kernel852

Happy New Year!
I've just bit the bullet and imported my LJ to Dreamwidth: New Year, new start and all that. So now I have two journals which can lie empty.:-) I'm kernel852 on DW if anyone wants to add me there. I will probably still mainly use LJ for reading/commenting as I don't know my way around DW. So this is sort of a test post. The cross-posting thing does seem very convenient and the importing was very easy. I am confused by the access/subscription thing though. *Sigh* It took me ages to feel at home in LJ.

There might be some non-US peeps on my flist who haven't heard of Hamilton (it's possible??) but for those lucky people who don't have teens who are madly into musical theatre, you might like this little Star Trek Reboot /Broadway fusion. :-)

http://www.break.com/video/my-spock-3007375

And the original:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=im+not+throwing+away+my+shot&&view=detail&mid=CA841F896327A766194ECA841F896327A766194E&rvsmid=D315C7BB7F75DD9388FDD315C7BB7F75DD9388FD&fsscr=-1155&FORM=VDFSRV

This is really bugging me. We had rhubarb fool for pudding tonight with gingernut biscuits which was lovely, but it reminded me that when I was a kid ( Glasgow,in the seventies) there were always two kinds of ginger biscuits on the shelf: gingernuts and the other ones. What were they? Was it gingersnaps? What was the difference? I vaguely remember liking the other sort the best but I don't remember why. The ones I liked were obviously the betamax of ginger biscuits and Gingernuts were the VHS. :-( Anyone have the least idea what I'm talking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N8sUccRiTA
This is currently my favourite compilation on YouTube. I find it very inspiring and energising and so do a great many other people judging by the comments. I just wanted to acknowledge it before it disappears, like his other ones.:-(
As it is, I can only listen on the pc as Apple have blocked it on my iPad.) I understand all the arguments about piracy and paying artists and composers for their music, but although I like these individual tracks, I * love* the way they are put together for six hours that keeps me going through a writing or PaintNet project. The playlist artist hasn't just randomly thrown a lot of tracks together, it is beautifully edited and thought out, and it's sad that his/her efforts are being stonewalled by organisations like SME. For what it's worth, I have bought several tracks after listening to this ( by Jeremy Soule and Two Steps From Hell) that I wouldn't have bought otherwise, but removing it from You Tube isn't going to make me buy any more, it will just make me sad.

Sad to hear that Gareth Thomas, who played Blake in Blake's Seven, has died aged 71. That show was my first love; just thinking about it brings back floods of memories of my teenage years.
I have all the VHS tapes in a box in the attic. I can still remember how excited I was when they were first released. I used to go to Woolworths every week to buy the latest one and then watch it several times over. It was my first obsession.
RIP Gareth.

Happy Birthday, snailbones

selenic76 has suggested we share a bit of fandom love throughout February so I thought I'd talk about my first real fandom : The X- Files.
I had enjoyed other shows before then but this was the first one that got me involved online and was my introduction to fan fiction.
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(There may be spoilers but nothing major.)

I was pretty lukewarm about Peter Capaldi last season. There were some good eps but it just didn't win me over. I've never liked Jenna Coleman so that didn't help, and I hated the first appearance of Missy, so Dr Who became that show I watched with the kids rather than anything I felt fannish about.
The opening two parter of the new series has been brilliant, though! Fantastic writing and dialogue. I have to say Missy is amazing in the latest ep. She has some fantastic lines and is so entertaining to watch, and so Scottish, which...YAY! The scenes between Davros and The Doctor were some of the best I have ever seen on Dr Who. I couldn't help feeling that I would have got more out of it if I could remember every episode that Davros and the daleks had ever been in, but that is always the challenge for the writers ; they have two audiences: the die-hard fans and the casual viewer, erm and the in- betweeners like me, and the script has to work for all of us. This one definitely worked for me!

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I came across this poem for the first time today and just wanted to share.

In an unposted letter of 1933, Robert Graves wrote that scientists “fail to understand that the cabbage-white’s seemingly erratic flight provides a metaphor for all original and constructive thought.”

Anyone watching the fissure eruption at Bardarbunga, Iceland?
It's spectacular.

There is a great live stream on youtube here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtGqoxV_qo