Made it thru the week
Aug. 23rd, 2019 04:07 pmI can’t believe I’m already through the first week and what a week it was. I will say if my students are all as concerned as they appear to be on email, this is going to be a decent bunch. All the other issues will fall back a bit if I have good students. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Crosses fingers.
I found MeTv on my new satellite TV. Ancient tv shows, no seriously. Last Friday I recorded about six hours of 60s SF. Some of these things I’ve never even heard of. One of them was Lost in Space which was one of my favorite shows from my childhood. However, I’m not sure I ever saw this one. For one it was in color and later in the series, so maybe it wasn’t in syndication when I was a kid in the 70s. This one was BAD. It reminded me of the 60s Hippies episode of Star Trek only on steroids in terms of badness. This was 1968 but obviously grooving from earlier in the decade where Penny and Will are ‘programed’ to be 60s swingers and to reject the Oldsters (except of course Dr. Smith who was draped with a half dozen 60s medallions and a long mod-wig.) At one point Dad flung his arm over his eyes and ran away from the music like a penny ante vampire from a cross. It was so bad I couldn’t look away.
So I know I have a lot of speculative fiction fans on my list (okay probably most of you are). So what’s your favorite Spec fic Tv show from the 20th century? Star Trek (all of them) and The X-Files for me.
If Frontier fails to show up next week, I’m going to look into ViaSat which is one of the internet’s bundled with Direct (Frontier is another). I do NOT want satellite internet as it goes out too easily. But it is unlimited (Hughes Net, the other alternative is not, at least not in this area). I did notice they do not claim any speeds (at least not as a selling point).
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I found MeTv on my new satellite TV. Ancient tv shows, no seriously. Last Friday I recorded about six hours of 60s SF. Some of these things I’ve never even heard of. One of them was Lost in Space which was one of my favorite shows from my childhood. However, I’m not sure I ever saw this one. For one it was in color and later in the series, so maybe it wasn’t in syndication when I was a kid in the 70s. This one was BAD. It reminded me of the 60s Hippies episode of Star Trek only on steroids in terms of badness. This was 1968 but obviously grooving from earlier in the decade where Penny and Will are ‘programed’ to be 60s swingers and to reject the Oldsters (except of course Dr. Smith who was draped with a half dozen 60s medallions and a long mod-wig.) At one point Dad flung his arm over his eyes and ran away from the music like a penny ante vampire from a cross. It was so bad I couldn’t look away.
So I know I have a lot of speculative fiction fans on my list (okay probably most of you are). So what’s your favorite Spec fic Tv show from the 20th century? Star Trek (all of them) and The X-Files for me.
If Frontier fails to show up next week, I’m going to look into ViaSat which is one of the internet’s bundled with Direct (Frontier is another). I do NOT want satellite internet as it goes out too easily. But it is unlimited (Hughes Net, the other alternative is not, at least not in this area). I did notice they do not claim any speeds (at least not as a selling point).
Also happy belated birthday to
xina_gee & wildrider
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