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There's A Hole In My Firewall, Dear Liza Dear Liza | 43 comments (43 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

I Hate To Pick Nits, But by Improbus (2.00 / 0) #1 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 02:10:20 PM EST

It is spelled Cylon not Silon.

If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago. --- Oma Desala

: Thank You. [nt] by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #2 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 02:17:59 PM EST

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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: also by persimmon (2.00 / 0) #42 Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 11:54:35 AM EST

purl, in the context of knitting.
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BG's inspiration isn't just Christian, but by chuckles (4.00 / 1) #3 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 02:20:42 PM EST

Mormon.

Skateboarding is a crime.

: Thank You. [nt] by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #16 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 07:59:58 AM EST

Ah, right -- that religion.

(Dum-d'dum-dum-dum.)

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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1.83 metres sous la terre by lb008d (2.00 / 0) #4 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 02:44:45 PM EST

My partner and I just finished season 4. We've been totally hooked for the past month - it's so much more convienient to watch a show after it comes out on DVD.

Don't feel bad because it's a soap - at least it's pretty well written and acted.

: It Seems... by CheeseburgerBrown (4.00 / 1) #17 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:01:47 AM EST

There are two kinds of people in the world: people who think SFU reached its peak in Season 1, and those who think Season 1 stunk like an old man's unwashed pajamas.

I don't know which kind I am yet.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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I recommend ... by me0w (2.00 / 0) #5 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 02:51:11 PM EST

Nip/Tuck. The ass raping clown (a.k.a. The Carver) is the best!!!

"There's really only one sexually related thing I'm good at: Producing incredibly volumous amounts of spooge on a regular basis." - ni

Goodness! by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #18 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:02:51 AM EST

I'll investigimigate.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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bleh by 606 (2.00 / 0) #35 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 12:12:29 PM EST

I gave up on that show during the pilot when that dude's liposucked fat went spraying around the room and then they had to quarter the body or something. Just too dark for me.

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Seriously by me0w (4.00 / 2) #41 Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 11:12:22 AM EST

You can not beat ass raping clowns. It's something we should all aspire to be.

"There's really only one sexually related thing I'm good at: Producing incredibly volumous amounts of spooge on a regular basis." - ni
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: Feature proposal by ni (2.00 / 0) #43 Fri Nov 04, 2005 at 01:22:45 PM EST

Trusted users should get the ability to give one "8" rating every three months.

I CAN FLAKE MY OWN PARSLEY, RAWR -- persimmon
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BitTorrent by duxup (2.00 / 0) #6 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 04:23:44 PM EST

I got to get on that whole BitTorrent thing. I'm so not an early adopter anymore :(
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: Always Remember... by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #19 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:04:20 AM EST

...to never forget.

Listen, if I'm screwing around with BT then the next in line must be my grandmother. We're past early adopter and now deeply into "that's so two-thousand-and-one" territory.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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Feh by spacejack (4.00 / 1) #7 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 04:30:22 PM EST

Whedon's TV series are still the best things I've seen on the small or big screen this millennium. The movie less so, but sadly, still the best "outer space" sci-fi movie I've seen in decades.

When watching the Firefly extras I thought they said they actually built the ship and used the interior as the set (and the exterior for exterior shots.)

The series was only Christian as far as there was a Christian character in it whom the writers tried to do justice to; Whedon's an atheist as was Captain Mal.

6 Feet Under was fun, but I hear it tries to get all dark and twisted after season 1, so I left it there.

The new Battlestar 2-part miniseries was great. The series that followed, kinda uneven and a little to shrill and humourless for my taste. Religion plays a Big Part in this series, but ultimately pointless as far as I can see.

I dunno how people can sit through these new Doctor Who episodes.

Not that you're wrong overall about the show by notafurry (2.00 / 0) #12 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 09:58:51 PM EST

But the ship didn't exist as a single set. The sets were connected, yes, but at least for the series only as two separate sets, one for the upper deck and one for the lower. You couldn't film a movie in a ship like that, you need to be able to put cameramen where walls should be. (Perhaps you're thinking of Varley's Red Thunder novel, where they pretend the spaceship they're building is a movie set to hide it in plain sight.)

