Battlestar Babblings Beta

THANK YOU PETA!

PETA has released a promotional piece featuring Battlestar Galactica’s Jamie Bamber to shed light on the cruelty of black-bear hunting.

Bamber's print PSA is part of PETA's campaign to persuade Queen Elizabeth to end the use of Canadian black bear fur for headwear worn by Buckingham Palace guards. Mr. Bamber is a native of London and films the space-based show in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.


Did I say thank you? SOOOOOO MUCH!



Also in the last episode of BSG, Deadlock, did you catch the Sci-Fi channel, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in-joke?

It was a quick scene, and you have to have watched FAR too much Stargate SG-1, but if you watched the scenes with Baltar and his harem in Dogtown, when they were distributing food, you would have seen Patrick Currie playing the heavy.

Patrick Currie played the role of Fifth, the fifth Human Form Replicator that the team encountered on Stargate SG-1. There were ultimately eight replicator “skin jobs,” if you will. Ironically, Tahmoh Penikett aka Karl “Helo” Agathon, played the Third model in the SG episode – and on BSG his character is now married to a Model Eight.

You have to wonder which of the skin jobs would win in a fight?

Cylon vs. Replicators

Grudge Match

Coming Soon ....

Classy Broad

In honor of my last day as a librarian at this particular institution, here's little fun:

Find your inner Dewey Decimal class number

Spacefem.com writes: “This quiz will convert your name to a class listed in the Dewey Decimal Classification system. That’s right. There’s no reason you can’t be classified, albeit randomly, just like a library book. Libraries are freaking awesome and we all need to read more, so there. Somewhere between 000 (Generalities) and 999 (Extraterrestrial worlds), you have a place.”... [emphasis my own]

Of the possible results you can get when plugging in your choice of name, number, and birthdates, I found these to be a bit ... well apropos. If you've been reading the blog lately, you'll get why. (Again, underlined emphasis my own.)

First Result:

638 Insect culture

Class: 600 Technology

Contains: Health, agriculture, management, public relations, buildings.

What it says about you: You are creative and inspired to make the world a better place. You can work hard on something when it catches your interest. Your friends have unique interests in common with you.

Second Result:

185 Aristotelian philosophy

Class: 100 Philosophy & Psychology

Contains: Books on metaphysics, logic, ethics and philosophy.

What it says about you: You're a careful thinker, but your life can be complicated and hard for others to understand at times. You try to explain things and strive to express yourself.

Third Result:

013 [Unassigned]

Class: 000 Computer Science, Information & General Works

Contains: Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.

What it says about you: You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

Can someone smarter than me explain to me how it is that my given name and birthdate fated me to be what I am?

What does your DDC quiz say about you?

Overdoing it on SciFi

I think I may be overdoing it on the sci-fi lately. It seems every where I look, I see Star Trek influences. (Darn you Gene Roddenberry, darn you!)

When watching the Next Food Network Star, all I could focus on was how much contestant Liza Garza's hairdo was bugging me, because she looked like a Vulcan and/or a Romulan. ESPECIALLY when she had a headband on, or had some hair tucked behind her ears.

Don't believe me?

Here's her p.r. shot from the show:

Here's a link to various female Vulcan hairstyles.

Then there are the communication devices. All those little earpieces/cellular hands-free devices that make people look like they are communicating with the Enterprise, begging to be beamed up. We're becoming more and more Borg-like. Put down the electronic equipment and step away from the devices.

Finally, there's this apparatus (shown below) that was quickly assembled--and then removed--from the local construction site across the way. Forgive me, but does it remind anyone else of the early mobile transporter devices from Star Trek: Enterprise? (Or am I the only one who actually tried to watch the first few seasons of that show?)

Look closely -- You've got the "laser beam," the "force field," and the ubiquitous redshirts.

See!?
I don't care if it's a surveying device. I swear the aliens are here!

Hi. I'm Auntie Nettie, and I need a sci-fi intervention. But frak it, just not until after the Series 4 Doctor Who finale on Friday. (That David Tennant is yummy!)

Thanks.

Live Long and Prosper.