SGA fandom is not going to wither up and die because the show is over. I'm not saying that because I hope it won't. I'm saying that because I know it won't. That's just the way fandom works.

Yes, some people will leave because they don't like a fandom where there's no new canon. But guess what? People were leaving already all the time. That, too, is just how fandom works. People leave and new people discover it.

There are active fandoms for stuff that's been over for years, and the bigger a fandom is, the longer it's going to be around once canon is over. Look at Harry Potter. People went through the same hand-wringing nonsense when book seven came out and it was just as ridiculous then as it is with SGA.

Mourn the loss of new canon if that's important to you, but I guarantee you the fandom is not going anywhere.

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I'm really not bummed over it at all. My one concern is that if they've already filmed the current season, will it have the usual cliffhanger for a finale? Because that would be a really sucky ending to the show.

The thing is, I'm not really a TV person. I don't like watching TV for TV's sake. SGA is an okay show, and I am usually at least somewhat entertained by it, but it's long since passed the point where I watch it because I'm excited about watching it. I watch it because I want to participate in fandom and in order to do that, I need to be current with canon. But since I already don't like TV that much, the fact that SGA is only somewhat enjoyable means that watching it is a real chore.

The other thing is, I really, really prefer closed canon to open canon. I was not one of those mourning the end of Harry Potter. I was thrilled that it was finally ending so I didn't have to worry about being jossed anymore. TV shows are even more difficult, since it's new material every week that you have to find time to follow and might possibly joss you.

So between those two, I'm actually pretty happy about no more SGA. Now I can enjoy the fandom without having to constantly keep up with new canon.

Unrelatedly, I've had some sort of stomach bug all day, bleh. :(

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Why? Fucking Sci Fi canceled SGA.

Did you see this?

http://sdwolfpup.livejournal.com/447692.html?style=mine

It's a Bill Fichtner-centric Prison Break vid. I haven't watched it with the sound on yet 'cause of parentals, but the visuals are gorgeous and Seperis rec'd it here:

http://seperis.livejournal.com/640563.html?style=mine

It's making me wanna watch the show, if I could just get a version that's all the Bill-and-whoever-that-kid-is-with-the-mouth scenes spliced together.

I've been reading Reborn! again. I had a big stack of volumes, but I put it down for a while during the ring battles because it just wasn't holding my interest and I missed the super cracked-out-ness of the earlier volumes. I started up again the other day, though, and have been really into it. (Maybe I should pick up Yu-Gi-Oh again, now that I've taken a nice long break.)

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Bruce has decided to go back to school. He never finished college, and his credits from twenty years ago probably wouldn't even transfer now, so he's just starting from scratch and going for an AA degree at Santa Monica College. He didn't make the decision until really late (classes start on Monday), so a lot of stuff wasn't available, but he is taking two classes this semester. Once he has the AA, he can think about transfering to Cal State LA or UCLA and getting a BA, but at least this way he'll have something.

SMC is an awesome school. I went there for two years before transferring to UCLA myself and it was only $13 per unit at the time. It's now gone up to like $20/unit, but that's still really cheap (the two classes Bruce is taking are 3 units each). And it's right across the street from us, so very convenient.

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I think we're going to rearrange our living room. We want to put the Wii out there, as there's not as much room to move around in the bedroom. But the way the living room is set up right now, there's no place to put the TV. Also, my mom and Tom are taking the sofa from Tom's dad's house. Right now they have no sofa, just three recliners. One of the chairs is really old, so they're just going to get rid of it. The newer one they're going to put in the corner, and then they're going to give us the one that was in the corner before. Yay, chair. I'm not sure where the desk can go in this setup, though. Anyway, it will be fun to rearrange.

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I just saw this on Overheard in New York:

Nine-year-old boy: Sometimes I just think I am a robot. I mean, aren't I a robot?

And now I really want to write a story with wee!Rodney where he's convinced he must be a robot because how could an ordinary human be this smart!?

In my copious spare time, natch. But hopefully I will get around to it eventually, because I really like the idea.

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Tycho : We're removing Pictionary, and replacing it with Competitive King from the new Geometry Wars.  That is all. (CW)TB 

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Tycho : Publisher reception of our Bogey Golf informational packets has been uneven.  We've scanned the letter we recieved from Golf Digest, probably the most reasonable of the responses, though they did put the word "comics" in quotation marks. One established periodical is seeking legal recourse, holding our submissions as evidence. We briefly began work on Golgolfa, a fantasy adventure comic, then switched to Fairway Nights, a procedural that features a young Jack Nicklaus solving crimes for an organization called The Clubhouse. Robert has suggested that until some of the legal challenges are resolved, it might be best to batten down the ...

