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janegodzillaOh, Discovery channel. I love you, but sometimes you are really fucking ridiculous. Like right now? They just finished up a special on 2012, in which earnest scientists talk the viewer through all the disaster scenarios that (coincidentally? I think not!) occur in the upcoming 2012 movie, and then, in the last five minutes, admit that no, actually, it's pretty unlikely that any of them are going to happen. At least, not on December 21, 2012. Or at all, in some cases. At most, there might be some funky solar flare action, but that happens every eleven years or so and the world didn't end the last time around, so...
The dramatic narrator, of course, undermines all of this with one last dramatic pronouncement as the credits roll: "But the experts might be wrong," quoth the dramatic announcer. "And the doomsday prophets? Might be right. And in 2013, when the living envy the dead, no one can deny that WE. WERE. WARNED."
*cue movie promo shot*
Uh, thanks, dramatic narrator guy. That didn't come off as a blatant pitch for the upcoming film at all. Um.
Anyway, next week Discovery Sunday is going to present incontrovertible proof that Jack the Ripper crossed the Atlantic to continue his reign of terror IN AMERICA OH MY GOD, and that was the point where I think I started laughing hysterically and clapping my hands like a seal. I don't think it can get any more awesome than that, unless they decided to look at the science behind Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus or something. Given their current standards of programming (2012 this week, their Very Serious examinations of the Catholic Church and/or the Freemasons every time some new Dan Brown thing comes out), I really wouldn't put it past them.
Anyway. This has been a fairly quiet weekend, which was sort of nice. I just passed 15K on my NaNo project and I'm feeling good about it, so -- barring any school or life-related hiccups -- I'm pretty sure I'll be able to hit 50K this time around. The book itself will probably clock in at 80K or 90K (after editing...God only knows what it will be before that), but I'm under no illusions that I'll be able to make those numbers by the 30th of the month. I only wish I could type and/or plot that quickly!
Nate and I saw Paranormal Activity on Friday, and holy fucking shit, that movie scared the crap out of me. I really wasn't expecting it to, because it's been out for a while now and it had been hyped to the point where there was no way it could've lived up to how scary everyone said it was. But...yeah, I thought it was scary and disturbing as hell, and I'm really in no hurry to see it again in the near future.
Argh, back to studying the cardiovascular system. Finals are just after Thanksgiving, and I'm determined to feel good about at least ONE test in this class.
The dramatic narrator, of course, undermines all of this with one last dramatic pronouncement as the credits roll: "But the experts might be wrong," quoth the dramatic announcer. "And the doomsday prophets? Might be right. And in 2013, when the living envy the dead, no one can deny that WE. WERE. WARNED."
*cue movie promo shot*
Uh, thanks, dramatic narrator guy. That didn't come off as a blatant pitch for the upcoming film at all. Um.
Anyway, next week Discovery Sunday is going to present incontrovertible proof that Jack the Ripper crossed the Atlantic to continue his reign of terror IN AMERICA OH MY GOD, and that was the point where I think I started laughing hysterically and clapping my hands like a seal. I don't think it can get any more awesome than that, unless they decided to look at the science behind Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus or something. Given their current standards of programming (2012 this week, their Very Serious examinations of the Catholic Church and/or the Freemasons every time some new Dan Brown thing comes out), I really wouldn't put it past them.
Anyway. This has been a fairly quiet weekend, which was sort of nice. I just passed 15K on my NaNo project and I'm feeling good about it, so -- barring any school or life-related hiccups -- I'm pretty sure I'll be able to hit 50K this time around. The book itself will probably clock in at 80K or 90K (after editing...God only knows what it will be before that), but I'm under no illusions that I'll be able to make those numbers by the 30th of the month. I only wish I could type and/or plot that quickly!
Nate and I saw Paranormal Activity on Friday, and holy fucking shit, that movie scared the crap out of me. I really wasn't expecting it to, because it's been out for a while now and it had been hyped to the point where there was no way it could've lived up to how scary everyone said it was. But...yeah, I thought it was scary and disturbing as hell, and I'm really in no hurry to see it again in the near future.
Argh, back to studying the cardiovascular system. Finals are just after Thanksgiving, and I'm determined to feel good about at least ONE test in this class.