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Happy almost-belated birthday.

Facebook: "Grawr, people are idiots! It's obviously [wrong answer]!" N-E: *Discussion on advanced mathematics*

The farthest I've traveled was London in 2005. Shameful, I know, but I've never had anyone to travel with and traveling on your own is scary. My dad and my brother hate traveling, so my family has never done much in the way of traveling for vacations, either. My dad travels a couple of hours out of town once a year to stay with his aunt for a couple of days, and I'm convinced my brother will spend the rest of his life without ever going outside the country. But yes, I will travel the world (or at least select parts of it) at some vague point in the future.

High praise indeed.

I foresee a lot of people posting about their sexual encounters after the meet. The interesting thing will be seeing who posts in the good stuff thread and who posts in the bad stuff thread.

Ugh... the homicide desk.

I'm sort of digging the Photobucket cross in Aneres' signature, though.

Geist, and - according to Wikipedia - loads of trash and handheld versions of console games.

Do they make you jealous because you don't own any non-Nintendo consoles?

The only exciting thing about E3 are announcements of new games. I already know which of the big hitters I'll get when they're released, so I'm not going to spoil anything by reading new information/looking at trailers and screenshots. So you'll excuse me if I don't make a list - I'm looking forward to a lot of games, but not seeing more of them at E3. Probably the only already-announces game I'm looking forward to seeing at E3 is the new Hitman, as I want to see which direction they're taking the game in. I'm hoping they're just going to build on what made Blood Money so good.

I saw the last screenshot on Kotaku and honestly thought they were new downloadable costumes for LittleBigPlanet. Not a fan.

You don't know the kind of weird stuff Danny is into.

Better check to see if the batteries in your smoke detector are working.

I like how the last photo is just a picture of the sidewalk. Not the actual bus stop with the surrounding area, or the people waiting for the bus, or a picture of you waiting for the bus... just... the ground.

But now who will he play co-op with? It's about time, Dyson. I just hope she's not stuffed in a trunk/buried underneath a tree somewhere, since you seem so sure that you're not going to get back together with her this time.

Any television channel that isn't CBS/ABC/FOX/NBC (and NBC can't afford to be too picky these days) generally has a lot lower expectations on ratings. If No Ordinary Family had averaged four million viewers on SyFy (but it wouldn't have, because not as many people have/watch SyFy), it would have been renewed. There was an episode of Studio 60 where one of the main characters tried to convince a new writer to sell his new show about the UN to NBC instead of HBO, and I found the whole thing really stupid, because a show like that would stand almost no chance on NBC, but would become a critical darling/moderate success on HBO. They were basically trying to convince the writer to let them cancel the show after four episodes. It's not really random, just... unfair sometimes. In the end it comes down to ratings, but it's not as simple as "this show has higher ratings than this other show, let's renew it". Stargate Universe saw a steady decline in ratings, while Being Human may have seen an increase (I'm guessing), so they may have seen potential in it. And there were probably higher expectations on a Stargate show, plus they may come from different production companies, the budgets were probably different, and so on. Sometimes it's cheaper to start over with a new show that has the potential to get higher ratings than it is to keep an old show that has already peaked around. Basically, being a fan of TV shows sucks sometimes.

Congratulations. The best years of your life are behind you. (Not really.)

SyFy is a cable channel, though, while No Ordinary Family aired on ABC, so you can't really compare the ratings. Four million viewers on network television is really terrible - especially with a decline like that.

Judging from the wording, probably this guy.

Um... I hate to break it to you, but Cing closed its doors over a year ago.

It'd be more fun to watch if Lisa Edelstein was returning. *Still bitter* There's an interview with David Shore about the finale here.

That seems to be how Russell T Davies writes Torchwood these days. My memories of Children of Earth are fuzzy, but I remember a lot of scenes with the main characters sitting around a television/laptop while the story went on without them. Of course, I only ended up watching Children of Earth because it was on late at night, so I wasn't a fan to begin with.

Happy birthday to one half of Pajairdriver.

Haha, awesome.