Neography 2.o  -

BTW, the new Battlestar Galactica (The first 1-hour episode after the 2-part pilot last year) is every bit as fucking great as the pilots. I can't fault the show. Every single complaint I have is a niggling matter of style, but I can find nothing wrong with the acting, the writers, the plot, the pacing, or the camera work. It's amazing, I'm really really digging it. Which traditionally means I'm dooming it to failure, but it's still great.

Also, season 6 of the West Wing started up and it's off to a good start. Season five really left me kind of cold, the show kind of... wandered. I miss Rob Lowe, but Martin Sheen kicks ass as a pres.

And that's all the ridiculous blog-alike TV babble you get out of me today!

Some days, in fact too many days, I feel a bit like this guy.

There's a Lupin movie on TV tonight, from 1978. It's surprisingly funny, once you learn to ignore the appalling animation. In one scene buddy with a sword leaps into the path of an oncoming helicopter, samurai-style, and they pass in the air. Cue mid-air introspective moment, they pass, and a pause. Guy lands dramatically, helicopter travels a bit and hovers, brief wait and BAM! (There's More!)

According to this article on ScienceDirect.com there's been a link made between bright lights at night and cancer. Turns out bright lights in the early morning hours trigger blue receptors in they eye which signal the hypothalamus to suppress melatonin production in the pineal gland.

Basically, bright lights with blue content will signal the body to produce less melatonin, which can allow cancer to grow more rapidly.

That's pretty alarming.

Another typhoon is rolling in, this is the 23rd of the season for the area, a new record. It's also the strongest so far this year. It's expected to pretty much roll it's whorly way across the whole country, passing Tokyo 2 days before we're due to leave for Canada (which would be tomorrow). All the TV channels are running footage of people bent into the wind crossing streets assaulted by rain and wind, evacuated old folks in gymnasiums, and the ever popular pedestrian having his umbrella blown inside out. Whee for weather!

Coming to Canada again! Here's the schedule:

Saturday 10/23
Leave Narita @ 3:25pm
Arrive Seattle @ 7:55am (8.5 hour flight)
Leave Seattle @ 10:30am
Arrive Vancouver @ 11:20am (50 minute flight)
Leave Vancouver @ 2:15pm
Arrive Kelowna @ 3:20pm (Be at the airport to see us greasy, tired and cranky!)

We'll be leaving Kelowna @ 6am on November 4th.

As for why... (There's More!)

Just in time for our trip to Canada Zumi's Sharp Mebius laptop - which we bought earlier this year specifically for trips as it's about 2cm thick and weighs as much as a magazine) suffered a complete harddrive failure. It was doing odd things and, 54% through a windows-mandated disk scan it started spinning up and down, and making a happy 'clack' sound every few seconds. (There's More!)