It's Monday. $h!^.
30.9.02
29.9.02
Today is Sunday. Wonderful. No homework, just the knowledge that Monday is creeping up, breathing down Sunday's back...Do you hear it?
The trekbbs is back!
The trekbbs is back!
28.9.02
Tripod should be hung, drawn, and quartered.
Urban Decay or Burban Decaf?
"Graphic art" class today. Maybe we'll be working with Photoshop again. Maybe we'll be doing something interesting. Why am I in a bad mood? It's Saturday! Is it because the trekbbs is down for 30 hours? Yes, that may be it. *Sniff*
"Graphic art" class today. Maybe we'll be working with Photoshop again. Maybe we'll be doing something interesting. Why am I in a bad mood? It's Saturday! Is it because the trekbbs is down for 30 hours? Yes, that may be it. *Sniff*
27.9.02
Yep, no tests today. Had to act once more in drama- this time had to be Dill . I was with Alex, Brent, and André. André was Gem, Alex was Scout, and Brent was Atticus.
So we started the scene. Dill, Gem, and Scout are playing a game. Dill is bored, he says that since he is going back to his home soon (he stays with them over the summer) he wants more try at seeing Boo Radley. The fishing rod thing didn't work, so they'll try looking through a window. Genius. To do that, they have to cross their yard and climb the fence that separates the two houses. They do so, and are just peering through the window when Nathan Radley, Boo's father, fires a gunshot. The kids leap from the window and crawl as fast as all hell back to their yard- but in the process Gem's pants get caught and come off.
So they get back to their own house. Atticus is waiting. He asks them where the heck they've been, and Dill, being the imaginative person that he is, tells Attcus that they were playing strip poker, and Gem lost a round and lost his pants. Atticus being who he is doesn't yell at them, but tells them to go back and get Gem's pants.
End of scene.
We finish, and start going back to our seats. Ms. Deemar cries "Don't sit down!" Addressing the audience (the rest of the class) she says "Comments?" Of course no one cares so no one says anything or raises their hand. So she starts going on about how I need to speak louder and how when we were playing catch the ball kept changing sizes (!) and how it wasn't believeable. What she means is that it sucked. Fine. I just wish she'd say that instaed of "Oh, you have to speak up more" for the five hundredth time.
Then she starts going on about how the fence was unbelievable. Fine. Ok, I get you, we can't act with fences. But she goes on. And on. And on. "The hole you crawled through was too big!" "The fence is supposed to be tall!" "You have to make it more realistic!" I didn't choose this class. I don't want to act. I don't like to talk in front of large groups of people.
Two or so more weeks of this. Wonderful.
So we started the scene. Dill, Gem, and Scout are playing a game. Dill is bored, he says that since he is going back to his home soon (he stays with them over the summer) he wants more try at seeing Boo Radley. The fishing rod thing didn't work, so they'll try looking through a window. Genius. To do that, they have to cross their yard and climb the fence that separates the two houses. They do so, and are just peering through the window when Nathan Radley, Boo's father, fires a gunshot. The kids leap from the window and crawl as fast as all hell back to their yard- but in the process Gem's pants get caught and come off.
So they get back to their own house. Atticus is waiting. He asks them where the heck they've been, and Dill, being the imaginative person that he is, tells Attcus that they were playing strip poker, and Gem lost a round and lost his pants. Atticus being who he is doesn't yell at them, but tells them to go back and get Gem's pants.
End of scene.
We finish, and start going back to our seats. Ms. Deemar cries "Don't sit down!" Addressing the audience (the rest of the class) she says "Comments?" Of course no one cares so no one says anything or raises their hand. So she starts going on about how I need to speak louder and how when we were playing catch the ball kept changing sizes (!) and how it wasn't believeable. What she means is that it sucked. Fine. I just wish she'd say that instaed of "Oh, you have to speak up more" for the five hundredth time.
Then she starts going on about how the fence was unbelievable. Fine. Ok, I get you, we can't act with fences. But she goes on. And on. And on. "The hole you crawled through was too big!" "The fence is supposed to be tall!" "You have to make it more realistic!" I didn't choose this class. I don't want to act. I don't like to talk in front of large groups of people.
Two or so more weeks of this. Wonderful.
26.9.02
...Thursday. This week is so ****ing slow.
The bbs on Carbon Creek:
Psion: A! One of the best of the series so far, much to my surprise.
"Moe."
Laughed my fake pointy ears right off on that one.
ghost kid :I give it a 1/10 it might be the worst episode in the history of star trek. It's even worse than all of Voyager put together. It also made me want to throw up because if was so lame and dull. Enterprise definatly needs to be cancelled. This was a disgrace to all of sci-fi and I pity you if you actually think it was good.
Mlle Bienvenu: As for the episode, I feel that it will be one of my favorites. I give it an A. It was thoughfully done, without extensive continuity holes (although there was that fact that they spoke near perfect English immediatly and understood quite a few idomatic expressions. . . but I guess I'll just chalk it up to the fact that their good at their jobs as anthropologists. . .) It proves to me that they really can do some good writing if they really set their minds to it.
