I'm the False Spring Queen!
Jan. 25th, 2005 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinLook at the date ... it is January. Here in the northern hemisphere, January = winter.
There are crocuses in my yard that probably bloomed today, though I was not at home while the sun was out so I can't say for sure. The daffodils at the train station near work are sending up flower buds already.
I walked to the library and back today at lunch without my coat and was still in a sweat when I got back, despite having passed the coldest corner in the city.
It's JANUARY.
You know what this means ... it's time for the Snow Scouts' Alphabet Pledge!
Snow Scouts are: accomodating, basic, calm, darling, emblematic, frisky, grinning, human, innocent, jumping, kept, limited, meek, nap-loving, official, pretty, quarantined, recent, scheduled, tidy, understandable, victorious, wholesome, xylophone, young, and zippered - every morning, every afternoon, every night, and all day long! Whhhhooooossshhhhhh..........
(This is much harder to remember when one has heard Carmelita's song one too many times... accomodating or adorable? Meek or gorgeous?)
This moment of extreme geekhood is brought to you by the letters J and S.
10:13 pm
Tuesdays are special. Tuesday is NOVA NIGHT!!
I faithfully tuned in to one of the two PBS stations we get here (fortunately, Canada gets two PBS stations; unfortunately, you have to have cable to get them - the ONLY reason to have cable, in my humble [TV snob!] opinion) and waited for it to start so I could disengage my mind from the tedious task of washing dishes and let it do a graceful underwater ballet immersed in the brilliance of the world's best science show. It turned out to be Nova: Science Now, a "spinoff" whose original (or, at least, accurate) title ought to have been Nova: Repackaged for Easy Sale to the Discovery Network because it's like regular Nova, only with roughly 20-minute segments (for easy translation to a 30-minute time slot with commercial breaks) with enough human interest and flashy quick camera work to entertain those accustomed to commercial TV. That said, it's still about 24.6x better than anything the Discovery Network makes on its own - it was interesting, educational, and intelligent, introducing me to ideas I'd never known before. It also had a little mini-segment at the end about the work of an artist/engineer, whose name I have forgotten (naturally), and who doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere on the site (grr), but he does these really cool moving sculptures made of an intricate and beautiful mechanical device that moves some sort of random object (for instance, a wishbone that looks like it's walking and pulling the device behind it) in a totally mesmerizing way ...
On one hand, this is good for PBS. I'm sure it will attract more mainstream viewers and make them a parcel of cash when they sell it to commercial cable channels. On the other hand ... I miss regular Nova, that hour spent digging deep into some fascinating new world, be it string theory or paleoanthropology or elephant psychology. I should have seen this coming when I first saw that Viking show on TLC which had been a Nova episode a year before, repackaged with a bunch of other former Nova episodes into a series called something like "Mysterious World" (though of course few of the shows had anything to do with mysteries at all) ... oh well. The times, they are a-changin'. Just so long as PBS stays afloat without totally selling out...
Everybody! Nova theme song time!
bum-Baaam badaBAAAAM badaBaaam (dun dun) bum-Baaaam badaBAAAAM badaBaaaam (dun) looloolooloo looloolooloo loooooooooooooo.........
(The geek cup runneth over)
There are crocuses in my yard that probably bloomed today, though I was not at home while the sun was out so I can't say for sure. The daffodils at the train station near work are sending up flower buds already.
I walked to the library and back today at lunch without my coat and was still in a sweat when I got back, despite having passed the coldest corner in the city.
It's JANUARY.
You know what this means ... it's time for the Snow Scouts' Alphabet Pledge!
Snow Scouts are: accomodating, basic, calm, darling, emblematic, frisky, grinning, human, innocent, jumping, kept, limited, meek, nap-loving, official, pretty, quarantined, recent, scheduled, tidy, understandable, victorious, wholesome, xylophone, young, and zippered - every morning, every afternoon, every night, and all day long! Whhhhooooossshhhhhh..........
(This is much harder to remember when one has heard Carmelita's song one too many times... accomodating or adorable? Meek or gorgeous?)
This moment of extreme geekhood is brought to you by the letters J and S.
10:13 pm
Tuesdays are special. Tuesday is NOVA NIGHT!!
I faithfully tuned in to one of the two PBS stations we get here (fortunately, Canada gets two PBS stations; unfortunately, you have to have cable to get them - the ONLY reason to have cable, in my humble [TV snob!] opinion) and waited for it to start so I could disengage my mind from the tedious task of washing dishes and let it do a graceful underwater ballet immersed in the brilliance of the world's best science show. It turned out to be Nova: Science Now, a "spinoff" whose original (or, at least, accurate) title ought to have been Nova: Repackaged for Easy Sale to the Discovery Network because it's like regular Nova, only with roughly 20-minute segments (for easy translation to a 30-minute time slot with commercial breaks) with enough human interest and flashy quick camera work to entertain those accustomed to commercial TV. That said, it's still about 24.6x better than anything the Discovery Network makes on its own - it was interesting, educational, and intelligent, introducing me to ideas I'd never known before. It also had a little mini-segment at the end about the work of an artist/engineer, whose name I have forgotten (naturally), and who doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere on the site (grr), but he does these really cool moving sculptures made of an intricate and beautiful mechanical device that moves some sort of random object (for instance, a wishbone that looks like it's walking and pulling the device behind it) in a totally mesmerizing way ...
On one hand, this is good for PBS. I'm sure it will attract more mainstream viewers and make them a parcel of cash when they sell it to commercial cable channels. On the other hand ... I miss regular Nova, that hour spent digging deep into some fascinating new world, be it string theory or paleoanthropology or elephant psychology. I should have seen this coming when I first saw that Viking show on TLC which had been a Nova episode a year before, repackaged with a bunch of other former Nova episodes into a series called something like "Mysterious World" (though of course few of the shows had anything to do with mysteries at all) ... oh well. The times, they are a-changin'. Just so long as PBS stays afloat without totally selling out...
Everybody! Nova theme song time!
bum-Baaam badaBAAAAM badaBaaam (dun dun) bum-Baaaam badaBAAAAM badaBaaaam (dun) looloolooloo looloolooloo loooooooooooooo.........
(The geek cup runneth over)
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Date: 2005-01-26 04:18 am (UTC)