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Heh,I've been poking at gmail for a week now, trying to make it display the chat thing, and I finally figured out why it's not. I have gmail set to UK English, and the chat only works for the US English version. *changes* (My gmail username is femgeek, in case anyone wants to come chat me up at work. :D)
And while I'm talking electronics, should I just switch back to pre-1.5 Firefox at home? It breaks the nice style=mine GreaseMonkey script, and it's apparently a memory hog, which, um, on my home computer? I can really, really tell. Sigh.
I know at least one people on my flist is going to have her head explode when she sees this, so: Katie Sackhoff from Battlestar Galactica and Nathan Fillion from Firefly to team up in Dracula movie. And speaking of BSG, your queen requires fanfic and an explanation of what is going on in this series. (Yes, I know, TWoP recaps. I shall hie myself hence posthaste, I promise.) I tried watching an ep this week, but I got kinda lost as to plot, so. Yes. Visual aids and stuff also welcome, BTW.
Oh, and hey, UK people, anyone else watch the first part of The Posseidon Adventure last night? I only vaguely watched it, because I saw this part when I was in Belgium over Christmas, but whee, Adam Baldwin! With guns! I'm easy, yes. Shut up.
[ETA] OMG, you guys, you must check out what <3 does in googlechat, it's fab! Also fab: IM LJ-ifier, which is going to save me a bunch of c&ping, let me tell you what.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go murder my co-workers. Survival of the quietest, you understand.[/ETA]
[ETA2] Being the giant nerd that I am, I've decided that I much prefer the gmail interface over the femgeeks webmail one, and also that I only want to have one of them open at the same time. So I set my femgeeks addy to forward to gmail, set gmail to fake sending from my femgeeks addy, and will hopefully remember to set up a pop account for my gmail, which will hopefully mean that I'll effectively be using my femgeeks addy through the gmail interface. Go me!
Also, if anyone wants gmail, if only for the chat? I have 100 invites. Yeah, you heard me. Feel free to pimp me out to people, too, for those.[/ETA2]
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How does the bookmarklet work, precious?
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The reason for the wierd name is because I have Kaiberie, and DonnaKaiWilson and Danzmacabre, but it's attached to my horror writing, which I prefer to use Gmail for. :)
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I got a gmail addy right at the beginning, and then I didn't really like it, but the chat sounds way cool. :)
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(13th, thankyouverymuch.)
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(I knew I was close!!)
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Okay so. There are humans and they don't live on Earth, they call themselves colonists and are far more advanced than us. There are thirteen colonies, and they are polytheistic, worshiping the old Greek Gods. Humans made robots and called them Cylons. The Cylons were self-aware, but humans treated them like machines so the Cylons rebelled at there was a great war. The humans won and the Cylons fled. It's forty years later now and the titular ship - the Battlestar Galactica - is being retired and turned into a museum because she's old.
But then the Cylons attack. And they kick human ass. It's a double attack, both from space and from Cylon agents on Earth who are indistinguishable from humans. When it's over there are roughly 50,000 humans left alive, and they're all on the Galactica - the only (at least until the middle of season 2) Battlestar to survive that attack. It survives because it's computer systems are old and not networked, so the Cylons couldn't hack into them, take over the ship and the fighters it carries and render them all helpless.
There's a small fleet of random civilians, too. Don't remember where they came from. They're all random ships, miners, a vacation spot, transports, etc. They join up with Galactica.
And there's the President. Actually, she's the Secretary of Education, but since the president got blown up with everyone else she is the highest ranking person left. Her name is Laura Roslin, she has terminal breast cancer, and she is the most magnificent person in the fleet. Seriously. Captain Adama - the Commander of Galactica - and her come to an uneasy agreement that she will not mess with military decisions and he will not institute martial law.
A whole bunch of stuff happens in the first season (which is only 13 episodes and a miniseries long) The Cylons harry them across the galaxy, attacking every 33 minutes. A huge Lt. with a heart of gold named Helo gives up his spot on a Raptor (small transport ship) to a genius scientist named Baltar when a search party finds survivors on one of the colony planets (Caprica). Which is a nice thing to do except that Baltar unwittingly helped the Cylons destroy humanity and now has one living in his head. (Number 6) Then they start to run out of water, and we find out that one of the main pilots (Boomer) is a human-form Cylon and doesn't know it. Meanwhile, another Boomer model finds Helo on Caprica and they end up having sex while trying to get off the radiation and Cylon-ravaged planet. And then there's a riot on a prisoner transport ship. The hot, hotshot female pilot (Starbuck) crashes on an uninhabitable planet and takes a Cylon fighter ship (Raider) with her. Turns out the Raiders are more pet than machine. Starbuck rips it's brain out and figures out where to poke it to make it fly. And more stuff happens. The President throws a Cylon out an air lock, the wife of a main character turns up, and is a dirty drunken ho. Helo gets Boomer pregnant, then figures out she's a robot, the President has prophetic visions and gets thrown in jail, the fleet stumbles across the birthplace of humanity, and some people figure out that Adama was totally lying at the beginning of the series when he told them he would lead them to the mythical world of Earth.
There's more stuff, too, but I won't spoil it all.
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Six (the Cylon in scientist Baltar's head) tells him that Boomer's baby is actually theirs. Jacob has named this 'Crazy Six math', which, yes. It's still not clear who's side Baltar is on and this is a concern, since he's the vice president now.
When they get CapricaBoomer back to Galactica they stick her in a cell and only let her out on the end of a metal pole leash like dog catchers use - even after she saves all their asses from a Cylon virus. The leash thing is just as disturbing as it sounds.
The guy GalacticaBoomer was dating before she died tries to kill Helo with a monkey wrench, but changes his mind and builds a stealth fighter from scratch instead. Helo is surprisingly cool about this because he loves everyone.
Then they meet that second Battlestar I mentioned and a whole lot of deeply disturbing things happen that no power on Earth will make me spoil. In the end Starbuck gets promoted, but stops loving Adama a little more (she's his surrogate daughter) and the fleet gets a shiny new Battlestar. And the show gets a Six who is not just in Baltar's head. Also, they blow up the ship that when Cylon's die, just transfers their consciousness into a new body. This is a very good thing.
And then Adama kisses Roslin and everyone explodes with glee and the sheer sweetness of the moment. Or maybe that's just me.
But next time, Roslin - who's been getting sicker and sicker - starts to die for real and everyone freaks out because she is awesome and we love her. A needle full of blood from Boomer's baby - which she tried to abort - cures her.
Since then we've only had boring and nonsensical backstory on Apollo (Adama's son, Starbuck's mirror), interesting and compelling character arcing on Starbuck, and the tragic death of the President's aide.
I've probably missed a metric ton of stuff, but, um. Read the recaps, woman. :)
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I don't actually have any desire to read fic for this show! I'm thinking of getting my brain examined.
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(Ooo, share?)
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There was an archive here, but it appears to have been deleted in the past couple of days (!) and finding anything halfway decent there involved wading through a lot of crap, so. Looks like some of it's still accessible on the Intarweb Archive, though, if you're desperate.
And um. Yay porn! I love this show, so let me know if you come across anything else particularly good.
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