Jellyn’s Collection of Curiosities

I’ve been watching Britain’s Got Talent. And here’s a Michael Jackson act from tonight that you really should see.

I recommend letting the video load completely before watching it. Jerky, halting playback does not serve it well.

“Blood Ties” is a Lifetime show based on a series of books by Tanya Huff. I’m sure I’ve blogged about it before. The book series is good, the spinoff Smoke series is even better. The Lifetime series is passable, though I’m still annoyed with them for apparently making Henry (the vampire) straight. Clearly we can’t be expecting Lifetime to be showing Torchwood anytime soon.

Anyway, was browsing around Oberon Games and found someone had done one of those seek and find games with a Blood Ties theme. I like that genre of game and while theme games are usually sucky, it can’t be too bad, right? So I’m going to check it out.

Blood Ties: The Hidden Object-type Game

Today I ordered 24 Munchkins, jelly and glazed. Though the slip says 25, I swear the menu said 24.

I was given 17 or 18 glazed. (I forget exactly how many I ate before work.)

Horrendous disparity, don’t you think?

Except that I can’t complain, because I have 14 jelly.

I want that chick counting my donuts all the time!

There’s this FedEx Kinko’s commercial you may have seen. It involves two business guys on a plane (iirc, they’re both male and white, btw) and one says he has the presentation ‘right here’ and pats his laptop case. Then the flight attendant (white and female, I believe) proceeds to cram it into the overhead compartment.

But that’s okay! Because the sarariman sent the presentation to FedEx Kinko’s. And FedEx Kinko’s printed out 20 bound copies, and then shipped them to Portland.

What the frell? Portland has no Kinko’s? Has this unholy union of FedEx and Kinko’s made it mandatory to use the FedEx end of things? If you print it, you must ship it somewhere!

Next time you’re in there running off copies of your resumé be sure to tell them you’re not interested in getting job offers from Beijing.

Usually I don’t have much good to say about the SciFi Channel. But today, I’d like to say kudos on fixing the closed captioning issue on Doctor Who. From the excellent spelling of the unusual and even episode-specific names, I can only assume this closed captioned script is directly tied to the shooting script. Yet I haven’t yet spotted any revisions, so it’s even better than that.

So, thank you, SciFi, for not trying to reinvent the wheel by getting new closed captions from an American company who has no clue.

My only quibble is that I’ve noticed at least one dropped line. That could be a transmission thing.

And SciFi, don’t think I’m letting you off the hook for chopping it up to insert commercials!

Eh, minor spoiler, so I’m not going to hide it behind a cut. Just close your eyes.

I might buy that the Daily Planet building has a cafeteria with kitchen. But why does it have a ginormous walk-in freezer?

After Easter, I bought a bunch of cheap candy at CVS. And I mean really cheap. Not that this makes it any better for me to be eating it, but hey.

I thought the Whoppers malted milk balls would be sure to be better than the Necco Paas ones, but it turns out I was wrong. So it’s a good thing I got both. ;)

The Whoppers ones were the usual Whoppers, but in a candy coating. And it wasn’t a very good candy coating. It just about ruined the malted milk ball experience.

The Necco Paas ones on the other hand managed to be a pretty white with colored splashes by using white chocolate. But it’s not just white chocolate, as there’s milk chocolate underneath, before you finally get to the malted center.

So, now you know.

Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:

The lack of ALT tags is really bugging me, but not so much that I want to keep typing alt tags for all these stars. So I may switch to colored asterisks.

“Manga fans drawn to Japanese comics”

This just in… SF fans gravitate to science fiction.

Sunday:
Monday:

Mostly laundry there. I need to try to get my printer working again so I can get my loan deferred. They’ve started calling. I haven’t put phone calls in my star list. They should be worth at least two.

Saturday:

Flurry of activity on Saturday, for what little good it does. I think the total is 29.5 stars for the week, which is far short of 100.

What I failed to do was write a story to submit to a workshop. But hey, my room’s a bit cleaner.

Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:

Gotta love that Kryptonian is nothing but a font. Makes you think you’re smart when you can read it.

Tolkein and Okrand they are not.

Ep #14 bonus though. Coreen from Blood Ties is in this episode. Knew she looked familiar.

Spoilers for Series 7 episode 13, yadda yadda.

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