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[shadowkat]

Still trying to decide on an MP3 player - there is such a thing as too much information and too many choices, methinks. Brain explodes. Here's the one the guy at work showed me, which he bought his daughter. In case the link doesn't work, it's a second generation nano ipod and blue. I'd rather have black but they don't appear to have black except in 8 GB. I've been advised to get 4gb and always second generation, never 1st. Also told itunes works on all systems, although it appears to be crashing my pal, CW's system. Also told that itunes is free. Which after some additional research, appears to be true as does the fact it works on Windows, there are however issues with Windows Vista. (Really wish these stupid operating systems would stop upgrading every two years, just when I was getting used to XP, Windows wants to go to Vista. Doesn't matter, still on XP anyhow. By time XP is defunct, will be time to get a new lap-top.)

Working for a tech company makes one a bit more savvy than one used to be about this stuff.

Read flist, realized we aren't really in synch on tv shows any longer. For example: I like Dresden Files a heck of a lot more than anyone else appears to. Course, I knew going in that it was going to be *very* different than the books from listening to the podcasts at www.jimbutchernews.com. ^{(What? I was unemployed and bored out of my skull at the time. It could have been worse...much worse.)} Very funny podcasts by the way. Tell you everything you ever wanted to know about what they are doing or why they are doing what they are doing on that tv series. Process fascinates me. Much more than product does.

Still watching lots of other shows. Owning a DVR is loads of fun. Oh, did anyone else, who watched Heroes this week, think to themselves that Mohinder is just too stupid to live? LOL!
For a scientist, this guy is incredibly dumb.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad about holding onto XP...
I'm still using Windows 98!
I just hate the idea that I have to buy new software versions of everything on my computer (and some games were never put out on newer versions of windows at all), but worst: my printer/scanner isn't compatible with Windows 2000 and that pissed me off, that I would have to buy a new printer/scanner because microsoft can't make their new 'up-grades' compatible with existing technology (can you see me getting up on the soap box? LOL).

Now you have me all curious about jimbutchernews podcasts!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Yep, the company I work for is busy adapting games to fit the new Vista platform. LOL!

Worth checking out. Not all of them. But the first one was great.
They said that the Blue Beetle isn't used b/c well you know it's impossible to film inside a small volkswagon and while it works brillantly on the page not so much on screen. (The podcast commentator coins this great term to describe the fan response to detail discrepancies between the series and the books.
It's "nerdfury". LOL! So true. Beware of nerdfury! Have a confession to make - my favorite Harry Potter was the one that veered the most AWAY from the books, Azkaban.)

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

Mohinder's easily my least favorite character. I keep rooting for Sylar to kill him. ;-)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

LOL! Me too! Me too! But, alas, it's not going to happen. Mohindre is more valuable alive to Sylar than dead. He's sort of made himself indispensible to the guy who murdered his father and it really helps that he's completely oblivious to everything that's going on around him. I can't decide if he's just *really* stupid or highly self-involved. In fact it's absurdly and somewhat laughably ironic, Mohnindre's father inadvertently created Sylar, and now Mohinder is enabling him. The father - was a little smarter though, he figured out fairly quickly that Sylar was insane, hence the reason he got killed. But his son is oblivious.

Mohindre as a character is highly problematic. He's supposed to be a brilliant scientist, but he's written as a bit of an airhead and somewhat oblivious to what is happening around him. Scientists are supposed to be observant. Mohindre is about as non-observant and oblivious to his own surroundings as one can get.

Pretty actor, but not a lot there. He used to just annoy me - b/c the story drug whenever he came on screen and I was starting to think of him as mostly filler, now he is so ludicriously written, that I find him amusing. I keep waiting for Sylar to get bored and kill him or for him to finally figure out that this is Sylar and stupidly confront the guy.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Mohinder kind of reminds me of a guy I knew years ago; he was absolutely brilliant, a scientist with an IQ in the stratosphere, but he had no life skills at all, and was oblivious to so much...no common sense at all. Definitely safer in his Ivory Tower.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is what we call "book smarts" but no "street smarts". If I had to choose between the two? I'd pick street.

Book smarts is highly overrated.

It's all very well and good if you can do quantum physics in your head, but if you can't communicate it to anyone, share it, or for that matter figure out how to apply it - then so what? You might as well be staring at a blank wall.

[anomster.livejournal.com]

"I keep waiting for Sylar to get bored and kill him or for him to finally figure out that this is Sylar and stupidly confront the guy."

As to stupid confrontations, am I the only one who keeps hearing "My name is Mohinder Suresh. You killed my father. Prepare to die!" in their head?

