First of all, I hate baseball. Hate hate hate. Tonight, UPN preempted the season premiere of Enterprise with some baseball game. I wasn't sure whether it was just a Cablevision thing (in which case I might never get to see tonight's premiere) or whether it was UPN's choice.
So, I went to the UPN site and left a comment. They got back to me within a few minutes... it was pretty impressive. Turns out Brent Spiner (played Data on TNG) is going to be on this season, and the preemption was UPN's choice so the season premiere is going to be shown tomorrow at 8 and I will get to see it.
But, this leads me to declare that this will be Enterprise's last season. It's inevitable. They're preempting the season premiere, on Friday night, for baseball. I've seen stuff like this too many times, unfortunately.
Book purchases for today: Ann Coulter's new book and Intellectual Morons : How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas, by Daniel Flynn. I think the latter spends too much time on Peter Singer for my taste, who I already know more than enough about. But it seems pretty good. Plus, it's very nicely "typeset", if that's still a word it makes sense to use.
I wanted to check out Laura Ingraham's book, Shut Up and Sing, but Borders didn't have it. It seems I'm better off, since Amazon has it for a huge discount. I was also looking at Hugh Hewitt's new book, but decided against it.
Incidentally, as I was going through the store (Barnes & Noble, not Borders. I was at B&N first, but left because their customer service was non-existent) I kept coming across books I wanted to leave notes on to tell future browsers to beware. For instance, there's some Michael Moore book out with him looking sad holding a tiny folded up US flag -- I wanted to leave a note saying "Do you know this man called the terrorists in Iraq killing our soldiers "minutemen", explicitly likening them to the founders of our country?" There was a book by Peter Singer, something about the President's ethics -- I wanted to leave a note saying "Do you know Peter Singer believes that you should be allowed to abort babies even after they're born? That it's "speciesist" to consider a mouse or a rat to have any less worth than a human being? That you mustn't eat animals, but it's ok to have sex with them? Peter Singer is not a man you want to be listening to about ethics". It was frustrating.
I want a girl who's:
- Smart and wise. Someone who can teach me as much as I can teach her, and whose judgement I respect.
- Modest. Ceteris paribus, I'd take a girl who wears khakis and normal t-shirts over one who wears those low-pants that show your butt crack with a thong sticking out of it and a shirt that doesn't fit which highlights your belly-button stud/ring/whatever any day. In fact, I'll go further... the latter type of girl generally grosses me out.
- Not a gossip. Someone who keeps private things private, even from her best friends.
- A conservative Christian, of course. Gotta share the worldview.
I'm trying to think of more attributes worth listing, but can't really. Anyway, this is more personal than anything I usually post, not that it's that personal. What's kind of striking to me is that I've never met a girl who even comes close, and my list isn't very extensive at all. I didn't even really list personality traits ("not a pain in the ass" and "doesn't take things too seriously" come to mind, but the point is... those are obvious). Maybe I should add "short" to the list, for obvious reasons.
Friday, October 8, 2004
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