We choose to go to the moon...

A local radio station loves to play "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" every few days on my commute to work. I don't know why they're so attached to the song but I do know that for the rest of my life I'll hear John Barrowman's voice drowning out Sting's. It's Pavlovian at this point. This line here: It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet... is just about the worst of it. Then I start picturing the dance moves at 2:44. John Barrowman seems like a lovely man but OH, MY GOD he's butchered Sting.

This isn't the first time I've linked the video and I'm sure it won't be the last. I refuse to suffer alone and, god help me, I keep watching it over and over and over again.



Final eliminations on SYTYCD tonight! My votes went to Joshua and Chelsie last night. *crosses fingers*

I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned Beedle the Bard! Have all of my HP LJ friends fled to IJ?

I'm back from my trip to NY/Baltimore and head over heels in love with my nephew. Chase is the cutest, littlest thing I've ever seen and my sister is a complete natural with him. It was one big love fest.

On Sunday I took the train down to Baltimore for a work conference which was, counter to expectations, tremendously productive. It was also frustrating as all hell. ( Always the mistress, never the bride )

SGA: In happy marriage news, David Hewlett wedding photos

Dr. Who: I LOOOOOOOOOOVED "Turn Left." Oh, Donna Noble. This show makes me so happy. (Before I start reading reviews, was the general reaction to the episode positive? I don't want anyone to harsh my squee.)

Torchwood: Have some great Gareth-David Lloyd links from !

And here are awesome photos of Viggo from CineVegas Film Festival and the set of Appaloosa.

I have three episodes left in s4 of Babylon 5. The last episode, Between the Darkness and Light broke my heart. :(

The fun part of this week's travel is tomorrow is already Thursday! Friday night I'm cooking crab cakes with friends and then, on Saturday, I have plans to see "Wanted" in the afternoon and "Wall-E" in the evening. Sunday I tackle my weeds.

ETA: I ran 5.5K today (\o/) and listened to the BSG podcast for "Revelations." Ron Moore & company were talking about the benefit of not plotting out the entire series ahead of time because it allows them to build on unexpected elements of the show. It was interesting to hear their perspective because, as a fan, I see both sides. On the one hand, I love that they have the freedom to surprise themselves and, by extension, us. On the other hand, there's something about knowing the plot has a course that gives me comfort in such a mythology based show. Look at the X-Files. What a mess. BSG hasn't let me down yet, though.

They also talked about how this idea of writing the series as it progresses applies to ( a particular plot point. )

After an awesome day at the Detroit Science Center we stopped at Borders and I picked up two books, Light Years by Brian Clegg and Quantum Physics by Alastair I. M. Rae.

Light Years "looks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory--Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell and Feynman--and traces the evolution of light-driven devices from the camera to the laser...author Brian Clegg reveals how twenty-first century scientists have achieved the seemingly impossible in bringing light to a halt, and used the quantum properties of entangled light to produce unbreakable encryption and unbelievable computers."

The book includes the optical illusion below and I am still BAFFLED by it. The shades of gray in tile A and tile B are the exact same. How is it possible that my mind sees two shades of gray when it's the same color? I even cut out the tiles in Photoshop to try to prove the illusion wrong but they're the same color. HOW?



There's more information on this illusion here.

( I did have time to watch the season finale of Torchwood this morning )

A colleague lent me the Dr. Who s3 DVDs which I think I'm going to try out. I borrowed them primarily for the purpose of watching the Jack episodes but, if I like the show, I'll stick with it for season four. I tried watching in s1 and quit because it was a bit too campy for my tastes. Perhaps, now that I fell for the universe as a whole, I'll feel differently.

I binged on Torchwood over the past few days and I'm now all caught up through 02x04, "Meat." YAY! Torchwood for the win!

Just, in general, I'm totally a sucker for any kind of "out of time" episodes. That's true for most sci-fi series but it particularly pleases me here. "Out of Time," "Captain Jack Harkness," and "To the Last Man" are my clear favorites.

( More and of a spoilery nature... )

In summary, "Cyberwoman" is one of the worst episodes of television I've ever watched but I'll forgive Torchwood because, overall, it's A+ awesome.

PS. Where is the Captain Jack Harkness/Captain Jack Harkness fic. Please tell me it's out there and it's good!