Television!
Wednesday, 14. May 2008, 03:54:27
So I am at home now. One of the comforts of home that I can enjoy this summer is television. My parents switched cable providers in my absence, and now we have more channels.
Earlier I watched about five or seven minutes of Queer as Folk on LOGO, as a sort of anthropological experiment. It was very dated and contrived; I felt like I was watching Saved by the Bell.
There is a guy on The Daily Show discussing Obama's preacher in context, but not really in context. From what I hear, some of the religious figures McCain associates with are crazier.
Now I've been distracted from The Daily Show by the Science channel. They have a silly logo that is meant to look like a periodic table box with an atomic symbol. The program is about the Solar System, and totally more interesting to me than The Colbert Report. I'm fairly sure that fact means I'm supposed to be having some kind of college-student-quarter-life-crisis-identity-freak-out right now. Oh well.
Today was actually rather productive. I finished tweaking the brand new GUAS website, and I'm rather proud of myself. I've never actually done anything like that before, beyond the occasional HTML markups on this blog. Except that they aren't really HTML, because they use []'s instead of <>'s and slightly different tags. Anyway, I am particularly pleased with the header; this makes up for some nagging technical issues that aren't currently in my power to fix. Joe and I figured out the error problem on the GUAS listproc, so now I'm the only person who gets them, and after today I won't have to send out anymore spam test messages. There is one more thing I want to test, but it can wait.
I am almost done with the first season of 30 Rock. And because now on the Solar System program they are discussing the possibility of water on other planets (and therefore carbon based life forms) I will link to this AP write up of an interview by Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, S.J. with L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's newspaper. Rev. Funes is the director of the Vatican Observatory, and discusses the implications of the possibilities of extraterrestrial life for Catholic teachings. Apparently this (aliens) is also one of those things that people get irrationally worked up about.
I seem to be particularly enamored of the bold tag today.
EDIT - Today for breakfast I had scrambled eggs, wheat toast with butter and grape jelly, bacon, and orange juice. This is notable because the eggs tasted like eggs, the toast tasted like toast, the bacon tasted like bacon, and the orange juice tasted like orange juice. Eating non institutional food is like eating for the first time. Everything tastes delicious. Kraft Mac & Cheese is even better when you have fresh grated cheese to toss into it.
EDIT EDIT - I have made this entire post courier new. Because I felt like it. And that might be my favourite font right now - see the GUAS website header.
Earlier I watched about five or seven minutes of Queer as Folk on LOGO, as a sort of anthropological experiment. It was very dated and contrived; I felt like I was watching Saved by the Bell.
There is a guy on The Daily Show discussing Obama's preacher in context, but not really in context. From what I hear, some of the religious figures McCain associates with are crazier.
Now I've been distracted from The Daily Show by the Science channel. They have a silly logo that is meant to look like a periodic table box with an atomic symbol. The program is about the Solar System, and totally more interesting to me than The Colbert Report. I'm fairly sure that fact means I'm supposed to be having some kind of college-student-quarter-life-crisis-identity-freak-out right now. Oh well.
Today was actually rather productive. I finished tweaking the brand new GUAS website, and I'm rather proud of myself. I've never actually done anything like that before, beyond the occasional HTML markups on this blog. Except that they aren't really HTML, because they use []'s instead of <>'s and slightly different tags. Anyway, I am particularly pleased with the header; this makes up for some nagging technical issues that aren't currently in my power to fix. Joe and I figured out the error problem on the GUAS listproc, so now I'm the only person who gets them, and after today I won't have to send out anymore spam test messages. There is one more thing I want to test, but it can wait.
I am almost done with the first season of 30 Rock. And because now on the Solar System program they are discussing the possibility of water on other planets (and therefore carbon based life forms) I will link to this AP write up of an interview by Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, S.J. with L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's newspaper. Rev. Funes is the director of the Vatican Observatory, and discusses the implications of the possibilities of extraterrestrial life for Catholic teachings. Apparently this (aliens) is also one of those things that people get irrationally worked up about.
I seem to be particularly enamored of the bold tag today.
EDIT - Today for breakfast I had scrambled eggs, wheat toast with butter and grape jelly, bacon, and orange juice. This is notable because the eggs tasted like eggs, the toast tasted like toast, the bacon tasted like bacon, and the orange juice tasted like orange juice. Eating non institutional food is like eating for the first time. Everything tastes delicious. Kraft Mac & Cheese is even better when you have fresh grated cheese to toss into it.
EDIT EDIT - I have made this entire post courier new. Because I felt like it. And that might be my favourite font right now - see the GUAS website header.
