RE: [scifinoir2] Warehouse 13 - Starting to love it

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
And I'll be there for every minute of it, Keith. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 9

RE: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Personally, I question whether any of it is even real. The silly-to-me affectation of viewing the hunt through infrared lenses is off-putting and, many times as I watch the preview clips (I have yet to sit through a full ep -- 3/4 at best), I feel as though many of the perceived effects of the

RE: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Last time I looked, Keith, they did. This goes back to my personal complaint about their at-best haphazard programming schedules. They've got more than enough programming in their vaults to air shows without having to resort to all-day airings of one show. If all the world's a stage and all

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Again, keith, there *has* to be. If I put myself to it, I know that there are a few good B-movies Siffy's churned out that I wouldn't mind taking in. Instead, we get... have to stop. Too depressing a subject. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Atheists offer to care for Christians' pets after rapture

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
P'SHAW! M_l Bn is *not* the Anti-Christ, merely his spokesman. The Anti-Christ carries a shotgun. Martin (wait for it...) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant

RE: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, I got pulled away from this for a moment (oddly, trying to see what was on Siffy this morning -- Joan of Arcadia, for only the fourth time in the past month (programming moe-rons)), and a thought came to me as I returned to the keyboard. Back-channel deals. Maybe Siffy gets a chunk of

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, I get the feeling that CN made the mistake of looking at the success that Siffy's had with the ratings on their reality programming and opted to follow suit, without bothering to look at the complaints. Also, there might be the money factor at play. In this depressed economy, they may

RE: [scifinoir2] WTF: Target selling racist soda???

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, they used to stock that in the Target I used to frequent in Conyers, before they built the one five minutes from my house. Even though that part of Conyers was predominantly White, the people there asked the store to stop selling it, and they did. I really don't know if it's stocked

Re: [scifinoir2] I give you one more reason...

2009-09-09 Thread Adrianne Brennan
Quinoa, lentils, spinach, meal bars, and all sorts of yum-yums for my iron intake. Since I've been exercising like a fiend and it's that time, I take an additional supplement to be on the safe side. -- vegan :) ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of

[scifinoir2] 9 opens on 09/09/09

2009-09-09 Thread ravenadal
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/movies/57891317.html Animated film '9' defies sensory logic By Graham Killeen Posted: Sept. 8, 2009 Earnest, inspiring and far from perfect, 9 is the kind of animated experience that defies traditional sensory logic. Days later, you'll swear you remember

[scifinoir2] The Life and Times of Martha Washington in 21st Century

2009-09-09 Thread ravenadal
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[scifinoir2] Re: The Life and Times of Martha Washington in 21st Century

2009-09-09 Thread ravenadal
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RE: [scifinoir2] Re: The Life and Times of Martha Washington in 21st Century

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
As a Poor Black Man, I can't even afford to *touch* the trigger... If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com

Re: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
I agree. I blew by one night, and they were discussing something like a scratching sound outside a farmhouse. Or perhaps it was a shadow with no source? Balderdash! There are so many ways light and shadow, and especially sound, can be bent and twisted and redirected it's not even funny.

Re: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
Must be, Martin, must be... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 8:06:48 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

Re: [scifinoir2] I give you one more reason...

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
I eat a lot of spinach. Stay away from meal bars mostly now, due to the bread and sometimes sugars (got a glucose problem now, Lord help me). I eat a lot of hemp bread. The brand I buy--French Meadow--gives you 15% of daily iron, 26g of protein, 19% of daily fibre, 25% of magnesium, 15% of

[scifinoir2] Re: Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread angelababycat
After having no cable since 1992, missing shows like Farscape, Earthsea (gagg), etc., and running out of space for Stargate DVD's, I finally let them attach a dish to my 100-year-old house SOLELY because of the SciFi channel. I wonder if they really know who their core viewers are. Angela

Re: [scifinoir2] I give you one more reason...