Speaking of writing, I find it very interesting that they chose to portray this set of Vulcans more 'traditionally', that is to say, as un-Soval-like as possible. Now, if they had portrayed these Vulcans the same as the rest of the Vulcans on this series, I would have assumed that it was only the angle at which the writers were choosing to portray them. I propose that this is an intentional difference between the 'Carbon Creek' Vulcans and the Soval-ish ones to perhaps hint that Soval isn't as Vulcan as he'd want us to think. Do you think the writers can get away with that sort of subtlity? It seems like so many things are being bashed over our heads, it would be wonderful if they could drop a hint which required a higher order of thinking, after Soval's display last week on Shockwave II, I very much doubt his Vulcan-ness. Especially in the face of the argument presented in today's episode (they were debating what they should do about the miners) which gave us a model of how Vulcans normally 'problem solve' when there is a clash of wills and time is of the essence. It was very dynamic how they remained, to overuse a phrase, logical and calm. I kept waiting for one of them to raise their voice, as Soval would have certainly done, but it didn't happen.
In conclusion, (finally, right?)I found the writing, acting and execution of the episode to be what enterprise should stand for. In essence,I was very pleased. Again I give it an 'A'.
And about the Rommies having claking devices in the 22nd century...
Dayton3: The promos for Minefield next week clearly show a Romulan warship, looking like a primitive version of the one in "Balance of Terror" activating a cloaking device.
EVERY line of dialogue in the original series episodes "Balance of Terror" & "The Enterprise Incident" indicates that the cloaking device (or invisibilty shield) is a brand new device that the has never been encountered before.
If they show one being use in Enterprise, it is a massive continuity era.
Melakon: Despite the fact I "really liked" "Carbon Creek" (I did), I agree...there's no WAY cloaking devices existed in ENT's time. BASTARDS!
FearMe: Speaking if which, this is getting pretty pathetic. Klingons, Ferengi, cloaking Romulans and Future Guy: cant B&B do any better than rehashing what we have already seen from the "future" shows. Geez, how about at least SOME original ideas!
MoulinRouge: sigh
Good grief, what is it with some fans? They are absolutely miserable unless they can find something wrong. There must be something wrong. Gotta find the continuity error. Gotta figure out what's going to suck in next week's episode.....
Can't we just enjoy Trek? Or did everyone who insisted that Carbon Creek was going to suck before they saw it hang themselves because they were so disappointed that it wasn't that bad?
Psion:I find myself agreeing with Dayton3 a bit too much lately. Tonight's Carbon Creek was excellent, and next week's episode looks like it contains a major continuity flaw. I don't mind the Romulans showing up, but they simply can't have cloaking devices yet. Kirk and crew, and the commander on that doomed outpost, were too surprised by the Romulan invisibility screen for it to be merely an improvement on existing technology.
That said, there are two possible paths to get out of this problem that I can think of: 1) The effect was deliberately put in there just to get fans all riled up and it simply isn't part of the show ("fat" and "chance" seem to be related here). 2) The effect is simple camouflage and will be quickly identified as such by the crew. 3) There has been temporal contamination somewhere that will be corrected later in the series.
Three. Three possible ways to fix the episode.
T'Pols's Love Slave:I was pretty upset about Romulans having cloaking tech in Enterprise when I first heard about it. Then I watched "Balance of Terror" a week or two ago to refresh my memory and find out how blatant of a continuity error it. So my pleasant surprise it's not really a big deal. Nobody's ever heard of cloaking Tech it and Spocks says something like "Invisibliy is theoretically possible." It's really quick and they don't dwell on the fact that they've never seen a cloaked ship before.
Also, Enterprise already screwed up by having the Suliban and Xiryllians use stealth ships. In Kirk's era they hadn't heard of cloaking technology but in Ent they have. So Romulans having cloaking tech in ENT is not a problem at all. ENT's era is already well aware of cloaking devices so so be it. The problem is not at all with the Romulans using a cloaking device but with cloaking tech in general. Kirk and Spock hadn't heard of cloaking tech at all...not just on Romulan ships.
Euclid: Lt Stiles (Styles), who had an ancestor in the space service during the Earth / Romulan War, certianly made no mention that that this cloaking technology (or anything similar) was used during that confilict. He was something of an expert [ self proclaimed] on Romulans and the Earth Romulan War so I would think he would know about the cloak ... "Oh, you'll know them, Captian. They have great big birds of prey painted on them and they have an invisibiltiy cloak."
Spock makes the following statement to the entire ship: " As you may recall from your histories this conflict [ Earth / Romulan War] was fought, by our standards today, with primative atomic weapons and in primative space vessels ... there were no ship to ship visuals, therefore no Romulan, Human or ally has ever seen the other. " If cloaking was "old hat" for the Romulans I'd bet Spock would have mentioned it in his intraship communication.