What I don't get is why nobody else catches on to Sylar. He's way overplayed; he's so creepy it's just not credible that anyone would trust him. Maybe Mohinder is that dumb when it comes to people, but...well, this sounds strange to me, but it's like he's written that way but not played that way. Does that make any sense? I mean, genius-w/no-people-skills can be done right--Rodney McKay is a perfect example (is that who you had in mind when you mentioned quantum physics, s'kat?)--but here it's just not.

When it comes to the science, aycheb's right, but Mohinder can't be blamed too much for the stupidity of the science. The science is just written stupidly. I'd much rather they didn't make any pretense to being scientific. Even more straightforward things like medicine they can't get right. Like poor doomed Charlie: "There's a blood clot in my brain, & it's inches away from an aneurysm." If there's a blood clot in your brain? You're already having a stroke. And it doesn't matter if it's close to an aneurysm; either one could kill you, & having both is meaningless. They should've just given her cancer. And when it comes to any science behind the superpowers...they might as well just say it's magic, or some classic comic-book origin like gamma rays. Sorry for the rant, but this kind of thing just gets on my nerves. I try to ignore it & just let the stories be fun.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Re Dresden: I've read all the books and listened to three of the audios by Marsters (loaned to me by friends). Yet, love the series, and think Blackthorne is actually a better choice for Dresden than Marsters. Which is odd coming from a JM fan, I know, but Marsters is the wrong physical type. It would be like casting JM as Angel and DB as Spike. Wouldn't work. Harry is 6'5 and towers over everyone - part of what he has to deal with is that he towers over people - one of the things I found appealing about him - since that's rare in books, most characters are average height: 5'4-5'8, which is Marsters. It makes him stand out more. In the series it works - because he does stand out, he looms over Murphy and the other cops.

Re Heroes: Ah. I don't take Heroes that seriously, it's like eating cotton candy for the brain. Fun. And it has marvelous visuals. From an art direction and cinematography standpoint - it's quite a treat.
There's three tv shows that have great cinematography and visuals on at the moment - they are: Friday Night Lights, BSG, and Heroes. Dialogue and storywise - Heroes is the weakest and has the least to say, yet ironically is the most popular. Makes sense - people are tired after work, they just want to veg in front of the telly and watch pretty pics. ;-) I get that, feel much the same way. I DVR BSG and FNL, and watch Heroes live. Saving the other two for Fridays or Sat, when my brian isn't fried.

I have to say I find Heroes hilarious at times. But I've read a lot of comics in my lifetime and it does underline some of my issues with the form. And why I think of comics as a *guilty* pleasure.

Mohindre as a character bores me. Pretty, but not much there. But I find his stupidity highly entertaining in a weird way. I was laughing my head off this week. I mean, how oblivious can a scientist really be? Or anyone for that matter? LOL!

My favorite characters: Claire, Nathan, Hiro, and the invisible guy.

[ruthless1.livejournal.com]

Echoing embers_log here - don't worry about vista til you HAVE to. My work employs about 4000 people and the chancellors office issued a statement saying - we aren't supporting vista yet because there are just WAY too many bugs to be fixed as of yet. Which is a relief to me. I just updated my interent explorer and the new version is so user unfriendly and unituitive - it's ridiculous. I wish I had ordered a MAC at work for my last new computer - then I could have taken it home in three years.
You sound like you are having some fun at your new job. I am quite chuffed - it's good to see your spirits up. I would totally be in on the Heroes love but I play Irish music that night so I haven't kept up with it. I will have to wait for the dvds and get it all in one crunch.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Oh not worried. I learned my lesson with Windows ME. I'll keep my XP thank you very much. No one likes Vista. While researching ipods on amazon, found at least five reviewers whinging over Vista. I wish I could go Mac, but the business/finance world isn't into it. SQL isn't supported by Mac well. Nor are some serious database applications.
Graphics? Writing? Fun stuff? Sure. But biz stuff? Not so much. I know, I started on Mac and had to switch to a PC when I worked. Finally gave up and got a PC for home use as well.

Not sure "fun" is the right word, exactly. But I am enjoying the workplace. Oh it has it's issues, they all do. But of the one's in which I've worked, it's the most sociable, lively, and energetic. Also, not bored. The database I'm working on configuring is highly important and a challenge. Requires all sorts of analysis - contract, data entry, financial calculations - and interfacing with a wide variety of folks. Brain dead when I come home is a good thing. You can tell when things get bad for me - by how often I post on my journal, the more I post, the worse I am. The less I post, the better I am mood wise. Most people are the opposite I suspect.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

I can testify to scientists being incredibly dumb outside their specialist fields. With Mohinder, however, the science is also so bad I think you have to go with all-subject general stupidity as the only explanation. At least that makes him consistent.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yeah, I thought pretty much the same thing when I wrote that.
Yes, there are absent-minded and oblivious scientists...but this is pushing it. One wonders how Mohindre made it as far as he has? My current speculation is his ex-girlfirend was the brains and basically did all his work for him in exchange for sex. ;-)