Also, Mal's not an atheist. He believes in God. He just doesn't like him very much. See the original opening scene, on the DVDs as deleted scene #1. Zoe: "Thank God, we're getting out of here." Mal: "God? What colors 're he flying?"

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: Atheist or God-hater by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #38 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 01:44:18 PM EST

Yeah, he wore the cross in the first episode, but then after losing the war seemed to have abandoned his faith... I guess I'm not sure if he converted to atheism or just decided to be a God-hater. In any case, he seemed to adopt the philosophy that you can't rely on God for anything and should pretty much live life as if he doesn't exist. I saw Mal's character, after the intro, as a textbook libertarian (viewing life as business, contracts, interests.)
Besides Shepherd, the rest of the crew seemed to be pretty ambivalent toward religion. i.e., I don't think the show was Christian beyond having one or two believers as characters.
I thought I heard someone say in one of the interviews that they used the ship as the set (not that the layout inside was exactly as it appeared on screen). Maybe that claim was exaggerated and they only used it for some loading bay shots or whatever.

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Chacun Son Gout by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #20 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:08:08 AM EST

What's this about a Battlestar Galactica miniseries? Does that come before the series I've downloaded? Should I beb finding that first? What's it called?

Dude: Cap'm Malcolm Reynolds believed in more God than the pope. You didn't see that storyline about his deep religiosity slowly building up in Season 1 up until the point when it became clear to the producers that there would be no Season 2? The seeds were laid in several brief conversations between Book and Reynolds.

What do you hate most about the new Dr. Who?

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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: The miniseries by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #27 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:20:59 AM EST

It's on DVD. Called, inventively enough,BattleStar Galactica (2003 Mini Series). It covers the Cylon attack on the Colonies, and the escape of the various Heroes from the same.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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: yes by aphrael (2.00 / 0) #33 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 11:41:07 AM EST

the series picks up where the miniseries leaves off.
jared and his friend erik watched the miniseries without me and hated it; we've been watching the series together and enjoying it, and i didn't have any trouble picking up where the series started.
i later went back and watched the miniseries and liked it better than either of them had. YMMV.

If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
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: Well by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #39 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 01:58:43 PM EST

I saw it as Reynolds being convinced to do the right thing from time to time by appealing to his sense of morality, despite Book's needling proselytization. It could be open to interpretation. Or maybe I missed something.
Re: Doctor Who - I just find the campy bits not funny enough and the slick/serious bits too campy; it seems stuck in a place not knowing what it wants to be. Which is weird because I enjoyed Buffy which is such a mix... but it actually works for me.
That said, I only saw the first episode and a couple others later on in the first season (the one with gas mask creatures). I dunno... I just find it too poorly crafted despite having something of a production budget. But then I never did see any of the older series which may be a prerequisite.

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Haven't you got some work to do? by Idempotent (4.00 / 2) #8 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 04:43:24 PM EST

Or something?

I Can Walk AND Chew Gum. [nt] by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #25 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:17:35 AM EST

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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But do you get paid for either? by Idempotent (2.00 / 0) #29 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 09:08:23 AM EST

If so, that's a neat job you got there.

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: It Is Indeed. by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #30 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 09:32:03 AM EST

Plus, my jaw is really strong now.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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YES. by Rogerborg (4.00 / 3) #9 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 04:47:43 PM EST

YES.

THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER.

YES.

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.

: Phew! by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #26 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:19:14 AM EST

Still safe in the lee of faith.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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babyupdateplzthx[nt]haveaniceday by debacle (2.00 / 0) #10 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 08:59:06 PM EST

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

"graphic" homosexual love scenes by ShadowNode (2.00 / 0) #11 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 09:22:43 PM EST

To be fair, she's probably referring to the three seconds or so of implied ass fucking. Maybe that's in one of the later seasons, though.

: That's In Season 1 by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #21 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:09:54 AM EST

Didn't I mention it in my diary? Or maybe there's more than one sequence of frenzied buttlove.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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: i have this sadistic streak by aphrael (4.00 / 1) #34 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 11:42:22 AM EST

that makes me want to take anyone who warns people about the graphic scenes of homosexual sex in "six feet under" and force them to watch the first couple of episodes of "queer as folk".
fuck, graphic sex is graphic sex. it don't matter what the genders are.

