Re: [scifinoir2] Dreadlocks OT

2010-04-17 Thread Mr. Worf
Yea, but its not as cool... :) On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Bosco Bosco ironpi...@yahoo.com wrote: I just wanted to say that removing a decade of dreadlocks from the top of your head will reduce the average human's weight by 10% Bosco Post

Re: [scifinoir2] Kid builds his own iPad stand (photos)

2010-04-17 Thread Mr. Worf
I'm hoping that the kid was just thinking outside of the box. There are a lot of kids that come up with some great ideas. Many lose that zeal when they get older. Anyone remember the kid that created a device so that he could talk to his friends underwater? On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:34 PM,

Re: [scifinoir2] Kid builds his own iPad stand (photos)

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, that was my Inner Cynic posting, after a day spent in a pharmacy waiting room. And yes, I do remember that story, vaguely. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'm hoping that the kid was just thinking outside of the box. There are a lot of kids

Re: [scifinoir2] Dreadlocks OT

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
That's wild. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Bosco Bosco ironpi...@yahoo.com wrote: I just wanted to say that removing a decade of dreadlocks from the top of your head will reduce the average human's weight by 10% Bosco

Re: [scifinoir2] SyFy Premieres New Riverworld Miniseries this Sunday Night

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, the first one was... entertaining. Can't say much more than that for it. I may -- *may* invest in the watching of this one, but only if there isn't something on the dial of more interest to my brain. I've only read a couple of the Riverworld novels, and the appeal was about the same as the

Re: [scifinoir2] She shoots! She swears! She's 11!

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Say it again, Mr Worf! On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The article's title should have been some people have totally unrealistic opinions of how 11 year olds act when adults are not around People have also forgotten how things have changed.

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Ohhh, yeeeh. Been waiting for this since February, when I got the word from a friend in Canada. At noon, I'll be heading to the grocery store to lay in snacks, and my door will be locked at 7:30, computer off, work put away. (I'll have the TV on

Re: [scifinoir2] She shoots! She swears! She's 11!

2010-04-17 Thread Tracy Curtis
i feel as though I should buy tickets right now. I didn't have anything censored from me when I was a kid. I think it made me develop my reading and film preferences earlier and without much peer pressure. And now I'm faculty at UW-Madison. Rave, I hope your child at least comes to visit my

Re: [scifinoir2] She shoots! She swears! She's 11!

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Tracy, my mother did her utmost to censor my upbringing. Thank Deity I was rebellious and had a Jesuit priest as a father figure, else I might be... *normal*. (shuddering) On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com wrote: i feel as though I should buy tickets right

Re: [scifinoir2] SyFy Premieres New Riverworld Miniseries this Sunday Night

2010-04-17 Thread Keith Johnson
Thanks for the tip, Martin. in that case it's time to dig into my boxes and find the Feist and Brooks novels. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 8:15:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern

Re: [scifinoir2] Kid builds his own iPad stand (photos)

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
They tried, with limited success. (Friends in the Navy.) On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The kid's invention was developed into a toy and was used by the military. I don't know if they ever implemented it. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Martin

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Mike Street
I saw the first episode a few weeks ago and it wasn't really that good. I don't really like the new Dr. at all. He's a bit boring. I liked Eccleston and Tenant right off from their appearances but Matt has grown on my yet. I also think the quality of the quality of the writing has gone down. On

Re: [scifinoir2] Kid builds his own iPad stand (photos)

2010-04-17 Thread Mr. Worf
Maybe in 20 years someone will take another look at it and create something from it. Thats how some inventions end up being inventions. :) I'm always fascinated by the bulk of inventions that were created by kids and by people with no training in that particular field. The rest seem to be

Re: [scifinoir2] SyFy Premieres New Riverworld Miniseries this Sunday Night

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
More than welcome. Personally, I'm still waiting on one of Feist's newer books I have on hold at the library, Honoured Enemy. The premise has been done before in fiction, enemies uniting in the face of a greater threat, but I get the feeling that, in Feist's hands, it's got to have some magic in

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Mr. Worf
It seems like that is the case with everything nowadays. More than likely some of the people that were hired to write for the show may not actually love the show. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Mike Street streetfor...@gmail.comwrote: I saw the first episode a few weeks ago and it wasn't

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Mike, there's an adage among Whovians. You dance with the Doctor that brung ya. It's the rare person who finds fandon with any Doctor beyond their first. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Mike Street streetfor...@gmail.com wrote: I saw the first episode a few weeks ago and it wasn't really

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Mr. Worf
she'll be around somewhere. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Mike Street streetfor...@gmail.comwrote: true and I've been watching for years and years. I personally LOVED David Tenant out all of the dr's. I'm waiting for TorchWood to come back. I hope they bring it about for another season

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Keith Johnson
Wow, did this murderous Doctor come to his senses? Is this Regen crisis a side-effect of the process, similar to the way Ra's Al Ghul was portrayed as going temporarily mad after using the Lazarus Pit?- Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" martinbaxt...@gmail.comTo:

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Keith Johnson
Interesting. The bulk of the fan and critical response I've heard so far (admittedly I haven't been doing a lot of research) has said just the opposite: that he's good, kind of retro, and the writing's good. I'm intrigued at seeing it tonight, then. Did you like Eccleston or Tenant's Doctor

Re: [scifinoir2] SyFy Premieres New Riverworld Miniseries this Sunday Night

2010-04-17 Thread Keith Johnson
Is this new book part of Feist's story of Midkemia and that other dimension where Pug's powers were trained? It's the world on the other side of the Rift. The last of his books I've read dealt with a character Talon, an evil Prince who's reformed and joined Pug's cause, and an upcoming battle

[scifinoir2] Current TV's Vanguard: Vigilantes

2010-04-17 Thread Mr. Worf
Current TV's award winning Vanguard series brings to us this week the topic of vigilantes in the UK. The citizens of Surrey and other states in the United Kingdom have lost their confidence in the police and citizens have been turning to vigilantes to enact swift justice on the wrong doers.

