scott and annie’s new apartment is much bigger than i expected. it’s really nice, except for some small issues, like the fact that it’s made of plywood and shakes when a train goes by, when too many cars go by, when someone walks around, when the wind blows too hard, or etc.
but it’s otherwise nice.
i hate sprawl, but one nice thing about sprawl is that because you end up with little cluster communities, you essentially have one copy of every major chain retailer in every neighborhood. there’s a shopping node up the highway about five minutes that kt and i passed on our way in, and i saw just from the neon signs visible from the roadside at night, a target, a tru, and a red robin. scott says there’s a freddies in the area so i’m pretty much set. i could live here if i had a car.
that gets into the trouble with sprawl though. if this were portland, i could walk to those stores, or take a bus. here, no way.
if the country is going to keep going in this direction, we basically need to run max lines EVERYWHERE at all times. that wouldn’t be so bad, if you could at least get around the sprawl easily.
thinking about buying the video card i need on newegg tonight and paying $20 for next day shipping, which should get it to me on monday or tuesday. we’ll see.
one thing i’ll say washington has over portland is that there’s a lot more hills. hilly neighborhoods are just better.
yay, there’s people fighting in the parking lot.
this complex reminds me very strongly of steve’s old complex in beaverton, or nearly beaverton, whatever you call that area just over the west hills. the western front.
The problem with Voyager and the movies is that by the end of Next Gen, you really felt like they *had* explored the whole galaxy. Then with Voyager it just felt like they couldn’t come up with anything really creative unless they did it in another galaxy, and created species “like” the Klingons.
I’d love a new Star Trek show that felt like there was some mystery out there, or like you couldn’t just hop in a starship and cross the galaxy in a day or two. And something where there’s some conflict.
I liked one of the original concepts for the Star Trek movies, where the first movie ended with a genesis-bomb like weapon going off, with an entropy wave spreading out and burning up the galaxy, with the tension growing stronger with each film as the wave gets closer and closer to Earth, and the Enterprise has to find the solution.
At this point, I think the best idea for a new Star Trek show would be something set after Voyager at the Academy, where old stars could do stints as professors, and then you could take those characters and jump them into a new show as they explore the new state of affairs. And I think Star Trek: Odyssey is the best title for a Star Trek show ever.
December 19th, 2004 at 4:18 pm