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geebsChecked out the rec area of the student center after work yesterday, hadn't been there in a long time. Looks like they cut back on the number of bowling lanes and expanded the arcade. Looks like DDR has its own little niche in the formerly bowling lanes area, and it looks like they have a big TV and X-box too? They also had a bunch of new games, there was this one target shooting competition simulator. Looks pretty cool. The guns are molds of STI custom 1911s with red dot sights. Which I think would be good if not for my impaired vision.
My left eye is my good eye now, but I aim with my right. Unfortunately, the fuzziness in my right precludes me from seeing the crosshair in the sight clearly and thus I have trouble keeping the red dot in the center. The same goes for trying to use both eyes, the fuzziness of the right still obscures my view a little. If I just use my left eye, I can line it up, but due to my right eye dominance, its actually offset. Couldn't they have just used normal sights? Those I can see clearly. And if they're actually off, I have an unobstructed view and can just shoot on instinct. I can still hit pretty fairly well doing that. But that red dot sight is so cumbersome, I can't not look through it, its the only way I can see the screen.
Owel, went home, did laundry and then me and the guys tried our hand at trivia at that rib place at tech square. I forget what its called, maybe![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clevemire can remember. It has basically the same menu as fat matt's, which means BBQ ribs, chicken, a pound of shredded pork, or a shredded pork samich. I thought it was tasty, but quite messy. Anyways, thought we were doing bad, but as it turns out, we kicked ass. And jeez, how many spin-offs did All in the Family have anyways? But anyone who did not know "Step by Step", and not "The Jeffersons", "Maude", or some other show I don't remember, was the show that wasn't a spin-off of AitF is a durned fool. Seriously. ojv('Man, its obvious!') Its a full decade after those other shows!
Oh, and I checked E/R (not ER, though both shows had George Clooney) and George Jefferson was indeed in the pilot? Now does that make E/R a spin-off of the Jeffersons, and thus a spin-off of All in the Family? Because if so, that would make for a harder question, thought most people would think he meant the more famous must see TV ER, and not the old sitcom starring Elliot Gould. I think it should count! I mean, "Young Americans", which was one of Kate Bosworth's first big roles (although can you really call that a big role, being in a less-than a season long defunct WB teen drama?) was considered a Dawson's Creek spin-off, even if they did cheat by saying the star of YA was "this old friend of Dawson and Pacey and Joey" that we just hadn't known about that moved away before the show started?
The same thing with Top of the Heap, that short-lived Married W/ Children spin-off that starred Matt Leblanc (and had me first noticing Joey Lauren Adams before she got famous for doing stuff like Chaisng Amy and Mallrats and stuff) I mean, they introduce this new "close friend" of Al's we had never heard about. Actually, there were several Married w/ Children eps that looked like they were trying to start prospective new shows. Like the one with Keri Russell playing a bank tellar at Marcy's bank who goes to college with Bud meeting up with these two guys and becoming a hot radio DJ? Or the one with Nicole Eggert which I hear was supposed to be Fox's version of Friends. But I digress. Should it really count as a spin-off if you introduce a character for one or two eps and then suddenly give them their own show? You're not really spinning off a vital member of the cast.
Oh, and I just looked up "Wings" for some reason, and I had no idea Tim Daly was related to Tyne Daly. I mean, they have the same last name, but I didn't think they could be related. Though apparently I thought Balthazar Getty and Estelle Getty could, as I asked the GMA last night. But it turns out Getty isn't even her real last name. And I had just heard that Balthazar Getty was an oil heir, and after I asked GMA that Balthazar/Estelle Getty question, I totally realized that made perfect sense!
Oh, if it wasn't clear, we won. Then again, most of the competition where a bunch of idiot drunks who were a little ornery. And there was this Sinth-looking dude with a cute pink-wearing sorority chick looking gf. I thought she was cute, but they seemed to prefer some glasses chick talking up the MC.
My left eye is my good eye now, but I aim with my right. Unfortunately, the fuzziness in my right precludes me from seeing the crosshair in the sight clearly and thus I have trouble keeping the red dot in the center. The same goes for trying to use both eyes, the fuzziness of the right still obscures my view a little. If I just use my left eye, I can line it up, but due to my right eye dominance, its actually offset. Couldn't they have just used normal sights? Those I can see clearly. And if they're actually off, I have an unobstructed view and can just shoot on instinct. I can still hit pretty fairly well doing that. But that red dot sight is so cumbersome, I can't not look through it, its the only way I can see the screen.