After the Romulan ship appears, fires and disappears the following dialog is spoken:
Spock - "I have a blip on the motion sensor, Captian ... Could be the intruder."
Kirk to helm - "Go to full magnification"
Sulu - "Screen is on full mag, sir."
Kirk puzzled - "I don't see anything. [pause] I can't understand it."
Spock - "Invisibility is theoretically possible, Captian. The selective bending of light, but the power cost is enormous. They may have solved that problem."
It may not be conclusive proof that the Romulans cloaking tech was something new but it certianly suggests it. I think it would be a hell of a stretch to say the Romulans had the tech back in the days before the Earth / Romulan War.
Stovelkor: One need not see the episode to ascertain from the trailer that the Romulan ship decloaks. And knowing what we know from Balance of Terror, two and two can be put together.
What I don't understand are the people who get so irritated with people "bashing Enterprise." They can't understand why people are bothered by continuity violations. They rationalize everything to try to fit. Why do we get bothered by it? Because it doesn't make sense! Very rarely in the older shows, in TNG and DS9 did we, the audience, ever have to engage in that game. You people say, just enjoy it, it's a tv show. Well, I can't enjoy it, when my brain sits up on its hind legs and says "Rarf! Rat roesn't make sense, Raggy!" Obviously I'm capable of suspending disbelief if I can watch a show like Star Trek. But the producers of this show constantly insult my and everyone else's intelligence with their intattention to detail or their morbid ignorance or dismissal of previous Trek history. They have in their care a very large entity, and they really don't care about the rest of it; only on what they're doing at the moment. They really don't have any respect for Star Trek as a whole, and it shows. People like Ron D. Moore, Ira Steven Behr, those were folks who understood Star Trek and good television and story telling in general; just read any interview they ever gave and you'll see that. And then compare that with interviews with Braga and Berman regarding Enterprise. Don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself. You'll be amazed at the difference.
clindsly: The Enterprise is more advanced than the USS Enterprise NCC-1701. Does this count as a continuity error? (It would if we take into account Spock's comments in "Balance of Terror".)
There are so many errors with the show Enteprise when compared to the facts contained in TOS. However, this shouldn't surprise us. B & B are recorded as having a strong distaste for the series.
PPatters: I have a feeling that the cloaking device was added merely as a throw-back to The Original Series, and, until I see it on screen, I doubt that Captain Archer and the Enterprise ever actually see it being used.
Worf999: Spock was taken aback by the Romulan ship's cloak of invisibility. Perhaps in next week's episode it's more like stealth tech and not completely invisible regardless of the special effects used.
The bbs on Carbon Creek:
Psion: A! One of the best of the series so far, much to my surprise.
"Moe."
Laughed my fake pointy ears right off on that one.
ghost kid :I give it a 1/10 it might be the worst episode in the history of star trek. It's even worse than all of Voyager put together. It also made me want to throw up because if was so lame and dull. Enterprise definatly needs to be cancelled. This was a disgrace to all of sci-fi and I pity you if you actually think it was good.
Mlle Bienvenu: As for the episode, I feel that it will be one of my favorites. I give it an A. It was thoughfully done, without extensive continuity holes (although there was that fact that they spoke near perfect English immediatly and understood quite a few idomatic expressions. . . but I guess I'll just chalk it up to the fact that their good at their jobs as anthropologists. . .) It proves to me that they really can do some good writing if they really set their minds to it.
Speaking of writing, I find it very interesting that they chose to portray this set of Vulcans more 'traditionally', that is to say, as un-Soval-like as possible. Now, if they had portrayed these Vulcans the same as the rest of the Vulcans on this series, I would have assumed that it was only the angle at which the writers were choosing to portray them. I propose that this is an intentional difference between the 'Carbon Creek' Vulcans and the Soval-ish ones to perhaps hint that Soval isn't as Vulcan as he'd want us to think. Do you think the writers can get away with that sort of subtlity? It seems like so many things are being bashed over our heads, it would be wonderful if they could drop a hint which required a higher order of thinking, after Soval's display last week on Shockwave II, I very much doubt his Vulcan-ness. Especially in the face of the argument presented in today's episode (they were debating what they should do about the miners) which gave us a model of how Vulcans normally 'problem solve' when there is a clash of wills and time is of the essence. It was very dynamic how they remained, to overuse a phrase, logical and calm. I kept waiting for one of them to raise their voice, as Soval would have certainly done, but it didn't happen.
In conclusion, (finally, right?)I found the writing, acting and execution of the episode to be what enterprise should stand for. In essence,I was very pleased. Again I give it an 'A'.
And about the Rommies having claking devices in the 22nd century...
Dayton3: The promos for Minefield next week clearly show a Romulan warship, looking like a primitive version of the one in "Balance of Terror" activating a cloaking device.
