Taped a couple of episodes of Silver Screen Test. Thanks to my crew of Henry Benton, Yen-Ming Chen, David Kamm, Andrea Lamphier, Charles Meigs and Christian Murray.
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While I taped, the Pirates played the Nats with both in Homestead Grays uniforms. Sister Cristian had 6 RBIs with a homer and a double. It should have been over with the four-run sixth, but the Pirates made it close.
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Watched the How I Met Your Mother episode "The Bracket". A blonde is walking up to women Barney is trying to pick up and warn them away from him. Barney uses a March Madness-style bracket to deduce who this woman might be, from all the women he's wronged.
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Went on to the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Ties That Bind". On Galactica, Cally sees Galen in the bar with Tory and misinterprets the relationship. Later Cally finds a note about a meeting the four Cylons are having and eavesdrop, learning the truth about her husband. She knocks Galen out with a wrench when he returns home and flees with Nicky to a launch tube. About the space them both, Tory interrupts and take Nicky away before ejecting Cally.
Lee joins the Quorum of Twelve and Zarek questions Roslin's secrecy, which includes the true mission of the Demetrius. Zarek surreptitiously drops a file to Lee's attention.
On the Demetrius, Starbuck isn't getting any closer to Earth. Helo, Gaeta, Anders and Athena are among her crew. Starbuck and Anders have rough makeup sex.
In the Cylon fleet, Cavil agrees to lobotomize the Raiders as the D'Annas are veing unboxed. He launches an attack on Six's faction without any Resurrection ships nearby.
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Finished off with the Battlestar Galactica episode "Escape Velocity". At Cally's funeral, we learn her full name was Calandra Henderson Tyrol. Galen is upset and Tory and Tigh's attendance.
Tigh visits Six in her prison cell and she speaks in Ellen voice, sometimes appearing as Ellen. A group called the Sons of Ares attack Baltar's cult. Baltar retaliates by desecrating a service of the old gods. Roslin imprisons Baltar and just wants a quiet death for herself, but since she's dying, she cares little for consequences anymore.
Tyrol makes a maintenance error on Racetrack's ship, causing it to crash, but no one dies. Galen is upset that no one is holding him accountable for mistake. In the bar, sitting next to Admiral Adama, Tyrol freaks out and gets himself demoted to specialist.
Baltar's cult has been limited by Executive Order to gatherings of no more than 12 for their own safety. Baltar tries to get back to his commune, but is kept back by a marine who says there are already too many people in there. Baltar readies for violence, supported by a vision of Six, when Lee arrives with a rescission to the Executive Order.
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Put up the set of Silver Screen Test. Thanks to Jimmy Albert and John Buckley.
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So I missed the 25-minute power outage and it wasn't just the lack of homers. But by that time, Lannan had already given up six runs. O'Connor didn't play any better.
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Went to Dmitri Young bobblehead night. I went with World-famous media fan Martin Morse Wooster. My father was also supposed to come, but he was late due to a root canal. He showed up anyway, but I didn't meet up with him. Misschatter was in the photogrpaher's well with her new toy. During the game somebody was dropping dollar bills one-by-one from the mezzanine or the upper deck, making it rain, if you will.
The Nats jumped out to a 2-0 lead on a two-run single by Wil Nieves in the second. The Bucs caught up on homers by Freddie Sanchez and Ryan Doumit. Kearns won it with his eighth inning single. Perez gave up the two runs in seven innings. I almost ready to forgive the choice of having him start opening night.
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Lopez, Nats sink Braves in 12th with bases-loaded hit. As much as FLop was at the bottom of the dogpile at the end, he didn't exactly acquit himself well in the bottom of the tenth when he grounded into a double play with the bases loaded. At least in the 12th, the score was already tied and there was nobody out. Hill looked pretty good going eight as did Jurrjens going seven.
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Watched the Criminal Minds episode "A Higher Power". Pittsburgh police officer Ronnie Baleman calls in the BAU about a series of suspicious suicides. A few months earlier, 14 children were killed in a fire at the Shadyside Recreational Center. All the suicides were of the parents. The most recent was Ronnie's brother Paul, a contractor electrocuted in a bathtub with no GFCI in the wiring.
