In the new Star Trek movie they were called Klingon Warbirds ???
Romulans have Warbirds. Klingons have battle cruisers (and Birds of Prey which, well, come from the fact that the producers wanted Klingons instead of Romulans in ST:III.)

Well, forget that. They look nothing like birds. They've always looked to me like a round head wearing a hat. Hee!

Speaking of Klingon...
nuqDaq yuch Dapol?

nuqDaq = where
yuch = chocolate
Dapol = you keep it (pol = keep)

"Where do you keep the chocolate?"

Always my favorite sentence in Klingon as it demonstrates the backwards nature of Klingon grammar and I think chocolate might be known in fandom circles as a Klingon aphrodesiac, which should have given Worf a certain advantage with Troi, but that was never meant to be.

The editing on this vid is just insane. And it's all done with the pirated version of Star Trek. Which I have and is pretty good, but very cropped. I'm hoping that all these vidders will do remastered versions once the DVD is released.

http://kuwdora.livejournal.com/445297.html

It's getting to be more sunny lately. This year the May Grey and June Gloom has been wonderful to keep temperatures down. I loved it. May and June is NOT the time to schedule a trip to San Diego. I'd recommend April and then November and December before the rainy season.

One of or neighbors has sent a notice that they are going to have a huge party on Saturday with 50-80 guests. Oh goody. They will have to be out in the backyard as the house isn't big enough to hold that many.

Heidi has been very near death recently. She seemed to be very close to the end the other day, with that look on her face, but she has improved. I got some sub-q fluids for her with potassium added. That helped her a lot. She does meet all the criteria for pet euthanasia, but I have only done that once with one of our cats, Matilda, who went blind. Boomer and Theodore both died naturally. Both times it was respiratory failure. Their hearts kept beating after they stopped breathing.

I posted a lot of my Photobucket pics to a JL commuity called Russell Daily. Ashinea decided to delete it without warning to me after I had posted a lot of my pics to that community. Breaking all those links to the pics on my Photobucket account left me with a very messy situation. There are pics there that have deleted links to them thanks to Ashinea.

So Photobucket has some sort of tracking feature now that lets you know where the hits to your pics are coming from. I hope that works because that would be huge for me. I've posted pics to Livejournal communities that went bye-bye without warning and I need to know which pics of mine are still linked to or not. Yeah, I know. It's really rude to just vanish. Most folks I've friended don't care about what's rude or not. They just fuck off and screw me and they would never tell me.

So finally, it's all digital or nothing for TV reception. I have an old portable analog TV I've been waiting to dump off as it's not acceptable to dump them in the trash. There's one of those electronics recycle events nearby tomorrow so I need to get there before 1pm tomorrow.

I've already been getting the digital signal on another portable Goldstar TV in my home office. I made a HD antenna for it out of coat hangers using the instructions available on Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw



And it does work better than the old rabbit-ears.

That's um, widescreen digital HD on my little ol' Goldstar TV. There is a zoom button on the Zenith converter remote to blow it up to a cropped picture. But that is the HD widescreen version.

I was watching Medium last night and marveling at how good it remains to be on a consistent basis without losing my interest. I knew it was on the bubble for NBC but figured with its ratings being better than any of their new shows getting renewed, like Southland, I figured it was OK. Not so. NBC gave it the axe but CBS has picked it up. It is a CBS/Paramount produced show, after all. CBS will put in on after Ghost Whisper on Fridays.

I loved the new Star Trek film. Haven't seen such an entertaining film in a long time. But I really had to laugh at this. Those who've seen it should know...

I'm surprised at how many still think Joaquin is being serious about his "career change". He's playing a part right now. He and Casey Affleck are doing some sort of spoof documentary thing and filming it all as they follow Joaquin around with cameras. The only difference between this and something like Spinal Tap is that they are filming this in real time, in real life. Normally, when a talk show appearance is needed for a spoof film, they'd do a fake one. But this was a real appearance on the show and Letterman is obviously in on it.

The Bale meltdown thing from TMZ was only released yesterday and already it's been turned into the latest hit remix on Youtube. Gotta love the Internet!



That Christian Bale can be a real scary dude.

Supposed to be cold tonight (42 degrees right now) and I was pondering whether to move some outdoor potted plants or not and just for the heck of it, I checked one of the weather sites. It's actually 9 degrees warmer right now in my home town in Michigan than it is here in San Diego. So I hauled my more special plants into the garage. I doubt it's going to be below freezing, or for very long if it does.

