The end of David Tennant's run on Doctor Who certainly was pretty excellent, though perhaps much of the story made little sense (like many season finales for the show, if you think about them too much) or wasn't explained adequately (like why exactly the gaggle of women thought resurrecting Harold Saxon to begin with was something they should and/or wanted to do). The end was very touching, and it was nice to see his 'selfish benevolence', being able to say goodbye and do some good at the same time. I'm still very unsure about Matt Smith; there's something very odd about his appearance/features that I'm finding a tad off-putting. But if the writing is there, I'm sure the show will do just fine. What I'd really love is for The Doctor and whatever companion he latches onto to actually stick together for more than just one season. After all this upheaval lately, a little bit of continuity and cohesiveness would be nice.
I completed the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Hardened mode. I may try a few levels on Veteran to see if I can swing them, but I'm not anticipating a full run-through. There were some nice twists and turns to the story, and the action never, ever lets up; you can't ever feel really safe. In multiplayer, my accuracy is nearing 32%, almost a full eight percentage points above my closest friend. It just keeps inching upwards tad by tad, though I'm sure it will level off at some point. Sometimes I wonder if I 'sprayed and prayed' a bit more if I might do better kill-wise. It's a tough choice, as if I'm behind/chasing someone and wait to line up a decent shot they might suddenly turn around and surprise me, but if I shoot from the hip and/or too quickly and miss, they'll definitely turn around to engage me.
What was very fun was linking up with danbambridge (dakstra) for some team deathmatches yesterday afternoon, and we both played a bit more than we'd planned. It gets so frustrating seeing the banner at the bottom of the lobby screen listing XBox friends playing the game, but never being actually with them, so I suggested an invite. In most team modes' lobbies, if two people join up and enter they're always on the same team, so on the plus side we could look out for each other a little bit, but on the minus we never got to square off against one another. We really didn't get to chat too much between all the noise, just trying to stay alive, and this little kid who kept screaming, "I pwned you so many times," at people between matches. I also got to see some really great teamwork, though sadly from the other team who smartly all took their lead and retreated into a building and set up auto turrets outside the entrances as time was expiring; it was impressive and agitating all at the same time.
That's all for today. Thanks for reading, everybody!
Someone tell Collin that the TGS design looks fantastic, fun, funtastic, and fun.
"I cannot tell you how sick, ticked, and piqued I am about cell phones. These miserable little devices are like a medieval infestation of rats. They breed everywhere. People are entirely at their beck and call, and run shrieking to cuddle them every time they squeal. And they have a thousand annoying voices, some famous. This fad to have unique 'ring tones' is a plague on humanity. Anyone with sensitive hearing is assaulted daily, and also left out of the loop watching folks speak loudly as they wander down the street. Time was, people behaved that way, they were put in custody 'for observation.'"
That is all for now. More detailed blog entry coming soon.
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One last thing. If you submit something and it's rejected, remember: it's nothing personal. These standards are in place to promote accuracy, readability, and keep the episode pages from being too "cluttered" with extraneous info. If you get a rejection, read the Comments I provide, come here and look at these guidelines, and PM me if you have any questions. Some folks I had to reject the first time are now my most prolific contributors.
My birthday is tomorrow!!!
I prolly won't be on tomorrow, although you never know.
A friend is taking me to Atlantic City, can't wait to hit those nickle slots 
Sorry if I haven't talked to you lately, since this new site layout popped up I've spent a record-low amount of time. My queue is packed and the only activity I've done is make sure it doesn't spill over past seven days and try to keep my currently-airing shows somewhat up-to-date, although some have fallen to the wayside.
I wrote a blog about what I thought about the new tv.com, but it got lost in the update. In short, I don't like this site at all. I don't have to decide to leave or not, I practiclly already have.
Dave 
I'm at Level 37 (99.11%) so I pretty sure that just by posting this blog I will be at Level 38 tomorrow. Farewell, Cylon level. And while I'm here - "Frak!"
By the way, I'd like to mention to people who contribute to my guides that scripts downloaded off the net often have loads of errors in them like mispelled names and misquoted text/script lines. I would recommend turning on your closed captioning while watching an episode not copying-and-pasting from some random-person-transcribed script you found on the net for free.
Do most people get both The CW and My Network TV without a cable box? People keep coming down on their ratings but it has been my experience that most people get only one of these stations in their area. I also noticed that during the UPN/WB consolidation the CW picked mostly former WB stations but didn't pay attention to whether the stations could be received without a cable box. In my area you couldn't get The WB without a cable box and you couldn't get UPN with one (you had to unplug to box to watch something on UPN). I'm just thinking that The CW and My Network TV should be labeled cable stations since it seems that most people only have access to both with a cable box. If they viewed them that way then the ratings would be high/average for a cable station not constantly last place among basic networks.
Yakira
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI
People always asked me why I kept a poster of Network in the office.
Went to see Oceans 13 the other day. Not my choice just to keep the peace. I saw Oceans 11 and thought it was average, didn't bother with 12.
13 was ok if you don't mind a bunch of A-listers looking smug and patting themselves on the back while being tiringly self referential.
