February 2012
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December 2011
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WatchRon Moore’s fantasy cop show 17th Precinct
The above is a rough pilot of Ron Moore’s fantasy cop show that sadly never made it to our TVs.
Man…. We missed out on something big. As I have said many times, my favorite all-time TV series is Battlestar Galactica and so this show directed by the same director with stars from BSG and Caprica made me nerdgasm all over the place. It was...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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They're made out of Meat, by Terry Bisson
"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."
"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."
"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?"
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"
"So... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
"So what does the meat have in mind?"
"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."
"We're supposed to talk to meat?"
"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"
"Officially or unofficially?"
"Both."
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"
"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."
"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."
"That's it."
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?"
"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."
"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."
"And we can mark this sector unoccupied."
"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"
"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again."
"They always come around."
"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone."
September 2011
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Draw a Stickman →
This is awesome
August 2011
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July 2011
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WatchTransformers 4 Battleship teaser trailer
Damn, Hollywood. Can’t wait to see what you do with Minesweeper, Tetris, Asteroids, Tic Tac Toe, Pong or freakin’ Rubik’s Cube. Also, can’t wait to see how dark and gritty Captain Planet is gonna be.
Gotta be honest, this teaser piqued my interest, like every sci-fi movie with alien robots does. But seriously, Hollywood?...
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Harry Potter and the Minor Differences
I’ve watched Deathly Hallows part 2 twice now. It was an EPIC movie and a great ending to the series. Filled with epic battles and emotional scenes. The movie took a lot of liberties with the book though, changed some scenes, added new ones, removed some. But I thought that almost all those changes were the right choices and actually made the movie better.
(Spoilers ahead!)
Ollivander knew...
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The Harry Potter movies
The 2nd part of the Harry Potter post. just my opinions on the movies.
1. The Sorcerer’s Stone
When I first watched this I was actually quite disappointed. I felt that there were so many scenes and details left out. Watched with my dad who never read the books and he didn’t understand what was going on. I also felt that Daniel Radcliffe wasn’t a convincing actor (he’s...
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Some thoughts on Harry Potter
I’m gonna be really sad when I’ve watched the final Harry Potter movie. It was bittersweet when the Deathly Hallows book came out in 2007. I tried to read it as slow as possible (it wasn’t easy) because I really didn’t want the Harry Potter adventure to end. But I took comfort in the fact that the movies were still not over and that I had much to look forward to. And now...
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CylonZombie YouTube channel (off-topic (wait,...
The title is too long. But this post is short. Just in case the 10 or so non-spam followers of this Tumblr blog are wondering where the Frack I’ve gone to lately (doubt it), I’ve been kept “busy” with the Indie PC game Terraria and the Starcraft knock-off iPhone game Starfront: Collision. And I have a YouTube channel CylonZombie where I post Starfront vids if anyone is at...
June 2011
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Super 8
Watched it yesterday and I loved it. The kids actors are great. The action is great and a lot of suspense and thriller. A lot of scenes that made me jump in my seat. The director was careful not to use any of the horror movie cliche scare-tactics. Stuff pops up and scares you when you least expect. Although I have to say I didn’t quite like the ending. But the whole movie up to that point...
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“There’s a reason why you separate military and the police. One fights the...”
– Adama, BSG S01E02
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The Event cancelled? (old news)
I had no idea The Event was cancelled by NBC like a month ago. Well, there goes another sci-fi series I watch! Everything I watch gets cancelled with a cliffhanger ending apparently. (Note: there’s still a chance another network might pick it up though).
The cancellation is not that much of a surprise given how it’s such a letdown from all the hype of how it’s going to be...
May 2011
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PIRATES! (quick reaction)
Watched Pirates of the Caribbean 4 just now.
It was better than expected, but then again, I had low expectations. I just found a lot of things freakin’ confusing and hectic (but not as confusing and crazy as At World’s End). I thought it started quite promisingly and humorously with Jack Sparrow running the show. But then towards the end with the Spanish, British, Barbossa, Angelica,...
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Stages of Sleep
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Castle season finale
Watched the season finale of Castle yesterday. Gotta be honest, I didn’t really dig it. Yes, a lot of things happened. A lot of major things. Characters were put in unfamiliar situations, they fought, tables turned, people died and so on. Call me cynical, but I just felt that most of this drama was unnecessary and it was there just because it’s a season finale and they were trying to...
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