EVERY line of dialogue in the original series episodes "Balance of Terror" & "The Enterprise Incident" indicates that the cloaking device (or invisibilty shield) is a brand new device that the has never been encountered before.
If they show one being use in Enterprise, it is a massive continuity era.
Melakon: Despite the fact I "really liked" "Carbon Creek" (I did), I agree...there's no WAY cloaking devices existed in ENT's time. BASTARDS!
FearMe: Speaking if which, this is getting pretty pathetic. Klingons, Ferengi, cloaking Romulans and Future Guy: cant B&B do any better than rehashing what we have already seen from the "future" shows. Geez, how about at least SOME original ideas!
MoulinRouge: sigh
Good grief, what is it with some fans? They are absolutely miserable unless they can find something wrong. There must be something wrong. Gotta find the continuity error. Gotta figure out what's going to suck in next week's episode.....
Can't we just enjoy Trek? Or did everyone who insisted that Carbon Creek was going to suck before they saw it hang themselves because they were so disappointed that it wasn't that bad?
Psion:I find myself agreeing with Dayton3 a bit too much lately. Tonight's Carbon Creek was excellent, and next week's episode looks like it contains a major continuity flaw. I don't mind the Romulans showing up, but they simply can't have cloaking devices yet. Kirk and crew, and the commander on that doomed outpost, were too surprised by the Romulan invisibility screen for it to be merely an improvement on existing technology.
That said, there are two possible paths to get out of this problem that I can think of: 1) The effect was deliberately put in there just to get fans all riled up and it simply isn't part of the show ("fat" and "chance" seem to be related here). 2) The effect is simple camouflage and will be quickly identified as such by the crew. 3) There has been temporal contamination somewhere that will be corrected later in the series.
Three. Three possible ways to fix the episode.
T'Pols's Love Slave:I was pretty upset about Romulans having cloaking tech in Enterprise when I first heard about it. Then I watched "Balance of Terror" a week or two ago to refresh my memory and find out how blatant of a continuity error it. So my pleasant surprise it's not really a big deal. Nobody's ever heard of cloaking Tech it and Spocks says something like "Invisibliy is theoretically possible." It's really quick and they don't dwell on the fact that they've never seen a cloaked ship before.
Also, Enterprise already screwed up by having the Suliban and Xiryllians use stealth ships. In Kirk's era they hadn't heard of cloaking technology but in Ent they have. So Romulans having cloaking tech in ENT is not a problem at all. ENT's era is already well aware of cloaking devices so so be it. The problem is not at all with the Romulans using a cloaking device but with cloaking tech in general. Kirk and Spock hadn't heard of cloaking tech at all...not just on Romulan ships.
Euclid: Lt Stiles (Styles), who had an ancestor in the space service during the Earth / Romulan War, certianly made no mention that that this cloaking technology (or anything similar) was used during that confilict. He was something of an expert [ self proclaimed] on Romulans and the Earth Romulan War so I would think he would know about the cloak ... "Oh, you'll know them, Captian. They have great big birds of prey painted on them and they have an invisibiltiy cloak."
Spock makes the following statement to the entire ship: " As you may recall from your histories this conflict [ Earth / Romulan War] was fought, by our standards today, with primative atomic weapons and in primative space vessels ... there were no ship to ship visuals, therefore no Romulan, Human or ally has ever seen the other. " If cloaking was "old hat" for the Romulans I'd bet Spock would have mentioned it in his intraship communication.
After the Romulan ship appears, fires and disappears the following dialog is spoken:
Spock - "I have a blip on the motion sensor, Captian ... Could be the intruder."
Kirk to helm - "Go to full magnification"
Sulu - "Screen is on full mag, sir."
Kirk puzzled - "I don't see anything. [pause] I can't understand it."
Spock - "Invisibility is theoretically possible, Captian. The selective bending of light, but the power cost is enormous. They may have solved that problem."
It may not be conclusive proof that the Romulans cloaking tech was something new but it certianly suggests it. I think it would be a hell of a stretch to say the Romulans had the tech back in the days before the Earth / Romulan War.
Stovelkor: One need not see the episode to ascertain from the trailer that the Romulan ship decloaks. And knowing what we know from Balance of Terror, two and two can be put together.
What I don't understand are the people who get so irritated with people "bashing Enterprise." They can't understand why people are bothered by continuity violations. They rationalize everything to try to fit. Why do we get bothered by it? Because it doesn't make sense! Very rarely in the older shows, in TNG and DS9 did we, the audience, ever have to engage in that game. You people say, just enjoy it, it's a tv show. Well, I can't enjoy it, when my brain sits up on its hind legs and says "Rarf! Rat roesn't make sense, Raggy!" Obviously I'm capable of suspending disbelief if I can watch a show like Star Trek. But the producers of this show constantly insult my and everyone else's intelligence with their intattention to detail or their morbid ignorance or dismissal of previous Trek history. They have in their care a very large entity, and they really don't care about the rest of it; only on what they're doing at the moment. They really don't have any respect for Star Trek as a whole, and it shows. People like Ron D. Moore, Ira Steven Behr, those were folks who understood Star Trek and good television and story telling in general; just read any interview they ever gave and you'll see that. And then compare that with interviews with Braga and Berman regarding Enterprise. Don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself. You'll be amazed at the difference.
clindsly: The Enterprise is more advanced than the USS Enterprise NCC-1701. Does this count as a continuity error? (It would if we take into account Spock's comments in "Balance of Terror".)
