura's quarters, the communications officer had just come off duty and was changing into a flowing orange and red robe, decorated with a fringe of leopards stalking through jungle grass. Uhura smiled at her and offered a glass of wine from the cabin autochef. "That was really something," Mason said, sitting on the edge of her bunk. "I'm not sure I've ever been more scared." "It was a bluff," Uhura said. "I think most of us were aware of that. I'm sorry there wasn't more time to prepare you." "The captain didn't behave like it was a bluff." Uhura laughed. "Poker face." "And everybody seemed relieved when it was over." "Well, you can never tell what a Kshatriyan might do. Do you know much about them?" Mason shook her head. "Only what I've read in my schoolbooks and picked up from the subspace bulletins. The dailies." "They're quite an admirable race, actually. Very tough, very defensive... and well they should be. They remind me of the Zulu. They're an old race, surrounded by the Romulans and the Federation, threatened by the Klingons... and still they hold their own, even against better technologies." "They're the same basic stock as Commander Spock, aren't they?" "They're part of the third octant Dakhrian migrations, if that's what you mean. The Vulcans, Romulans, Klingons and Kshatriyans are all related if you go back far enough." "And Spock doesn't feel funny, siding with humans against his own blood?" "I'm afraid the ties go too far back for any of them to feel much kinship. Besides, who knows what Spock feels?" "I don't understand." Uhura gathered up her gown and pulled a chair near to Mason's bed. "He's a Vulcan. They have very rigid codes governing emotions." "Yes, I know that." She felt slightly irritated. "We're not that isolated on Yalbo. But doesn't he hold opinions?" "Not unless there's a lot of evidence behind them. Personal opinions are anathema to a Vulcan. In fact, anything having to do' with petty personal traits is subdued during Vulcan education. But enough talk about Spock. I'd like to learn more about you." My commentary: 30 years later, this is a femmeslash set up in the making, with the leopard clad Uhura and Rowena being very very close. To each other. In lingerie. And secondly, Poker Face is a SPOCK song :) | ||||||
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| So: I realize this is my anxiety speaking. But. Damn would I like to stay home today and work my way through the collected Due South works of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cesperanza. Again. Because it's not like I haven't read them before a few times.But I am going to be a good girl and go to work. | ||||||
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July 12th, 2009
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| Come, join omg_trek_wtf and share your favorite moment of bad trek. My first entry is here http://community.livejournal.com/omg_tre I give you the selected excerpt, but please comment over there: Spock Must Die! is a TOS novel from 1970. The following is Kirk pondering why women always dig Spock. For a IDIC type organization? This Kirk is really pretty damn racist. What was the source of the oddly overt response that women of all ages and degrees of experience seemed to feel toward Spock? Kirk had no answer, but he had two theories, switching from one to the other according to his mood. One was that it was a simple challenge-and-response situation: he may be cold and unresponsive to other women, but if I had the chance, I could get through to him! The other, more complex theory seemed more plausible to Kirk only in his moments of depression: that most white crewwomen, still the inheritors after two centuries of vestiges of the shameful racial prejudices of their largely Anglo-American forebears, saw in the Vulcan half-breed -- who after all had not sprung from any Earthly colored stock -- a "safe" way of breaking with those vestigial prejudices -- and at the same time, perhaps, satisfying the sexual curiosity which had probably been at the bottom of them from the beginning. 40 years ago or not, this just. OMG WTF Trek! Spock, the tragic mulatto. | ||||||
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July 11th, 2009
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| I was thinking that I cannot be the only person who is rereading all the old TOS books. And that it would be wonderful to have a place to discuss them- with a snarky perspective, and possible crack photoshoppery. Am I alone in this? ETA: created omg_trek_wtfPoll #1428528 Old TOS Novels Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All Do you have any interest in reading any of the Star Trek: TOS novels? If a community was created for the purpose of reading and discussing the TOS novels, with a funny slant- think of it as a "scans daily" only with selected passages of TOS. Would you join/participate
View Answers Yes. I would love to join the mocking and sharing No. Still not interested. Maybe? Need more info Ticky Box meets the Enterprise
View Answers Sexing Ensues Ticky box wanders back to the infirmary and starts drinking with McCoy Ticky Box has a relationship with some dilithium crystals Ticky box on a star ship is not a logical conclusion Ticky box speaks a language only a highly trained linguistics officer can hear. This message brought to you by my finishing the Reflection book, and starting Spock Must Die!  | ||||||
