May | 2009 | Bluejacky: Existential Aspie

Month: May 2009

major spoiler alert, new Star Trek movie question

Seriously, if you haven't seen the movie, close this NOW, or I'll completely ruin it for you.

Query: If the planet Vulcan is completely and violently destroyed by a bad guy traveling into Spock's past, never to be recovered in any spacetime shape or form, assuming even if this does become a parallel universe (hinted at in the movie), and further assuming other crucial events still play out certain ways (Khan, whales), what happens??? No T'Pring, no katra recovery, yada yada. No Spock. Um...

I liked the character pre-development just fine. The movie was ok. (Ok, I personally thought it sucked for a long list of reasons, but the characters were still good.) But is anyone else out there outraged that not only is Vulcan eradicated from history now, but that everything throughout all the series and the movies having anything to do with Vulcan are now negated? Simply a different spacetime 'universe'? Does anyone else think it's sinfully and blatantly WRONG to completely wipe out so much established story and history in such a carefully constructed scifi world? Does this set precedence for ~anyone~ to come along and just rearrange the game board any old way they want for every other scifi world out there??? And I haven't even mentioned Kirk's whole past being changed, too. Because it LOOKS like some lucky fart bought the franchise and decided what the heck, let's just rewrite the whole thing and go forward all over again, *ka-ching*. Easy money.

I'll refrain from lengthy discourse on what I truly thought of this movie (especially a couple of crucial physics you-gotta-be-kidding-mes), except to say it makes the Undiscovered Country look about 90% better now. But I do still stand by the character pre-development, it was pretty good. If anyone wants to argue, keep in mind I've seen every single episode and movie since I was a small child (including the cartoon), and I'm not easily swept off my feet with CGI and story gimmicks and soundtracks that rip off other shows right and left. Not wanting to offend anyone, but if my own husband has nicknamed me Sheldon, there's probably not a chance anyone can convince me this movie doesn't just wad up Star Trek as we know it and kick it into a trash can.

The Kevin and Patrick Blog: The New Star Trek Movie Sucks!

Ok, ok, I have a sense of humor, too... When *haven't* they sucked?

Ah, I hear some of you wanting to know what else sucked.

Let's say you've got this laser big enough to reach a planet's core. You DON'T need to lower a 'drill' into the planet's atmosphere... What a waste. Plus, you'd think there'd be a little atmospheric drag. Plus you'd think the G-force from the sudden stop at the rate they were falling woulda ripped those parachutes, or at least their necks and brains. And since when doesn't a falling object (even a human body) heat up falling through the earth's atmosphere that fast? Because that looked just a little too fast. Did I mention they were falling REALLY really fast? Everybody wants a little Iron Man in their movie...

Red stuff. If all it takes is one drop to crush a supernova or whatever into a black hole, why in the world do you need a tank of it? And how in the world do you contain it in drop form inside what looks like a precautionary old-style radiation tube, like Doc Brown used for plutonium in Back to the Future? Oh, and if the supernova woulda destroyed Romulus, wouldn't a black hole have done it, too? Think, Spock, think! That kind of stuff doesn't 'buy time'!!! *writhing on floor, mouth foaming, cursing the writing team...* We're talking EASY physics here, guys...

Speaking of the supernova, how could Spock have been too late? If a supernova is imminent, it's *already* too late, people. Duh. If you even have an inkling your star is reaching supernova stage, and you live in a generation of warp speed and stuff, you'd have the whole Federation out there getting your people out, as they have saved countless other races from imminent destruction. That was all glossed over a little too quickly, and too easily were they conveniently sucked into the past through the hole Spock made after he wasted an incredible amount of time inventing and containing Red Stuff, and you'd think Nero would have more brains than to stew about it with all that technology at his hands. Wow, HE could go back in time and save his planet... He'd be a hero! Hero Nero! Because, and correct me if I'm wrong, if Nero went back in time, wouldn't he have all that time to warn his people, warn the planet, get hold of Spock and say Hey, dude, you're gonna mess it up... Because back in the past, where Nero *went*, Romulus still *existed*... I can't believe that one never came up on the writing team. I mean, if Nero can completely rewrite Spock and Kirk history, why can't he rewrite his own?

