We had several days off over the holidays and managed to catch up on a lot of video, including: Stargate Atlantis, all five seasons of it. Not a bad finale. At least they saw it coming and had a little fun with the last few episodes.
Have to re-view the two Stargate movies as well and then it will be done and done. A good series. Too bad it had to end after only five seasons.
We also took a look at The Tudors season one. A nice production that from what we have seen so far, is following history very well… you could almost call it a docu-drama of King Henry the 8th of England.
Survivor and The Amazing Race kick off again in mid February.
The annual Air Farce New Years Eve show… hmmm.. the writing was a bit of a letdown. They seem to have lost the will to really showcase corrupt politicians!
Having finished off 10 seasons of Stargate SG1 a couple of months ago, we started in on the next series sequel, Stargate Atlantis.
I think we have pretty well adjusted to the new set of characters and the storyline and more and more (now in season 2) it is interwoven with the first series, which is also fun.
Now that the fall has arrived (along with 3 frosty nights), we may have a little more time to finish off the series sooner than later.
We never had a chance to follow Stargate SG-1 during its ten year (1997-2007) run, but we are sure catching up now! Over the last few months we have managed to work our way through the first 5 seasons and are eager to see more and finish it off. The only problem is, spring is coming and we will not have nearly the amount of indoor snowed-in time to watch them that we would otherwise.
Richard Dean Anderson is so much fun that we are looking around for some of the old MacGyver series.
Back to Stargate SG-1. Season 5 is apparently the end of the Goa’uld arc of stories and they are starting on the Anubis arc. So there may be a logical place to stop for the summer after the end of season 6 or 7.
Good story telling, logical solutions to many of the writers convolutions at times. It is probably a good thing that this 5 year story arc closes down, as it was starting to get a little “time-to-move-on” kind of feelings.
went to see the movie 2012 thursday evening, knowing in advance that it was not going to be the most accurate movie in the world… and it wasn’t. Boy was it ever wasn’t!
One of my favourite cliparts illustrates this very well:
But I had to just to go and see it, if not for anything else than the special effects… And for the most part they were fun! california sliding into the ocean for instance… lotsa Fun! Very little if no explanation as to the whole premise and any linkage into the mayan calendar.. probably for the best!
Then we fired up Star Trek (2009) .. that was a mistake … more bad writing amongst an otherwise fun movie. Fire all the weapons at the bad guy ship as it is being sucked into a black hole/singularity and then decide to back away … too late! Beaming onto a moving starship at Warp? Come on! And what’s with all of the moving water around and around and all those 90 degrees turns… and turbines? Geeze… as bad/funny as Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest and the mashing teeth tunnel.
We stopped back in at Vulcan Alberta to see how it had changed since the last visit in 1996. Boy has it changed!
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We look so forward to weekends to escape the mind numbing stressful workplace… and then are so busy trying to do some of the items we want to do and the things that we are doing for others, that come Monday morning you look around and say.. what happened?
Case in point:
Need more time in the daylight with warmer weather.
at Stirling Hall Theatre A, Bader Lane, Queen’s University Dr Gregg Wade (RMC) will speak on recent “Large Programs” that have been established at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
These are really exciting, and range from a census of the Virgo cluster to
detailed mapping of individual stars. One of the four Large Programs is his own project called MiMeS, which is about stellar magnetism.
Feature IYA Talk by Susan Gagnon “How Has Galileo’s Scope Evolved?”
If the weather permits there will be telescopes out on the Observing Deck.
On the evening of Friday January 9th, 2009 the RASC-Kingston Centre held an International Year of Astronomy kickoff lecture in Stirling Hall.
The very next night we held a public observing session at the Queen’s University Ellis Hall Observatory but got clouded out. As a kickoff event we had a talk on Galileo by Dr. Judith Irwin with a visit from Galileo and Cardinal Barberini 
Along with our Kingston City Mayor Harvey Rosen reading the City Proclamation of IYA Kickoff Week.
We closed out the kickoff week with a talk by Dr. Sara Seagher (MIT) on Exoplanets at the Royal Military College Currie Hall, a day after originally scheduled due to a widespread power outage.
I don’t know about you, but we are going to settle down in front of a large warm fire, with a nice warm pizza with a lot of nice warm cats and going to watch the HOT HOT HOT debut of this latest and last season of Battlestar Galactica! The Spacecast channel here in Canada has been running the first 10 episodes of the current season all day long and there are several specials tonight as well, before the big event at 10pm EST. Here’s hoping that the nuclear devastation we saw at the end of the last episode was really a big dream sequence!