There are so many errors with the show Enteprise when compared to the facts contained in TOS. However, this shouldn't surprise us. B & B are recorded as having a strong distaste for the series.
PPatters: I have a feeling that the cloaking device was added merely as a throw-back to The Original Series, and, until I see it on screen, I doubt that Captain Archer and the Enterprise ever actually see it being used.
Worf999: Spock was taken aback by the Romulan ship's cloak of invisibility. Perhaps in next week's episode it's more like stealth tech and not completely invisible regardless of the special effects used.
25.9.02
[plug]
...Wendesday. Braga and Berman are screwing up all continuity and the entire bloody universe today.
Mr Light: Can't wish for world peace, since that would mean fundamentally changing that which makes us human...
The Princess Bride
Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can *fuss*.
Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at *us*.
Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no *harm*.
Fezzik: He's really very short on *charm*.
Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Vizzini: Enough of that!
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead!
Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it!
Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?
Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH!!
Vizzini: Finish him! Finish him, your way!
Fezzik: Oh good, my way. Thank you Vizzini... which one's my way?
Vizzini: Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, in a few minutes the man in black will come running around the bend, the minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock!
Fezzik: My way's not very sportsman-like.
A Knight's Tale
Chaucer: "And one and two and three and four and your hands should be light like a birdie on a branch. And one and two and three and four and Wat doesn't lead he follows like a girl."
[Wat punches him]
Chaucer: "And one and two and twirlie twirlie twirlie! And one and two and you're still getting it wrong! And one and two and three and four you can hit me all day cause you punch like a... what?"
Roland: "A girl!"
Mr Light: Can't wish for world peace, since that would mean fundamentally changing that which makes us human...
The Princess Bride
Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can *fuss*.
Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at *us*.
Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no *harm*.
Fezzik: He's really very short on *charm*.
Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Vizzini: Enough of that!
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead!
Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it!
Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?
Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH!!
Vizzini: Finish him! Finish him, your way!
Fezzik: Oh good, my way. Thank you Vizzini... which one's my way?
Vizzini: Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, in a few minutes the man in black will come running around the bend, the minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock!
Fezzik: My way's not very sportsman-like.
A Knight's Tale
Chaucer: "And one and two and three and four and your hands should be light like a birdie on a branch. And one and two and three and four and Wat doesn't lead he follows like a girl."
[Wat punches him]
Chaucer: "And one and two and twirlie twirlie twirlie! And one and two and you're still getting it wrong! And one and two and three and four you can hit me all day cause you punch like a... what?"
Roland: "A girl!"
24.9.02
Almost forgot. We are now down to fourteen people, from 23, in drama. She's kicked them all out...scary...
i forgot to put this about yesterday...
I have drama 8th period. I don't know what I'm doing there, but it's not like I have any choice. So anyway,my group and I were acting out a scene from To Kill A Mockingbird. Alex was Jem, Jake was Dill, I was Scout, and Brent was Atticus. In the scene Scout goes over to Gem and Dill and wants to play with them. They say no, they're trying to send their neighbor, Boo Radley, a message, and don't want Scout with them. Scout persists, and finally the two boys make her go and watch for Atticus, Gem and Dill's father, because if he sees what they are doing (sticking a message into the Radley house on the end of a fishing rod), he'll probably be pretty annoyed.
So Scout (me) goes off to watch for Atticus, but she's really interested in what Gem and Dill are doing, so all she's really doing is watching them. Now during this scene, the drama teacher, Ms. Deemar, interupted our acting about seven or eight times, telling us what we were doing wrong, and pretty soon we had started over from the beginning for the fifth time.
So then she says "You know what? I have no idea what you all are doing, this is so off topic. I have no idea what scene this is!"
All four of us are pretty annoyed by now. We've been interupted, insulted, and none of us want to be doing this. And then Brent says to Ms. Deemar "What do you mean, what scene is this?!?! You're the fucker who gave it to us!"
Maybe you had to be there...but it was so funny.
I have drama 8th period. I don't know what I'm doing there, but it's not like I have any choice. So anyway,my group and I were acting out a scene from To Kill A Mockingbird. Alex was Jem, Jake was Dill, I was Scout, and Brent was Atticus. In the scene Scout goes over to Gem and Dill and wants to play with them. They say no, they're trying to send their neighbor, Boo Radley, a message, and don't want Scout with them. Scout persists, and finally the two boys make her go and watch for Atticus, Gem and Dill's father, because if he sees what they are doing (sticking a message into the Radley house on the end of a fishing rod), he'll probably be pretty annoyed.
