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I was watching the same thing. You and I must have the same affiliate. I also watched their Nova special after on animal empathy. It is so fascinating that animals can form strong relationships even when reproduction is 0%. I am not stumping for bestiality, but it shows that relationship are far more complex than being a dump for genetic material or sexual interaction. As I said, I am a proud supporter of pbs It also helps that i live half a mile from Boston headquarters.

Well outside of politics, I also have an interest in zoology and animals I know for a fact dogs and cats can be friends. However, I didn't realize that they could be so close, even to the point where it's kind of like a couple. I find all this stuff extremely fascinating. It also highlights an additional point that sexuality and relationship are not dead set in animals or human beings.

Seriously, I feel like I just got the golden ticket. It's not the best job in the world, but it is at least paying me a fair salary based on my ability, education, and licensing. I''ll get a signing bonus, a staff of three people, and an annual increase based on corporate operations. However, it's better than working for next to nothing, getting promoted and taking on responsibilities that belong to others, and never getting any respect. My position will be just a senior level accountant, but I don't care. It's better than being a controller with no control over your own money. I have had to deal with a lot of crap over the last few months as my blog could show by the incessant messes that senior management has gotten this company into. They are going to kill this business by being frivolous and insane with money management. Part of me feels bad for those people I am leaving behind to deal with their messes, but I am also relieved to get out with my shirt. Am I a sell out for going corporate? Probably yes, but non-profit is a dying concept with antiquated people, who are far too liberal and too ignorant of financial measures to survive. Health care cannot be a zero-sum game.

Happy Birthday Lacey, Hope You find joy on this day!

Kc is right a description creates a visual. Details would help, i.e. If its a road trip by a middle age guy trying to find himself after coming out to his family, a shirtless guy's back with his car staring at the horizon of a rising sun would be cool. Or, a writer trapped in struggle with his fictional world, you could be more conceptual with brilliant colors and effects that reflect imagination. I am not an artist and I am blind in one eye so take this with a grain of salt.

The crews have fixed internet and power in my neighborhood and i see the sun. I think Boston is thru with sandy. She was a big bitchy storm, but like bitchy relatives, she's gone. My best wishes for New York and you other guys south of us.

I just got back power, but main cable/internet is still out in my part of Boston.

Thanks, I was preparing with my disaster prep thread after the earthquake scare. To add to Jame's words, if you are on the colder end of Hurricane Sandy expect some very heavy snow (Yes, you heard it, parts of PA, North eastern TN, and West Virginia will get hammered by 1-2 feet.) Snow is not the same as a hurricane, if you do not have good insulation, it will be very bad and I hope you folks over there had early winter prep. Same rules apply, plus some extra ones. If your vehicles are not winterized, don't attempt to move about, you might get into or cause accidents without the ability to get help. This is a Frankenstorm, Boston and New York are facing the warm side with hurricane winds and rain, the other side will face tremendous snow and winds. Stay safe and hope everyone makes it out.

Let's see, where I've been: China (was born there) Hong Kong (lived there briefly) United States, primarily Massachusetts for 20 years, (I've been to New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, New York up to Buffalo and Syracuse, New York City , Michigan, Illinois, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida, Nevada, and California) Canada Mexico, on the border between Cali Germany Belgium Netherlands Luxemburg France, German region of Strasborg/Alsace Places I want to go to: Texas, so I can say I've been and hit Banger with a cowboy hat Paris, on my honeymoon Prague, for the music and culture Vienna, for the food and drinks Madrid, for the bulls and the horned male cows London, so I can knell down at the altar of JK Rowling and get into arguments with half the country and finally Dublin, so I can forget all the stuff in a haze of Guinness and vomit

Tell them to go through radiation treatment, then you will get your wish cyhort .

I like warehouse 13, but its no Eureka As for night gallery and outer limits, I love both shows. My favorite of the scifi horror anthologies though is the new outer limits "The Appeal" is my favorite episode bringing the entire metaverse into focus. Science makes mistakes, but it is our greatest hope for future that allows us to go from inner most fantasy to the outer limits of our imagination. Rod sterling deserve credit for being the father of the genre with twilight zone, but is dated for me.

Looks like Boston will survive, it's going to strike New Jersey. Spent the last few days preparing, I'm prepared now, I got medicine, food stores, water, and several different types of flashlights. All I am missing is a weapon and then I can turn into a survivalist like James Oh well, I'll have to wait for the next plague to strike. PS: I am betting someone will call this God's punishment against homosexuals again (wink wink), but I think God like everyone else is just getting tired of "Jersey Shore" and wants to make sure MTV does not even dare to make a sequel (Snooki does not need more press) . Please note, not a religious issue or comment, just an observation that nature is offended by MTV

Well, we survived an earthquake before, now we need to survive Franken Storm, so all we have left is Famine, pestilence, blood in rivers, and maybe the death of all the first born Cel, can I double up with you? I promise to not use too much of the comforter and I can do your taxes

Well "the day after tomorrow", the northeast will get hit by a super storm. We are not only getting hit by a hurricane, but an arctic front is also coming down. How the hell can you prepare for both things happening at once? (Please note, I was making an allusion to the movie day after tomorrow as a joke.) This is messed up, but how does a person prepare against a potentially rapid change between weather from traditional late fall cold front weather and summer hurricane.

Awesome, all power to phas...lasers !

