6 May
2010
6 May
'10
10:05 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Pemberton" <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: An option - Re: the beginning of the end for floppies
Dave McGuire wrote:
I got into it because I am a big fan of Caley Cuoco (Penny), Chuck Lorre (he
created Dharma & Greg) and US sitcoms in general. I do admit that the geeks
in the show (although exagerated a little) do make me feel normal, and of
course I have learnt a few geeky things from it too (Schroedingers cat for
example).
That's pretty geeky. It mostly mirrors my
own stuff,
My mother used to work with someone who had the entire run of every
series of Star Trek. On VHS. That really WAS a wall full of tapes.
I seem to recall she had signed posters of some of the TNG characters...
though I've not (yet) gotten into Big Bang
Theory,
I got into it because of someone at work...
"You do realise that's not going to work..."
"Alright, Sheldon."
"Huh? Why did you just call me Sheldon?"
"Oh, you don't watch Big Bang Theory? First episode was on Channel 4
last night, it's repeated tonight. Watch it, you'll love it!"
And I did... :)
Stargate went along similar lines -- a friend let me borrow the first
season of SG1, then I bought the entire series on DVD. Atlantis I
downloaded off of EZTV, then bought the box-sets again.
I'm not a fan of Stargate and have yet to see Firefly.
and I never quite got Firefly. And
Unfortunately once you really get into Firefly, the
series ends :-/
I've got a few of the comic books as well ("Those Left Behind") but
it'd
still be nice to have a second season. Though we all know FOX won't let
that happen, because it could be taken as an admission that they were
stupid to cancel it (which they were)... :)
I have seen every Star Trek film and TV show. I could never get into DSN and
the last ST TV series (can't recall it's name). Voyager is one of my
favourites.
add everything Star Trek and BSG related, of
course.
I've been renting Deep Space Nine from Lovefilm. That's fun to watch on
occasion... Can't say I'm much of a Trekkie, though. I don't have any of
it on DVD and I most certainly don't go to any of the conventions...
There is a (subtle?) crossover between Big Bang Theory
and TNG too,
watch out for it. It's Sheldon related and turns up (IIRC) towards the
end of the third season :)
I'll have to check that out sometime. I did catch an old episode of ST:TNG
last year (I think), when here in the UK BBC2 had ST on late every Friday
night (original ST, then ST: TNG). Anyway, a young Kirsten Dunst plays an
alien kid in one episode of ST: TNG.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk