Comments on: The difficulty of overcoming inertia

By: Arnoldvb

Arnoldvb — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:07:31 +0000

Hi Jammer,

I've been a subscriber to your reviews from almost the very beginning and have enjoyed them all, although I've never posted a review before.

Just wanted to comment about your great photo of the cruise ships at St. Thomas harbor. I was born and have lived here all my life. Hope you had a nice time during your stopover here. How'd you like the incredible traffic? That's one of the bad points about life on the island.

Thanks for all the effort you've put into your reviews over the years.

By: nura78

nura78 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:17:42 +0000

I understand your plight. I'm a composer, and after graduating i got a day job and didn't write much music. I wasn't lazy either, i was just in a rut. I suggest you just keep writing privately until you feel comfortable to write publicly.

Congrats on your promotion and getting engaged, btw. And since there are lots of star trek nerds, i have created an arrangement of the UFP anthem(DS9:"Take me Out to the Holosuite") without the applause:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QpFTmdK7nQ

Hope that cheers you up!

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:20:10 +0000

Alan Sepinwall is one of the best, along with Tim Lynch.

I'm not in any rush either, given my own priorities at the moment

But if there's a review worth reading eventually down the road, it would be for the episode The First Duty. The entire scene between Wesley and Picard in the ready room ranks up on my all-time favorite Trek moments. One of the most tense scenes I've ever watched.

By: Mal

Mal — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:53:35 +0000

Take your time: weddings are more important.

We'll still be here when you come back...

By: Jammer

Jammer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:54:38 +0000

Apple IIGS? Surely those were gone by 1995. Not even some sort of Mac?

Wow. I feel old.

And, incidentally, I think "test card" is an older term than "test pattern." I think "test cards" were literally cameras pointed at cards, before the days of electronic patterns that became their substitute. So don't feel too old.

By: Mitch Spector

Mitch Spector — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:44:10 +0000

I must be getting old since I don't even think I've heard the term "test card", I still refer to it as a test-pattern. It's funny to think how that's now become an obsolete term, I can remember as a kid staying up late and watching all the channels sign-off one by one (the announcer talking technical info about the broadcasting power and transmitters, the wishing you a goodnight, the national anthem, and of course the test pattern, with that never ending high-pitched tone!).

Talk about feeling old, I still remember I used to access Jammer's reviews from an Apple IIGS, which was accessing a VAX/VMS shell account through an ASCII-text based terminal program back in 1995! Anyone remember the students.uiuc.edu URL? Voyager just came out and I was looking for reviews about it and came across the site. Then I religiously started reading the DS9 reviews, Enterprise, Battlestar...wow it's almost scary to think it's been 15 years! I gotta say it's definitely my oldest surviving bookmarked page!

By: Matt L

Matt L — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:26:46 +0000

Woot. I keep checking the site even after all this time because you're a great writer. I'll patiently wait as long as it takes or until I die. Possibly after, but it remains to be seen what internet access is like in the afterlife.

By: Remco

Remco — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:25:41 +0000

One way you could make use of inertia is to follow up the TNG reviews with reviews of those shows you have never watched and where reviews are not forthcoming. Or Mad Men, of course.

By: Latex Zebra

Latex Zebra — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:53:34 +0000

lol
I remember being a kid and waiting for the TV to start in the morning. In the UK we had some bizzare picture of a clown and some freakish girl and a blackboard.
I am certainly showing my age now as well. Can't remember when I last saw one, outside of Wiki.
Congrats on the marriage. It's a wonderful institution.

Who wants to spend their life in an institution though? ;o)

By: David Meyer

David Meyer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:09:12 +0000

Congratulations on your engagement, Jammer. Wish you a very happy marriage.

By: Jammer

Jammer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:47:18 +0000

And come to think of it, that's a funny idea. The next extended downtime I have here should come with a test pattern as the image on the home page.

By: Jammer

Jammer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:45:07 +0000

Heh. The mention of a test card (the term in my era was "test pattern") makes me feel old. When was the last time you actually SAW a test pattern? Probably a long time ago. Just for the sake of nostalgia:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg

By: Greg M

Greg M — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:02:24 +0000

Thank you Jammer

Now I can come to this site and not feel all that bad about it. Nice photo.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:28:32 +0000

I would be ticked off at your absence here Jammer, except that last time I checked, I haven't updated my own site (no I won't post the URL) in a year or two myself. Life has a funny way of taking over sometimes, that's just the way it is.

By: Latex Zebra

Latex Zebra — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:45:04 +0000

Seriously get rid of that image. A picture of the test card would be better.
Look forward to the review of The Plan though, it seems to getting interesting early reviews.

By: Greg M

Greg M — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:58:18 +0000

Can you just write one TNG (Redemption II) review just to change images. Having a TNG image on your site is a lot better than coming back and seeing Shia and Megan every day for the last 3 months.