"try to keep off the weight"
"settle down, have a couple of kids"
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha NO
Hey guys,
Just launched a small site on the side with a small team and we're looking for a group of beta users to play around with the site and give feedback.
The Site:
The Lowdown:
Thinkingsmartr is (hoping to become) the world's largest, collaborative suggestion box. The site allows you to create any topic you want (by default, you become the editor of each topic you create) and encourages you and others to collectively make suggestions that would improve the topic.
Each suggestion is voted on by the community and the best suggestions float naturally to the top while the least important suggestions fall to the bottom. The hope is that with enough passionatte users discussing their ideas to better a topic --- people will take note and the best suggestions will actually take foot.
For instance, say you have a bunch of ideas to make TV.com better. Go ahead and start the TV.com topic and post some suggestions to help make TV.com a better place. Others can then come in and vote on your suggestions (as well as make suggestions of their own) and with any luck your suggestions will actually be implemented on the site (please note -- this is not a garauntee that all or any suggestions will be fulfilled -- but I will personally be keeping an eye on that particular topic 
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What we need:
A passionate group of users to play with the site and give us feedback on features you would like to see as well as bugs you come across as you use it. We also encourage you to spread the word --- as more get people involved, the more interesting and fun the site will be.
Thanks guys
This is getting weird. I have reached Level 30, but this time it's on my parents 11th Wedding Aniversary. Always on the special occasions lol.
!HALLOWEEN!
The celts who lived 2000 years ago celebrated their new year the 1st of November.This day marked the end of summer and the beginning of the cold winter, which was associated with the time of death.celts belived that the day before their new year.The day when the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead was open.This made them believe that corpses of the dead returned and druids could make predictions easier.
They used to dress up with animal skins and skulls and light a bonfire to commenarate this event.
And so to this day the spirit and celebration of halloween is held every month.
History 1:Secrets of Halloween
This is the full and true history of Halloween.
Here are a few pictures to remember this event.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
The Open Door
They rose to fame with their monster debut "Fallen" which has went on to sell over 15 million copies worldwide. After the departure of Ben Moody, many thought that lead singer Amy Lee was just a pretty face and his shadow. After more than 3 year since Fallen's release the band are back, minis Moody and this time better than ever!
The Open Door
After buying the album last week i was so excited at to what they have to offer us. Amy Lee has giving us an amazing stepup and such an amazing followup to Fallen. The stunning guitar work and the operatic metal makes the album all the more flawless. The style in music is much more vibrant and darker, unlike Fallen which screams suicide and depression, The Open door is more about not being afraid anymore and taking control. Amy did state in interviews that she now free to do what she wants without Ben controling her but thats not my place to speak about. I must say, Ben Moody leaving the band is the best thing that could have happened to them.
All in all i give the album a 10/10. Perfect!
My favourite songs so far are:
Lacrymosa : A wonderfull cover of mozartz Lacrimosa! Stunning from start to finish.
Like You
Lithium
Snow White Queen
Sweet Sacrifice
Cloud Nine
All the songs are amazing but i must say the lyrics and songs are a lot more disturbing than Fallens. "Snow White Queen" gives you the feeling that she is being raped but she is actualy being stalked and expressing her fears and the dark and haunting "Like You" is realy distrubing. The line "I long to be like you, sis. Lie cold in the ground like you, Death. Theres room inside for two." gave me chills.
Anyway i will give a complete reveiw of the Album, track by track!!! Signing off,,, Robster
The reason for this is that I have not been on working on my queue due to (1) being on vacation for the summer and (2) not being able to get my queue to load in a quick manner (changes to the site have really caused it to work incredibly slowly on my computer. This has been going on for several month. It is so slow that actually clearing submissions is simply too tedious for me... I don't like having to wait 10 minutes to clear 20 submissions. I really wish trusted users could also clear submissions. I preferred the co-editor systemn of TVTome for that reason. I could go on break without having to worry about such things. I don't know why such a system was never implemented here).
In any case... I suppose that now it is "open season" on several highly desirable guides. I hope who ever gets them does a good job with them. In all honesty, I never really wanted to maintain this many guides. I just liked submitting/correcting things. Unfortunately, however, submissions are the selection criteria for editorship. And I ended up with a bunch. Some of which I have not maintained at all due to a serious lack of interest. Hope they go to the more interested (or even slightly interested).
I shall be retiring from most of my guides. I will make as many people trusted users as possible as I retire. Hopefully you can maintain that status as the change happens (though I am skeptical of this occurring).
I will be retiring from all but the Alfred Hitchcock guides, the Millennium Guide, and the Outer Limits (original series). All of that content was created by me at TVTome (when I was under the impression that I held copyright over the material). I feel that I am perfectly in my rights to maintain them even now.
Heres another great TV forum: the-addicted.net - If you join please say I referred you, by putting my ID Easily Obsessed in the Referer box when you sign up for the site.
Check it out THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING NOW!!!!!!!!!
YEEEEEEY!
The last season is gonna be shown on Channel four during the summer! on T4
Hoorah! My wish came true!
Now Level 6 - 79% Hmmmmmmm
Recently discovered how great Drake and Josh is! I can't stop watching it! And Drake is fit!
Anyway... Mwah! xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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