Fun

Four websites I've tried to access this windy morning have failed. One of those websites is what I use to access my personal email.

This does not bode well for the day.

Reorienting my Disorientation

Nothing says fun on a Tuesday morning like waking from a dream that is so vivid that one wakes not knowing where one is or which is real: the dream or what one sees when (allegedly) awake.

Sort of like after night of heavy drinking only without the pain.

Though I guess last night's martial arts class helped deliver its own dose of pain.

In other news, it's rather windy this morning.

Weekend Recap

* Drinks (five pints of Death & Taxes in a short span of time)

* Getting obliterated in two games of pool (only tangentially-related to the above point)

* Presenting a Stein of Science as a birthday present

* calling 9-1-1 in response to someone's cry for help and never learning what that was about

* Finishing season one of "Arrested Development" (finally)

* Finding the local, unseasonably warm, weather to be uncomfortable (but it sure beats ten inches or more of snow)

* Enjoying experimental rum drinks with family

All-in-all, good times.

Um... wow

Two reactions:

1) The dork is STRONG in these ones!

2) This is really some insanely-spectacular work!

Bonus: this is really funny

新年快乐

I'm told 新年快乐 translates to "Happy New Year" in a mix of traditional and simplified Chinese.

I certainly hope it says that. My source is a bit untrustworthy and this might actually say something extremely unflattering as to my character.

Um... yeah. So... carrying on.

Hoppy... um... happy Year of the Rabbit, to those who observe such things.

[Edit] I've been told by a more reliable source that it's better to use this text:

新年快樂 [/Edit]

Hitting the Target

I've been musing on comments re: the "Human Target" series for a while.

Then I saw Salon's review of this season and I decided this covers it better (and far nicer) than I could ever express my take on this latest season.

Matt Soller Seitz does an excellent job covering the basics. I have to agree with his take on things. Specifically:

* The plots for season two have just been really, really bad.
* Chance has been... less... somehow. His character just isn't the same wry, funny, super-competent character he was in season one.
* Winston has just become whiny.
* Guerrero has become a joke.
* Ames is losing the charm she added to the show (her marriage subplot was so stupid that I wonder what the writers were smoking).
* Ilsa Pucci has yet to develop any charm at all. Her character is tiresome, shrewish, judgmental, and devoid of any value to the overall story.
* The quasi-romantic leanings the writers are trying to do with Chance and Ilsa feel contrived and really wrong.
* The music is crap, especially when compared with Bear McCreary's stirring scores from season one.

It feels like a completely different show using several of the same actors. It's amazing how season one could be so utterly awesome and season two could just turn into epic trash.

I agree with Seitz that the show could still be salvaged, but I don't have any hopes that FOX will take the steps to do so. Season one was solid and very good. Someone in the higher echelon of FOX's dysfunctional management felt that formula was a mistake and had to piss in it.

No reason to think they'll try to fix it at this point.

Da? DA! Duh

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