Below are the 5 most recent journal entries recorded in gorgya's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
12:05 pm	Mill Creek Megapack update Noticed two new Megapacks on the Mill Creek site: 100 Horror Classics Appears to be all of 50 Tales of Terror (with the possible exception of Ironbound Vampire -- which is on my copy but is not listed in their directory) Add several entries from SciFi Classics and Drive-In Classics A couple from Chilling Classics (you would think there'd be at least 4) And finally a dozen new entries. 50 Crime Classics The entry for this is still in progress. Yesterday it listed 17 movies; now its up to 31. Greg (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
3:50 pm	Destruction of a Time Lord When you exterminate a time traveling race (like the Time Lords or Daleks) what does it mean? Sure it's one thing to trick them into blowing up their own sun at such and such a date. But, what about the people away from home at the time? What about all the time travellers roaming around? Somehow, all of the Time Lords (and most of the Daleks) anywhere and anywhen have been annihilated. Talk about a butterfly effect! What about earlier incarnations of the Doctor? Actually, I got the impression that the Time Lords mostly sat around their council chambers debating possible threats to the timeline and, upon discovering one, co-ercing renegades (Time Lord who refuse to sit around their council chambers debating...) into fixing the problem. There were at least three renagade time lords beside him: the Monk, the Master, and the Warlord (whom I suspect was the Master before anyone thought to call him that). In the "Trial of the Timelord" season, we learn that the motivating character, a masked Timelord entitled "The Valeyard", was in fact a future "evil" incarnation of The Doctor. Just why he was persecuting his earlier self, I've forgotten (if they ever said). But the net result was the revelation that the Time Lords had been plotting to secretly destroy Earth in a way that wouldn't be traced to them. Again, I don't remember an explanation of why. So, maybe the Valeyard wasn't so evil after all? Neither incarnation 9 (Eccleston) or 10 (Tennant) of the Doctor seem all that stable. Yet, #9 was still unable to bring himself to destroy an Earth in the far future to finish off the remaining Daleks, even given his own argument that humanity would survive through all its colonies. What's my point? I don't know. I just suddenly had to vent. Gorgya (Comment on this)
Friday, March 10th, 2006
9:42 am	Deviousness in the Middle East Posit, a popular ruler of a country who, in spite of international mandates has created an arsenal of mass destruction. Call him Sadam. Sadam's problems. 1) that mandate against creating his arsenal is about to be due for application. 2) there is a second, secret leader, who has neither country nor weapons, but is a rival for his power and has infiltrated Sadam's government to the point that he could steal the weapons anytime he wants. 3) Should this secret leader, call him Osama, steal the weapons, Sadam's people know their way around the Middle East well enough to find them and perhaps cripple Osama's organization. What should Osama do to acquire those weapons with relatively little fear of reprisal from Sadam? Try this. Attack a country outside of the Middle East, one which doesn't have a feel for the ME's organizations, but DOES see Sadam as a visible threat. Big country's ruler (call him Bush) can't hit back at Osama, because Bush can't find him. But, there's Sadam, making a big stink because his country is due for anti-mass-destruction inspection. Bush goes after Sadam while Osama sneaks Sadam's weapons out of the country. Sadam is too busy to pursue. Sadam is dethroned and imprisoned. Bush can't find Sadam's alleged weapons causing a loss of credibility among his supporters. His attempts to unite/integrate result in more violence. (Possibly with some goading by Osama's people, but that's hardly necessary.) Meanwhile Osama, now possessor of the missing weapons of mass destruction, bides his time. G (Comment on this)
9:22 am	Airport security First, you should realized your dealing with someone who believes that 9/11 is proof that the airport security measures mandated in the early 70's only incovenienced travelers and were otherwise ineffective. There was only one part of the older security measures that I agreed with: the Sky Marshals. How was it that of the four planes hi-jacked, none had a sky marshals. Apparently, it was decided to removed the intangible security measures and only keep the obnoxious ones. My solution: abolish the security measures (except for Sky Marshals) and go back to making check-in and waiting for your flight a pleasant experience. Why feel like you've entered a police-state if you're going to get hijacked anyway? It would be much cheaper for the airports. Government solution: increase the obtrusive security policies even more and create a new policing organization. When I first heard of it, I thought Homeland Security had a communist ring to it. In thinking further, I've rejected that idea. It's plainly Nazi. Goes along with the claims that Bush is a new Hitler. This rant was originally an introduction to my next blog, but grew too large and was really a separate subject. G (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
9:10 am	It's not what I expected My goal was to be able to initiate entries in the Cheap DVD journal. I appear to have created a BLOG instead. Mind you, I've never been clear on what a BLOG might be: Bio-Log? BLOt cloGging the computer? How does it differ from a live journal? How does a live journal differ from an email list? Oh well, I'd been toying with a BLOG ever since my wife started hers, but the firewall at my work aborts when I try to sign up. Isn't bothered by this though. Now, what happened to all that stuff I wanted to write about? G (Comment on this)