This show looks interesting: a rip off of "Falling Skies" and "Alien Nation" though They stole the hand held camera work from Falling Skies and the idea of Alien immigrants from "Alien Nation". It's a cute bastard child though, so I will give it a chance for the 1st season. This show is new for Sy-Fy, so I hope they don't fuck it up. I love Battlestar Galactica and knowing their writers are here is interesting. PS: "No one has ever done anything like this on TV series before" is bullshit quote. I hope he does some fact checking, because they are retreading the area that "Alien Nation" already passed. (PS: the reason why I know that 90's series is due to re-runs on sci-fi and it was one of the 1st sci-fi shows to be open about sexuality and gender roles with a lot of gay/bisexual aliens and their females as leaders in their society.)

Too expensive to produce even a half decent TV show. I didn't realize that Jericho or Falling Skies was that expensive to produce (I should have known about Falling Skies, since Steven Speilberg was Exec Prod, but still). I miss when Sci-Fi had great original series. Does anyone remember their version of the Wizard of Oz? Brilliant The mini-series Taken was amazing and spellbinding tracking of alternative history (my childhood fascination with UFO paid off in that series as I knew almost every fact they added from Roswell to the LSD based government conspiracies ) The Three Stargate series were good The new Battlestar Galactica was hell a lot better than the old Mormons in Space crap (no offense to Mormons ). I loved the metaphysical storyline for Baltar, the human issues of the characters, and the cold calculating schemes of the machines, Cylons. James, seriously, I hope you reverse your opinion one day. I was never a Farscape fan and hated Andromeda on Sci-fi channel. I will not even start on the problems of Earth Final Conflict final season on Sci-Fi, my favorite Gene Roddenberry show and original Concept behind NBC's classic "V". I've been with Sci-fi for almost a decade, I grew up on them, but the crap now on is worse than the late night re-airing of Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space, known as the "worst thing ever made into film" and I'd probably rated lower than crap. If Sci-Fi could give a new space based science fiction story, I'd pay for premium. If they can't come up with one, call JMS, creator of Babylon 5, or Manny Coto, creator of Odyssey, as we could use more exploration into those sci-fi series. If they want to work on budget series, then call up Ron Moore again to finish Caprica or hell hire JJ Abrams, who can do a cheap version of Lost/Alias. If all else fails, come to me and I'll pitch them a dozen sci-fi stories that I never even published on GA like "The End of Species" about an international space station, which inexplicably gets thrown back 64 million years to discover that earth was devoid of higher mammalian life and was facing complete ecological destruction due to the dinosaur extinction event. They will find that not all the Dinosaurs died out, but a few had develop advanced technology of their own comparable to our 20th century atomic era, but they pulled the trigger. From these beginnings, mankind will be the predestination paradox of all predestination paradoxes as the last Dinosaur species die out and they inadvertently genetically altered a mammal species, which begins to change eventually becoming Homo Sapians. These humans will eventually instill fundamental ideas into human instinct to protect mankind from dying out like the Dinosaurs, Higher level reasoning concepts like hope, love, and mercy would be used. There will be a fun twist at the end as the scientists' descendants create one final safeguard and overseer of development for their forebears' changes aka evolution into humans, a techno-biological entity known as God. (Metaphysically, it makes such a huge twist, humans from the future made God, who helps make humans in the Present, so who created who? Too bad it's not a gay story theme and I wrote it in high school, so it is pretty crappy, but better than most of Sci-Fi's offering.) Wouldn't that be better than Ghost Hunters?

To borrow a quote from an old US civil war movie: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"

Didn't know Asam was into that What are you interested in joann? There are a lot of genre specific content on the web.

Does anyone know if there's still a chance to get AC 3 (Assassin's Creed 3) at the beginning of November or before Christmas/Winter solstice December 21st End of the world ? I've noticed this several times for games that I buy and how they seem to get stuck on back order, because certain companies did not put enough inventory in, but still allowed people to pre-order online. Anyone else got the same problem? Any solutions?

How will the Hobbit look compared to LOTR: Can't wait to see it! Maybe, they'll splice in some short stories from "The Silmarillion" and we can see the revival of Sauron and rise of Saruman over the wizards to tie into the Fellowship, sort of like a better version of Star Wars Episode 1 (ugh by the way, I hope Gollum is not going to be Jar Jar).

Charmed was self defeating on its exploration of good and evil after the show turned Cole completely evil. However that worked for me as plot development, because he was behaving human in the choices leading to evil aka it wasn't his demonic nature that pushed him to the dark side, it was his love for phoebe. (Yes i was a charmed fan too) I don't care for twilight much. After Buffy and Angel series, I tended toward werewolves in fiction, less pale and more manly. As for noir, you know my kryptonite. I love noir and neo-noir stories filled with lots of ambiguity and subtlety. Batman at times is an homage and descendant of the noir genre, especially during 1990's with Batman the animated series (B:tas, especially stories like "p.o.v"). It was Batman that got me interested in that genre.

Great insights guys and lady krista I love anti-heroes and anti-villains (people with heroic ideals who serve a dark purpose). I thought it was Joss Whedon with buffy who redefined vampires in the 90's.

I can turn the rice into porridge or rice cakes if I can heat it up with a stove. Rice is really easy to cooke with a little water. I just bought a few packs of iodine solution to clean the nearby water for drinking, hopefully it will be clean enough for cooking. I have a magnesium fire starter, hope it is really as good as advertised. Wish I could have been a boy scouts without all the BS

I heard canned corn, beans, and chili can last just as long as Mre. Excluding my twinkies, sugar snacks with cream not the gay kind, my back up food is 20lbs rice at the moment plus what's in fridge/freezer.