The ship Nero had looks like it came off Babylon 5.

The bug he put in Pike's mouth was dangerously close to being ripped right off Stargate SG-1. Given such a brief visual on that, never to be brought up again, I'm surprised it made it into the movie at all, barely being necessary except to save Pike's integrity in some way, since we know he'd have died before giving up any info. Back in the old days that was called a 'plot device'.

Soundtrack. omg. Since when does Star Trek throw in operatic Latinish-Vikingish chorus like every vampire, fantasy, and scifi movie has been doing for the last ten frickin' YEARS???

You know all that lighting flashing around while they were on the Enterprise? i.e., the light just over Sarek's head, the camera moving constantly about in between characters and the white background temporarily flashing through brightly at us-- that used to be called "bad filming". I found it so bothersome that I wore sunglasses through the entire film.

I'm really pissed that Spock's mom got killed.

I'm REALLY pissed that Uhura was all kissy-faced with Spock on the transporter pad, when he's the most strictly guarded and staunchly regulatory officer in the fleet. Since when do we get all kissy kissy on the transporter pad??? Sorta negates the whole hiding the feelings thing if he's going to let some chick feel sorry all over him like that, poor widdo boy...

McCoy was perfect, Scotty was ok, LOSE THE EWOK.

Sulu was ok, since when did Chekov suddenly start taking over the whole ship... wow, things we never knew about the 17 year old genius who was even smarter than Spock... again, wow... Gee, maybe they shoulda had Chekov save Romulus...

Best scene-- McCoy chasing after Kirk and jabbing him over and over with more shots. Awesome.

Poor Scott got two hours of me ranting after the movie. He took it well.

And I guess I'm not the only one screaming...

Why (the new) Star Trek Movie sucks « Vagueland

P.S. Kirk driving his (now) step-dad's vintage car around and somehow crashing it off a really big cliff in IOWA... Isn't this in OUR future? Do they still use gasoline? Um... Yeah, and it's sad that they used THAT scene to sell the original trailer on us. Who wants to see a space movie where some little boy is crashing an old car off a cliff like Indiana Jones? So he hates his step-dad, so big deal.

By the way, boys and girls, Kirk was originally born in Iowa, not out in space, so even the whole Nero thing can't explain that one away.

I'll probably see the movie again, heck, I'll probably even purchase it. But I'll still be mad at it. It's a Star Trek tradition to rant and spit about the movies and still continue to collect them out of loyalty.
- 8:50 am
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reset- back to default, or new programming?, or, End of the World, mach IV
From Dprogam.net

“We are going through more than a cycle. The global economy, and capitalism, will be ‘reset’ in several important ways. The interaction between government and business will change forever. In a reset economy, the government will be a regulator; and also an industry policy champion, a financier, and a key partner.” --General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt

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I've had a few things on my mind the last 2-3 weeks. That right there pretty much iced the cake for me.

So what else is bugging me? I'll throw a hodgepodge of thoughts on here, just for the heck of it.

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I was a minority in a New Mexico boom town school system back in the '60's and '70's, lived 16 miles from a reservation, 6 represented tribes bussed in, also blacks, Mexicans, and everything imaginable one could call oneself, like dego, mulato, spanish-indian, etc. I was a white kid being chased around by gangs for several years. People who haven't lived through real oppression don't have a clue what they're talking about. When I was a kid, Navajos were starving during a blizzard on the reservation, and our govt drop-shipped rotten meat and popcorn. Blacks had nothing to do with either side of it. Why is it always blacks who are 'oppressed'? I'm just saying, because the mainstream media generalizes people who are anti-big government (which I have been all my life) to being racist now, since we now have a black President, which is silly. Especially when it comes from a mouthy broad who could be selling hot dogs in a ball park if she hadn't made it as a 'comedian'. I feel like mainstream media has lowered themselves to a real gutter at this point, and if that's the best they can do... But, follow the money...

