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Nerd Blog
29 December 2007
Tags: TV
The final relic to be rescued from the CassieNet Wiki - reasons why the third series of Dawson's Creek sucks compared to the first two...
1. Joey's innocence was destroyed by her sexual advance on Dawson
2. Dawson went to Philadelphia for the summer – the outside world!
3. Ludicrous plots involving strippers and huge parties
4. Dawson is losing his innocence with him buying condoms and crashing Mitch's boat
5. Paula Cole - I don't want to Wait is no longer the opening theme tune!!!
6. The shots are colder, they no longer seem to have the warm orange glow filter that was permanently attached to the camera in series 1
7. The theme tune for the end credits has changed again
8. Kevin Williamson is no longer an executive producer
9. Jack and Jen seem to be more of an add-on than an integral part of the story
10. Dawson is not the main focus of the picture on the front of the DVD box set
11. The ice house has gone
12. The school seems colder, bigger and generally not as nice + new principle
13. There was a reference made by Pacey about Dawson's Creek not be real
14. Abby Morgan is dead
15. Neither of the first two episodes make reference to movie night
16. Eve has a thing against movie night
17. Eve is corrupting Dawson's morals getting him to consider looking at the P.S.A.T.
18. Eve used Joey's ladder
19. Eve isn't even that attractive and what type of name is Eve anyway?
20. I don't like Eve!
21. Dawson makes reference to Dawson's Creek not being real in episode 3
29 December 2007
Tags: Misc
Another relic from the CassieNet Wiki. Originally written for a magazine published by Worfolk Media it never made it to print...
The Easter Bunny woke up in a ditch. It was quite comfortable actually. Luckily he had, had a ditch installed in his house due to the amount of times he has passed out and woken up in one. At least this way it was a designer label ditch in the comfort of his own home. The expense was well worth it.
Last night seemed a blur. However it was almost 6 pm but the time of waking so there was just enough time to have a bacon sandwich and a glass of cleaning fluid, or possibly orange juice if it’s the only thing left before hitting the town for another night of getting in fights and hitting people over the head with chocolate eggs from behind.
He sat down at the breakfast table thinking of all the people he was planning to kill in a drunken rage. When a ghostly shape appeared in front of him. “Wooo,” said the spirit, “I am the ghost of Michael Barrymore.” “What?” Replied the Easter Bunny, “Michael Barrymore is not dead.” “No,” replied the spirit, “but my career is.” The ghost continued, “I am here to tell you, you must reform your ways. You have an anger problem.”
“That’s crazy talk,” said the Easter Bunny. “Really?” Replied the spirit, “isn’t it true that you keep a list of people you hate? That sounds like an anger problem to me.” “Well,” said the Easter Bunny, “it’s not even my list. I just crossed out Joe Denison’s name and put mine at the top.”
“Anyway,” said the Easter Bunny “what’s the worst that can happen even if I don’t reform my ways?” “You will be dancing in commercials with vacuum cleaners by the end of the week!” Shouted the spirit. “Wait no,” he said in a lighter tone flicking through his notepad. “Sorry, that’s Bob Monkhouse. You will end up haunting a family over in Long Island.”
“Isn’t that the place where they make ice teas?” Asked the Easter Bunny. “Yes,” said the spirit. “And you won’t be able to drink any!” “No!!!” Screamed the Easter Bunny. “How can I avoid such as horrible fate?” “I already told you,” said the spirit, “you can reform you ways. It’s the ONLY way. Well other than killing me of course, lol,” chuckled the spirit. “Well I guess there is only one thing I can do…” Said the Easter Bunny.
As he began filling dirt over the coffin in which the dead spirit lay in, he thought about all the great things he was going to do tonight. Breach copyright laws by using diplomatic immunity, mixing alcohol with drugs, what a glorious night lay ahead of him. Just another year in the real life of the Easter Bunny.
The first of a few articles to be rescued from the CassieNet Wiki. It's half finished and may not make sense but anyway...
