Musings of a Babylon Lurker

Meta : A look at the “After Hugo2010″ activities.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 | Babylon 5, Doctor Who, blog, books, comic, film and tv, podcast, scifi, star trek | No Comments

When I have finished the reading/watching and voting for the Hugo Awards – some time in Early August I have a few things in mind that I would like to do, SciFi wise.

Audio stories :

Catching up on some podcasts – they all have some absolutely marvelous stories (even if not all will be to my liking, there wil be many I like :
- early Escape Pod
- Podcastle
- Starhip Sofa
and other audio drama/audio book podcasts

- Doctor Who (Big Finish) stories – there is a lot, some very good, some ok-ish

Video :

- All of Lost – whenever the last season DVD set is out – it will be an all new one for me long term
- Older Doctor Who , long term project
- Detailed rewatch of Babylon 5 with lots of comment on this blog – will take a lot of time, probably with watching almost every episode twice, so please be patient. Also some comparison to Star Trek DS9 – probably an episode every one or two weeks on average, yes, it will be a long term project
Since I have seen B5 a few times by now, each episode review will probably be a relatively spoiler free post, followed by a review in the context of the whole story – possibly with some extra comments on issues of special interest to me (and hopefully others)
- Rewatch of (more or less) all Star Trek, with blog comments on the episodes I enjoy – another long term project
- Supernatural (first watch) – it comes recommended
- Second seasons of Dollhouse and Fringe
– Chuck – that is a fun one

All this will be a bit at a time, no great marathons, except when I visit a good scifi friend

Dexter – not scifi, but good TV drama, *very dark*

… and much more

Books :

- All of George RR. Martin’s Son of Ice and Fire – well, what is out there, since he will be Guest of Honor at the Eastercon/Olympus2012 in London – I got through the first volume Game of thrones by now
More Dresden Files books – they are fun and I got through the first two for now
- Dan Simmons’ Hyperion series
- Babylon 5 books, including the script books series – partly in conjunction with re-watching the series

- Some graphic novels and comics, especially ones written by J. Michael Straczynski, but others, too

…and much more reading of scifi/fantasy old and new that I cannot yet specify

If this looks like a lot …. well, it is, and I am probably not going to get any of it done fast, but here we go, and I will see how much will be achieved

Lately I have re-entered into building electronics equipment, and this will take some time from the scifi stuff – yes , I am prioritizing, so some scifi stuff will be done

For now, until the end of July, the Hugo awards’ stuff has high priority

The YALID Syndrome

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | blog | 4 Comments

What is this mania with Login ID’s ?!?

Just went to read a blog entry and wanted to make a comment. Duefully writing the comment , filling in name and email, and the captcha and :

“Could not publish the comment, please enter the captcha code”

WHAT !!!?!?!?!
I just did that ….

Tried once more, could have been typo , or some of those captchas are simply not readable, but no luck.

Then it struck me : You have to “join” just to make a comment !!!

How many login ID’s do we have nowadays ? more than enough to make it absolutely impossible to remember unique ID’s and Passwords – in other words , too many.

I will name this the YALID Syndrome (Yet Another Login ID)

Tags: annoyed, blog comments, login

Long time no see

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | blog, books, events, film and tv, general, novel, scifi | No Comments

It has been a while since I last had an entry here, things have been a bit hectic.

I became a supporting membert of the Anticipation Worldcon 2009, and with that came the right to vote on the Hugo Awards.

So for a month I was – among other things – busy reading 4 of the nominated novels, listening to the short stories, and a few other things.

Also, I have been more active building some radio equipment, and have had a successful attempt of receiving the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

I went to see the new Star Trek movie with a friend in Denmark, and finally I have been active learning more Tai Chi and Qigong.

Some of those activities will result in some new entries in the near future. Right now I am taking it a bit easy – and watching the new “Torchwood” series : “Children of Earth”. The first episode looks very promising, so let us hope that carries through the whole story.

Tags: busy, general, scifi

Science and imagination

Monday, April 6th, 2009 | blog, science | No Comments

I just stumbled over an article in the “Bad Astronomy” blog, a reply to someone claiming that science is devoid of imagination.

I particularly like the “boiled down” version of the reply :

“Without imagination, science is a dictionary”

since without imagination science (and technology would never have brought us anywhere, certainly we would not be discussing the topic on the Internet.

Tags: imagination, science

Blog theme update

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | blog | 3 Comments

Today I have updated the theme of my blog, so that it should be easier to navigate.

More may be on the way.

Tags: blog