I told you I have Asperger's, get a little over focused on details. I'm one of those people who love digging up the puzzle pieces behind the scenes. When the Sci-Fi channel first took Lexx over from Showtime back in the '90's, Sci-Fi was owned by the same French company (Vivendi) who owns Verizon now.
Vivendi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I happened to notice because I was uber into 'SciFi Prime' on Friday nights, which was a real golden age in scifi, with Farscape, Lexx, and Stargate leaping ahead of the times with state of the art filming being brought to series tv.

That company got so huge that an American judge had to break it apart some years ago. Immediately after, I found out that Showtime, Sci-Fi, MGM, and Universal Studios had all been absorbed by this company, and guess what-- now they own --- wait for it ---- MSNBC. NBC also owns the Weather Channel now. MSNBC has teamed up with Big O and GM and will be getting kickbacks off the bailouts. Bill O'Reilly from Fox News started going head to head with them about that just this last couple of weeks. This all started happening over a decade ago, and people are just now starting to question it. Personally, I'm bewildered that so many people are so clueless, but again, I tend to obsess over details and trivia that others don't find that interesting.

I know that talk radio was threatened immediately when Obama got in, and very few people know that there is legislation trying to pass about not being able to publish written material about an incumbent during an election year, but now I see that the networks were setting this up for a long time. When Lexx first aired, I caught the very first dotcom commercial on VHS for the retail chain I was working in at the time, and over that year, reports came back that the Sci-Fi channel was singlehandedly driving more dotcom business than any other network, showing the world that scifi fans take television viewing more seriously than any other group. It was an experiment in teaming up corporate giants, using broadcasting media to drive computer media. I really wish I'd been able to keep all the links to these articles, but sadly, my computer crashed between back then and now. But basically, you have a previously French-owned company showing the U.S. how to monopolize media and USE it...

We have never been this close to govt propaganda in America with MSNBC now as the old Soviet Russian govt was when I was a kid. I remember listening to monkey jokes from Russia on a short wave radio when I was little, because they weren't allowed to do much else besides report what they were told. For those of you who don't pay attention, we are ~this close~ to losing free speech in the media.

I guess the most disturbing part of 2009 is how constantly the American people have felt jerked around, how many are feeling disenfranchised beyond the point of tolerance now, and how ridiculed "We The People" are being for saying Hey, wait a minute... How helpless we feel standing up against noticing that we're being derailed. And I'm not talking GOP or party affiliations, I'm talking PEOPLE. Regular people, waking up and going What...?

This was written by a well educated black woman, she's getting bombed about saying Jeanine is wrong to call us racist redneck teabaggers.
Political Intersection » Garofalo on Tea Parties: Racists Who Hate Obama

More black response to Jeanine.
Blacks Against Obama Suffer Stockholm Syndrome: Jeanine Garofalo

I definitely left responses on both sites. To reduce the whole thing to racism is childish, and and so are bully tactics.

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OpenCongress amendment- Text of H.J.Res.5 (unlimited term for president)

This was proposed nearly as soon as Obama got in. Funny how long it's taking to get out to the public. If this isn't a sure sign they have an agenda toward obliterating the U.S. Constitution and our national sovereignty, I don't know what is.

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"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries." --David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission in a speech at the meeting of the Trilateral Commission in June 1991

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‘Obama care’ is bad medicine | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, MO

Columbia, Missouri has one of the leading university research hospitals for cystic fibrosis in our 4-state area. Terminally ill children of all ages regularly show up in Columbia for treatment and maintenance. I'd say it's a fair bet that this is going to affect MANY parents of children stricken with cancers, juvenile diabetes, and a number of other challenges, perhaps like Down Syndrome. In short... eugenics? Some of the brightest minds I've met were in ill bodies. Where will our next Stephen Hawking come from?

"President Obama and congressional Democrats insist their plan would help rein in costs, but the only way to do that is to ration care. Consider, for example, the nationalized health program in the United Kingdom. Created shortly after World War II, the National Health Service has suffered ongoing deterioration in the amount and quality of services delivered to citizens in the U.K.