Each suicide was executed in a different manner with suicide notes. Baleman suspects a serial killer. Garcia finds a suicide report of a 15-year-old boy James, the son of aa professor. He was being continually molested by his father. The killer was James' brother Peter. He knew all the victims from attending various twelve step and grief programs. The so-called suicide notes were actually grief statements hetook from the meetings. Ironically and predictably Ronnie's brother Paul was the only true suicide.
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Zimmerman's bat propels Nationals past Braves. Zimmerman homered and doubled, breaking the game wide open in the seventh. Guzman's infield single in front of Zim to load the bases was crucial. Rivera got the win, but Cordero left the game after seven pitches.
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Went to trivia night at the Greene Turtle, with questions by TriviaMaryland. Only Chonte was there, but she was working. I came in second, earning $15 in gift certificates. I didn't use them all to pay the bill insuring that Cara would actually get the tip.
Here are the questions (Highlight for the answers.):
- What same number identifies the number of women in the cast of Ice Station Zebra, the number of U.S. Presidents who were only children, and the number of words spoken by the title character in Dumbo? Zero.
- In what three years were the Olympics cancelled? 1916, 1940 and 1944.
- How many hearts does an octopua have? Three.
- What four sitting Vice-Presidents were elected President? John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren and George H. W. Bush.
- What is the maximum number of golf clubs permitted in a bag? Fourteen.
- Who are these people? (Click each photo to enlarge)
(Left to right) Mark Hamill, Mark Twain, Luke Perry, Matthew Modine, John Tesh, Luke Wilson, Matthew Broderick and John Lennon. - Who appeared on 54 Time magazine covers from 1952-1994? Richard Nixon.
- What three phrases and one word appear on all U.S. coins? In God We Trust, United States of America, E Pluribus Unum and Liberty.
- Who was the Bayonne Bleeder? Chuck Wepner.
- What four shows won the Emmy for Best Comedy Series at least four times? All in the FamilyCheers, The Dick Van Dyke Show and Frasier.
- Where would you find the trapezium bone? Hand or wrist.
- What five Presidents have had approval ratings below 30%? George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Harry Truman.
- What actor or actress appeared in all of the following movies: The Right Stuff, Edward Scissorhands, The Cider House Rules and Cold Mountain? Kathy Baker.
- What four drivers won at least 30 NASCAR races in the 1990s? Dale Earnhardt, Sr., Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin and Rusty Wallace.
- What product had the slogan,"Look Ma, no cavities"? Crest toothpaste.
- Identify these television shows: (Click each photo to enlarge)
(Left to right)That Girl, The Sentinel, The Saint, Family Guy, Family Law, Family Feud, Family Matters, Roswell.
- What country was known as New Grenada from 1831-1856? Colombia.
- What eight states are considered to have panhandles? Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia.
- Who won an Academy Award portraying Maggie Fitzgerald in a 2004 film? Hillary Swank in Million Dollar Baby.
- Bounty, Elegant Lady, O'Henry, Red Globe and Topaz are all varieties of what fruit? Peach.
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Watched the Battlestar Galactica episode "Six of One". Leaving off from the last episode with Starbuck pointing a gun at Roslin, she reminds the President that she disobeyed orders to go back to Caprica and retrieve the Arrow of Apollo on her intuition. Kara gives her the gun, telling the Roslin to shoot her if she believes Thrace is a Cylon. Roslin fires, but only hits a picture of Adama on the wall.
Tory comes on to Baltar in the mess hall and he has a Baltar from his head appear, acting a lot like Jim Carrey. They end up in bed together.
Apollo accepts an offer from Tom Zarek to join the Quorum of Twelve. The officers give him a sendoff on the hanger deck. His goodbye with Dualla suggests an amicable divorce. Adama gives Starbuck the Demetrius and a crew to try and find Earth on her own.
