Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Scott Harris (vitruvian23)'s LiveJournal:

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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
9:22 pm	You know... Life is odd, truly. I remember back about, oh, twelve or thirteen years ( ago, ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
4:20 pm	Forewarned Is? ( “So, what are we training to fight?” asks Xander.  ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
4:10 pm	Follow, Lead, or Get Out of the Way ( The first thing Xander does... ) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
10:29 pm	Never-Ending Battle ( Valhalla is fun enough for the first few weeks. ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
10:11 pm	Waiting ( Nobody knows quite what to do with Anya in Valhalla. ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
9:32 pm	Surprise ( She’s expecting fire, brimstone, and hot pincers or the like. ) (Comment on this)
5:11 pm	Chosen   ( By the time his luck runs out, his eye socket barely itches at all.  ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
4:10 pm	Random Thought Out of Ginungagapp Hey, did it ever occur to anybody else that perhaps Heat Miser and Snow Miser's real names were... Surtur and Ymir? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
12:33 pm	Stephen King moment Is it truly a coincidence that the company that makes Tamiflu, and which features in many conspiracy theories about plans for biowarfare (due in part to having had Donald Rumsfeld as director), has the name Gilead Sciences Inc.? Recall that the name of the kingdom from which Roland the Gunslinger of the Dark Tower series hailed was Gilead, and that his world looks in many ways like a post-apocalyptic version of our own world, right down to a George Washington Bridge in the city of Lud and Microsoft software running on the computers left behind by the 'Old Ones'. Let's hope that Captain Trips is not our navigator to All-World, and the Beams don't break. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
3:19 pm	Even more random thought Was at home Monday with the Munchkin, and observed again that kids television on Noggin and PBS Kids is frequently rather surreal. In addition to the mindwarpingness of Yo Gabba Gabba and the cheeriness of Jack's Big Music Show (and how embarrasing is it that I was blurting out at the screen, "Space Opera!", before becoming aware that that was in fact the title of the episode), one of Xander's favorites (as in, actually holds his attention for more than a minute at a time) is the Hoobs. The Hoobs, you see, are cute Muppet aliens that are investigating Earth customs and ways, and frequently make pilgrimages to schools and homes to ask children (or 'tiddlypeeps') about things they don't understand. Imported British show, too, which gave rise to this extremely, terribly random thought.... you think they're under investigation by Torchwood? And just what would Jack's reaction to their greeting of 'hubba hubba' be, hmmm? (Comment on this)
3:16 pm	Well, after this week's ep, I might be about ready to give up on Heroes. I'll probably give the rest of Fugitives a chance out of sheer inertia, but if it takes me a while to watch eps on the DVR, I won't be sad. Not worth staying up to watch it live any longer, that's for sure. For some reason, though, I was thinking about a conundrum from the first season... just how are people finding all the superhuman mutants? ( Read more... ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
4:34 pm	Upcoming Watchmen Thought... Okay, what with the movie coming out soon, there's something that always bothered me from the graphic novel, but I've never seen anybody else express, not even in that Watchmen and Philosophy book that came out a while back.... excuse me if this is a little ( spoilery. ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
9:34 pm	A Little Science in Our Science Fiction Would Be Nice Halfway through the second episode of Fringe, and it may be losing me at this point. Spoilers ahoy.... ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
12:34 am	And this is the way my mind works... so be afraid... be very, very afraid. Having trouble getting to sleep, and so I am reminded of a recurring dream I have. I'm not sure if it started off as a dream or if I had the idea for a role-playing campaign ages ago, but either way, it probably reveals way too much about my upbringing. So, there's a bunch of people standing around a metal conference table in some kind of secret base. One's in a red leotard and cape, another in a swimsuit and has cat's eyes, two in business suits and one in a leather jacket. They're talking about fighting off some kind of alien menace. Yeah, it's Ralph, the Greatest American Hero (and Bill Maxwell), Mark Harris (the Man from Atlantis, not my dad), Jonathan Chase, aka Manimal, and Michael Knight, Knight Rider. Presumably KITT is parked outside. Not entirely sure whether the threat under discussion is the reptilian Visitors from V: The Series, the Cylons from Galactica 1980, or possibly even both. Occasionally we'll have Steve Austin and/or Jaime Sommers, Wonder Woman, Automan, MacGyver, or even the Master (Lee Van Cleef) in the mix, and once or twice even the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) is helping out. (Comment on this)
Monday, June 16th, 2008
9:41 pm	Too, too cool Courtesy of Making Light : It appears that Paul Krugman, eminent economist probably best known for his columns at the New York Times, says that he was inspired to become an economist by reading Asimov's Foundation trilogy and wanting to become a psychohistorian.  (Comment on this)
4:22 pm	Hulk Smash Puny Laws of Physics! Saw the Incredible Hulk movie over the weekend with No. 1 son, and much as reviewed, it was a nice little action fest with just a touch of gravitas added by Norton and Hurt's acting chops. I'm going to put most of this behind a lj-cut, but not because I'm letting loose with any spoilers, just for length. Okay, to continue with my trend of overanalyzing comic book and science fiction science, here's the ( question... ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
12:07 pm	Silence in L-space Okay, this is all a bit... ( Spoilery... )   (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
12:29 pm	Doctor Who Musings - You Are What You Eat Continuing my new trend of overanalyzing sf and fantasy stuff.... saw the latest Doctor Who ep, Silence In The Library, over the weekend, don't ask me how exactly considering I do live in the continental US. Anyway, the monster of the week was.... ( Read spoilers... ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
2:47 pm	Deep in the heart of me - the tech of the Iron Man movie  Going to start posting here again, partly because I've already friended some folks on LJ and partly because of the ease of doing an lj-cut. Anyway, I've been Googling commentary on the Iron Man movie, specifically the major technological MacGuffin - the arc reactor. And nobody seems to have put as much thought into it as me. Maybe that should tell me something... ( Anyway... ) (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
12:15 pm	Thought for the day Okay, so Bush is now saying that Iran is a threat if they even have the *knowledge* to build an atomic bomb. So, what does he propose to do now - block their Internet access and bomb their universities and libraries? (Comment on this)