Glimpses of Obama care, tucked into the unread stimulus bill, reveal national panels deciding who gets what medical procedures and which expensive drugs. This new federal program is intended to determine which medical treatments offer, quoting former Sen. Tom Daschle, “the most bang for the buck” and will limit access for patients not meeting a cost-benefit test.
The elderly and infirm can expect triage dispensed by distant panels favoring the younger, the more economically productive and politically connected patients. Those favored will move to the head of the line for heart transplants and other life-extending procedures. Experimental treatments might be denied."
I find it disturbing that kids are probably going to get pulled into this, not just old people. Got cancer? See ya. Born with a challenge that prevents you from being economically productive? Can we say eugenics? How many of you knew about Economic stimulus? Feds want your medical records.
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How will changing legislation affect your 'backyard farming' in the U.S.? Between the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 and the new swine flu pandemic scare, it's quite possible that what this fellow says might actually happen.

Comment from Marginal Revolution: The new swine flu: this is not a joke

"The problem isn't the living in close contact, but doing so outside the traditional society/cultural system. The problem is the structure of cities and how "Western" prescriptions are written for improving them, quickly describing the problem simplistically and then proposing simplistic responses that create more problems.
If your public health prescription is to banish the animals living with people, you are mandating specialization on people that requires that they always be able earn a living in that specialty. If there exists a possibility of unemployment, then your public health solution creates the public health problem of starvation, and that is solved by welfare.
The integration of people and animals creates a diversity of capital investments which allows families and small groups to survive changing fortunes. Disrupt that old system that allowed societies to survive the bad times and in the good times free up time to pursue creating knowledge and built capital, (for example, figuring out how to refine iron and make objects from steel), and you end up with families and small groups vulnerable to collapse.
From an economic standpoint, are a few thousand deaths from bird-swine flu so great that a means of living needs to be disrupted so that instead the result is tens of thousands of deaths from the poverty that denying people their capital, the chickens and pigs they keep with them to support them when other income is not available."
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Seen the movie "12 Monkeys"?

If you can wrap your head around the med-speak in this, the suspicious 'sudden appearance' of this virus in one of the biggest cities in the world during 'spring break' gets even more suspicious, since flu deaths of this kind were NOT being locally reported before it suddenly appeared simultaneously around the world.

Written in March by a nucleotide research scientist recognizing that our last 'pandemic' was 'accidentally' engineered.
Origin of current influenza H1N1 virus

CIDRAP >> Human swine flu cases with unique strain raise concern

A never before seen strain? If you read that first article closely about how the molecular chain not only mutates but can be engineered and stored...
Swine flu H1N1: evolution of a virus | World news | The Observer

This will sound like a stretch, but think for a minute. How odd is it that this very virulent strain of H1N1 would show up out of season without warning in multiple countries (our world watch on flu strains is phenomenal) and wind up actually making it nearly to the hand of the U.S. President on foreign soil before REAL alerts went up about it existing on the media?

Is it too much to wonder if this was a trial run bioterrorist attack (seeing's how this conveniently affected global economy very quickly), can we assume that a real attack on U.S. soil could take place while our nation is tied down with illness/disaster response once this has mutated to a more virulent autumn season, as is being predicted?... (the race is on, apparently, to stockpile new flu shots.) This kind of attack is an attack on ALL of us. You can blame poor farmers, you can blame bad business operations (I'm still not clear whether they finally settled that this really began on American soil on a corporate pig farm), but it's interesting that Obama and the World Health Organization had us going through a 'fire drill' that threw the globe into a pig-killing frenzy after NON-poor globe trotters contracted and spread it all at once after convening on one spot, and then they suddenly told us to relax. ~For now~.

Remember, never let a crisis go unused. The timing, execution, and global cooperation on this one is astoundingly slick. For instance, you can check updates on your state daily at 2009 swine flu outbreak in the United States. If this isn't a test of the emergency broadcast system, I don't know what is. In case of an emergency, we will be told what to do...