There's a new sign above the drinking fountain I use here at work. It reads, "Is what you're about to do safe?" I know it's supposed to make you think about safety.

But safety isn't exactly what I think of when I see that sign above the drinking fountain. It makes me wonder what's in the water. Or how many people have used the thing before me, and what they might have done to it when I wasn't looking.

I'm guessing whoever came up with the idea of putting that sign in that spot didn't think about the psychological ramifications. Either that, or I'm just weird.

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+ I played with the built-in camera and it's fun. Not very high quality, but good for just making a quick video or picture.

+ I found where to change the folder views to old style. It's under organise. So that gave me my old menu bars back, yay.

+ I also found where to turn off the folder sidebar, though for the moment I'm keeping it on. I do like the functionality of it; I just wish it weren't so ugly.

+ Turned off power-saving settings that were making my screen super dim when it was running on battery (as well as going to sleep if I was afk for like five seconds). Turned off screensaver. Turned off it wanting a password when it wakes up from sleep (wtf, seriously?).

- I have not been able to find a way to turn off it needing a password when it restarts or turns on. This is really annoying. Once I have everything set up on there the laptop will be staying on pretty constantly, so it's not like I'll be faced with it every day, but still. I hate having to enter a password every time.

- Apparently there is no physical volume control on this laptop. I'm not sure I would have not bought it if I'd noticed, but it is kind of annoying.

- The right-hand shift key is about the size of an alphabet key. That's going to take some getting used to. The home, end, page up, and page down buttons are not in the best position, either.

+ I do really like the touchpad, though. It's weird, kind of slick, and Bruce didn't like it at all. I got used to it really quickly, though.

- This is not a new discovery, but rather something I was aware of when we bought it. Still a pain, though, so I will put it here, too! It doesn't have any firewire ports, and my external hard drive is firewire. So we're going to have to either transfer 150 GB of stuff to a different drive, or open it up and see if we can just swap the drive into another enclosure.

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I think our next door neighbors might be hiding a body. They've been making lots of weird indeterminate noises since 11 pm, and now I hear the distinctive snarl of long stretches of duct tape being peeled off the roll.

Yep, the chains are going up on the doors tonight.

mood: freaked

In my 50 years on earth i have done some wandering across the political spectrum..this baffled me, it did not seem so much that my views changed so much as the world around me seemed to. I often feel like a Conservative that has just lost his job or a Liberal that has just gotten mugged..in the two party American political system and the left right dicotomy i felt lost..
I am very secular but at this point reject most socialist and leftist
nonsense..I'm not really a conservative but feel threatened by the absolute nonsensical drivel babbled by most leftists..where do belong on the poltical spectrum? I vote Democratic mostly now..but have in the past sided with the republican reluctantly and may again..considering some of the incompetant
corrupt and militant crud spilling out of the democratic party from time to time..how can this be explained its funny but i think i found the answer in the history of Radicalism by 18th century standards i am on the far left
by 21st cetury standards i'm dead center or a bit to the right..I find it ironic and interesting that the only way i can make sense of my own political
ideology is to study the history of the French radical party Does anyone else suffer from this malady?

Mild summers make me happy. We had some heat spells during the spring, but the summer has been wonderful. Highs have been in the seventies, and usually the low seventies at that. (That's low twenties for you celcius folks.) This is the coolest summer we've had in a while and I'm really enjoying it. I hope there aren't horrible heat spells in the fall to make up for it. :p

tags: 31 days of happiness

w00t! My tv girlfriend is going to come see me every evening after Keith beginning Sept. 8. She'll follow Keith and replace Dan Abrams whose show is dull and shrill and I always turn him off. Just think. Two whole hours of smart people to listen to each evening! Won't it be fab?! ;)

trinityofone is hosting a fannish Bulwer-Lytton Contest! "Smart Bitches Trashy Books is having a contest in honor of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners. Two years ago, I held a similar contest. I feel like it's time to bring it back—with a vengeance!"

Go forth and commit first-sentence mayhem.

God, I fucking hate people.

( HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt is defending the proposed policy that would turn birth control into abortion, trying to frame the debate as one of protecting physicians' right to act according to conscience. Some damn  )