Random Foo of the Week
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newnumber6This year I managed to completely avoid the Oscars, yay! Not even one second of actual coverage (although of course I had to suffer through recaps in news and such, but I can't count that). Sorry Jon Stewart, even you can't get me to watch that claptrap.
Just when I thought I was over the cold, it's come back. Or I've had a new one, not sure which. Either way, it sucks. I was down to maybe one fit of coughing every couple of days, but in the last two days suddenly I've been coughing constantly again. BAH.
Question to ponder: Say you're in a hopeless situation. That is, there's no way you could get out of it. Terminal disease, locked in a cave in with help too slow to reach you, etc. The thing is, you don't know that it's hopeless. But someone does, and it's someone who you'd trust what they'd say. Would you rather be given false hope, or be told the cold hard truth? (I suppose it's similar to the 'if you were going to die would you want to know or be surprised' question a few weeks back, but it's slightly different and nobody answered that one anyway).
Me, I'm mixed. I tend to deliberately operate low on hope. 'I will not hope. Hope is the soul killer. Hope is the precipice overhanging total desolation. I will quash my hope. I will not allow it into me.' yadda yadda yadda. But in a final situation, where, say, I'm going to die, (and assuming I'm not wanting that) I'm not sure. I might like to feel hope for a while, make the last few hours/days/whatever go by more pleasantly. On the other hand, I'd probably want to know so I could settle anything I could and not stress myself out by trying something that's futile. Maybe even end it ahead of time if it's a lingering painful death ahead of me. Plus, purely aesthetically, I'd probably rather not my last conscious thoughts be that I was decieved.
I don't write fanfic anymore, but once in a while I still find myself involuntarily plotting it a little, in my head. Particularly, crossover fanfic. While watching BSG a few days ago my mind started wandering to how to cross over with Firefly. Basically, I came up with the following: Serenity comes across a Cylon raider dead in space that seems to appear out of nowhere. Despite cryptic but crazy-sounding warnings from River, they connect and attempt to salvage it. Suddenly, there's a power buildup and both the raider and Serenity disappear from their known 'verse. The Cylon's jump drive was damaged, on the blink and erratic and was jumping across to a parallel world. They return right in the middle of a Cylon battle with the Colonial fleet. The rest of the Cylons are blown up, but they send people to investigate Serenity. Adama thinks they're Cylons, President Roslyn thinks they're descendents of the 13th colony, but either way they're kept aboard Galactica while they plot a jump course away. Serenity crew are just WTFing not knowing what's going on and wanting to get back because they have a job to finish.
Other random bits that would need to be worked in:
Jayne and Starbuck. Come on, you just know they've gotta meet.
River interviewed by Gaius and completely freaking him out because she can hear the voice in his head (which incidentally convinces him that she's a Cylon).
In an emergency situation, Simon assists the grizzled old smoking doc from BSG. Simon knows more cutting edge medicine, but the doc mocks him anyway.
Inara inadvertantly nspires a movement to provide 'solicitors'
Mal meets the President and is unimpressed. Tells her 'Earth got used up'.
Kaylee wanting to see Galactica's engine room.
Simon considers whether it might be best all around to stay with River on
Galactica because it would at least put them far outside the reach of the
Alliance.
Main plot is Serenity trying to convince everybody that a) they're not Cylons and b) to let them get their ship back to the crippled Cylon raider when it jumps universes again (which it does back and forth on a regular schedule) before the Cylons arrive.
(I've only seen up to S2 episode 8 so don't spoiler anything beyond that please. ;))
Hey, this is cool... anti-griddle, instantly freeze stuff you put on it!.
Apparently Toronto's going to become a giant Wireless Hotspot. Huh. Not that it affects me.
Just when I thought I was over the cold, it's come back. Or I've had a new one, not sure which. Either way, it sucks. I was down to maybe one fit of coughing every couple of days, but in the last two days suddenly I've been coughing constantly again. BAH.
Question to ponder: Say you're in a hopeless situation. That is, there's no way you could get out of it. Terminal disease, locked in a cave in with help too slow to reach you, etc. The thing is, you don't know that it's hopeless. But someone does, and it's someone who you'd trust what they'd say. Would you rather be given false hope, or be told the cold hard truth? (I suppose it's similar to the 'if you were going to die would you want to know or be surprised' question a few weeks back, but it's slightly different and nobody answered that one anyway).
Me, I'm mixed. I tend to deliberately operate low on hope. 'I will not hope. Hope is the soul killer. Hope is the precipice overhanging total desolation. I will quash my hope. I will not allow it into me.' yadda yadda yadda. But in a final situation, where, say, I'm going to die, (and assuming I'm not wanting that) I'm not sure. I might like to feel hope for a while, make the last few hours/days/whatever go by more pleasantly. On the other hand, I'd probably want to know so I could settle anything I could and not stress myself out by trying something that's futile. Maybe even end it ahead of time if it's a lingering painful death ahead of me. Plus, purely aesthetically, I'd probably rather not my last conscious thoughts be that I was decieved.
I don't write fanfic anymore, but once in a while I still find myself involuntarily plotting it a little, in my head. Particularly, crossover fanfic. While watching BSG a few days ago my mind started wandering to how to cross over with Firefly. Basically, I came up with the following: Serenity comes across a Cylon raider dead in space that seems to appear out of nowhere. Despite cryptic but crazy-sounding warnings from River, they connect and attempt to salvage it. Suddenly, there's a power buildup and both the raider and Serenity disappear from their known 'verse. The Cylon's jump drive was damaged, on the blink and erratic and was jumping across to a parallel world. They return right in the middle of a Cylon battle with the Colonial fleet. The rest of the Cylons are blown up, but they send people to investigate Serenity. Adama thinks they're Cylons, President Roslyn thinks they're descendents of the 13th colony, but either way they're kept aboard Galactica while they plot a jump course away. Serenity crew are just WTFing not knowing what's going on and wanting to get back because they have a job to finish.
Other random bits that would need to be worked in:
Jayne and Starbuck. Come on, you just know they've gotta meet.
River interviewed by Gaius and completely freaking him out because she can hear the voice in his head (which incidentally convinces him that she's a Cylon).
In an emergency situation, Simon assists the grizzled old smoking doc from BSG. Simon knows more cutting edge medicine, but the doc mocks him anyway.
Inara inadvertantly nspires a movement to provide 'solicitors'
Mal meets the President and is unimpressed. Tells her 'Earth got used up'.
Kaylee wanting to see Galactica's engine room.
Simon considers whether it might be best all around to stay with River on
Galactica because it would at least put them far outside the reach of the
Alliance.
Main plot is Serenity trying to convince everybody that a) they're not Cylons and b) to let them get their ship back to the crippled Cylon raider when it jumps universes again (which it does back and forth on a regular schedule) before the Cylons arrive.
(I've only seen up to S2 episode 8 so don't spoiler anything beyond that please. ;))
Hey, this is cool... anti-griddle, instantly freeze stuff you put on it!.
Apparently Toronto's going to become a giant Wireless Hotspot. Huh. Not that it affects me.