It was doing so well when Fox brutually ravaged the show, destroying everything, also know as cancelling the show. Yes, I am still bitter about it. But that is life, one day you are turning down a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off down to star in a new show about a girl who relives days and the next day Fox are replacing your second series with North Shore.
Ok, so I am bitter about the cancellation of Tru Calling as well. Actually as I write it hasn’t officially been cancelled and with me running a Tru Calling fan site I plan to live in denial for several months even after it happens.
Futurama really was a loss though – it is actually not apparent how good Futurama was. Picture the scene, your average viewer of the show is sprawled out over the sofa, working their way through a bag of Kettle chips if you so wish to add that into the vision and watching the episode “The Farnsworth Paradox” on DVD.
All seems normal enough. However for those of us who like a little more intellectual stimulus, a quick press of a button on the remote reveals the world of the audio commentary (which as it happens is featured in every single episode of the series four DVD box set).
The shows audio goes silent and the secret world of the people who make the show is brought to life. In this instance you would hear the team, lead by executive Producer David X. Cohen, discussing Graph Theory.
Do you know what Graph Theory is? I didn’t until I listened to the audio commentary. It is a hidden depth to Futurama that most people never see. For the record Graph Theory is about if you have boxes which are portals, how they all link together and that one may not lead back to where you came from. That of course is just applying the theory to the universe theme of the episode of course.
This is not uncommon throughout the show. When they bring in anything, they put extensive research into it. For instance in the final episode, the robot devil spins a wheel with robots names on. 59 to be exact, I went through frame by frame and counted, all of them real characters that have previously been on the show.
Would you get that kind of detail in South Park? Don’t get me wrong I love those crazy kids in South Park. I also love the wacky antics of Peter in Family Guy and the adjectiveless adventures of the crew on Tripping the Rift. But where is the little details that allows you to waste an hour of your life going through frame by frame?
We're in the process of closing down the CassieNet Wiki. It's a shame as some very crazy content came out of there. It was a project of crazyness.
Basically the idea was this - just stick up a wiki for everyone who is involving in the network to use and see what we come up with.
A lot of it will never, and indeed should never, see the light of day. But some of it will, right here on Nerd Base. So that is something to look forward to at least :p.
I invested in an iPod Video over the summer and the first thing I did once I got it was to replace that crappy Apple firmware with Rockbox - MP3 support baby! So far it's pretty good although the battery life is bad as expected.
Feed Good Drinks seem to have re-launched their juice with a new crazy white label and more importantly - it now has bits in it!
I'm not entirely sure if this isn't just a seperate product line but it really isn't cool.
Saturday morning is the one day I get to lie in. It's awesome. And thanks to the crazy technology that's available these days, it's even better.
This morning I woke up, dozed for a bit, then decided to watch a movie. After this I checked my emails, checked eBay, had a word with my sister on the phone, chatted to some friends on messenger then put some music on. Then I got out of bed.
Not actually got out of bed, I mean, I never moved from under the covers. Thanks to a combination of wireless and phones I didn't have to move. It's debatable whether I even need my phone now I have SIP software on my laptop.
And thanks to VNC I can control what my desktop with all my music on is doing from bed too.
Now all I need to do is find some way to bring work here and exercise while in bed and as far as I'm concerned I never ever need to get up again :p.
Prequel to cult horror drama Ginger Snaps, The Beginning takes you back to the ye olde country to tell you about how the curse truly got started.
It's not a bad premise but to be honest the movie isn't all that good. The storyline isn't the most exciting ever and the action isn't much better. You're not missing anything if you don't watch it.
I'm addicted to WoW again. A few friends started playing so of course I had to start a new character to play with them and now I can't log off. This is the first time I've been off all day and that is because my laptop battery has died so I had no option.
Why does a porn star never move in next door to me? Maybe one did but that just makes the whole situation even worse if I missed it.
The Girl Next Door is basically that. A hot girl moves in next door to Matt. He however is blissfully unaware that she is a porn star. Hmm, classic.
It's an alright movie, not the best I've ever seen but then again I am finding myself re-watching it now. Even when you take out the logic factor due to it being 2am, that still says something about the movie.
The DVD comes with an array of extras but nothing amazing.
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