With the Cylons, Cavil believes the Raiders broke off the attack because of a malfunction and proposes reconfiguring them. There is disagreement because one of the Sixes believes there are Cylons (Anders, Tori, Tyrol and Tigh), causing the end to the attack. Even the Sharon models diagree about the right course. A Six modifies the Centurions to shoot down Cavil and his allies.
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Nationals 2, Cubs 0. Nice performance from Lannan, but Lilly was no slouch, either. Peña and Nieves drove in the two runs with singles in the second. The crucial play was when Theriot grounded into a double play with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth.
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Watched the Cold Case episode "The Road". In 2006, Brenda McDowell disappears from an engagement party. Rush and Valens are called to West Virginia to pick up a suspect who calls himself John Smith.
He used to work in a company that edited home videos. Smith becomes obsessed with the lives of some of the women in the videos. He chooses to kidnap one at a time and eventually starves them to death, but not until he's discovered at which they give up on living.
Smith takes Rush to the well where he saw, as a boy he saw a woman trapped there. Instead of getting help, he just watched her die. Smith unconsciously hums a tune, that leads the police to a basement in Kensington, near a church that plays that tune. McDowell is there still alive.
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Watched the Battlestar Galactica episode "He That Believeth in Me". As the Cylon attack continues, Anders goes up in his Viper, getting a bead on a Raider. Something flashes between tham as the Raider's red light scans him and the attack breaks off.
Starbuck lands her Viper, but everyone except Anders and Apollo treat her with skepticism, largely believing she's a Cylon. For her, only six hours have passed, not the two months for everybody else. The tail number on her Viper is that same, but Tyrol says the ship is as clean as if it just came off the showroom floor. Starbuck can't remember exactly how she got to Earth, but is confident she can lead the fleet there. The Viper's records are unhelpful, except for pictures of Earth.
Meanwhile, Baltar is being sheltered by a cult of mostly beautiful, young Caucasian women. Jeanne asks Baltar to pray for her son Derrick who is dying of viral encephalitis. In the bathroom as he is shaving, Baltar is met by Charlie Conner. He reminds Baltar when he brought his son Kevin to the President on New Caprica. That son later died died at the hands of the collaborator police. Conner puts a knife to Baltar's throat and Baltar is visited by Six, asking if his prayer for Derrick was sincere. When says yes, he is saved by the cultists.
With each jump, Starbuck gets a massive headache, indicating there are moving further away from Earth. She's afraid that soon, she'll lost the signal entirely. Starbuck breaks into William Adama's quarters where Roslin is staying and puts a gun to her head, demanding the fleet head toward Earth.
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Watched the CSI episode "One Thousand Days on Earth". A comedian leaves a nightclub and almost backs into a cardboard box containing a dead three-year-old girl. She has no identification so she is known as Baby Cordelia from a nearby cross street.
Baby Cordelia's hair has been colored, suggesting she'd been kidnapped. Inmate Donald Balboa recognizes her as his daughter Inez and suspects his former cellmate Boyd Waldrip, who has been released. Waldrip has married Balboa's ex-wife Grace, adding his own two children to the marriage. Waldrip, Grace and Boy'd children are tracked to a diner. In the confusion, Waldrip accidentally shoots Grace dead.
The children explain they were playing hide-and-seek and Inez hid underneath the kitchen sink, hitting her head on the pipes. The injury was further exacerbated by drain cleaner leaking from the pipe. Instead of calling 911, Waldrip took her on a bus to the hospital en route. When she died, he left her body in a box he found in a dumpster.
In the red herring plot, the box is traced to Leo Finley, a registered sex offender, living with his girlfriend Nora O'Toole under the name Dean James. Finley's sex offense was being drunk and naked when he found himself in front of a bunch of pre-schoolers. The box originally held a microwave sent to O'Toole's apartment. Finley used the box to transport a cart part to a repair shop. That shop dumped the box where Waldrip found it. After Finley becomes a suspect, Nora kicks him and he loses his job. He confronts Willows for ruining his life, threatening to shoot himself on her front lawn.
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Cubs 7, Nationals 0. Chico lost this one in the first inning. Zambrano went a decent seven innings.
