FINALLY.
New TV season is starting to get into full swing. Of course, that also means, sadly, that as the fall season begins, old favorites from the summer season come to a close. The first of those happened a few weeks ago with Monk. Now SG-1 is done until either the U.K. passes up the U.S. (and for the first time this year this may not even happen) or until Sci-Fi gets their ass in gear and starts showing new episodes. Then next week will bring the season break for Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica. Ditto on their potential returns.
I've already found several new shows that I enjoy. Bones and Threshold are the big ones, followed by Supernatural. Supernatural is definitely going to require further evaluation. And this week sees the season premieres of some of my old favorites - CSI Miami on Monday, NCIS on Tuesday, CSI New York on Wednesday, CSI on Thursday. There are also a few new shows that I plan on checking out this week - Just Legal on Monday, E-Ring and Invasion on Wednesday, Criminal Minds on Thursday, and Ghost Whisperer and Inconceivable on Friday. I doubt I'll get into the majority of them, but for years now I've been horrible about actually giving new shows a try, and it comes back to bite me on the ass on a regular basis. So I've vowed to be more receiptive this year.
In the world of Distributed Computing, today I'm running CommunityTSC. It's a good project that aims at finding a cure to some nasty childhood diseases. I have processed a total of 1,433 candidates since beginning the project. One of my problems is that I'm interested in so many projects I switch around on pretty much a daily basis. The only reason I'd like to see more projects - like this one - fold into the BOINC umbrella is so that I could leave BOINC running for days and days and days and not switch around manually.
And in the world of gaming...well, I've started paying more attention. I'm looking now toward the Xbox 360 launch. I'd love one, although affordability will be an issue, but I've already started up a healthy little savings toward getting something and it might as well possibly be that. I'm currently console-less - all I have is my GBA at the moment. It would be nice to have something back until that situation changes. Sooo...yeah. If it wouldn't have been a complete waste of money I'd have considered getting a GameCube last week - they had an incredible bundle - but I refrained, because I already have access to one, it's just currently 600 miles away from me. But that's not a permanent separation by any means, so getting another one would just be stupid. Same goes for PS2 and my Xbox (which I often regret having left out there last time I visited, as of course immediately upon arriving home I found like five games I wanted to play).
That's all for tonight. I really just wanted to get a feel for how this whole thing works, and get some words on the page. More tomorrow, perhaps...or, as with my previous experience...never...
New TV season is starting to get into full swing. Of course, that also means, sadly, that as the fall season begins, old favorites from the summer season come to a close. The first of those happened a few weeks ago with Monk. Now SG-1 is done until either the U.K. passes up the U.S. (and for the first time this year this may not even happen) or until Sci-Fi gets their ass in gear and starts showing new episodes. Then next week will bring the season break for Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica. Ditto on their potential returns.
I've already found several new shows that I enjoy. Bones and Threshold are the big ones, followed by Supernatural. Supernatural is definitely going to require further evaluation. And this week sees the season premieres of some of my old favorites - CSI Miami on Monday, NCIS on Tuesday, CSI New York on Wednesday, CSI on Thursday. There are also a few new shows that I plan on checking out this week - Just Legal on Monday, E-Ring and Invasion on Wednesday, Criminal Minds on Thursday, and Ghost Whisperer and Inconceivable on Friday. I doubt I'll get into the majority of them, but for years now I've been horrible about actually giving new shows a try, and it comes back to bite me on the ass on a regular basis. So I've vowed to be more receiptive this year.
In the world of Distributed Computing, today I'm running CommunityTSC. It's a good project that aims at finding a cure to some nasty childhood diseases. I have processed a total of 1,433 candidates since beginning the project. One of my problems is that I'm interested in so many projects I switch around on pretty much a daily basis. The only reason I'd like to see more projects - like this one - fold into the BOINC umbrella is so that I could leave BOINC running for days and days and days and not switch around manually.
And in the world of gaming...well, I've started paying more attention. I'm looking now toward the Xbox 360 launch. I'd love one, although affordability will be an issue, but I've already started up a healthy little savings toward getting something and it might as well possibly be that. I'm currently console-less - all I have is my GBA at the moment. It would be nice to have something back until that situation changes. Sooo...yeah. If it wouldn't have been a complete waste of money I'd have considered getting a GameCube last week - they had an incredible bundle - but I refrained, because I already have access to one, it's just currently 600 miles away from me. But that's not a permanent separation by any means, so getting another one would just be stupid. Same goes for PS2 and my Xbox (which I often regret having left out there last time I visited, as of course immediately upon arriving home I found like five games I wanted to play).
That's all for tonight. I really just wanted to get a feel for how this whole thing works, and get some words on the page. More tomorrow, perhaps...or, as with my previous experience...never...
posted by danawhitaker at 00:35
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