my favorite part is how some of the cast found out via twitter that the show was canceled. david blue found out from his rep who found out from the internet.
stay classy, syfy
stay classy, syfy
when i was working in hr, we had email addresses like prettypinkplaygirl ... didn't exactly inspire me to work with them. their skills didn't exactly inspire, either. now i just use my name in one form or another. but my cooler names kept getting stolen!
@winshape: Hehehe. Yea, the anti-depressants for pain also freaks me out a bit :)
@lukeoneil47: Faith in big pharma? No. I just know people who have medical problems that pharma sells pills for, one of whom is me. Both my grandmother and I had RLS long before GSK started advertising solutions on TV. I know RLS and other problems are over-diagnosed, but that doesn't mean these problems don't really exist.
@Dr Emilio Lizardo: The last line of your first post was "As a cynic, I believe that to a large extent, the drug created the disease." If I missed your point, it's because I read that line. As @winshape said, the definitions are nebulous because the pain is difficult to describe. If I seem to have jumped on you, it's because I've spent the majority of my life trying to tell people there's a problem and being told there's not. It's terribly annoying when people say the things that keep me from having a halfway normal life is just a shill to sell me drugs.
Yea, the generally nebulous definition of RLS doesn't make it sound like it's real and, as others have mentioned, people who have it or lazy ... but it does exist and has several different causes (as most syndromes do). I've had far too many nights where I wanted to saw my leg off (which improved greatly, but did not go away, when I had a big tumor removed from my abdomen; that doesn't mean I didn't have RLS -- we just found a cause two years later).
There are probably a half dozen reasons why there's a link between RLS and impotence, all depending on the cause of one's RLS. Why are there so many studies done about men's erectile dysfunction?
@Dr Emilio Lizardo: Not so much. GSK and other drug manufacturers didn't invent RLS to sell meds (just as Pfizer didn't invent fibromyalgia to sell Lyrica), though I have no doubt the commercials on TV and drug pushers in doctor's offices lead to over-diagnosis. That doesn't mean it's made up.
@winshape: That just means the two have some functions in common. The same medications are also used for diabetic nerve pain, but that doesn't mean people with RLS have diabetes or people with diabetes have RLS. Though my grandma's RLS meds didn't help with her Parkinson's ...
@Faustroll: Yea, it's easy to write off people. I won't disagree that it's possibly over-diagnosed, but that doesn't mean it isn't real.
Is it possible to vote "none of these"? The ones that are popular seem to produce a lot of fluff and the rest are hit and miss on quality (and not that they have a string of successes with a couple of flops; they're 50/50 at best). Moments of greatness doesn't make one a master of anything ...
And blaming the studio for how the final product of your writing sucked ass doesn't provide much in the way of masterfulness. If you can't pull something good out of it, what's the point? Just because you can pull in the money doesn't mean you've produced something great. It might make one master of the masses, but it doesn't make one a master of scifi.
Do women suck at being masters, are we not allowed into masterhood, or did you miss some? Jane Epsenson is showrunner on Caprica; Doris Egan, while currently on House, has some scifi streetcred. I'm sure there are others. I'm betting we're just not allowed to achieve masterhood (damn Hollywood).
@KeithZG: I enjoyed B5 and watched Jeremiah for JMS, but he had a big problem in both shows. He absolutely sucks at writing dialogue. More than once, I faded out of important dialogue because someone talked for a good five minutes around a campfire. JMS would make a good showrunner and idea man, much like RTD, but he should leave the actual writing to people who can craft dialogue and keep a show moving without losing meaning.
A British scientist has found mathematical proof of parallel universes.
[www.telegraph.co.uk]
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@RobinSure: I'm using the phrase generally preferred by people of color in the United States (as this is where I live). Saying "non-whites" puts the emphasis on how POC are not white (white racial framing) while saying "people of color" is respectful of POC who have chosen that phrase. It might seem clunky, but that is, at least for the time being, the term for non-Caucasian people. It's not a matter of what do we white folks call people who aren't white, but, rather, it is a matter of POC choosing the phrase. Do you have a problem with the NAACP as well?
This point is also driven home by the fact the humans are mostly white with a few people of color and the notable Na'Vi are played *entirely* by people of color.
what the hell is going on with our canadian border? it use to be so simple to cross back and forth. last month, an american journalist was grilled because they thought she might be reporting negatively on the olympics ([www.truthdig.com]), and now this? what's the longest undefended border in the world coming to?!
[imaginepeace.com] <---"War is over" posters in Klingon!
Also some new pictures of the Flame Nebula and Horsehead: [blogs.discovermagazine.com]
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Lovely, cross promotion! The trailer for this is on the Stargate Continuum DVD. The SGC loved their Dells so I find it funny that this one's being played on a Mac. And, yea, Claudia Black did play the voice of R.I.P.L.Y. #wargames2
There were a couple of Klingons I recognized in there (the warden of Rura Penthe was about 45 seconds in). And I think I recognize a few others ... it'd be a weird viral video for ST12 since ST12 would pre-date the characters in the video.
It's a fun video! #startrek
I'm amused by this sexism bull surrounding all that is geeky (yea, it's happened for years; was rather hoping major media outlets wouldn't be so stupid about it). People are upset about [teenage] girls going for Twilight which is, umm, a really sexist set of books. The irony, it burns!