So Scout (me) goes off to watch for Atticus, but she's really interested in what Gem and Dill are doing, so all she's really doing is watching them. Now during this scene, the drama teacher, Ms. Deemar, interupted our acting about seven or eight times, telling us what we were doing wrong, and pretty soon we had started over from the beginning for the fifth time.
So then she says "You know what? I have no idea what you all are doing, this is so off topic. I have no idea what scene this is!"
All four of us are pretty annoyed by now. We've been interupted, insulted, and none of us want to be doing this. And then Brent says to Ms. Deemar "What do you mean, what scene is this?!?! You're the fucker who gave it to us!"
Maybe you had to be there...but it was so funny.
tuesday. one test in math, one test in french.
ronaldo still isn't playing for real. idiot.
ronaldo still isn't playing for real. idiot.
23.9.02
...monday. as usual.
Mr Light: I sold my soul to my friend/roommate Matt in high school for a 65 cent candy bar.
Mr Light: I sold my soul to my friend/roommate Matt in high school for a 65 cent candy bar.
22.9.02
...and now it is sunday. and i have two reports due tuesday. why am i on the internet? blech.
Treker4747: Why do we have an English-accented, English speaking, tea-drinking, Shakespere reading, wine making French captain?
Treker4747: Why do we have an English-accented, English speaking, tea-drinking, Shakespere reading, wine making French captain?
21.9.02
20.9.02
life is like a...shadow
war? only if all else fails
gold or silver: silver
blue or red: blue
night or day: night
rain or shine: rain
write or type: write
internet or phone: internet
car or walk: walk
soda or water: water
urban or rural: urban
action movies or romance movies: action
english or math: english
read or write: both
pen or pencil: pen
pop or rock: rock
cat or dog: dog
cold or hot: cold
eat or drink: drink
water or fire: water
heartbroken or broke: neither
pride or money: pride
pants or shorts: pants
sun or moon: moon
summer or winter: winter
sing or dance: sing
draw or write: write
darkness or light: darkness
war? only if all else fails
gold or silver: silver
blue or red: blue
night or day: night
rain or shine: rain
write or type: write
internet or phone: internet
car or walk: walk
soda or water: water
urban or rural: urban
action movies or romance movies: action
english or math: english
read or write: both
pen or pencil: pen
pop or rock: rock
cat or dog: dog
cold or hot: cold
eat or drink: drink
water or fire: water
heartbroken or broke: neither
pride or money: pride
pants or shorts: pants
sun or moon: moon
summer or winter: winter
sing or dance: sing
draw or write: write
darkness or light: darkness
19.9.02
"we learned it in high school"? thanks braga. that was genius, braga. sheer genius on how you could save the bloody day just like that.
From Temis the Vorta:
(RANT)Gazelles! We're all gazelles! Little gazelles dancing across the plains in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro!
Man, was that lecture painfully stilted or what? Almost as bad as Daniels and that "Federation, it will be important" dialog. I didn't have high hopes for this episode, but this stunk worse than even I expected. At least they didn't reset the miners back to life, but what precisely was the point of the entire pair of episodes?
-Silik looks for Archer because Future Guy tells him to.
-Daniels for some reason (I forget what) takes Archer to the 31st Century, which isn't nice.
-Daniels makes a Magic Time-Travel TV out of bear skins and stones which not only can send an image back in time (?!?) but somehow serves as a time-travel portal even tho there aren't any in the 31st C. Anyone want to explain to me how a gizmo in the 22nd C can "pull" someone through time from the 31st? Oh but I forget, the official "rules" of ENT's time travel, according to Daniels, is "I have no answers." I think it's definite, folks. All this time-travel hooey will be make-the-rules-up-as-you-go-no-explanation wave the magic wand and do whatever arbitrary thing you want. Hey, and it's better than H.G. Wells, too! Excuse me, I need to be violently ill.
So, basically, nothing happened during these episodes except people ran around and screamed and blew things up. Par for the course for ENT so far.
After tonight's episode, I still have no evidence of Blalock's alleged acting abilities, though the script at long last gave her scenes that most actors would have used to showcase their talent: torture and delerium, always fun for strutting your thespian stuff! Instead, Blalock plays both like a heroin addict lolling around in a semi-coma. Well, okay, maybe the Suliban were using a truth serum drug on T'Pol (why didn't they use the same on poor Reed?) but sheesh, there must have been some more interesting way she could have played those scenes! Maybe this is evidence that she can't. Or maybe she thought everyone would be fixated on her bellybutton to such an extent that no one would notice any performance at all, and therefore it was not worth the effort.