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Having really blinky satellite and broadband on a beautiful day (May 7th), thought I'd check SpaceWeather.com

"Earth is entering a solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole. Credit: Hinode X-ray Telescope"

Big Solar Flare Portends Sun’s Return to Normal | Wired Science
See Also:
Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly
The Sun Is Acting Up Again
What Makes the Sun Flare
The 2012 Apocalypse — And How to Stop It
Discover the Earth’s Magnetic Personality

2012 may bring the “perfect storm” – solar flares, systems collapse

"Long scorned as “mysticism” and “parascience,” concern about the year 2012 has now surfaced in a mainstream NASA report on the potential impacts on human society of solar flares anticipated to peak in 2012. The Obama administration and other national governments are not aggressively focused on contingency preparations for the 2012 solar flare impacts, or on introducing available anti-gravitic, new energy sources that would transform centralized high-power electrical grid systems into de-centralized, anti-gravitic and quantum process energy sources. These new energy sources are less vulnerable to destructive solar storms, have no negative environmental impact, and could unleash unprecedented economic and social transformation."

The rest of that article is really informative.

If His O-ness is too cool to listen to real scientists, perhaps he will bail us out when the grid goes down???

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I will make a prediction. This is something people don't think about. Do you all remember the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? They spent elaborate amounts of money filming on location, dealing with weather, getting costuming and CGI down to the jot and tittle, using *thousands* of people to pull all this together... Has it occurred to ~anyone~ that this kind of ART in film making will never come again after our economy flips over? Anyone? Are we witnessing the end of our Golden Age? If big industry is coming under federal regulation now, can we assume that the film industry and sports and the tourism industry will all come under regulation, as well?

We take it all for granted. Beautiful things. Even the poorest of us owning technology and eating well. My brother-in-law did several tours of duty in Iraq and Kuwait, and he saw POVERTY. He saw MISERY. He came home and said the poorest American is RICH compared to the people he saw over there. I know other peoople who do mission work around the world. They say the same thing. Americans don't appreciate what they've got.

I have been predicting for well over a decade now that our very taken for granted American freedoms and the assumption that we'll always be able to run to a store to shop will go away one day, and we'll wake up and wonder what the heck happened. We go, No, we're this big strong country... Um... are we? I have never seen America look so glaringly crippled as the way it's been portrayed through the eyes of Obama. Crisis! Continual crisis! We must fix it! Hurry!

Is he right? Is he wrong? Is it more than that? Is it Orwellian???

Am *I* right? Like I said, I've been saying this for a long time. It's been coming for a long time.

I'm worried that if anything happens to Mexico, I won't be able to get avocados.

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Have you guys heard about the Food and Drug Administration going after cheerios? They either have to take their claim of reducing cholesterol off the box, or be regulated by the govt like a drug. Seriously, won't be long till green tea is regulated because it touts antioxidants, and blueberries are regulated because they have cancer-fighting properties...

Sometimes I wonder if the only thing that can save us from all that crap is to be pulsed to a standstill by a nuclear warhead, because I think the economy crashing won't let us reset to a default free market system at all. If anything, it'll make it easier than ever for the govt to control everything we get to have in our lives.

Nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) - Imminent danger to the US # 1

Electromagnetic Pulse Attack: A Preventable Homeland Security Catastrophe

"An EMP attack on the United States could materialize in two forms: nuclear and non-nuclear. The most devastating form, and most difficult to achieve, is an EMP that results from a nuclear weapon. This form destroys any "unhardened" electronic equipment and electric power system— which means virtually any civilian infrastructure in the United States. The pulse occurs when a nuclear weapon explodes above the visual horizon line at an altitude between 40 and 400 kilometers. The detonation of the nuclear warhead releases photons in the form of gamma radiation and x-rays. These energetic particles scatter in every direction away from the blast. Many of the particles descend and interact with the magnetic field lines of the Earth, where they become trapped. The trapped electrons then create an oscillating electric current within the field, which rapidly produces a large electromagnetic field in the form of a pulse. Once the pulse reaches electronic equipment, it negatively interacts with them and either disables, damages, or destroys them. An EMP generated by a nuclear weapon could affect all critical infrastructures that depend on electricity and electronics within the vicinity of the nuclear warhead blast radius. A nuclear weapon with a burst height of approximately 100 kilometers could expose objects located within an area 725 miles in diameter to the effects of EMP."