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Has Torchwood come to BBC America? Don't know because I'm only just recently able to get that channel, and I missed the last eight or nine eps (the website I was watching them on had to drop them all, while I was viewing. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Mike Street streetfor...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] Current TV's Vanguard: Vigilantes

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Thanks, Mr Worf. I will watch that. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Current TV's award winning Vanguard series brings to us this week the topic of vigilantes in the UK. The citizens of Surrey and other states in the United Kingdom have lost their

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Mike Street
If you have netflix all the seasons and the mini-season are on there. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Has Torchwood come to BBC America? Don't know because I'm only just recently able to get that channel, and I missed the last eight or nine eps

Re: [scifinoir2] SyFy Premieres New Riverworld Miniseries this Sunday Night

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
It is, but the characters aren't connected to Pug and Feist's Midkemia regulars. I tried to find the book at Borders, but it shows all the hallmarks of danged good fiction, selling out quickly. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Is this new book

[scifinoir2] For Tanya Huff fans -- Smoke and Mirrors coming to TV

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
*Kaleidoscope Entertainment and The Fremantle have announced that vampire Henry Fitzroy is returning to the movie screens in a new series based on the 'Smoke' books by Tanya Huff whose 'Blood' novels were turned into the series Blood Ties.

[scifinoir2] Japanese trailer for Iron Man 2

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Here's the Japanese trailer, with a few bits and bobs you haven't seen before. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2010/Japanese-trailer-for-Iron-Man-II-film-14770.php

[scifinoir2] Siffy picks up fantasy steampunk series Riese

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
*Canadian web-based fantasy steampunk TV series Riese is following fellow (originally) online-based TV series Sanctuary in making the leap from the web to the TV screens, as it has just been acquired by the Syfy Channel.

Re: [scifinoir2] Japanese trailer for Iron Man 2

2010-04-17 Thread Augustus Augustus
so why not show this one on this side of the world? Fate. --- On Sat, 4/17/10, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Japanese trailer for Iron Man 2 To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010,

[scifinoir2] Going Postal -- first trailer

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
As a Terry Pratchett fan from first glance, I weep tears of joy as I post this... http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2010/Going-Postal-first-trailer-14768.php

Re: [scifinoir2] Japanese trailer for Iron Man 2

2010-04-17 Thread Martin Baxter
Fate, that's a really good question. Please note that I had to travel across the cyber-Pond to find this. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Augustus Augustus jazzynupe_...@yahoo.comwrote: so why not show this one on this side of the world? Fate. --- On *Sat, 4/17/10, Martin Baxter

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Keith Johnson
I think most people have felt the new Doctor will have to win them over. What was it about Tenant's Doctor you liked better? I think I tend to lean a bit toward Eccleston. He was darker, edgier, a bit more dangerous, than Tenant. I believe he's the incarnation that came directly from the Time

Re: [scifinoir2] New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Augustus Augustus
Tenant just had that IT!  the kind of persona that you can believe that he would be just that brilliant.  whenever he was putting the pieces 2gether, and got 2 his ah-ha moment, he did it with such ease (like pierce bronson's 007) that u did not feel that he was arrogant or anything. Fate.

[scifinoir2] Re: Japanese trailer for Iron Man 2

2010-04-17 Thread Kelwyn
Every time I see Don Cheadle as War Machine, I think Terrence Howard must be eating his heart out. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: Here's the Japanese trailer, with a few bits and bobs you haven't seen before.

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Japanese trailer for Iron Man 2

2010-04-17 Thread Keith Johnson
But this wasn't Howard's fault or doing. He had a handshake agreement, and it was decided his salary was too high. In the interview I heard with him, he said he wasn't even invited into a discussion with the studio about salary. They just decided he was costing too much and told his agent he

[scifinoir2] Re: New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Kelwyn
What? There is something on tonight besides NBA Playoff Basketball? Seriously though, my DVR is primed and ready to record the new Doctor. By the by, my Doctor was Tom Baker (WAY back in the last millennium) but I became rather fond of David Tennant's portrayal. As soon as I finish

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Japanese trailer for Iron Man 2

2010-04-17 Thread Mr. Worf
Me too! He's really going to miss all of that McD, toys, and video game mullah. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: Every time I see Don Cheadle as War Machine, I think Terrence Howard must be eating his heart out. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: New Dr. Who Premieres Saturday on BBC America!

2010-04-17 Thread Keith Johnson
I'm being a good husband and watching the Lifetime movie The Front. It's based on a novel by best-selling author Pat Cornwall, and is actually pretty good. I'll catch the Doctor at the midnight rerun. I like Eccleston slightly better, as I said in another post. I think people like Tenant