tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218330562008-02-13T00:17:34.791ZDarrenBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21833056.post-80430060039571357352007-11-20T12:25:00.001Z2007-11-20T12:25:34.920Z

just testing

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Well, obviously the perfect man is Daniel (insert Jack, Tealc, etc as you see fit). But next-but-one-perfect-man or second-best-man doesn't quite have the same ring. My friend's husband is definitely next-but-one-perfect-man. On a playdate at their house (our two wee boys are best friends) I discovered that he is a fan of Stargate. He watches it every day. Not just one episode. Four episodes. A

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Hee hee I found this video hilarious, but it might just be my geeky self...

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woo hoo! Read about it Here Also, while we're on the subject of reading, here's an interesting article about one of the major pitfalls when getting involved in any kind of fandom on the internet. It is a lengthy article, but well worth a good read. Although 99 percent of the people you're going to talk to online are just regular folks like yourself, it is that one percent you really do have to

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It is next week, which is short notice, but anyone thinking of a convention this year might want to consider GateCon UK. I think tickets are still available. The line up includes Cliff Simon, JR Bourne and Colin Cunningham. Outside of the main cast, these three would be top of my list for con guests. They are excellent value and always worth seeing. And to get all three at once! *thunk* I can't

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The Empire Strikes back is my favourite film of all time. The Return of the Jedi is one of the films I loathe the most. I found this YouTube clip utterly hilarious.

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I am utterly astonished at the amazing talent some people have. This is a dark and moody Atlantis music video that's also the most gripping music video I've seen.

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If you like Stargate Atlantis fanfic then you HAVE to read these CLICK HERE

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Still on a nostalgia trip! I adored these guys - possibly the only thing on Sesame Street I ever really liked.

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I was hopelessly in 'love' with the younger chap in this show - I believe the actor later played Vic Fontaine on DS9. There were so many fantastic sci fi shows in the seventies!

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I stopped reading fan fic a few years ago, mostly because the SG1 fan fic was just so good and so well written that I was beginning to blur what was in fan fic and what was in an episode. It happened after I watched Holiday one day. I hadn't seen it for a long time, and was very perplexed to find that a scene I remembered quite clearly wasn't actually in it. Had they cut it out? But why - it was

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This is a cute little clip.

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A new book came out this week - Sci Fi Baby Names . I met a couple who had named their little girl Solo, both because they were huge Star Wars fans and because she was going to be their only child. There are plenty of 'normal' names in Sci Fi. At a con, I met a little lad called Jack, named after SG1's Jack. Other names suggested in the book are a bit more unusual. Not sure that it would be a

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This show is so brilliant that seeing it at a young age left me with a lifelong addiction to Sci Fi. Without this show I may never have watched SG1.

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May! My last post was in May! Life has caught up with me. In the intervening months I've started a new treatment for the arthritis, and lost my father-in-law. Baby G is no longer Baby G but Toddler G. He loves numbers and counting, and likes nothing better than digging in the dirt so a possible future as an archeaologist could be on the cards. BBC 3 has been showing Stargate the movie lately, and

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There was a long queue in the Tesco Metro for the tills, but only a short one for the self service tills. Keeping the queue short was a chap with extreme body odour, and trousers held up by string. I stood as far back as I could but just as I could stand the stench no more, about sixty seconds later, a till came free. And I made the mistake of pointing this out to the chap (he was standing there

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is tonight's episode and I'm looking forward to it. Been avoiding spoilers as best I can and I don't know too much. Just that on Joe Malozzi's blog he said that Daniel's prior story arc had originally been thought of as taking place over a few episodes but that in the end they did it in one. And that's the Shroud. I'm hoping it is going to show the brilliance of the Quest Part II. Last week's

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If you're a member of the GateWorld forum, and especially a long term member, then you'll have a sense of humour. A good sense of humour. I can take that as granted because from my years of experience, that's been the case 99 percent of the time. Joe's comments in his blog have brought this collective sense of humour to the fore. And there's certainly a lot of fun to be had with Shrill and

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One cold roast chicken. Check. One potato and onion tortilla for the vegetarian. Check. One greek salad. Check. One large crusty loaf of bread. Check. Organic butter - the last ingrediant I need for the butternut squash risotto. Check. Well I'm sorted for tonight. I just hope that someone brings the chocolate and someone remembers the wine. Then all we need to do is get ourselves comfy, switch

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Gasp, despite being a huge resounding success, Life on Mars is going to end after two seasons! Well good for them for sticking to their guns I guess. Any Americans reading this, I would heartily recommend downloading (that is, I would recommend downloading it except that is illegal so don't do it) and watching this show. It is one of the best things to hit the BBC in ages. Well I have been about

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It was a glorious gold sunset. The office looks out over Fitzrovia and West End rooftops, all glowing yellow in the last rays of the day. At a quarter past six. And the clocks haven't gone back yet. I'm so bored of winters. Can't we just skip one?

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Three thirty in the morning is a strange time to be wide awake. It still feels like night time, not the dawn of a brand new day feeling you get at four thirty. Sky Two showed Endgame. I made myself a big thermos mug of tea, some honey and toast, and snuggled down on the sofa to watch. First time around I never really paid much attention to this episode. Seasons 7 and 8 don't hold that much appeal

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EG came to stay for a week - she is one of the first people I met through the fandom and we've been friends ever since. We had a lovely time, catching up, watching lots of NCIS, and it wasn't until the end of the week that we realised we'd not watched one episode of Stargate or had a single stargate conversation. Yikes! Still at least it answers a question we were all asking ourselves in Season 5

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MajorClanger is a pink furry rat who is biased against Jaffa Cakes and is always allowed to post nasty things about Tiny Clanger without the mods doing anything despite everyone I know complaining. There. I've written that in my blog, so therefore it must be true. I haven't provided any facts, but then you don't need me to. If I've said it, it must be true. There is no point in you going to the

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Great news in this bleak, miserable time (I am talking about the pathetic August weather we're having to cope with in London, grey skies, drizzling rain and a chill in the air you need a coat to keep out, and oh yeah, Stargate has been cancelled), I found out yesterday that Earthgrazer is working in the building next door for two weeks on a consultancy. Yay. Lunch each day will be in order, I

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