Think about it-- RESETTING our economy back to zero... Erasing all debt. Throwing us back into third world conditions until grids and batteries are rebuilt and replaced.

Think about it. North Korean missile launch... Smaller countries with bigger agendas wanting to 'take us down'...

"Besides the domestic consequences of an EMP attack, it would also be difficult for the U.S. to organize a coherent retaliatory strike against the aggressor. America's armed forces may simply be unprepared for an attack, or our national devastation could prove too distracting. Furthermore, it may be too difficult to rapidly determine the perpetrator of the attack, for instance, if a compact E-Bomb were smuggled into the U.S. If a nuclear warhead is detonated in orbit, there is a strong potential for substantial damage to U.S. and other satellites as well as any spacecraft in use at the time of the explosion. The military applications of such satellites are critical for defense systems that rely on GPS guidance, such as ballistic missiles and many conventional military strike weapons. The adverse impact on U.S. space-based communications, early-warning assets, fire-control systems, overhead sensors and imagery, and geospatial intelligence would be substantial as well.
Near-term recovery could prove impossible because of America's dependence on extensive transportation networks and other electricity-powered infrastructures. America's infrastructure is highly interconnected, as was demonstrated during the blackout. A problem in one part of the country can translate into problems across the United States, contributing immensely to lives lost and property destroyed during an EMP attack."
It'll be interesting to hear Jeanine G.'s commentary after something like that happens. Oh, wait. Our tv's won't work...
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Just a few things on my mind.
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long forgotten survey (or, Let's Get Spocked)

Will you cry at your wedding?
Another useless survey to get me through a long night after I've exhausted all other avenues of interest or entertainment.

Are you named after one of your parents or grandparents?
I wish I could say I was named after this song.
(I would have preferred this hi-def full vid version here, but the embed codes it contains automatically started ALL my youtubes playing...)The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Dammit Janet Free Movie and Video Clip
But I was named after a cousin, go figure. I could have been named Betsy, but there was a Betsy Wetsy doll at the time, so my dad objected. I could have been named either Rachel or Rebecca, have no idea how those got tossed out, just know they were options. I was almost named Gretchen, seriously. Scott's boss at work calls me Gretchen since I told him that. But no, I got the same name as my dad's older sister's second kid, and I was my dad's first child. Lack of creativity? No other cool names on either side to borrow from? I might've liked being Claudette, even, maybe that grandfather would've liked me better for it. Needless to say, was a little awkward growing up with a cousin nearly my age with the same name, like I was a copycat or something, and the only saving grace I've ever found in having this name (since it's terribly unromantic and plain and seems like I constantly run into women I don't like with my name) is that it actually made it into one of the most memorable movie cult songs of all time. One of my coolest memories from college was walking into class and the boys on the front row announcing my arrival with "Dammit!"

Are you wearing any clothes that don’t belong to you?
My sox are getting pretty close to not belonging to me. Holes. Growing.

Have you ever liked someone who all your friends hated?
It's pretty sad when not one of the 150 people you work with has a *clue* when you pull a classic Jack O'Neill line.

What is your current annoyance?
Beware. ~Asking~ me to whine is dangerous, I could easily go 10,000 words on you here.

What are you doing besides this survey?
Thinking maybe if I body slam myself backward just right against a door frame, maybe I can kill the nerve that's keeping me up right now.

Do you know anyone who is pregnant?
One of my chickens laid an inside-out egg the other day. It was pretty gross.

Does anyone hate you?
Yeah, but I don't keep a list, and I don't care why. No one ever asks in surveys if I've received threats of bodily harm or malicious intent to 'take me down'.

Is there anyone you want to come see you?
It's tempting to wake Scott up to massage my neck... I like this commercial.
What are your plans for the weekend?
Groceries.

Are you a bad influence?
I realized when I was about 7 or 8 that someone switched universes on me, so there is an evil me out there somewhere wreaking havoc on the unwitting masses.

Have you ever had a serious conversation with your dad?
Trying to convince the man that scifi isn't corrupting my soul got pretty serious one evening.

