Ok, I thought that title up, and then went looking for it, to be sure someone else hadn’t thought of it.

…naturally they did.  http://normaluncertainty.blogspot.com/2009/03/sy-why.html.  Oh well, guess what, it’s STILL a good title!  Claire pretty much makes every point I have about the switch from “SciFi”, to “SyFy”.  Still, it bears repeating.  Here, let me do it right…

YOU ARE THE SCI-FI CHANNEL!  SYFY MAKES NO DANG SENSE!  AND YOUR PROGRAM DIRECTOR SHOULD BE SHOT WITH BB’S UNTIL HE/SHE FIGURES OUT WHAT THE WORDS “GOOD PROGRAMMING” MEANS!

I mean, geez, let’s look at what’s been on in the past couple of months.  Mostly hack-and-slash horror flicks.  I mean, I like a good horror movie as much as the next guy, but “Saw” isn’t even Science Fiction, just Fiction!  At least get the genre right!  I guess they want to get away from all that SciFi crap.  It’s cramping their style.  They want to grow as artists, I suppose.  Maybe do poetry at the local coffee house.  Get a cappuccino and do some beatnik, bohemian crap.

Get this through your thick heads…SciFi MADE you the powerhouse you are today!  You don’t go alienating your core demographic and turn your back on what has made you strong in the business, just because you want to play “The Sound of Music” on Friday nights!  You start a spin-off company for that!

There have been some dim spots of goodness.  SG-U is a surprisingly good show, and the movie Wolvesbayne didn’t suck.  But most of those original shows and movies aren’t even “B” movies.  Maybe “D” movies…if you’re lucky.  I’m not sure SyFy execs would recognize a good script if it rolled itself up and played “The Stars and Stripes Forever” on a banjo.  The few glimmers of near-brilliance are immediately replaced with mediocre, or downright horrible programs.

And why am I seeing so many of these horror movies on there, anyway?  What happened to the “Science” in Sci-Fi?  “Saw” was just one of many.  Now, I know they’re doing this “31 days of Halloween” (a blatant ripoff of Fox Family’s old 13 days of Halloween–ABC should sue), but I’ve been seeing nearly nothing but horror on there for several months.  Seems “SyFy” execs think that “SyFy” means “horror blood/guts fest”.  Nearly 50 years of classic SciFi to air, and they give us “Children of the Corn 23:  They’re Back Again and Again”.  Do they give us “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, or campy  cult classics like “Battle Beyond the Stars”?  No, they give us drivel such as “Basilisk”, and “DinoCroc”.   Ugh.  Do I even see “Lord of the Rings”?  Nope, not here.  Gotta watch that on TNT.  You get to see “Manticore”.

“Why do you keep watching?”, you may ask.  Well, it’s kinda like watching an auto accident.  It’s horrible, but you can’t quite look away.  It’s fascinating in some sick fashion.

So I guess I’ll keep watching the death of a good channel.  Unable to look away.

The global warming consensus cools.

Bahahahahahahahahaaa!!!

Whooo, that felt good.  You know, everyone’s been so busy with global scre…I mean, Global Warming, that they haven’t taken the time to actually LOOK outside at the temperatures.  It doesn’t help that there’s conflicting reports from biased sources citing that the arctic ice is low, it’s high, it’s about the same.  Not to mention that it’s the hottest/coolest year on record.

I just think it’s complete hubris to think we do enough to actually affect weather.  No one has given me undeniable facts to support that man is causing a global meltdown.  And in fact, how can we know, when we only started gathering weather data about a hundred years ago?

In school, they told me that most climate changes occur over hundreds, or even thousands of years.  Were they wrong?  Who knows, we haven’t been keeping records long enough to tell!

Confirmed number of flu cases jumps to 331 – CNN.com.

Oh my God.  What the hell are these news people on, anyway?  This article reads like we’re all about to catch the new Black Plague.  Everywhere I look, people are almost panicked about this swine flu.  If you read that article, you’ll find out that the 331 cases aren’t in Arkansas.  That’s not the number even in the U.S.  That’s WORLD-FRICKIN-WIDE!  That’s right, folks.  Out of 6.77 BILLION people worldwide, 331 of them have confirmed cases of swine flu.  That’s about 0.000005% of the world’s population.

So, tell me this.  WHY is everyone freakin’ out?  The Black Plague killed MILLIONS.  This looks to kill less than the yearly flu that we deal with every single year!

Auto accidents alone kill about 40,000 people every year in just the U.S.  Stop the panic!  Be smart, take care of yourself, wash your hands, and get on with your lives!

I loved George Carlin. The old Late-80’s to Mid-90’s Carlin. He had this skit where he’s talking about the “Automotive Harassment Squad”. “Here’s a woman pulling out of a bush”, and such. Hilarious stuff…until you actually meet them.

I swear, there actually IS an Automotive Harassment Task Force, who’s only job is to drive YOU crazy on the highway. I mean, what POSSIBLE reason could someone have to cut right in front of your bumper, slow down to ZERO mph, then turn off into a side street, when you have TWO BLOCKS of empty street behind you? Or sit completely through a green light, only to take off while it’s yellow, leaving you at a red light? The only rational reason I can think of is that they’re out to get me. That’s right, every driver out there…INCLUDING YOU…is out to stop me from getting to my destination.

Well, watch out, world! Cause I found an application to the AHTF. As soon as I’m admitted, it’ll be ME harassing YOU!

I hate this part. As most of you know by now, the bank I work for has been bought. Now, if I was a teller or in customer service, I wouldn’t be worried. But I’m not. I’m in IT. I’m currently in limbo, in that I don’t now if I’m going to have a job or not. It really sucks not knowing one way or the other.

Add to the fact that I have three kids all under the age of five, and you start to see my worry.

I got to meet the Network Administrator of the company who will take over our bank’s IT.  Nice guy, knew his stuff.  Though he made me feel old.  He was in his twenties.  He went to the same university I did, but I was out in the world for several years before he got there.  He’s pretty knowledgeable, but he doesn’t have “the bug”.  I work on computers all day, then go home and want to play on them at night, too.  Not so for my new acquaintance.  Still, it’s always much better to work with someone who knows what they’re talking about, despite not knowing how long a Star Destroyer is.

Well, I will meet the CEO of the same company this week.  I think he’s the guy who’ll actually decide my fate.  Or at least be one of the main players.  Here’s hoping he likes me.