The weekend in review

[annathepiper]

Friday: Only half a mile of bus stop walking, because spazzkat gave me a ride back to MurkNorth--where we picked up solarbird and then headed south into the U-district to meet up with kathrynt, llachglin, jiapa, and kingchiron for a pleasant dinner at Stella's and a very, very, VERY enjoyable time watching Kung Fu Hustle at the Metro. The poster we saw hanging inside for the movie had a quote describing it as "Quentin Tarantino meets Buster Keaton meets Jackie Chan meets Bugs Bunny", and yeah, that's a dead-on summation. I was especially fond of the dancing Axe Gang. ;)



Saturday: Saturday went to three things: editing, a jaunt with Dara down to Lake Forest Park Town Centre, and Paul coming over to eat pizza with us and watch the fourth episode of the new Doctor Who. The jaunt was fun, and longer than usual as I had to swing down to my usual bus stop and leave a note there about the sweater I'd found, in the hopes that its owner will see it and contact me so I can give it back. We then went onto Burke-Gilman and had a nice stop right at the side of the lake, just to look out and see the water being choppy, before we finally swung around to LFP and ran the various errands I needed to run. I have decided that while Third Place Books is a really niftykeen bookstore and I will likely continue to be able to buy mystery and suspense there, I'll probably have to rely upon the U Bookstore or Barnes and Noble still for new SF and fantasy books. They have a very large SF section, but it seems that most of it is used books, and I couldn't find the new Julie Czerneda paperback there.

Also, it's official, I'm grooving on the new Doctor Who. It'll be a shame to see this Doctor go away at the end of the season, though. I like this iteration of the Doctor a lot. And oh yeah, I almost forgot: we also watched Revelations, the new Star Wars fan film that's been released and which ol' George apparently cheerfully declared canon as long as the film remains non-profit. The acting in it was fan-level acting, but the effects looked really good. The only problem was that the file Dara had downloaded was compressed all to hell, so we didn't get to see it in anything remotely resembling proper quality. Foo.



Sunday: Sunday morning started off with Dara and I getting suckered into watching another episode of Enterprise, which we'd bailed on a while ago--because we just could not resist a Mirror Universe episode. And it turned out to be a lot of fun, even if I couldn't quite bend my brain around Evil Scott Bakula. ;) Dara thinks he was trying a bit too hard to be stone-faced and grim. She also realized that this episode patched up what she considered a big gaping plot hole from way back in the original Mirror Universe Old Trek episode: i.e., the computer on the Mirror Enterprise had no problem whipping up the calculations for an interphasic rift. Now we know why! Dara lamented, "HOW DARE RICK BERMAN ADD TO THE INTEGRITY OF THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE?!" She's used to him breaking things, you see. Hee hee hee. We'll be tuning in for part two, and seeing Cap'n Evil Sam wearing Kirk's old wraparound tunic from the Old Show is going to be amusing.

We took another trek down to Lake Forest Park just because we both wanted the exercise, and because the weather was gorgeous as well. And I downloaded OpenOffice, the open source descendant of StarOffice, in search of an alternative word processor as part of my preliminary moves to de-Borgifying my computer. I really want to download Thunderbird and start using it as a mail client, but there still seems to be no way to have Thunderbird sync up with a PocketPC. This is particularly vexing as I discovered that someone has in fact written an extension for Thunderbird that syncs up with Palms.

Speaking of de-Borgifying my computer, I poked around on the Web some and discovered that a couple of people out there have indeed successfully installed Linux on a Fujitsu Lifebook (which, for the audience listening in at home, is the model of laptop I'm currently using). There are a couple of pages with in-depth writeups on how it was done, which gives me some hope that I could actually pull it off.

One problem, though--while I'm pretty sure I can find appropriate Linux apps for most of the various tasks I need to do, there's one big problem: iTunes, which only works on Windows and Mac OS. AGH. I may have to settle for a dual-boot solution after all, until I can justify a Mac laptop.


Friday miles: 0.5
Saturday miles: 2.75
Sunday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 88.21
Miles to Rivendell: 369.79

Comments

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

This Doctor does rock. I'm already sorry to know he's not continuing. He's a lot like Peter Davidson's Doctor... and that's my all-time favorite Doctor, so I have to list Christopher Eccleston as my second-favorite... bumping poor Sylvester McCoy down to third, and Tom Baker to fourth. :)

[annathepiper]

Peter Davidson is the movie Doctor, right? Doctor #8? I liked him too. And hey, what's not to like about Tom Baker? :)

I'm particularly grooving on how this new Doctor clearly has hidden depths to his character--that while he has a deliberately light and nonchalant exterior, he's carrying around a bunch of stuff that we've only glimpsed so far. spazzkat says they seem to be referencing a Time War that took place in the books, in this plotline, and he's wondered if we're going to possibly build up to preventing that war as the season progresses.

[annathepiper]

Whoops, spazzkat corrects me and says Peter Davidson is Doctor #5. Okay. I don't have all the actors who played the various Doctors down yet. :)

[janne.livejournal.com]

Mirror episode was dandy! I'm so looking forward to number two and the Defiant being defiant. And hmmm, that Doctor sure seems to be getting younger with each incarnation... or was the previous one a bit younger? Though it's vaguely spooky to see a doctor with a conscience and human feelings and whatnot. He must have been hanging around this planet too long =)

And next week: Daleks!

[annathepiper]

I got a huge giggle out of how they redid the credits for the Mirror episode. *chortle* All those shots of aggressive weapons of war rather than exploring ships and stuff, and the symbol of the Empire all over the place. Muahahahaha.

It's going to be fun to see what they actually do with the Defiant and what kind of ending they'll pull out for this plot. ;)

Also, I dug the new and improved Tholian Web. :D They had that thing up in SECONDS--guess they can build one much faster when they've got seven ships involved instead of two!

As for the Doctor, if you're thinking of the Doctor from that TV movie, he was pretty young too. It's definitely odd to see a youngish Doctor!

YAY DALEKS! :D