Do you miss anyone?
Quit it, I'm trying not to go in there and wake Scott up to rub my neck. I'm trying to be a ~good~ wife.

Last person to make you smile?
I'll tell you what I'm really good at. I'm fresh outa bed at 5:30, bumping into things with my eyes half closed, turn on the tv and can't for the life of me punch in the channel right so it takes 5 tries to pull up Fox News, and I've got 3 seconds before Michio Kaku comes on (ON THE SET) to discuss the new Star Trek movie, and I come full awake and recording it live in a flat nanosecond, and totally understanding everything he says. ~No~ ~coffee~. Anything else, I'm useless.

What are you doing tomorrow?
Delicately avoiding contracting swine flu during a necessary trip to town for an appt and a refill.

Do you think/know anyone has feelings for you?
Scott has no idea how much he adores me right now for not waking him up to rub my neck. I'll let him know tomorrow so he can appreciate that.

Do you have a lot on your mind at the moment?
I've got a bag of hot corn on my left shoulder attempting to smooth things over with sweet nothings to my neck.

Who was the last person you talked to on the phone, what was it about?
I think it's working. Plus I took some benadryl.

Who was the first person you talked to today?
Not a clue. I tend to talk to objects. The first object I talked to today was the remote.

When is the next time you will hug someone?
Gotta love this question, so many ways to approach it. The network is down, you'll have to reschedule. I can pencil you in next Thursday. Woops, you missed it, just hit the back button. Hang on a sec, let me focus my time binoculars so I can get a good reading on that...

Do you know anyone whose name starts with a Z?
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

Do you know anyone whose name ends in Z, though?
I've got a cracker conundrum. I like different kinds of crackers to munch on with cheese, cashews, and juice, right? Every time I decide to get some crackers lately, I'm noticing that the 'better if used before' date is a year ago. I'll either have to limit my selection so I'll finish them up on time, or just clear them all out and get all new ones and then clear them out again next year. Do you guys ever wonder if food will get ridiculously cheap if we ever really do have a pandemic that wipes out part of our population or a nuke goes off somewhere because they have to move it off the shelves by that date? And then prices will skyrocket because the people who make the food will croak off and the shipping industry will grind to a halt. I wonder these things late at night. Strategic food price watching...

Someone asks you on a date, where do you wanna go?
We usually wind up going to Lowe's or the local hardware store, and once I got to go fishing, but my dates mostly consist of a weekly breakfast out before we get groceries.

You have to get a facial piercing, what do you get?
Tough decision. Maybe one of those big round things that stretches your bottom lip out down to your neck...

Are you mad about anything?
I'm a little peeved that my Slap Chop takes longer to use than simply mincing everything manually with a knife, because stuff gets so packed up in the blades that I have to keep digging it all out. They don't show you that part on the commercial.

Have you ever ridden a horse?
I'm getting the weirdest feeling I've filled this survey out before.

Are you scared of sharks?
I'm pretty landlocked, but big black spiders do the trick.

You get arrested, what for?
Taking the big round thing out and using my droopy pierced lip for a slingshot. You can put an eye out with those.

Who did you last hang out with?
Need we ask? After I recorded Michio, I went straight to an old Star Trek rerun that dvr'd at 5 a.m. Sorry, once I get into the Spock youtubes, I really can't stop, they crack me up. Need some 'Spirky goodness'.


Last thing someone bought for you?
*about 12 hours later* I asked the chiro if he remembered the way the lights strobe up the plasma coils in front the antimatter containment field in Star Trek, and he said no, it's been years since he's seen that. I said Too bad, because that's how the pain was strobing from my left shoulder up my neck and into my cranial nerves all weekend. He did confirm that the bizarre bolts of pain shooting down my left leg into my foot every time I go to the bathroom was classic for irritation of the the ol' lower disk bulge. ~Niiiiiiice~.

Does anyone know your password besides you?
So, where were we? Ah, yes, I'm doing this stupid little survey to help time go by while I suffer. Nothing like stubbing your toe real good to take your mind off a throbbing migraine, I always say. Nothing like a survey to challenge one to new heights in pain management. Beats heck outa meditation.

