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We've all seen the show are you smarter than a 5th grader, but you may not be aware of the new spin off. It's called "Are you crazy like Gaius Baltar" in this show contestents battle it out with Battlestar Galactica's Ex President, Genius, cause of humanities downfall and resident kook Gaius Baltar. Psychologists will be in attendance, and willers of the show will recieve an all expences paid trip to a psyc ward.

In order to qualify for the grad prize, players will have to prove their insanity against the following tests:

The MRI, which fearlessly adresses fears that participants have alien chips implanted in their brain, the guilt trip where photos of the victims of participants are presented for reveiw. Double talk is an ever popular segment where particpants hold conversations with friends, real and imaginary, both at the same time. All of these have of cource been constatnts in Gaius's life, but of cource he has recently gone above and beyond normal insanity, leading us to create the show.

The begining of "The one god cult" was simple enough, a dozen insane women, one sick boy, a locked corridor and inscence, throw in a Baltar shrine and have him proform a miricle. So his insanity increases, he can heal the sick, he is the voice of god. And then comes the ultimate...

He's had imaginary girlfriends
He's had imaginary girlfriends with imaginary Gaius's
He's had imaginary girlfriends threaten him, lock him in cells, try to get him executed, stop talking to him, tell him he's insane, and generaly torture him.
And now, shes disapeared, to be replaced by...

An inaginary Gaius. Seriously. How self centered can you get?

Battlestar rocks!

Yep, thats right, I have my hands on the spore creature creator. I so didn't download it when it leaked... *caugh* lies *caugh* yes. I'ts great fun, and its surprising the range of creatures you can make with such a limited range of parts, espiecialy once you work out how to resize stuff (try the mouse wheel) its great fun and I so want the full version of the editor. And the game of cource, but realy, the editor will do me just fine for now. Now watch the videos. Oh and if you want to get the editor just go to the spore website. www.spore.com. for some reason vox wont let me link properly :-( anyway, if you get the creator, be sure to show your creatures!

I was flicking around this morning and switched onto ABC. Being the morning, they of course have kids tv shows on. But this one? This show expresses exactly what I have always thought it must be like to be on drugs. I'm still watching it, and the psycho colours, crazy music and people laughing have yet to convince me otherwise. I think the shows called "Boohbah" or something similar. It seems to be about fat little creatures who like in  crystals in a sphere of light and fly around the world jumping on children’s heads and making them laugh. There is lots of colours and they are always moving. Its very pretty.

What most freaked me out was when the creatures started swinging there arms and there arms made noises. At this point Nagari came and started barking at them, and then ran and hid. I guess I'm not the only one freaked out by a show that must have been created on a drug high. Oh and did I mention that the narrator sounds exactly how I envisage Marvin from hitchhikers? So sarcastic and depressed and monotonal.

In the time it took me to write this, there have been four more instances of rainbow shiny things I cannot identify, lots more kids laughing, people running around with flippers on, and what must surely be a violation of water restrictions. Plus Marvin keeps talking, and people keep laughing. It's great. Oh, now they are making music with there feet, and possibly by farting. OMG this show gets more and more freakish. now there’s rainbow waves and they can fly! Also, they seem to be able to retract their heads into their necks... freakish.

Hmm, the wikipedia article has no mention of drug induced psychosis. Interesting. If you are still interested in this crazy tv show click here for the website. Seriously click on random stuff. It's crazy, or if you are just interested it the crazy dances and head retraction, click on the weird coloured things with red eyes. Yes, they scare me too. 

Ok, so I'm re-reading the gift in anticipation of The singing and I get up to Rachida where after meeting the Lady Ardina Cadvan sings the following...

"Her waking soul an orison

Of newborn joy, she fleetly ran

through twilit vales on lirion

Her voice in wonder echoing

And from the branches blossom sprang

In iron groves of leafmeal wan

And spring herself woke up and sang the gentle summer beckoning"

There are a few more verses but I can't be bothered typing it out. Loveley isn't it? Well it bugged me because all of a sudden I realised that it is completely plagerised. I give you an excerpt from the Lay of Beren and Luthien

"He heard there oft the flying sound

Of feet as light as linden-leaves,

Or music welling underground,

In hidden hollows quavering.

Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,

And one by one with sighing sound

Whispering fell the beachen leaves

In wintry woodland wavering."

You see the similarities? It's just the format and the topic the same? NO! While the format is taken from LOTR, the words are pretty much identical to The Lay of Beren and Luthien in tHoM seriously, its like she cut the damn thing up and rearranged the sentences. And then I realise. Arkan and Ardina are Beren and Luthien. I know that all high fantasy is based somewhat in Ttolkien and hers more than most, but this is way too close for comfort, its like Paloini level copying!

Evidence:

Luthien is born of a goddess and named after a star - Ardina is born from the moon
Ardina and Luthien both are immortals who fall in love with a mortal
They are both said to have left the word, but there are rumours they still walk the earth
They are both part of hidden woodland realms, protected by a Queen who has put a barrier around it
They are both considered to be the most beautiful women who ever lived
Both stories have Rings (Beren’s ring and Mearad’s ring) and pipes (Darion and Mearad)
In both cases the pipes are used for songs of loss
They both destroy the evil of the time or at least help to do so
They both change the season from winter to spring
When threatened they both turn into wolves

Ok, so some of them MAY be coincidental, but come on! There were a couple of others that have slipped my mind, I’ll add them later if I remember, but really.