If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
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VS2FP by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #13 Sun Oct 30, 2005 at 11:30:30 PM EST

Also, it would appear that your un-inquisitive mind did not stop to ponder the importance of animals being connected to the Matrix, as indicated by three of the episodes.

For shame.

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: Who Cares About Animals? by CheeseburgerBrown (4.00 / 2) #22 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:10:47 AM EST

They're just sinners who Vishnu doesn't think about good enough to be me.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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Six Feet Under by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #14 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 05:02:20 AM EST

Seasons 2 and 3 are better, it finds its feet. There's some spot-on stuff about being at art college you might like.

I'd imagine that if you watched more than one episode a week you'd get really annoyed with it. It's good in small doses.

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: Small Doses. by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #23 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:11:43 AM EST

Yes, we were alternating viewings of it with other shows. A SFU marathon would overload my pretentious-o-meter.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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So what the hell did you do? by BadDoggie (2.00 / 0) #15 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 07:49:32 AM EST

You don't tell everyone you have a way of sneaking torrents past the ISPs without telling us how you did it. I mean, you just did do that so it's clearly within the realm of possibility but you're not supposed to do it that way. Did you make some adjustment and have BitTorrent use port 443 hoping the ISP just figures you for an extremely diligent worker in his home office getting lots and lots and lots of company info from the main office 24 hours a day, everyday without sleep or pee breaks?

woof.

OMG WE'RE FUCKED! -- duxup ‮

I'm Less Technically Inclined Than Any Of You. by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #24 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:16:37 AM EST

...And you're asking me?

There are five ports in use somewhere in the 6000+ range, using a custom entry he made in my firewall for the whole network, plus a custom entry for the firewall of each individual computer-like appliance involved in downloading. I don't think it's anything terribly complicated -- all I know is that I had been downloading at 30 k/s, but I'm currently downloading at 220 k/s.

The current problem is that my modem seems to become intermittently overwhelmed by all the traffic. It freaks out and has to be reset a few times a day. I don't think this has anything to do with Big Brother at the ISP (Rogers).

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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Heh by hulver (2.00 / 0) #28 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:32:17 AM EST

If you don't open holes in your firewall, bittorrent will not download at full speed because you're just a leach.

If you open those holes, you upload chunks to other people while you're downloading, and so you can get full speed downloads.

No ISP involvment.
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smart, pretty, sane. pick two - georgeha
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Thank You. by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #31 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 09:32:46 AM EST

Clarity is best.

I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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: That said... by 606 (2.00 / 0) #36 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 12:16:19 PM EST

some ISPs actually detect traffic types no matter what port you put them on. There's one ISP around here that drops all bittorrent traffic to 100 kb/sec no matter what you do. Really annoying.

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Daggit by The Fool (2.00 / 0) #32 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 11:13:31 AM EST

The reason the daggit's arms are so long is that there's a chimpanzee inside the suit. Probably the same one that starred in every made-for-TV-movie between 1978 and 1984.

Battlestar by 606 (4.00 / 1) #37 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 12:24:15 PM EST

The thing about Battlestar is that the religious overtones are just so thick on it. Over and over again the crew's faith is tested, and salvation eventually rests in the stories of the "Bible". Not to mention there's this huge subplot about trusting the President even though her policies are obviously coming straight out of the Good Book whilst the secularist military are fucking things up.

Despite the fact the show goes completely against what I believe in, I still watch it because it's so damn good in terms of character development, acting, and exciting space battles.

Too bad about Firefly. I haven't seen the movie but it sounds kinda weak from what you describe. I really like the TV series, mostly because there are very few other shows gutsy enough to combine genres like that. I also liked how the show struck a balance between cheesy Western gunfighting and space opera plotlines. Also, Jayne is awesome. He's from Full Metal Jacket.

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: All right! by theantix (4.00 / 1) #40 Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 06:40:54 PM EST

Free soup!

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