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I found this.

Fresh Ground Peanut Butter From Strictly Bulk At Pape And Danforth

I haven’t been there to get it yet. I’m just saying.

The First Episode Of Torchwood

First, it’s with the first 7 or 8 episodes on a DVD. Second, my machine that will actually play movies can’t read DVDs (it’s SCSI). Next, the network connection between my Pentium One running Windows 98 (with a DVD-ROM) and the Pentium III running Windows 2000 is all impity-jumpity and problematic. Next, the Windows 98 machine and its DVD-ROM don’t really like each other a lot. Finally, the DVD stayed running and the network connection stayed online long enough for me to copy the first episode of Torchwood from the DVD to the Windows 98 machine through the network to the Windows 2000 machine. Lastfully, I watched it at 4:00 this morning because I have a noisy neighbour and there’s shit on my beloved TV-TMSL at 4:00AM.

Okay, the review. Wow. Not your granddad’s Torchwood. Frankly I was expecting Doctor Who and more of the same. It wasn’t. I really liked it; dirtier, meaner, darker, weirder (really: weirder than Doctor Who). But as much as I liked the character of Captain Jack back in his Who days, I kinda thought he was a piece of wood in this, even though the plot, the shots, the hot lady cop, and those - you should pardon the expression - exquisite Welsh accents were really effective. Was the actor who played him like Russell Davies’ boy-toy or something? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But, like Little Mosque and Heroes, I’m willing to give this a big chance, considering that I think it will probably be worth it in the long run. I’m even willing to go through all that shit in the first paragraph again to catch up.

Fun With Food

For a great, amazing sauce, mix ground tomatoes (canned), peanut butter, garam masala and lots of garlic and onions and fresh ground pepper.

It’s awesome.

TLA

Much progress on the PHP/Javascript Jeopardy front. I love it. Wish I was younger so I could have more time. Mark my words, they’ll patent and market the digital-neural mastoid implant the week after I die. I’d bet you but it’s a sure thing and I’m not.

The post hiatus episodes of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Veronica Mars were good too.

Well, after that post yesterday, I went home, rebooted and found out I had to reinstall everything from the ground up because the Windows 2000 installation died and I couldn ‘t repair, only replace it.

No, I’m not switching to Linux, but I might switch to the Flintstones’ Operating System. Seriously.

Okay, not seriously. But seriously.

Bam. Bam.

Well, with the loan of an old Dell server and some judicious and meticulous fiddling with old peripherals etc, I now have a computer running. I have installed WAMP (Windows -Apache, MySQL, and PHP) and can now work on learning up on my PHP again!

For some reason, it took two or three different sound cards to find one that would work, even with the right drivers.

Because the server is all SCSI (ie no IDE connectors at all), I can’t access my old hard drives yet and it only has CD-ROM so I can’t watch DVDs, or other movies, but I can play games during commercials.

And weren’t the recent post-hiatus episodes of BSG and Heroes fairly kickass?

Well, I’ve been catching up on the new series, Heroes, since they’ve been playing 2 or 3 episodes back to back sometimes.

I’ve figured out in a general way who’s who and what’s what, and I finally found out why that truck-stop waitress died even though Hiro went back in time to try and save her. (I think Hiro is my favourite character so far…)

I like what Tim Kring has done with the superhero thing, just when I didn’t think you could really do anything new with the idea.

Though we’ll have to see how the show fares after they stop the exploding man.

Halalarious!

To coin a phrase.

Actually, to steal a line from one of their own commercials.

Catch the first episode again tonight, Wednesday, January 10, at 8:00 EST in its regular timeslot on CBC! (No, they’re not paying me. They used to, ten years ago, but they walked me out. Another story. Never mind.)

Anyhoooo.

A) First episode. Establishes the milieu, the characters, the underflow and overflow of attitudes and prejudices in Mercy, Saskatchewan, involving the coming of a new imam, a former Toronto lawyer, to serve the small Muslim congregation. (There’s a scene where the old imam tries to hi-5 another character…you had to be there…)

2> Funny, happy, irritatingly normal, even with the terrorist scares, head-scarves, misinterpretations, and photo-ops.

iii] Happily looking forward to the next episode. Maybe there’ll be Cylons!

Okay, probably no Cylons, since they’re handling the whole small-town Canadian ignorant bigot thing so funnily.

I can laugh because I’m related to them. Small-town Canadian ignorant bigots, that is. Seriously. But I only acknowledge and exploit that relationship for humorous purposes, because I am otherwise bewildered by and ashamed of it.

Thank you, Reid.

Or thank the gods of chaotic randomicitous accident and/or synchrony…

Whoever.

…and worked for Hallmark.

I found out that the cellphone doesn’t have to send just tiny thumbnails of the pix I take with it.

PS, commenting is still off so please email me your praise. And lots of it.

Thank God I can finally exhort that without thinking of ‘Mosquito Lake‘ or ‘The Trouble with Tracy‘.

I am happily looking forward to ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie‘, which premieres Tuesday, January 9th at 8:30pm on CBC. I must admit, though, that I am a little puzzled as to why they didn’t just call it ‘Corner Mosque‘.

(Or perhaps, God help me, ‘Mosque Lake’.)