There’s one small nit-picky thing that bothers me a little bit about Stargate: Atlantis. When McKay talks about the ZPM, he pronounces it with a ‘zee’. But he’s supposed to be a Canadian scientist and should be saying it as ‘zed’.
Of course the most obvious explanation is that he’s been working with Americans so long that it’s corrupted the way he says things. I bet he probably uses the ‘-or’ spelling instead of the ‘-our’ spelling too.
Well, it’s just a TV show I suppose.
I just realized that 4 out of the 5 main SG:A characters are Canadians after reading the cast profiles. I thought some of them looked familiar.
More digital crack to get addicted to
I decided to check out Bejeweled 2 from Astrawre to see how it compared to Bejeweled.
I swear, this game is just pure unadulterated digital crack, even stronger than the first one. It’s got cool music, exploding gems, lightning, 4 different variants to play, talks to you and looks absolutely stunning. All you have to do is see someone play it and you’re addicted. Those of you with addictive personalities would probably be better off not even touching this game.
It’s big, taking up 1.5 MB of space on my PDA and another 755 kB if you install the music file.
If you’ve got the space, it’s definitely worth a try (if you dare).
NIST Time services
All you ever wanted to know about NIST time services
Link from Nicholas
Babylon 5 movie!
Sweet! Seems a movie based on Babylon 5 will start filming in April.
Can’t wait to hear more about it.
Heads up from Slashdot
ME LaZerte Class of 1987, where are you now?
I happened to catch My Coolest Years: The Geeks on VH1 last night, which got the wife and I talking about our high school experiences.
I’d say I was definitely a geek in high school, but I wasn’t nearly as tormented (at least I don’t remember being tormented anyway) as some of the geeks on the show were. I roamed among a fairly diverse crowd and had a lot of friends in just about every group you can think of. But I was definitely a geek. I did things like Reach For the Top (one of those team-based answer the question type games) and student council.
While most of the guys opted for the machine shop/industrial arts type options or band or sports, I chose Food Studies because I knew one of these days I’d be out on my own and would need to know how to cook and feed myself. The three years of Food Studies (10, 20 and 30) I took turned out to be one of my favourite classes in high school.
Unfortunately I’ve since lost touch with many of my high school friends, except for an occasional e-mail from someone who managed to stumble onto my email address. Every now and then I wonder what some of those people are doing now. Maybe some of them will stumble onto this blog and find a former classmate. If you are one of those people, leave a comment or email me!