I don't think the Suliban could be any more pathetic if they tried. They fall for several painfully obvious gimmicks. Did ANYONE not instantly tag: Daniel's doodad as a setup (oh please Mr. Silik, don't turn on this doodad and use it to contact anyone! anything but THAT!!!); the warp core breech as a hoax; and the shadowy materializing figure as Archer, not Future Guy. Good lord, ENT is reaching new lows in grating predictability. But it's better than H.G. Wells, LOTS better!
I really cannot stand Silik as a villain. I HATE pathetic, stupid villains, particularly when they prance and preen and practically twirl their frelling mustache, mauahahah! Compared with Silik, Ming the Merciless was well-rounded and deeply characterized.
Oh yeah, and the Suliban make VOY's Borg look like, uh, the TNG Borg by comparison! They didn't fire on Archer's pod because their queen, err, boss was on board??? GIVE ME A FRELLING BREAK! What kind of villains give a hoot about killing one of their own soldiers, even if he is kinda high ranking and twirls his mustache nicely. These guys are pushovers! With the Klingons in the neighborhood, why are they even still breathing? Hell, a Klingon could probably kill one of these wimps by breathing on him!
And in the end, Archer gets his "mission" (what mission?) back because he failed to commit one crime of which he was accused, which exonerates the 85 other instances of appalling bad judgement on his record. Whatever.(/RANT)
I thought it was ok...rushed, thought out to easily..but alright, i think...
From Temis the Vorta:
(RANT)Gazelles! We're all gazelles! Little gazelles dancing across the plains in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro!
Man, was that lecture painfully stilted or what? Almost as bad as Daniels and that "Federation, it will be important" dialog. I didn't have high hopes for this episode, but this stunk worse than even I expected. At least they didn't reset the miners back to life, but what precisely was the point of the entire pair of episodes?
-Silik looks for Archer because Future Guy tells him to.
-Daniels for some reason (I forget what) takes Archer to the 31st Century, which isn't nice.
-Daniels makes a Magic Time-Travel TV out of bear skins and stones which not only can send an image back in time (?!?) but somehow serves as a time-travel portal even tho there aren't any in the 31st C. Anyone want to explain to me how a gizmo in the 22nd C can "pull" someone through time from the 31st? Oh but I forget, the official "rules" of ENT's time travel, according to Daniels, is "I have no answers." I think it's definite, folks. All this time-travel hooey will be make-the-rules-up-as-you-go-no-explanation wave the magic wand and do whatever arbitrary thing you want. Hey, and it's better than H.G. Wells, too! Excuse me, I need to be violently ill.
So, basically, nothing happened during these episodes except people ran around and screamed and blew things up. Par for the course for ENT so far.
After tonight's episode, I still have no evidence of Blalock's alleged acting abilities, though the script at long last gave her scenes that most actors would have used to showcase their talent: torture and delerium, always fun for strutting your thespian stuff! Instead, Blalock plays both like a heroin addict lolling around in a semi-coma. Well, okay, maybe the Suliban were using a truth serum drug on T'Pol (why didn't they use the same on poor Reed?) but sheesh, there must have been some more interesting way she could have played those scenes! Maybe this is evidence that she can't. Or maybe she thought everyone would be fixated on her bellybutton to such an extent that no one would notice any performance at all, and therefore it was not worth the effort.
I don't think the Suliban could be any more pathetic if they tried. They fall for several painfully obvious gimmicks. Did ANYONE not instantly tag: Daniel's doodad as a setup (oh please Mr. Silik, don't turn on this doodad and use it to contact anyone! anything but THAT!!!); the warp core breech as a hoax; and the shadowy materializing figure as Archer, not Future Guy. Good lord, ENT is reaching new lows in grating predictability. But it's better than H.G. Wells, LOTS better!
I really cannot stand Silik as a villain. I HATE pathetic, stupid villains, particularly when they prance and preen and practically twirl their frelling mustache, mauahahah! Compared with Silik, Ming the Merciless was well-rounded and deeply characterized.
Oh yeah, and the Suliban make VOY's Borg look like, uh, the TNG Borg by comparison! They didn't fire on Archer's pod because their queen, err, boss was on board??? GIVE ME A FRELLING BREAK! What kind of villains give a hoot about killing one of their own soldiers, even if he is kinda high ranking and twirls his mustache nicely. These guys are pushovers! With the Klingons in the neighborhood, why are they even still breathing? Hell, a Klingon could probably kill one of these wimps by breathing on him!
And in the end, Archer gets his "mission" (what mission?) back because he failed to commit one crime of which he was accused, which exonerates the 85 other instances of appalling bad judgement on his record. Whatever.(/RANT)
I thought it was ok...rushed, thought out to easily..but alright, i think...
18.9.02
17.9.02
16.9.02
15.9.02
sunday. damn.
brushes @ nocturna
brushes @ nocturna
14.9.02
13.9.02
survey type thingy!
1. What was/is your favorite subject in school? Art. Definitely. Does that count?
2. Who was your favorite teacher? My sixth grade social studies teacher. After her, history didn't seem quite so boring. Most of the time.