Have your parents ever caught you drinking?
I would ~love~ a margarita right now. Haven't had one in years. If you love your liver and take medication warnings seriously, you sadly dream of margaritas and dig up cool stuff in youtube.
What woke you up this morning?
Today was one of those crazy mornings where I actually slept in till 7, can you imagine? I know! I slept the whole stinkin' day away!

What’s the last thing you laughed really hard over?
I have to hold it down to snickering. Yeah, sux. One of these days I'm gonna go down in total bronchial spasms and laugh myself to death, sure hope it's worth it, because once I start, *I* *can't* *stop*. Doesn't take much, either, so I must always keep the strictest vigil over hilarity ensuing.

Did you have a good birthday this year?
The deja vu in this survey is throwing me off track. I keep getting rerun answers stuck in my head.

Have you broken up with anyone in the past week?

Sorry, I must be on this Spock kick because I can't go see the new Star Trek movie without being heavily medicated and someone driving me.

Do you think relationships are even worth it?
I think this pretty much says it.

Has anyone told you lately that they would always be there for you?
Scott told me if I go before him he'll die, because he can't cook. I guess if he's assuming I might go first, that's an automatic "I'll always be there for you" rationale. Having a pie hanging around never hurts a relationship.

Would you ever get a tattoo?
On purpose? Pay someone to scar me up artistically? And then watch it fade and blur on aging hairy skin? Or have a mosquito bite swell part of it up into something ridiculous? It would be a real drag if I had another accident plummeting down my backyard head first and half scraped the thing off or something. It would be a ~tragedy~ if it were a really cool 'too of Mr. Spock in his prime.

Did it rain today?
Shut up. I'm sick of rain.

Would you rather be called hot, cute, or beautiful?
I get a compliment out of Scott once every 3 or 4 years. A couple of months ago he said I look cute in my bell bottom jeans.

Do you have a little sister?
I tried to stop them...

Do you like Taylor Swift?
No one ever asks if I like Carly Simon.

Tell me a fact about the last person that texted you.
She hasn't spoken to me in person in about a year, and never acknowledges my existence unless she's mass texting people on holidays. I refuse to reciprocate or validate that crap.

When's the last time you ate at Taco Bell?
Dang, I've got that written down some place...

Have you ever broken anything because you were mad?
I never dreamed I could break a door frame. Years ago, folks, move along, nothing to see here.

Have you ever been in a long distance relationship?
Scott's at work. I'm here. I'm not sure about the actual mileage, but I'm pretty sure you could call it long distance if you were using a horse and buggy, might take a couple days to get there. Or longer if your horse came up lame and the river swelled up from all the rain. Better get used to thinking like this, people, one of these days we'll be pulsed and go back a century or two.
Nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) - Imminent danger to the US # 1

What was the last thing you ate?
I hashed browned a potato and then scrambled an egg in it, then put ketchup on it. It's about the only thing besides a burger than I'll put ketchup on, and I rarely eat burgers.

Do you like the song Crush by David Archuleta?
This is such a drag... Gotta liven it up a little again.


Have you ever watched The OC?
Sorry, walked off from this again. Let's see, about 17 hours have gone by since that last youtube. If I told you I folded space and just skipped all that, would you believe me?

Have your parents ever hated your boyfriend/girlfriend?
My parents stayed out of my love life a little too much, actually. Wouldn't have minded if they'd have been a little more interested in some of my more catastrophic alliances.

Do you and your best friend share clothes?
Scott refuses to wear my nightgowns.

Is fall your favorite season?
Wo, how did you do that??? Ok, what number am I thinking of?

What should you be doing instead of this?
I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, finishing this up and getting it out of my way. The fact that I'm doing it so early in the morning while I drink my hot chocolate makes me doubly productive.
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I've started transferring my survey posts over to Surveypalooza so people coming in from search engines on mobile devices will be able to see the surveys.

Apologies for the missing vids, another upgrade during the server migration swept through like a scan sweeping through the Enterprise. I'll fix those later, kinda busy...