Friday, May 25, 2007

Go LOST!

So I am halfway through the season finale (damn you work!!! you take all the fun out of things)...
Love this show.

And on other matters, whats wrong with college students today?
This article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301635.html) was just too much.....
  • One glance at the words "Baltimore Zionist District" on Lazarus's "I Stand for Israel" T-shirt, and the cashier at the Maryland Food Collective, a crunchy grocery and sandwich shop in the student union on the University of Maryland's College Park campus, blurted: "Your shirt offends me. I won't ring you up." The cashier told Lazarus she could go to the back of the store to find another clerk. ...
  • The cashier who refused to serve Lazarus will not talk about the incident because "she would be misrepresented," one co-op worker told me. The workers who would talk to me -- most would not because "the collective speaks collectively," as one member put it -- said no one should have to have contact with people whose views they find hurtful"They can't see that this is discrimination," she told me. "They're more committed to their righteousness than they are to the rights of other people. The fact is, you have to serve everyone.".

I feel so sorry for the poor manager of the student union there.... dealing with these children.... This article was worth a dozen laughs, it was so wrong ..... such great quotes such as "... come off as haters".... LOL... must. resist. making. fun. of. UMD...... eh, whats the point, they are pretty much a joke anyway.

And I am officially scared, this guy is referencing comics that I read and wandering off on odd topics just like me.... http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/05/25/tv-101-why-i-cant-stand-the-rgx-body-spray-girl-videos/

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Catching up

So me and the roommate, M, finished another epidosode of Jericho (and Veronica Mars the night before).... Its kind of sad to watch shows that were pretty good and are ending after being cancelled. I know that even though I have one episode of Jericho left that I will not get my satisfaction for the show. And from what I hear the last episode of Veronica Mars doesn't give that sense of closure either... You have to be frustrated with the way American TV generally doesn't leave their shows in a closure state at the end of the season (like you find on the British shows). Way too many shows have bowed out on cliffhangers..... CBS definately owes us some closure for Jericho, given how many threads were just laying around.

And as further proof of my TV obsession, I finished NCIS (a well put together procedural drama with the requisite dose of comedy) and Brothers & Sisters (LOVE this show.... was definately howling at a few parts of it). Now my big push is to finish Lost, I just finished last weeks and now I need to find the time to watch last nights before the girl I am dating, R, drops too many hints on what happened...

Oh, and poison ivy sucks.... actually camping period sucks...... I sooooo am going to hate my AT this year down in Alabama... probably 10 of the 14 days will be out in the woods doing the lanes training.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Ghosts in the Machine..

I liked this article, The Wired and the Dead. It touches on the way that people mourn and how in reality we really haven't changed at all. The Facebook and Myspace pages are in some ways even more poignant, since they represent the work and thoughts of the individuals just prior to them passing away, as opposed to the more traditional format where other people write the obituary and offer the person through a more filtered perspective (often glossing over the some of the points that the writers don't want to be seen). I think that these feel more real to me as the memorials/shines for these kids who have passed behind the veil than any physical memorial or tombstone. They represent the reality, aka "the good, the bad, the ugly".

Additionally they are more available to the people that they have touched, it brings them closer because it no longer requires a physical visit to a gravesite to remember the person, it can be achieved through the simple click of a mouse.... Interestingly it also marks a form a shift to a more Eastern view of religion, where the departed are remembered in shrines that are often located inside the home as opposed to the more Christian approach of holing them off in a graveyard.

One thing it does make you ponder though is that the impact of your work (actually I should say life, so many of us live so much through electronic means nowadays) here on the electronic frontier and also makes you consider what the people in the future will see of you when this remains one of your most visible marks.

I think another thing that needs to be addressed is some form of allowing family members access to this content (I remember a lawsuit that was brought not too long ago when the family wanted to gain access to a recently dead service members account and that Yahoo wasn't granting it based on the terms of service that we all agree to when signing up). I know that god forbid anything were to happen to any of my family I would want to preserve their content (though I personally have the biggest electronic footprint for the family) in some way shape or form. I am glad that Facebook made the exception for the VT Students and I also really hope that they develop a standard for dealing with this in the future..

The dangers of Tivo....

First though..... must start eating healthier..... burgers, fries and beers for dinner 2 nights in a row cannot be good, given than in a little over 4 weeks I will be publicly weighed (thank you Army!!!). I will try so hard today to be good, luckily I am almost completely out of bad food at home so I pretty much have no choice.... looks like I will definately doing my run this evening....

And so now I explain the title. So I finally saw the series finale of Gilmore Girls... Thats the biggest problem for me, that because I know that I have the episodes sitting on the Tivo there really is no rush to watch them, so I must be all paranoid about spoilers and such.... Like for tonight with Lost, I really need to get caught up before the the girl I am dating, "TV Girl", accidentally drops a spoiler on me.... she already came really close.

And also related, what am I going to do about the last 2 episodes of Jericho.... Its going to be hard to watch them knowing that I will never get resolution on this series.....

And boy am I excited, Entourage seasons are running back to back this summer.... one week off for the Soprano's and then more Entourage fun...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Heroes!!!! Love me some Hiro!

Umm..... Wow!
Loved the Heroes ending..... So looking forward to next season. Didn't really see what happened coming, and normally I am almost freakishly good at predicting things (to the point where my roommate has claimed I have prewatched things).

So I am so ready for the weekend (its a bad sign when its Tuesday and you are saying that, but I have an excuse since unlike most people my weekend was probably more stressful than my normal week). Get a Little BBQ in, go to a DC United Game and get in some chill time... I may even go to my pool for a little bit.

So now its time to head home and continue the herculean task of cleaning off the Tivo's.....

Monday, May 21, 2007

Ah! The weekend is over! - Also Upfronts IV - Fricking CW

Hmmmmmm........ Lonnnngg weekend (lots of Army Stuff, wandering around the forest in the dark (I think I found every hole on the trek we took), sleeping under the stars (way overrated) and of course, a bunch of drama (which out of respect for personal privacy (at least on the Internets..... my coworkers, family and friends get the full story) I wont go into here). Lets just say that my class is a little bit smaller after the events of Sunday.....

Okay, so now onto my personal gripe list....

WTF are you doing to me CW? Last year you canned Everwood, and now you Veronica Mars slip through your fingers........ You are now down to like 3 shows that I will watch.. not good.... not good at all....

And Fox! More SF goodness? Please stop breaking my heart since I know that the way that you have been lately I will see an episode and then you will tragically kill it........

Heroes ending tonight! Love this show.... will be VERY pysched to see it and annoyed that I will have to wait for new content.

I guess I can finally start watching my Netflix disks again now that the prime time TV series are disappearing until fall...