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shadowkatFairly relaxing day of doing very little...well not quite. Made butternut squash soup (quite easy, poured pre-chopped butternut squash, celery, carrots, onion with a little olive oil in a pot, added sea salt (sauteed for 10 minutes) then pepper, sage and ginger, plus 3 cups vegetable stock (boiled for 20-30 minutes), then pureed. Also made Betty Crocker's Gluten-Free Chocolat Chip cookies (btw - Betty Crocker's Gluten Free Chocolate Chip cookie mix is by far the best - and yes I've tried all the health nut ones, not to mention the cheapest.) Cleaned. Bundled up, took down various boxes, trudged six blocks for groceries, trudged back. Read. Watched tv. Wrote on the internet. Read flist.
Notable news items online or things that I feel like commenting on:
1. So, now that Disney has bought Star Wars, they've assigned their go to guy and current cult fav, JJ Abrahams to direct. (Hee, they'd ask the other cult fav director (which is under contract to them) - Joss Whedon - but they already assigned him the entire Marvel franchise to develop and oversee, one franchise per customer, please.) So now, Abrahams is doing both Star Trek and Star Wars? Oh dear. Isn't that two franchises? (To be fair the Marvel Universe is a bit bigger than the Star Trek/Star Wars franchise). Although Star Trek admittedly was more entertaining than I expected, I don't see Star Wars being rebooted well.
I'm hoping he chooses to go with door number three - continuation of the story or Star Wars the next Generation/Rebuilding the Republic - which is the story I've always been the most interested in.
2. Stephen King decided to write a 25 page essay about Gun Control - telling gun owners that it is time for stricter regulations! Which was great, except for one thing...the essay isn't free nor readily available to anyone who doesn't own a Kindle or feels the desire to buy it for 99 cents on the Kindle. So, the mind boggles, why didn't he just blog the essay or send it to a magazine so that people could scan it and share it across the net? It's not like he needs the money or anything.
3. CW has ordered a Lord of the Flies style pilot series called The Hundred, about a post-nuclear society who decides to send 100 juvenile delinquents with dark pasts to investigate the possibility of colonizing a post-nuclear holocaust Earth - hundreds of years after the fact.
Now...two questions come to mind:
1) If you are a juvenile delinquent - doesn't a dark past sort of come with the territory?
2) Why would any society seeking to re-colonize/return to a planet that was out of commission for ages, decide to send a bunch of juvenile delinquents to do it? How is that going to tell you it can be colonized or habitable? Unless you are bored and thinking, you know, we can get rid of the kids who are driving us crazy and host a reality tv series to entertain everyone else on-board our ship at the same time? Also, if they happen to survive and thrive...bonus, we can send a real team to investigate without worrying about losing any vital crew members or supplies in the process? Still seems a bit counter-productive.
Notable news items online or things that I feel like commenting on:
1. So, now that Disney has bought Star Wars, they've assigned their go to guy and current cult fav, JJ Abrahams to direct. (Hee, they'd ask the other cult fav director (which is under contract to them) - Joss Whedon - but they already assigned him the entire Marvel franchise to develop and oversee, one franchise per customer, please.) So now, Abrahams is doing both Star Trek and Star Wars? Oh dear. Isn't that two franchises? (To be fair the Marvel Universe is a bit bigger than the Star Trek/Star Wars franchise). Although Star Trek admittedly was more entertaining than I expected, I don't see Star Wars being rebooted well.
I'm hoping he chooses to go with door number three - continuation of the story or Star Wars the next Generation/Rebuilding the Republic - which is the story I've always been the most interested in.
2. Stephen King decided to write a 25 page essay about Gun Control - telling gun owners that it is time for stricter regulations! Which was great, except for one thing...the essay isn't free nor readily available to anyone who doesn't own a Kindle or feels the desire to buy it for 99 cents on the Kindle. So, the mind boggles, why didn't he just blog the essay or send it to a magazine so that people could scan it and share it across the net? It's not like he needs the money or anything.
3. CW has ordered a Lord of the Flies style pilot series called The Hundred, about a post-nuclear society who decides to send 100 juvenile delinquents with dark pasts to investigate the possibility of colonizing a post-nuclear holocaust Earth - hundreds of years after the fact.
Now...two questions come to mind:
1) If you are a juvenile delinquent - doesn't a dark past sort of come with the territory?
2) Why would any society seeking to re-colonize/return to a planet that was out of commission for ages, decide to send a bunch of juvenile delinquents to do it? How is that going to tell you it can be colonized or habitable? Unless you are bored and thinking, you know, we can get rid of the kids who are driving us crazy and host a reality tv series to entertain everyone else on-board our ship at the same time? Also, if they happen to survive and thrive...bonus, we can send a real team to investigate without worrying about losing any vital crew members or supplies in the process? Still seems a bit counter-productive.
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Date: 2013-01-28 10:47 pm (UTC)The Hundred is about a ship that is searching for habitable space years after a nuclear holocaust made earth uninhabitable. They want to try and colonize/inhabit Earth again.
Great Britain is a country, who got decided to send people to other inhabited and habitable countries...to get rid of them. In this case their convicts and debitors - mainly because of over-crowding in their prisons. They had habitable land and were quite happy where they were - they just wanted to acquire more.
The only similarity between the two is they both choose to send convicts, but Great Britain's decision makes logical sense - ie, let's get rid of our convicts and have them pay us taxes on the new land, and send valuable resources while we sit pretty here - plus we've acquired more property = more power, and we have people there who are capable of fighting off our enemies.
The Hundred logic is oh, we need to find a habitable planet fast, wait, I know we'll send a bunch of kids who get in trouble and can't behave down to this old planet that we made uninhabitable ages ago - to check it out! That way if they die, we know its not inhabitable.
Sigh.