| Scifi Opening Blurbs |
[Oct. 2nd, 2011|05:52 pm] |
One thing I've noticed about older scifi shows is that bottled up in the intro is a blurb about the premise of the entire show. They can say the most bizzare, off the wall, unbelievable stuff in the opening and we accept it in our suspension of belief. Looking back, they sound hilarious out of context.
Here are some of my favorites.
"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator—and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time that appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home."
"Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to take care of it. The catch is, I can only go back 7 days."
What are your favorites?
EDIT: I found a TVTropes link :B http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OpeningNarration
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| Staying at Hotel Suspi |
[Aug. 31st, 2011|03:00 pm] |
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Nakaki, Eric says: (2:50:51 PM) I think hotel suspi needs maid service
Nakaki, Eric says: (2:50:57 PM) maybe Tim can recommend some for you
Chan (IPC), Andrew says: (2:52:11 PM) roflmao
Chan (IPC), Andrew says: (2:52:16 PM) ROFL, LMAO
Chan (IPC), Andrew says: (2:52:26 PM) i say this because i know more maids than tim
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| Staying at Comic-con. |
[Jun. 28th, 2011|07:27 pm] |
I am now in dire need of people to room with me at Comic-con. I have Thursday-Sunday booked. Please let me know if your friends are looking.
My wallet cries in agony. |
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| Fanime 2011 |
[May. 31st, 2011|09:19 am] |
What I learned at Fanime this year: Compressing what is typically a 5 day experience into 2 days does not work. I missed out on a ton of stuff I wanted to do.
http://www.suspi.net/ and http://www.suspi.net/index2.html was a success. Success as in it kinda works. Not a success in that I'm not sure how many people visited it.
I caught the con plague running around. Now I'm going to go drown myself in vitamins. |
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| Life Transitions |
[May. 6th, 2011|04:36 pm] |
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Somebody stop the elevator of life, I need a break.
Life is moving a little too quickly for my tastes. I'm in the middle of a clusterfuck of stuff, and I don't have a clear direction or bearing where I need to go.
In the past week, I left SLO for the second to last time. The last time will be when I go back for graduation commencement (which is a whole 'nother can of worms). I don't even know if I have all my shit together.
Within this week, I need to finish and hand in my senior project. The coding is done. I just need to justify in the report that what I programmed is good enough to be a senior project. This requires me to sit down and focus on project related things.
But I can't focus on project related things. In the next week, I'm moving to Seattle. I won't be back in the bay until Fanime. I don't have an apartment yet, and I start working 4 days after flying up there. This means I'm staying day-by-day in a hotel until I can find an apartment to move into immediately. This also means I will have to live out of a suitcase worth of stuff for 3 weeks. I get the feeling I will be buying a lot of shit in Seattle for first few weeks. AND WORK. WORK. WTF AM I SUPPOSE TO DO AT WORK. I have a pretty good idea from the internships I've done, but still. HR hasn't contacted me to tell me where in Seattle I'm suppose to be at. I'm also going to Google IO for 4 days. Realistically, this means I have today and tomorrow to pack EVERYTHING I NEED FOR 3+ WEEKS and finish my senior project ontop of that. I'm so used to academic deadlines that I forgot that life can have deadlines too. At the very least, my closet cosplay for Fanime is done. I'm gonna be this dweeb. |
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| Tallying Man Points |
[Apr. 23rd, 2011|04:54 pm] |
I figured writing this entry while I watch America's Next Top Model makes the most sense.
So I always make references to man points in my status updates. I tend to lose man points often because I do a lot of things that are stereotypically "unmanly". That being said, I do have some uncharacteristic attributes that cement me as a man (lol). I figured I should try to quantify these points. (most of these are very stereotypical.. think What Would Duke Nukem Do?)
( Tabulation and TMI under cut )
And that's about it. I think I come out ahead 65 in points. I have plenty of opportunities to lose them all in the future XD
If my friends who know me better have anything to add, feel free to stick them in the comments. |
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| Goodbye Twitter! |
[Mar. 26th, 2011|06:47 pm] |
It had a good run, but I'm disabling the twitter crosspost into LJ. I noticed that I don't really feel like posting on LJ anymore because I feel less guilty about not posting. Therefore, goodbye twitter and hello long spans of time before posts. I have a fun post I want to make though, so I'm gonna type that up.
Huzzah! Content! |
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| From Twitter 03-24-2011 |
[Mar. 25th, 2011|04:03 am] |
- 14:10:06: *snerk* Duke Nukem Forever is delayed again. Despite that, I'm still getting it when it comes out. DN3D was the first PC game I owned :>
- 17:31:04: I had a burger craving. Now I'm not sure how I'm suppose to cram this into my mouth.. http://yfrog.com/hsg74ghj
- 18:16:18: Way to go. Started storming hard after I biked to Frank's. I guess I'm swimming home.
Tweets copied by twittinesis.com |
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| From Twitter 03-23-2011 |
[Mar. 24th, 2011|04:03 am] |
- 00:00:58: Award for best Grad response is Nat with "Please insert disk 3." Oh how I wish life had save states.
- 03:37:27: I don't have a shopping problem... just bought a $285 Android Tablet from Woot. DON'TJUDGEMEINEEDIT #gradpresentformoi #thinlyveiledexcuse
- 18:21:21: Losing every Man point ever. Legally Blonde the Musical is playing in SLO. I reeeally want to go! :O
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