31-VIII-2009.
I have no clue where I wrote about this, thought it was on the blog, maybe it was on ppp. Guess I picked, off Netflix, few seasons of Stari Gejt (old gayt, pretty much just like we called Star Trek „Stari drek“ [old dreck]), which I used to watch back home when I'd hit the slot, and it wasn't too bad for a medium budget series, and lo, it somehow looked better on the deevydee than on the old niš television set back home. Guess because the monitor was five inches larger than the then screen, and the resolution somewhat better, didn't look as cheep as it then did.
But I had an itch to remember why did I think the idea wasn't original, I remembered it from before... and began scouring the webs. And downloaded several years of Flash Gordon, the stuff I read at about 1964 (but was published originally in 1959). In spanish, though, but remembering the translation, I put the text together easily enough. Not each word, just enough.
So I posted these two images just to show how much is the commercial SF recycling ideas. Den Barry used it about three times in two episodes (trimestral then), while these guys stretched it to ten years plus two sideshows of few years each. They had to invent most of the rest, can't squeeze so much juice from just one idea.
I'm putting it under this date, because that's when I edited these two pictures out of a larger page.
In other news, Jiang has yet another emergency, meetings are scheduled... Laura replies that this morning at 7:30 (guess it's at her time, which would then be 6:30 californian, early enough before doctor Sam Ahn comes to work, he's an early bird) we have installed a patched version 5.2.31.70, which should get the job done.
Suez is celebrating some banking holiday and won't be working today. I never pegged him for a bankster. Look at that.
As per email to dad, I see we planted the two figs we bought. These days we're getting chafed by the edges of the second hurricane this season - and this one seems to not approach the coast, but then its rim clouds shake out a lot of rain. We went to the lumberyard to return some gadgets we took (extra gaskets for the toilet's vukašin [v. house dictionary], which we had to replace because the old one weren't smooth enough to seal it and it kept dripping), and went off to see the saplings. She took some of cabbage and broccoli, and said look they got fruit... figs! When I came closer, I felt the fragrance, it felt as if we're near the sea! Bought two and planted them, We put one to replace the plum, which didn't grow a single twig in a year and a half. When we took it out, it had less root than when we bought it. It just didn't take, period. There's some 10cm of black topsoil and below it only sand, which resembles unmixed mortar more than soil, and somehow was completely dry, save for a thin moist layer on top. Three meters down, closer to the sidewalk, where we planted the other one, it was almost mud. By dusk yet another shower watered it all.
Eventually now we learned that Ricardo was hired via headhunters, actually by them (as it goes), and so he gets paid even when without a job, but when he has one, they take a percentages off his salary. Now he's at yet another pause, and then should go for a new stint in a week or two.
Go made an unscheduled call on saturday evening, she needed the recipe for stuffed peppers :). Three green, two yellow. Last night we talked at lengthi. In tensome days they should begin that procedure with revision and whatever thay call it, to stir the personnel a little, see who'll advance and who not. Meanwhile, she has a week's work to finish reworking the characters for the current game, and then they should move on to make the next one („Lord of the rings“ it should be, as per the book and the movie), and to help the other two Warner's firms around town. Actually this mutual technical assistance encompasses more people, and she's positioned as some kind of dispatcher, to know who's doing what, who needs what, who goes where etc, which is the next rung to some boss position. She'd rather be an art director, which in gaming means the chief designer, setting the theme and overal look of everything etc. On the other side, if m$ ever makes a decision, it will have made it.
Mentions: Gorana Sredljević (Go), house dictionary, Jiang Wong, Laura O'Hare, Majkrosoft (m$), ppp, Ricardo Manuel Bariero (Ricardo), Suez Lima, in serbian
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