watching a bit of a great comedy on tv (ok, not a comedy but it’s funny)

latest episode of Lost. in this episode we go back to 1867 (or whatever), last time i watched it it was 1977, apparently somebody’s going to tell someone about the island, Jacob gives an assignment..

i’m sure they’re making it up as the cameras are rolling…like the last 2 or 3 seasons…

- bitter ex-Lost fan.

obama announced a few days ago that the U.S. was not going back to the moon, “because we’ve been there”

it would be a major achievement to send a manned mission to mars, but i think that mission would be an epic fail.

back in 1969 (if you don’t believe the conspiracy theories) NASA sent guys to the moon with probably less technology than is in your fancy remote.

these days shuttles explode because a tile bought at a big box store came off during re-entry.

and for those that remember the first shuttle launch in ‘77 it was postponed because 3 computers couldn’t agree on some timing.

i think NASA needs to go back to basics and at the very least go to the moon just for the practise of a manned mission.

in 2003 somebody got the idea to make a movie based on philip jose farmer’s Riverworld series.

they did not do a good job.

i saw the movie a few months ago. i’m a big fan of the series which i read years ago. i see on the imdb forums they are calling it the “original” movie. um, ok.

so a different group of geniuses decide to make the movie (or mini series, not sure i saw it as a two parter the other night) again this year.

ok, free ticket for the clue train that the writers can use anytime.

you don’t take a 5+ book series, which has a ton of material you can use, rip out a lot of good content and then replace it with your non-pulitzer price tripe.

you don’t throw out random plot bits from the book with no explanation. yeah the fans of the series will get it, but they’re gonna have to explain it to the people watching with them.

you don’t reverse characters ideals, remove other characters (that you hinted might show up) and add your own characters, include stupid flashbacks to support the new characters.

you don’t try to stuff 5+ books into 3 hours of movie.

and you absolutely DO NOT have a stupid dumb feep ending where Methos saves Riverworld.

i’m starting to think that Blizzards’s “Recruit a Friend” option they have for World of Warcraft is a bit of a scam.

Sure i’m seeing the new mounts so obviously somebody got through the whole process but i haven’t.

when i go to the status page it doesn’t even show the friend account as having been upgraded to a standard account. it’s completely paid up to the end of this month, and of course, the referring toon doesn’t have his mount yet.

i don’t want to go on and on about it or i’ll start to sound like Francis (check out the rest of his. pure genious

i guess i’ll just have to get any of nice mounts the hard way… by earning them

can we stop calling openoffice “microsoft office compatible” now? it’s not. the list of features it DOESN’T support is longer than the list of features it does.

hmmm, when i started this bog entry i was going to list all the features that weren’t supported.

truth of the matter is. if you got locked into the the ms office suite because you used all the features it had over other word processing programs, congratulations, bill and steve’s evil plan is working.

and no, i don’t have an alternate solution ms word is probably the best word processing software available BECAUSE it has all the features. nothing wrong it that, and with some third party help you can run it on a mac or a linux box. so no real loss of productivity if you switch to those platfornms (have fun with the printer drivers though).