3. What is your favorite memory of school? Ummmm...er....
4. What was your favorite recess game? Football (soccer). Or drawing? Or plotting world domination- no, that was lunch...
5. What did you hate most about school? Math class. Evil math teachers. And getting up so early.
6. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why? Manchester United supporters. Just kidding...You know how at school or where ever there is always a bloody group of girls, usually blonde (really!!!), who talk and talk and talk and chat and chat and chat and...and...ugh.
7. What irritating habits do you have? I pick at nail polish, if I'm wearing it, and then don't bother to fix it...I don't know,it annoys my sister for some reason...there are definitely some more, but I'm tiiiirrrreeedddd....
8. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be? Dunno...Some I try to change, some I don't...
9. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why? Meat. Ugh. Eating dead things doesn't really do much for me.
10. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do? Getting completely drunk at a pub. Why would you want to make a fool of yourself outside your own home?
that was weird...
oh, btw, friday sucked. i now have two reports due in ss, i had a quiz in math...shizat.
1. What was/is your favorite subject in school? Art. Definitely. Does that count?
2. Who was your favorite teacher? My sixth grade social studies teacher. After her, history didn't seem quite so boring. Most of the time.
3. What is your favorite memory of school? Ummmm...er....
4. What was your favorite recess game? Football (soccer). Or drawing? Or plotting world domination- no, that was lunch...
5. What did you hate most about school? Math class. Evil math teachers. And getting up so early.
6. What is your biggest pet peeve? Why? Manchester United supporters. Just kidding...You know how at school or where ever there is always a bloody group of girls, usually blonde (really!!!), who talk and talk and talk and chat and chat and chat and...and...ugh.
7. What irritating habits do you have? I pick at nail polish, if I'm wearing it, and then don't bother to fix it...I don't know,it annoys my sister for some reason...there are definitely some more, but I'm tiiiirrrreeedddd....
8. Have you tried to change the irritating habits or just let them be? Dunno...Some I try to change, some I don't...
9. What grosses you out more than anything else? Why? Meat. Ugh. Eating dead things doesn't really do much for me.
10. What one thing can you never see yourself doing that other people do? Getting completely drunk at a pub. Why would you want to make a fool of yourself outside your own home?
that was weird...
oh, btw, friday sucked. i now have two reports due in ss, i had a quiz in math...shizat.
12.9.02
11.9.02
10.9.02
9.9.02
8.9.02
7.9.02
6.9.02
5.9.02
today's link.
third day. ick. wish i could listen to rammstein during s.s., while the teacher drones on and on and on and on and on...du...du hast...sigh.
i hate school. gym sucks. i have no classes with people who talk to me. i still don't have my locker. they say we have to behave "correctly, like in a democracy". whatever that means. school isn't a democracy, either. it's a dictatorship. the principal = the top of the hierarchy, the teachers (cronies) = next up.....then somewhere there, we're at the bottom. canon fodder. nothing.
$h!^.
third day. ick. wish i could listen to rammstein during s.s., while the teacher drones on and on and on and on and on...du...du hast...sigh.
i hate school. gym sucks. i have no classes with people who talk to me. i still don't have my locker. they say we have to behave "correctly, like in a democracy". whatever that means. school isn't a democracy, either. it's a dictatorship. the principal = the top of the hierarchy, the teachers (cronies) = next up.....then somewhere there, we're at the bottom. canon fodder. nothing.
$h!^.
4.9.02
well, my first day totally tanked. the school's so messed up no one has their lockers yet. they spent the entire day telling us which stairs we could go up on and which stairs we could go down on. then we had to practice going in and out of the auditorium. this is my schedule:
- english
- lit
- french
- gym
- math
- science
- lunch
- drama (sick)
- social studies
aaaaargh.
- english
- lit
- french
- gym
- math
- science
- lunch
- drama (sick)
- social studies
aaaaargh.
3.9.02
2.9.02
Links
Previous Posts
- it's good to be back.i still want to be gone.
- Cheese Spring break now...though it's not really ...
- Sick Missed three days of school now. I am going...
- Sooooo. Just checking out the old tagboard.
- Sunday School tomorrow. I live only to ignore th...
- So... So I am back. After a week of testing at s...
- Should be doing my work Sometiumes I just want to...
- Sunday sucks Sometimes I am so angry at everythin...
- Ha Yes, its Friday. Finally fricken' Friday, fank...
- Yo That says yo. Ha. Here. Ha, again. I hav...
Archives
- 07/01/2002 - 08/01/2002
- 08/01/2002 - 09/01/2002
- 09/01/2002 - 10/01/2002
- 10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002
- 11/01/2002 - 12/01/2002
- 12/01/2002 - 01/01/2003
- 01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
- 02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003
- 03/01/2003 - 04/01/2003
- 04/01/2003 - 05/01/2003
- 03/01/2006 - 04/01/2006
