So I didn't get a group shot of our Halloween gang because our party got broken up by the cops. We had a Hank, Dean, Dr. Girlfriend, Happy Birthday Dr. Girlfriend, Brock, and Molotov. Imagine our displeasure when the police showed up and accused us of making too much noise after we had JUST finished watching the Season 3 Finale. I mean, yeah there was underage drinking... But there were also ridiculously nerdy shenanigans going on.

I has three questions, plz!

• What really is McCoy's middle name? Is it Horatio, for real? Because I was reading a Star Trek series by Diane Duane and this little blip came up;

"Leonard Edward McCoy." The Judiciary Praetor read his name with a passable Anglish pronunciation. McCoy watched her and wondered why every courtroom charge-sheet across the galaxy managed to look like every other charge-sheet, no matter how much they differed in form and style and material...Blah, blah, blah, you get it.

Is McCoy's middle name, Horatio, fannon? Or did Duane just make up Edward?

• What really is McCoy's exes name? In the Original Episode, she is refered to as Nancy, but in this fandom, everyone refers to her as Jocelyn. Did we pull that name out of a hat? Or is it like...canon?


• Plus, is Joanna's name canon, or is that fanon too?

I LOVE THE MCCOY'S

WHY DOES THIS FANDOM HATE ME?

thanks for your time. C;

So, tonight we went to Cardiff to see the Merlin cast switch on the Christmas lights (: It wasn't a perfect trip, but I had fun (as I always do because I'm so lovely and positive, awh) and so did the others (to varying degrees, it seemed).



I want "Captives" now, dammit YouTube.

Cupcake ♥

I keep wanting to call this one The Revengencers.

So I'm walking back from Harris Teeters (because even when it's raining like a lake above us burst and businesses are closing because we have a flood watch I cannot resist my cravings), and as I'm coming to a corner I see an attractive man run by wearing nothing but tiny black bicycle shorts. I round the corner not a moment later, and he's just gone. Poof. Nowhere in sight. Just me and rain falling in sheets. I felt like I'd seen a unicorn.

It was like magic. It was like nearly-naked-man magic.




Also, for something as good as eggnog, you'd expect an eggnog latte to taste much better. At least pumpkin muffins are still amazing.

Alexander Siddig (DS9's Dr. Bashir), along with his costars, presented his new film, Cairo Time, at the 2009 Doha Tribeca Film Festival over Halloween weekend. Pictures from the press events and promo shots from the film under the cut.



( At the opening night of 'Cairo Time'. )

( At the opening night of Amelia at the festival. )

( Press conference with the cast and crew. )

( Portraits to promote the film )

( Stills from the film. )

Premise:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.

And I present to you the trailer for 'Cairo Time'.


How about that lean figure at 1:26? UNF. This. Man. Sizzles.

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Source 2

I found it on Youtube



Zach at 2:41

Thursday Graphics Post

Here is the weekly post where members can link to their icons, wallpapers, macros, and other misc. graphics.

As always, we recommend you link to your journal, rather than posting all your icons in a single comment. A preview of a few icons/one of your wallpapers (preferably resized, or a thumbnail) is the way to go.

Punch it. ♥

I just got this e-mail and thought I'd spread the good news with fellow gamers.



Coming February, 2010

Greetings Captain!
We at Cryptic Studios just wanted to share the good news with you: Star Trek Online has an official release date!

You can begin boldly going where no one has gone before on February 2, 2010, in North America, and February 5, 2010, in Europe.

Be sure to drop by www.StarTrekOnline.com for more information, and for the latest Star Trek Online updates from across the universe.

Thanks, and we’ll see you soon!
- The Star Trek Online Team

Spock boldly goes on a romantic adventure
November 11, 2009 - 6:30 pm
By Steven Zeitchik

Zachary Quinto could be taking a new ride.

The “Star Trek” topliner is loosely attached to his first post-”Trek” feature, the romantic dramedy “Whirligig.”

Quinto would play the lead role in the Canadian indie, which is aiming to shoot early next year.

The actor has been very selective about his next role, and with no deal in place and a number of contingencies that need to be met, it remains possible he’ll opt for another project as his first post-”Trek” feature.

The “Whirligig” project centers on a man who, in a misguided attempt to woo an older woman, befriends the woman’s adopted son.

Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series “The Listener,” which aired on NBC in the summer. Thorne, Amo and David MacLeod are producing.

UTA-repped Quinto was best known for his long-running role as Sylar on NBC adventure series “Heroes,” as well as a recurring role on “24″ before also breaking out as the new Spock in the summer hit “Trek.” He’s signed on to reprise his role as the deadpan Vulcan in a sequel.

Par’s “Trek” has provided a bump for a number of actors, particularly Chris Pine, who has been in negotiations to star in a new Jack Ryan pic for the studio, among other projects.

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Think you're a true Star Trek fan? Wanna test your knowledge against other Trekkies? Or do you just want to waste some more of your valuable time?

My hometown newspaper, New Orleans's own Times-Picayune has developed a series of quizzes for those who claim to have superior ST knowledge.

Think you can beat Q? Take the QUIZZES!

Microsoft done said a big Fuck ya'll to modders!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33866696/ns/technology_and_science-games  <----Link 'bout it on how modders ain't allowed no more on Xbox Live.

Be some shit if'n you purchased a modded Xbox unawares at Gamestop. Should prolly check on mine here about a second.

Some idle chatter on the [adult swim] Venture Bros. boards led me to create this subtle blend of geekery:



( more under cut )

Gosh dammit, GQMFs. I made a fifth story of macro-ness, wouldn't ya know. But college is about to eat me alive right now, so this be my last macro story for a while.

*sniffle*

So I made it extra LOOOONNNNNNGGGGGG. Huzzah.

(If you read "McCoy's Favorite Movie - A Macro Story", you'll enjoy the little reference in this one, I hope)


( this be more like macro novel... )

A posting on contactmusic.com is reporting that Captain Fine has found love with IronMan2 actress Olivia Munn. Says they have had an "intellectual and physical connection" for about a month. The site is citing US Weekly, but there is nothing about this story on the weekly mag's website. There is also no photographic evidence. Could it be true?

Source: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/pine-finds-love-with-munn_1122077

Wired.com brings us a little insight into the Art of Star Trek book that launches the same day as the DVD in the US/Canada.



How do you update the U.S.S. Enterprise? Very, very carefully.

( Full Text )

Well, I know what I'm getting for Christmas.

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NOTE: If you go to the article on Wired.com and comment about your favorite scene in the movie, you enter to win a copy of the book. GO WILD BBS!

Via Geekologie, via Technabob:

It seems like just the other day that we were talking about some seriously cool lighting, and already we’ve got a reason to dig the rare subject up again: the Star Ship chandelier. Yes, Star Ship. The name is important, see.



Gee, that design looks somehow familiar… and undeniably slick as a hanging light fixture. Definitely a lot cooler than a boring old ceiling fan (uh, except not literally).

Not that I’m insinuating anything here, but this sure looks like something that would have fit right into that summer movie with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. iTrek, was it? Star Gleam? I forget. But if you’re painting everything in your home white and adding a few touches of chrome, you might want to drop $189 on this space travel-approved chandelier.

Let's face it, if it weren't so expensive, I'D HAVE IT RIGHT NOW.

TYFYT.

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.