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| So I get a text message this afternoon. A girl I know from DC, lets call her M, apparently is in the hospital, brain dead, and her aunt is going to have to have them pull the plug. This makes me sad, as M was (in her better days) a really nifty person, and I enjoyed her as a part of the big Virginia Tech friend of friend circle. But the last few years had been a decent into depression, alcoholism, and some drugs. She spent like two months in the hospital with liver failure last year. So I'm saddened. But I'm not surprised. And I really feel for her aunt, who was the one who had to make this same call with M's mom less than four years ago. And M's sister P? Has been in the hospital for the last month on a ventilator and feeding tube. And may not make it to next month. To have to bury your sister, her husband, and her two daughters in their early 30's? That's the tragedy. I would like to go just one year without someone I know and like dying. Is that too much to ask? | ||||||
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| I'm reading The Final Reflection by John M. Ford. It's a Star Trek: TOS novel, published in 1984. And it's about Klingons. I find it interesting, but I have five issues with it, not all things that can be changed: 1. When McCoy is coming on board, his functional alcoholic collection of liquor claimed as "medical supplies", one of the things he brings is Johnny Walker Black Label. I don't doubt that Whiskey makes it to the time of TOS. But the VERY SPECIFIC Johnny Walker Black? Does this mean they don't redesign the label in the next 300 years? Really? 2. The Analog issue: The book suffers from the Cyteen problem. They have a lot of tape. And footage. But to listen in, you need a phone. Or a fixed wired microphone. Spock has to physically bring new library files up to the ship. In essence, the concepts are there, but the idea that ALL of this is being done wirelessly? Yeah, not so much. 3. The Cold War: The book is vastly enhanced by remembering that in 1984, the Soviet Union, and by extension, it's metaphorical analogs, were still considered an actual threat on a ideological and actual basis. The superpowers mindset. Large Empires rather than guerrilla wars. 4. While I realize it worked for Stalin, and was certainly a part of various warrior cultures? If you keep executing members of the military, or game players, or whatever, for losing? You eventually run out of having enough trained leadership to run the Empire. When seven of the eight children of an Admiral are dead of various warrior hijinks by the time they are 30? You have a problem. The demographics just don't work. Not long term. 5. Tactics are the least Klingon of the sciences? If you have a warrior culture, than execute everyone with the ability to form a long range plan of attack, empire, and galactic domination? Well it serves you right to get your ass handed to you by the Federation. Bitch please. A little tactics goes a LONG way towards the preservation and expansion of ones domain. Also, I'm 109 pages in, and nobody's had inappropriate sex yet. I keep forgetting that I'm not reading fanfic. There is no Klingon hate sex lurking around the corner. If every time somebody loses to the Romulans, they wind up dead? How long before you are fielding 15 year old Ensigns against them? In short: I think I would have had a very different opinion of the whole thing if I had read it in 1989. | ||||||
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July 10th, 2009
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| The thing that annoys me about my apartment? It is not possible to use the microwave and the toaster oven at the same time without blowing the circuit. It's petty, but I would like to be able to make my enite dinner in the same 10 minute period. The other things that annoy me today? I forgot to make ice cubes. And I forgot to buy wine. The dog has a new game, called let me sit just outside the door and cry until you cannot take it anymore. Despite the fact that he has food, water, and all he needs. Oh, and I'm lying on the guest bed, five inches off the ground, where he can get very very easily for attention. I'm in the process of liberating a digital set of Due South. Because despite owning the full set of the DVD's, it's actually far easier to liberate than to put them on the computer myself. I need only 2 mb more, out of a 23.2 gb size. And the thing keeps stoping itself and needing to be restarted. GRRR. Ice cubes. Ice cubes. With god as my witness, I will again one day live where there is an ice maker in the freezer. | ||||||
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July 9th, 2009
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| After 18 months, I will be providing proof of life. I'm going to be in DC from 15-19 October. Part of this time I will be at Capclave- I assume that I'll see the WSFA crowd there. So: Who's gonna be around? I've got things tenatively planned: Thursday- the Alexandria crowd. Friday lunch- down town DC, Friday night- Orange line crew. Saturday Morning- breakfast with Neighbor S who isn't on LJ, Saturday afternoon to Sunday eve: CAPCLAVE. I'm excited. Also, it's $141 round trip from Midway to Dulles or BWI on Southwest. Or it was yesterday. | ||||||