Ok, enough obsessing. See you later.

...

I cried.

I realy was not expecting that. Nope, not at all.

The season final of torchwood, two episodes, hundreds of explosions, the attack of the weavles (big time) a nuclear melt down, torture, explosions, gwen becomes police cheif, Captain John returns, Grey, explosions, torture, explosions, more explosions, and the desperate need for the doctor to turn up sometime soon and fix everything.

Oh, also, we find out how all of the torchwood members (including Jack) got recruted. Iantos is particularly hilarious. Jack: "Ianto Jones, stop stalking me. I do not, and never will have a job for you, and if you do not stop following me, or attempting to communicate with me in any way, so help me, I will run you down."

Ianto: "So that means you won't help me catch the perradactyl then?"

Jack: "Perradactyl?"

Also, it involves chocolate, cause chocolate can fix everything.

ARG

It's so so so sad.

Sob.

Here is a list of reasons windows Vista is like Baltar from battlestar galactica

1. It's paranoid. Realy paranoid. As in I have an chip implanted in my brain and the president is trying to kill me paranoid
2. It likes to gamble. Hence the free Hold em game
3. It asks stupid questions like "I wonder if shes a real blonde" or "do you want to do that thing you just told me you wanted to do?" while seeming to adress no-one in particular
4. It allowed someone to hack into vital documents.
5. Its sexy
6. Its useless, except you think its usefull
7. It steals ideas from people. Cylons, Macs same difference
8. People often spend a small amount of time with it and then decide to murder it
9. Its "revolutionary"
10. It has acess to "Security related technoligies" - quote from vista site
11. It speaks multiple languages, also the same language with different accents
12. It is far too chatty and annoying- quote from some market analyst person.
13. It is realy, realy good at mulititasking as in "I can discuss my love life with my invisible girlfriend while defending myself against treason charges and no-one seems to notice I have an imaginary friend" kind of good

So thats why Baltar is like windows vista

have a nice life

What won't you miss about 2007? 
Submitted by uncagedbird.

VCE

How do you want 2008 to be different from 2007? What will you change or do differently? 
Submitted by Becca-Pink.

VCE.

January: The start of the year. Good times. Spent my holidays relaxing and doing nothing, got the years books. Read Curious incident. Didn't read anything else, there was an attempt at the Hamilton case, but I couldn't get my head around it. Did almost none of my holiday homework. Started year 12 and was weirded out by the people in red jumpers. Met Jon, thought he was weird. Mr Imam made me angry. Did not write any Vox posts. Cass left the group.

February: Attempted to complete holiday homework or at least weazle my way out of it. Jon's attitude was helpful, Ms. Evil Psyc teachers wasn't. Was entertained in media by the fact that 1/2 the class was absent on Monday doubles, and the other half sat at the back and drank whiskey. Decided teacher was hopeless.

March: Psyc teacher was extremely thoughtless and mean and showed video which was my worst fear personified. allot of people told me "Yeah I like faint when I have needles" as if this might be of some huge comfort. Friends rescued me and took me to the glen for ice cream. Felt much better. Got an early leave pass. My wheelchair tyre exploded in class, my dad stole his own car. Died of incredible, impossible workload, planned the assasination of my psyc teacher. Obsessed about harry potter, found my formal dress.

April: Easter, got BSG CD, nothing happened on April fools day.

May: ....

June: Mid year revision, listened to view from a bridge like 10 times, nagari broke her leg and I discovered what a dog looks like when it's high.

And so we are half way through the year. I will finish the other half later.

January: The start of the year. Good times. Spent my holidays relaxing and doing nothing, got the years books. Read Curious incident. Didn't read anything else, there was an attempt at the Hamilton case, but I couldn't get my head around it. Did almost none of my holiday homework. Started year 12 and was weirded out by the people in red jumpers. Met Jon, thought he was weird. Mr Imam made me angry. Did not write any Vox posts. Cass left the group.

February: Attempted to complete holiday homework or at least weazle my way out of it. Jon's attitude was helpful, Ms. Evil Psyc teachers wasn't. Was entertained in media by the fact that 1/2 the class was absent on Monday doubles, and the other half sat at the back and drank whiskey. Decided teacher was hopeless.

March: Psyc teacher was extremely thoughtless and mean and showed video which was my worst fear personified. allot of people told me "Yeah I like faint when I have needles" as if this might be of some huge comfort. Friends rescued me and took me to the glen for ice cream. Felt much better. Got an early leave pass. My wheelchair tyre exploded in class, my dad stole his own car. Died of incredible, impossible workload, planned the assasination of my psyc teacher. Obsessed about harry potter, found my formal dress.

April: Easter, got BSG CD, nothing happened on April fools day.

May: ....

June: Mid year revision, listened to view from a bridge like 10 times, nagari broke her leg and I discovered what a dog looks like when it's high.

And so we are half way through the year. I will finish the other half later.