Owel, went home, did laundry and then me and the guys tried our hand at trivia at that rib place at tech square. I forget what its called, maybe
clevemire can remember. It has basically the same menu as fat matt's, which means BBQ ribs, chicken, a pound of shredded pork, or a shredded pork samich. I thought it was tasty, but quite messy. Anyways, thought we were doing bad, but as it turns out, we kicked ass. And jeez, how many spin-offs did All in the Family have anyways? But anyone who did not know "Step by Step", and not "The Jeffersons", "Maude", or some other show I don't remember, was the show that wasn't a spin-off of AitF is a durned fool. Seriously. ojv('Man, its obvious!') Its a full decade after those other shows! Oh, and I checked E/R (not ER, though both shows had George Clooney) and George Jefferson was indeed in the pilot? Now does that make E/R a spin-off of the Jeffersons, and thus a spin-off of All in the Family? Because if so, that would make for a harder question, thought most people would think he meant the more famous must see TV ER, and not the old sitcom starring Elliot Gould. I think it should count! I mean, "Young Americans", which was one of Kate Bosworth's first big roles (although can you really call that a big role, being in a less-than a season long defunct WB teen drama?) was considered a Dawson's Creek spin-off, even if they did cheat by saying the star of YA was "this old friend of Dawson and Pacey and Joey" that we just hadn't known about that moved away before the show started?
The same thing with Top of the Heap, that short-lived Married W/ Children spin-off that starred Matt Leblanc (and had me first noticing Joey Lauren Adams before she got famous for doing stuff like Chaisng Amy and Mallrats and stuff) I mean, they introduce this new "close friend" of Al's we had never heard about. Actually, there were several Married w/ Children eps that looked like they were trying to start prospective new shows. Like the one with Keri Russell playing a bank tellar at Marcy's bank who goes to college with Bud meeting up with these two guys and becoming a hot radio DJ? Or the one with Nicole Eggert which I hear was supposed to be Fox's version of Friends. But I digress. Should it really count as a spin-off if you introduce a character for one or two eps and then suddenly give them their own show? You're not really spinning off a vital member of the cast.
Oh, and I just looked up "Wings" for some reason, and I had no idea Tim Daly was related to Tyne Daly. I mean, they have the same last name, but I didn't think they could be related. Though apparently I thought Balthazar Getty and Estelle Getty could, as I asked the GMA last night. But it turns out Getty isn't even her real last name. And I had just heard that Balthazar Getty was an oil heir, and after I asked GMA that Balthazar/Estelle Getty question, I totally realized that made perfect sense!
Oh, if it wasn't clear, we won. Then again, most of the competition where a bunch of idiot drunks who were a little ornery. And there was this Sinth-looking dude with a cute pink-wearing sorority chick looking gf. I thought she was cute, but they seemed to prefer some glasses chick talking up the MC.
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Date: 2004-03-26 08:05 am (UTC)I really like how all the females in the IMDB billing have like 5 last names. Heather Locklear was apparently "Amanda Woodward Blake Parezi McBride Burns" by the end of the show. :)
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Date: 2004-03-26 08:25 am (UTC)And on Melrose, isn't the reason for the multiple last names because everyone kept marrying everyone else? Didn't that one doctor guy marry just about every chick on the show?
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Date: 2004-03-26 08:43 am (UTC)And yes! Totally! That is why it is hilarious. If males took the last names of the women they married, Dr. Mancini would've been Dr. Michael Mancini Andrews Shaw Andrews Lewis Andrews. Hee! (He was married to Sydney, the hot red-headed Laura Leighton, and he married her sister Jane twice. Crazy Aaron Spelling.)
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Date: 2004-03-26 08:54 am (UTC)Didn't two of those wives die? Who knew the lives of the people in some LA apartment complex could be so exciting!?
Oh, and Laura Leighton was in an ep of that Tru Calling show last night, alas, looking nowhere near as hot as she used to.
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Date: 2004-03-26 01:15 pm (UTC)"Well it's a well-known fact, sonny jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as 'The Pentaverate', who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secrect country mansion in Colorado known as 'The Meadows'."
"So who's in this Pentaverate?"
"The Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothchilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Ah, I hated the Colonel, with his wee beady eyes and that smug look on his face - 'oh you're gonna buy my chicken, ohhhhh!'"
"Dad, how can you hate The Colonel?"
"Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly, smartass!"