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BG 3.05

Very good.

Ron Moore is an evil genius.

In case you're wondering about the count, the last number at the end of season 2 was 49,550 and now it is 41,435. It would be cool if someone graphed the numbers against an accurate timeline. There's an outstanding question about what percentage of the 8,000 person drop was due to the nuke, what to deaths on New Caprica, and what to people left behind on New Caprica.

It would be nice if every once in a while someone explicitly said "you know, there are only 40,000 humans left in the universe, maybe we shouldn't be killing one another".

Info about survivor counts from Wikipedia.

Labels: battlestar galactica

posted by Richard at 14:50 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

rogers speed test

http://speedtest.hispeed.rogers.com/



Not bad, I'm paying for Extreme, 6000/800.

I was commenting the other day that it's interesting that we have gone from 300 bits per second (300 baud modems) to over 3,000,000 bits per second (3000 Kbps hispeed Internet). I think we have yet to fully grasp the changes that are washing over us.

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posted by Richard at 19:21 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

BG Webisodes: La Resistance

I, err, located all the BG webisodes bundled together and watched them.
Basically they explain how Jammer ended up in the NCP and how Duck ended up blowing himself up.

Vaguely useful I suppose.

The three-minute format was pretty limiting.
I had an idea that they should have done ten 3-minute interviews instead,
either with Lucy Lawless still pretending to be human or with her as a Cylon as part of some New Caprican propaganda initiative.

Previously:
BG 3W01

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posted by Richard at 15:46 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

bg 3.04

yay

I watched it twice.

I hated New Caprica so much.

It took me a day to figure out why the lights in one scene jumped out at me - I finally figured out that we used to have the exact same light posts down the middle of the street where I grew up. I'll have to check whether we still do next time I'm home.



UPDATE 2006-11-04: Check it out





ENDUPDATE

In case you're finding all the Galactica mysticism weird, be aware it's not new - I suggest you locate the only watchable episode of Galactica 1980,

"The Return of Starbuck"

As it happens, it was just on Space yesterday as well.
In it, Starbuck crashes alone on a desolate planet, and wonders whether he may have died and is in the afterlife. He finds a crashed Cylon ship and, bored with a lack of companionship, rebuilds a Cylon ("Cy") and befriends him (after he convinces the Cylon not to kill him). Eventually, the Cylon feels that Starbuck is bored with him, so the Cylon goes to find a wo-man for Starbuck. Rather surprisingly, he returns with a pregnant one. Cy says something like "I'm sorry if you don't like this one, there wasn't much selection". When Starbuck asks the woman where she comes from and how she got on the planet, she replies, "from another dimension, in the usual way". As a bonus, she informs Starbuck that she is carrying their "spiritual child". She also informs him that they must build a ship, because the Cylons are coming, and will bring Judgment Day with their arrival.

The child ends up being the incredibly annoying Galactica 1980 Dr. Zee, which is why I refer to New Galactica's hybrid baby Hera also as Dr. Zee.

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posted by Richard at 11:54 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)

when blogger goes bad

It is really difficult to make highly reliable systems.
Witness the phone failure in St. John's, and keep in mind that the phone network is supposed to be one of the most reliable systems ever designed.

This also happens all the time, in my experience, with power systems.
Often the UPS fails, or the backup generator fails.

Blogger failed yesterday - both primary and backup systems went down.


posted by Richard at 11:36 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)