Kevin Pereira (1) one of the fast talking, up-for-pretty-much-anything, very funny hosts on Attack of the Show noted on his twitter feed today that even cats love the ipad.
I've always said that cats are tool using animals. Few humans notice this because we are the tools they use.
Enjoy,
Sia
(1) I enjoy this gentleman's lucid, well informed critiques, as well as his interviews. Like Jon Stewart, he is courteous, thoughtful and good to his guests and much of his humor is self deprecating. Also like Stewart, he has a rapier fast wit which he uses at need. Best of all, he can take the most recondite tech and make it understandable to folks like me who just want the darn thing to work.
There are funny, smart, tech-savvy women on the show, as well. If you like computers, comics, movies and such check it out.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Andy Hallett: Thanks for all the songs
EW.com writes this about Andy:
Andy Hallet...best known for playing Angel's suave, friendly green demon Lorne with the ability to read people when they sang (most often at his violence-free karaoke club) -- passed away March 29 following a five-year battle with congestive heart disease. He was 33. Fans will remember his voice (watch the clips below), his impeccable comedic timing ("Is there a Gepetto in the house?"), and his gift for making you see past layers of prosthetics and makeup. ("They have no music there. It doesn't exist. Do you know what that's like? No lullabies, no love songs. All my life I thought I was crazy, that I had ghosts in my head or something... simply because I could hear music. Of course, I didn't know it was music. All I knew was that it was something... beautiful and... and painful and right. And I was the only one who could hear it. Then I wound up here and heard Aretha for the first time...")Hearing Aretha for the first time will do that for a person.
Bye, Andy. Thanks for all the jokes and songs.
Sia
More information about Andy can be found here.
Youtube videos:
Lorne tribute - Green Psycho - posted at my blog
Numfar does the dance of joy
Note for fans: That's Joss Whedon playing Numfar.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Geek Fun: Colbert, NASA, Marvin the Martian and the ending of Glactica
Geek Fun:
It's Wednesday, so let's have some fun.
My own personal Pagan, Eco-Feminist, Geek note on the ending of Glactica:
OK, writers, here is where you got it really wrong: No woman on that ship would agree to leave the tech behind. Ever. We want our birth control, if not our weapons (I want my weapons), along with our houses, our heating, our tools, our medical advances, and, ahem, our equality, thank you very much. I want this for myself and my kids and their kids to come.
By putting the survivors on our earth and setting them among early man (weak!) you ruined the entire redemption theme. All I could think of, as a woman/Pagan/viewer was, "Oh, great. Thanks, Starbuck! We all know how that turned out: wars, oppression, genocide, persecution, extinctions of whole species, book burnings, and the desecration of Mama Gaia and for what? So two "angel-like" beings can walk through downtown Manhattan at the end, noting how we've come full circle, all the way back to technology, which may yet kill us because our hearts have yet to catch up with our brains. Awesome.
...and don't get me started on the mythology.
Piffle. Shear piffle. You people owe me.
(Update 3/27) The 7 Deadly Sins of Religion In SciFi
Now this is good writing: Hare-Way to the stars.
Will Stephen get his space module? or You don't have to be a rocket scientist:
Meanwhile, NASA has announced a solution to the naming vote; one which had occurred to a great many of us: NASA might name toilet for Stephen Colbert.
Don't look at me, I voted for "Serenity".
... and speak of Josh Whedon, did you catch the last episode of Dollhouse? It seems that the show has finally hit it's stride. For the first time, it felt like something Josh had written. See Dollhouse becomes pleasingly complex.
That's all the geek news for now...
Oh, wait! I almost forgot:
Discworld Fans: The North American Discworld Convention has now sold 550+ memberships out of a total of 900. If you are thinking of going, consider buying your titckets soon.
There, I hope that helped you get through Wednesday.
All good things,
Sia
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It's Wednesday, so let's have some fun.
Battlestar Galactica's final episode left one crucial question unanswered, and it's got the two vampires with souls all worked up, in this clip from Angel: Angel and Spike Debate the Ending of Battlestar Glactica* Spoiler Alert *
My own personal Pagan, Eco-Feminist, Geek note on the ending of Glactica:
OK, writers, here is where you got it really wrong: No woman on that ship would agree to leave the tech behind. Ever. We want our birth control, if not our weapons (I want my weapons), along with our houses, our heating, our tools, our medical advances, and, ahem, our equality, thank you very much. I want this for myself and my kids and their kids to come.
By putting the survivors on our earth and setting them among early man (weak!) you ruined the entire redemption theme. All I could think of, as a woman/Pagan/viewer was, "Oh, great. Thanks, Starbuck! We all know how that turned out: wars, oppression, genocide, persecution, extinctions of whole species, book burnings, and the desecration of Mama Gaia and for what? So two "angel-like" beings can walk through downtown Manhattan at the end, noting how we've come full circle, all the way back to technology, which may yet kill us because our hearts have yet to catch up with our brains. Awesome.
...and don't get me started on the mythology.
Piffle. Shear piffle. You people owe me.
(Update 3/27) The 7 Deadly Sins of Religion In SciFi
Now this is good writing: Hare-Way to the stars.
Will Stephen get his space module? or You don't have to be a rocket scientist:
Meanwhile, NASA has announced a solution to the naming vote; one which had occurred to a great many of us: NASA might name toilet for Stephen Colbert.
Don't look at me, I voted for "Serenity".
... and speak of Josh Whedon, did you catch the last episode of Dollhouse? It seems that the show has finally hit it's stride. For the first time, it felt like something Josh had written. See Dollhouse becomes pleasingly complex.
That's all the geek news for now...
Oh, wait! I almost forgot:
Discworld Fans: The North American Discworld Convention has now sold 550+ memberships out of a total of 900. If you are thinking of going, consider buying your titckets soon.
There, I hope that helped you get through Wednesday.
All good things,
Sia
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Iron Man reminds us that mythic stories still work
Josh Whedon: Honorary Pagan
Stephen Colbert and the Pagans
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