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I was going to do another mini story like the Thanksgiving one but I've spent the last three days baking and knitting so it's just two snapshots.

Happy Holidays from Mohinder, Sylar and Mr. Muggles!

Mohinder: "If this is another brain in a jar..."


Yes, that is Sasan's owl sweater. You can't really see Mohinder's sweater but it has reindeer on it.

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Because I am constantly reading WIPs and then being unable to find them a few days later to see if the next part is up yet:

http://tjandamal.com/

A web graphic novel, as rec'd by glockgal. I like it. And now I'll be able to find it. It starts in San Francisco and Berkeley! :D

For once, I am not offended by the challenge to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's supremacy.



I would pay so much money to be that diver at the bottom.

Did you all know Jack Coleman, a.k.a. HRG, has a blog on Television Without Pity? He does.

:D

TOS:


And bonus! Next Generation! The pairings surprised and delighted me.

Maybe they're pretty common pairings, I haven't read Next Generation fic.

This photo is awesome (probably worksafe; if it's not then I'm glad I don't work there).
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-of-day.html

OH! If you scroll down and read the comments, someone posted a link to Hell Pizza. I've had that! It's good.

The video with the condescending whack job claiming to be some kind of doctor in my last post reminded me:

I've been watching Flashforward because 1) John Cho, 2) cool sci-fi premise! and 3) JOHN CHO and something has happened a few times that I've seen happen in other sci-fi things too: a (usually male) character says to a (usually female) character "have you heard of [insert science-y thing]?" and the second character says "no" so the first character can explain it for the benefit of the audience.

I remember it happening twice in Flashforward: once it was "do you know anything about string theory?" and the other was "have you heard of the many worlds hypothesis?" and in both cases I could have said "WHY YES, ACTUALLY!" Oh, also there was the time Merry Dominic Monaghan's character acted like a huge, egotistical asshole in order to convince a stranger to sleep with him (and it worked). She hadn't heard of Schrödinger's Cat. WTF who hasn't heard of that? Anyway, that wasn't originally intended to illustrate the principle of quantum mechanics, it was to demonstrate the absurdity of trying to apply it to macro-scale objects. LIKE A CAT, FOR EXAMPLE.

A lot of people get that wrong. I'm not sure why a character who's supposed to be a genius physicist would. Ohh, right, it's because the writers are trying to make up cool physics things and can't even be bothered to look it up on Wikipedia and are relying on the assumption that most of the audience is even more ignorant about science than they are. And sadly, they're right.

Since I re-watched part of season 3 last night instead of working on my presentation for class, I thought of something that's been bugging me:
Sylar couldn't have been more than about 4 when his bio-dad sold him to Martin and Virginia in 1980, because if he were older then he would have remembered living with his bio-parents. It makes sense that he repressed the memory of that one day but it wouldn't make sense for him to repress all his memories prior to that, unless he was just too young to remember much anyway. So that would put Sylar's age at about 32 in season 3.

When he confronted Martin (his adoptive dad), he said Martin had left 27 years ago. That would make Sylar about 5 when Martin left, only a year after he adopted Sylar.

Why then was Sylar's repair shop called "Gray & Son," if it would be 13 years before Sylar would be able to take over his dad's business? Who ran the business in the meantime? Martin left town; if he'd continued running his shop then it would have been pretty easy for his wife to find him. So did she take over the shop until Sylar was old enough? That doesn't seem likely, since she doesn't see his watch-repairing as anything more than a hobby.

OR did Sylar start his own shop and choose the name Gray & Son himself because he is just that messed up in the head that he wants to live the fantasy of his father still being there and approving of him?

Is it any wonder Sylar's a Woobie for a lot of fans? In addition to being the Big Bad and Draco in Leather Pants.

I went to the used book store to sell some books - Spring cleaning is ongoing - and I got $27 in store credit! :D I spent $2.75 of that on Asimov's Foundation because I read it in college and never read the rest of the series so I'm going to start over. And I saw a book by WILLIAM SHATNER, not Tek Wars, it's called Believe. So I bought that for $2.50. I left it on the shelf for a few days and I just read the book jacket:

A Master of Illusion. He was the greatest escape artist in history, a world-famous magician who knew that magic was merely illusion. He exposed psychic frauds, debunked spiritualists, and defied supernatural nonsense.

A Master of Reason. He was the most beloved writer of his time. His brilliant mystery novels exalted the science of logic and deduction - yet he firmly believed in the occult. Believed with all his heart and soul.

OK, fair enough. I don't know why I didn't see this next bit coming:

A Psychic Battle of Wits. The skeptic was Harry Houdini. The believer was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Whut. RPF? RPF by William Shatner? Aw, crap!

Also THANKS, I DIDN'T KNOW WHO SIR ARTHUR FREAKING CONAN DOYLE WAS.

It continues:

The contest was sponsored by a science magazine launching a worldwide search for genuine proof of life after death. The novel is BELIEVE. - the most unusual and exciting adventure you will ever read.

SOMEHOW I DOUBT THAT, BILL. And that random hyphen isn't a typo. One sentence ends and the next begins with a hyphen and a lower-case letter.