I’m just finishing up Angel season 4 right now. The season 4 story arc really gets going in episode 7 “Apocalypse, Nowish”. That episode ends with a rain of fire which indicates the beginning of that season’s apocalypse. Pretty much every season of Buffy and of Angel ends with halting an apocalypse; how we can have concurrent but separate apocalypses in Sunnydale and Los Angeles each year is still unclear to me.
Now lets take a look at current events. One of BP’s methods of cleaning up the oil spill is to burn oil off the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico. Someone please explain to me how burning the oil so the chemicals are airborne is any less polluting than letting the oil float around in the water.
Hurricane season is also now upon us. Hurricanes typically form over the Gulf of Mexico and then dump their contents down over land.
From this point on, this post is a completely unscientific and fictional theory intended for the purpose of entertainment only.
Suppose that in addition to water, a hurricane this season picks up some of that burning oil. And then it rains that burning oil down on the land.
Now that’d be a rain of fire and according to Angel season 4, a clear sign of the apocalypse. And according to my theory, BP would thus be responsible for that apocalypse.
BP + Apocalypse = BPocalypse
What the Next Apple TV Could and Should Be @Gizmodo I would kill for apps on my Apple TV. Some other wishes Apple TV related wishes I have include: it won’t forget sporadically forget my wireless network password, my laptop will not go to sleep while I’m streaming media from it to my Apple TV, and can we finally get some more control over the location our iTunes library is stored in? I really want to set separate locations for my apps and music (internal hard drive) and video (external hard drive).
Twitter Testing New “You Both Follow” Feature @Mashable This feature is going to be super useful. It’ll clue me into how I know new followers and I’ll be much more likely to follow them back. I think it’ll also do a lot of what lists were meant to do but in an automated way; when you see what people you have in common you’ll sort of know what group they belong in.
Vampire Shows Still Confuse Me @Free and Flawed I’m just starting season 6 of Buffy but I really enjoyed her “Angel and Spike were the original Team Edward and Team Jacob” summation.
Living The Examined Life: Personal Data Collection is a Powerful Tool for Change @Get Rich Slowly This is a topic I’m just obsessed with. Like I’ve said before, if I could have stats for everything I do I would. Personal data collection is one of the original features that got me sucked into my obsession with iTunes. I also just started playing with GoodReads to start collecting stats on my reading habits.
You can finally preorder True Blood Season 2 on iTunes! I’m in the midst of a Buffy marathon via Netflix streaming to my Wii and should be just looking for some new vampire content come the May 25th release date of True Blood.
While in the midst of my Buffy marathon, I got started thinking that a lot of parts of Twilight are a rip off of Buffy. And then I realized that, actually, it’s all a rip off of Dracula. So having not read Dracula since it was required reading in the eighth grade and probably not being as into it as I should have been simply because it was required reading, I decided to download the free Kindle edition of Dracula to reread via the (also free) Kindle for iPhone app.
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