2009-09-09 Thread Adrianne Brennan
The ones I eat have a low glycemic index, which is nice. :) They're called Luna Bars. Same company that does Cliff Bars, I believe. Ignore the crap on soy--all of that research is sponsored by the meat industry. Soy is actually quite good for you, so if you aren't allergic or intolerant to it,

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Angela, my first indicator that something was rotten in the state of Denmark was The Sentinel or, as I liked to call it, The Manager's Choice. For a period of about three years, then-Skiffy altered its morning sched almost religiously, shows coming and going with dizzying speed, but The

RE: [scifinoir2] I give you one more reason...

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
... (resting heart rate is 60)... Keith, you have no notion of the jealousy coursing through me right now. Last time my resting rate was that low, I was receiving Last Rites. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L

RE: [scifinoir2] Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, I once popped back into a physics forum I used to frequent, just to see how insane they all may still have been. (Worse, for the record.) They had a thread posted about Ghost Hunters, questioning the veracity of the techniques used in the show. Lots of four-letter words in the mix, none

Re: [scifinoir2] Warehouse 13 - Starting to love it

2009-09-09 Thread Mr. Worf
I like the show, but some of the things that keep happening over and over again bugs me. Like Pete being generally stupid when it comes to how he deals with the artifacts he comes in contact with. I do love the artifacts though. Great creativity there. There are hundreds of Stephen King books

RE: [scifinoir2] Warehouse 13 - Starting to love it

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, my personal thought regarding the sister -- she's a Living Artifact. Wait for it to happen. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To:

Re: [scifinoir2] Warehouse 13 - Starting to love it

2009-09-09 Thread Mr. Worf
Well, they already gave a hint about the house. So it is possible. She already has shown that she has some sort of clairvoyance. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, my personal thought regarding the sister -- she's a Living Artifact. Wait

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
Oh how sad! You got a dish just for SciFi/SyFy? - Original Message - From: angelababycat asrobin...@mindspring.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 8:42:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

Re: [scifinoir2] I give you one more reason...

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
I used to eat the Luna bars too. They're kinda targeted to women, but I found them to be among the best tasting. I'll look at that sugar content again. thanks for reminding me. The soy thing is very confusing... - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com

Re: [scifinoir2] I give you one more reason...

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
Ha! Two years ago, when I was at my physical best (lifting weights, yoga, Pilates, running/aerobics), my resting heart rate was 46 (measured as I came out of a slumber), the rate just sitting in a chair reading or watching TV was 54, and the rate while doing minor activity like driving was 66.

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Is SyFy Trying to Chase Away Viewers?

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
I'll do you one better: Seven Days. During my long period of recent unemployment, I had a lot of occasion to watch SciFi, either at home while doing chores, or at my old gym, which had television screens on all the treadmills. And for a long, long time, Seven Days was being aired religiously.

Re: [scifinoir2] Warehouse 13 - Starting to love it

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
Dude, what a thought! Good supposition! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 9:16:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Warehouse 13 - Starting to love

Re: [scifinoir2] Warehouse 13 - Starting to love it

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
Yeah, the Sister is used too sparingly. I don't really get her purpose or function. Is she psychic? She's always talking about people's auras. As for Pete, yeah, the thing about him acting dumb is a tad overplayed. By the way, does he have some sort of clairvoyance or sensitivity? In last

Re: [scifinoir2] I give you one more reason...

2009-09-09 Thread Adrianne Brennan
My fav is chocolate peppermint stick. I also love the Cliff Bar cool mint chocolate. I live off of Luna Bars, I swear! The soy controversy is stupid, but wave money in anyone's face and most get stupid. Some articles that may help: http://beforewisdom.com/blog/?cat=23 ~ Where love and magic

Re: [scifinoir2] I give you one more reason...

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
I guess i'm one of the few who can't abide chocolate and peppermint flavors mixed! I tend to lean more toward chocolate and peanut butter, chocolate chip, banana nut, cinnamon, vanilla (my favorite flavor of all!) thanks for the link, i'll check it out - Original Message - From:

[scifinoir2] Roger Ebert's Pick of Bad Movies

2009-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
Wow, Ebert already put Sandra Bullock's movie on his worst of the worst list? Funny: he put both Transformers and G.I. Joe on his list. I must say, I haven't seen many of these flicks, and hadn't planned to see most of them. Although, many would argue that Transformers, Death Race, G.I. Joe,