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July 8th, 2009
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 I was rewatching Asylum in that way that one sometimes does. And for the first time I was watching it on a nice HD monitor, instead of a three inch screen. And I found this. I came of age in the early 1990's. And the sharing of the flannel was SERIOUS BUSINESS. Many a dispute, a love, a tragedy, and a personal transformation could be traced to the traveling path of a piece of plaid flannel. There was no shame in being the first owner of a new flannel. But one with a story? That was something. And here we see Ray. In one that belongs to Fraser. And while it may not mean the same thing as trading flannels on the patio at lunch back in high school? Here I think it means love. Also, I wore a very similar outfit for about two years solid in the mid-90s. And I still own my grandfather's boiled wool plaid hunting jacket. 16 years ago it was a trophy piece looking for an excuse to be worn. Today it sits in my hall closet, and probably always will despite the fact it hasn't fit me in about 16 years, and is heartily unlikely to fit me in the future. | ||||||
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July 7th, 2009
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| I cannot help but think that the big Michael Jackson funeral today is going to be one hot mess. Call it a premonition of chaos. And I'm glad to not be in downtown LA. Also and unrelated: This post: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnothe I don't actually care about Kevin Federline. But what sort of fucked up world do we live in, with what sort of utterly fucked beauty standards? That this moron felt compelled to spend a whole lot of the time they were married chiding Britney Spears about her weight. You have the woman with the body that huge percentages of the population would die for. The kind that is pretty much only achieved by making working out your full time job. You have somebody who is super mega famous in no small part for being pretty. And it is/was considered perfectly acceptable for the asshole to have spent a whole bunch of time complaining about her weight- and she was willing to put up with it. That you have someone held up as one of the standards of beauty, but who was fat shamed for several years of marriage- most of which time she was pregnant. I just. I can't even. No. | ||||||
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July 6th, 2009
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| Poll #1426153 Monday Night Quiz Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All If Nora Bombay was in Star Fleet, she'd be
View Answers Yellow Shirt- Command Blue Shirt- Science Red Shirt- Operations If Tucker Bombay was in Star Fleet, he'd be
View Answers Yellow Shirt- Command Blue Shirt- Science Red Shirt- Operations Nora would actually join Star Fleet
View Answers Sure! She does adventure like that. Screw the Prime Directive! She's back on Earth doing something officey right now. Ticky?!
View Answers Ticky loves Space Ticky stay Home Ticky! Rule World! Tucker Lick Ticky Box | ||||||
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| Tonight? I'm going to go play Pub Trivia in the bar across the street. I will not open the photoshop. No matter how inspired to crack I was at work today, I will NOT open the photoshop. | ||||||
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July 5th, 2009
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The Dance of 1000 ZPMS Never Did Run Smooth Fifth in a series. And a hot mess. Here's what I did in the last 48 hours: Photoshop. Photoshop. Cook. Photoshop. And watch the Crying Game and Lets Go to Prison back to back, which says more about my taste in movies than possibly anything else, ever. | ||||||||
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Sometimes, people are not meant to be combined, no matter the joke. Fourth in a Series. This one? Sort of sucks. But I'm done playing with it, and there are NO pastel colored Ray & Frasers. Ray wears black, Fraser wears red, and the books of M.Lackey are all pink and purple and turquoise. I give up. | ||||||||
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First in a Series- The West Herald Mage | ||||||||
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Valdemar and The Gou'ld went together like Whisky & Rye. Third in a Series. | ||||||||
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In the Future, Not all Queens of Valdemar will Wear White It's less grainy if you click through to the big version. I think I've got to learn how to use brushes now.  Second in a Series | ||||||||
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July 4th, 2009
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| I want people to get on Instant Messenger or Google Talk and entertain me. IM: norabombay GoogleTalk: norabombay@gmail.com | ||||||
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| My day of napping and fanfic must be interrupted. I need to put on a bra and move the car around the corner, farther from the house with all the m-80s. Sad face. getting dressed is hard yo. | ||||||
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She didn't believe in transcendence. Or on occasion, spell check.
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