Yeah, I think. I'm not able to sleep at all. I have not done any more sandbagging to protect the foundation of our house. It's never been a problem before but I just worry more now. Hey, well at least the frogs will be happy. It will sound like a Louisiana swamp around here at night.

OK, we now officially have had enough rain. For now. The back yard is flooding too much and, well, I remember it always used to do that but it hasn't happened like that in over 15 yrs.. That's how long we've been going without heavy rain, it seems. I noticed one of my empty plastic garbage bins sitting outside my home office window which I knew I didn't leave there and apparently, the water has lifted it and it floated from the back, down along the side walkway. Oh, well. I shouldn't complain. I've seen much worse on the news.

Friday, yes! Phew.

I get real lazy when it comes to journal updates. And it's not like I don't have things to say. I just can't bring myself to type them.

Some weird things have been happening around here. A grandmother, a mother and two babies were obliterated because the military thought it was OK to fly a jet with one engine over a residential neighborhood instead of keeping it over the ocean or landing at Coronado. An old lady was abducted and thrown in the back of her own car and beaten and abused for a few days by some young punks, one of whom recently was in her house, selling her a vacuum cleaner. My mom is way to nice to people who come over, so now I have to warn her not to trust anyone at all, no matter how friendly and chatty they get.

It's supposed to rain. It's supposed to rain a lot. So yay. I put up the sandbags to prevent the flooding next to the patio. If it gets really cold, I may have to bring in the potted plants to the garage.

If you have too much time, check out these...

Puppy cam!!
Six Shiba Inu pups.

Super Obama World. Plays like the old Super Mario World.
It features lipstick-wearing pigs, lobbyists, a bridge to nowhere (famous Alaskan pork waste of money), Neiman Marcus and other department stores raided by the Palin family shopping sprees, a view of Russia and other suprises.

LOL! Cats and toilets!

I finally have the Youtube high quality thing figured out. Embedding is one thing, but I was having trouble just getting an uploaded video to have a hq version. I think it was more hit-or-miss early on, but it's working better now and you should be able to get a hq version for new uploads. Today I noticed that they now also have hq still images for embedded vids as well and getting that to work too is something to look out for. Only new vids will have that, however.

So after using some tips from this guy on Youtube, I reuploaded my Extreme Ways vid to see if I could get it to work. I also ran it through a sharpness filter to make it look more clear and sharp. The vid has a lot of motion and action which tends to come out blurry and blocky looking. So Youtube's encoding of it to flv format did add some blockiness that's not in the original, but it's still a hq version now and MUCH better looking than the standard version I had before...



I would explain the code trick needed, but I can't post any code and get it to show up as text. However, this is one of many tutorials that explains it. Using the option to not show related vids will cause the hq still image to not show up, so if you have "&rel=0" in your code, you'd have to delete it. Huge difference... Low quality still    High quality still

Today is definitely fire weather. Very windy here and we normally don't get as much Santa Ana wind around our area.

So, Life on Mars last night.... Not bad at all. They really did improve on the LA based version. Much faster pace, but that should have been the case with the show only being 42 minutes compared to the 50 minutes of the earlier one. Much better use of music and overall style. I don't like Gretchen Mol as much as the other actress they had playing Annie Norris, but her character is more accurately positioned in the sexist work environment. I liked Colm Meaney better than Harvey Keitel as Gene Hunt. Keitel looks too old for the part. Oh, and Sam's very Hutch-like tan leather jacket is now black. O'Mara reminds me a bit of Mel Gibson. That look in his eyes he gets.

Ratings were pretty good -- over 11 million viewers. So I hope it does OK. I just can't deal with liking any more new shows that end up cancelled. CSI, of course, pulled in over 20 million and the whole thing was great and it looks for now like season 9 is off to a good start.

Well, I did get the courage to call the cat-only vet and took Heidi over there the other day. As expected, the vet said it was best to let the tumor be for now. Cutting it out would shrink the opening for her eye. This vet is hearing-impared. She can hear a little, but relies on lip reading. However, she was able to determine that Heidi also has a heart murmer. Something Fred has and is common in old cats with hyperthyroid. It makes anesthesia a bit risky which means they don't even want to do teeth cleaning. Yesterday, Heidi acted very sick and didn't eat anything at all and felt a little cold to the touch. I thought we were going to have to take her over to the emergency clinic today (because all serious incidents happen when your vet's office is closed, don't they?), but today she acted much better and finally had her appetite back and is drinking water. She still acts like she isn't feeling very well and has been lying on the floor in strange places, so there has to be some kind of discomfort.