penknife's charming little SGA ficlet "Reality Show" (which you should go read, now) got me to thinking not just that Sheppard & Carter's worldviews were, yes, informed by Star Trek, but how.

What Sheppard took away from Star Trek: If you're friendly, well-meaning, and have a nice smile, the universe will take you at your intentions, and not look too harshly at your results.

What Carter took away from Star Trek: There is no such thing as a technological impossibility, only technology that we haven't quite figured out yet.

Thoughts? Other characters?

Edward Woodward passed away yesterday at age 79.

I'll confess, I kind of wondered when we'd be hearing this news. Still sad, though. The man had an impressive and versatile body of work, including some of my favorite series ever.

Oddly enough, I was just watching Callan on DVD (a belated birthday present) this afternoon. With clear copies, it's even more obvious why Woodward won awards for the role. A fitting tribute if anything is.

It seems Dreamwidth has a comm for writers to post all that extra research they looked up but can't actually shoehorn into their fiction. Hey, otterwort, have you seen this?

OMG OMG OMG! Set 2 of Callan (season 4, by the looks of it) is coming out on DVD in January. I haven't even gotten set 1 yet. Want.

Looks like The Sandbaggers and Farscape are getting re-issued. The former in some kind of couple-eps-per arrangement; the latter, in reasonably-priced season sets, and a complete set that's priced at approximately what one season cost last time out. I'm not even going to go into the shrink-wrap status of certain parts of my collection; I'm just pleased that pimping the show to new converts will no longer require handing them a winning lottery ticket first.

No sign of season 2 of The Equalizer, though. Anybody know what the deal is there?

Winamp continues, as it has for the past week or so, to play an inordinately high percentage of songs from the NI?Y writing mix when supposedly on random shuffle through the whole music collection. Perhaps I should take the hint.

I finally got around to posting "Blending In" over at Teaspoon. No idea why I didn't do it when I put it up here, nor why it took me so long to correct that omission once I realized it, but it's taken care of now. (On further investigation, I probably didn't put it on Teaspoon because I didn't have an account there at the time. Oh.)

Once the mods have given it their thumbs-up (ETA: they have), head on over and tell me what a warped puppy I am, eh?

I seem to have fallen off the grid lately, at least in this part of the LJ world. I suspect my f-list is at skip=eleventy-billion, and let's face it, there's no way I'm going to get caught up. If you've posted/seen something in the last month or so that you think I should know about, please comment here.

The thing is, it seems I can either keep up with the outside world (be that news, LJ-fandom, or whatever), or I can write. There simply isn't enough time and enough me in the day to do both. And I want to keep up, but I want the novel more.

Some vaguely fannish thoughts:

I managed to miss the Amazon sale on season 5 of House, and now feel very stupid that I'll have to pay twice as much for it. I may simply leave it for my birthday. No spoilers, please.

Friends have now shown me the first couple eps of The Middleman. OMG. A live-action comic book of distilled essence of fannish crack. I must have it.

The Novel-In-N-Years progresses. Or regresses, as I'm doing chapter 2-7 revisions based on writing-group feedback, but I think it's necessary to get the foundation solidified before moving on to the bits that will be supported by it. I'm actually kind of excited about some of the revisions, or would be if I weren't nearly asleep on my keyboard.

Oh, and the library managed to come up with both the Mitchell/Munro books I requested. I don't claim he's the best writer ever or anything like that, but for some reason I find his books highly compelling. I'm keeping Death and Bright Water in another room when I'm supposed to be working on anything else, lest it sneakily leap into my hands and open itself in front of my eyes. As books do, you know.

YogurtWatch is updated.

That was... interesting. And the winter half-season opener is going to be... very interesting.

And now, I think I'll go eat some yogurt.

YogurtWatch is updated.

( Spoilers.... )

And in real-world news, USA has announced that Burn Notice is renewed for a fourth season. Cue happy dance!

Seriously, people, get over here and vote for Fiona. 1:3 against Veronica Mars? What is wrong with the universe?!?

Teyla and Carter could use some love, too, from the looks of it.

YogurtWatch is updated.

( Spoilers fermenting ahead )

YogurtWatch is updated.

And now we know ( some minor spoilers )

The dryer's still broken, but at least the laundromat wasn't too bad, so I was able to find time to watch last night's ep properly. YogurtWatch is updated.

( Spoilerish musings... )

YogurtWatch is delayed due to a small domestic crisis. Sorry, folks. Should have an update ready by tonight.

YogurtWatch is updated.

In my continuing adoration of this show, let me just note ( minor spoilers )

YogurtWatch is updated.

Another fine episode. I do appreciate Fiona's approach to home remodeling.

The Different Types of Critiquers by elissacruz. An excellent list of the various types of critiquers, with their flaws and merits. Seriously, I think I'm going to keep a printout of this handy for discussions with my writing group.

YogurtWatch is updated.

( And now we know... )

New Burn Notice! I continue to love this show with unbounded delight.

( Spoilery ramblings.... )

YogurtWatch is updated.

My characters are pestering me to hurry up and write the next several chapters of the NIAY right now. They're being really quite insistent about it. I've no idea why; if they think their lives are going to get any easier as the novel progresses, they obviously haven't been paying attention.