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Answer: Morgan Webb, but you really can’t go wrong with either!!

I just finished watching Battlestar Galactica Season 3 on DVD. Season 4 has already aired half it’s season on Sci-Fi and only the last 3 episodes are available online.

How am I supposed to catch up without waiting for a season 4 DVD release? BitTorrents of course.

According to Wikipedia:
“BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor.”

To put it in plain English - BitTorrent is the main way to get pirated movies, music, and TV shows. Everyone has seen the PSA at the beginning of every DVD that goes like:

BitTorrents is what that PSA is referring to.  There are many different BitTorrent programs that you can use to download the torrents.  I was looking for one that was simple, clean, and mac compatible.

I chose Transmission.  Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client.

It’s simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.

Now I have all 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica Season 4 on my iPod touch and I can catch up before the mid-season premiere this fall!!!

Here’s a copy of the email that I sent to Guest Services at King’s Dominion about my visit on Sunday.

Rickrolling is a prank involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”.  It’s a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video.

The URL can be masked in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (and thus satisfying their curiosity). The second a person clicks on the link given and are led to the web page, they are said to have been “Rickrolled“.

This has become the new favorite past time of my team at work.  I must have rickrolled about 7 different people yesterday.  My favorite is when people swear that they will never fall for it again and less than 10 minutes later you get them.

I am a big fan of this show. I actually only started watching it from the DVDs in 2007. Seasons 1, 2, & 2.5 provided some of the best and smartest television that I’ve ever experienced.  Season 3 continues that tradition. 

Simply put this is the best Sci-Fi show ever written, possibly the best TV show ever. The story continues as the rag tag fleet desperately tries to hide and evade the tricky cylons and discovering that those who were once allies and friends just might not be.

Great story lines and not the typical boring Hollywood writing makes this a terrific show.  The ensemble of complex characters also makes the show great.

I got turned on to BSG about a year ago.  I watched Seasons 1, 2, & 2.5 all within the same week and was immediately hooked.  By the time I finished watching those early Season DVDs, Season 3 had already started airing on the Sci-Fi channel.  I would have to wait until Season 3 was released to catch up.

Now here’s the part that gets me a little cheesed off.  Season 3 wasn’t released on DVD until late March, a full year after the last episode aired.  Season 4 began airing the same week, so if you missed the release date like me, there was no way to catch up on all 20 episodes and start watching Season 4 live.  I wouldn’t really care that much if this series wasn’t so great.

Back to the Season 3 box set, it continues where the last Season left off.  If you’ve watched the first two Seasons of this excellent series, your expectations have probably been set high.  Battlestar Galactica, Season 3 does not disappoint. The first several episodes are arguably the finest of the series, and the Season ends with an amazing cliffhanger that should not be missed.

Season Three is so outstandng that I watched all of the DVDs in a couple of days. I tried pacing myself but couldn’t find the will power to stop watching!  BSG is fracking awesome!

Whenever I cook steaks, I usually just season the steak with some of Emeril’s steak rub and then eat it with steak sauce.  I’ve always wanted to try to marinade steaks before grilling.

So last week when Sayra and I went to the grocery store and we decided to grill out that night, it seemed like the perfect time to try one out.

I spent a few minutes looking through all the different types. I eventually decided upon the A1 New York Steakhouse Marinade. This one seemed to be not too spicy, but had noticeable pepper and seasonings in the marinade. It also had a coupon attached to it for 75 cents off.

The directions say to let your steak marinade for at least an hour prior to grilling. What I did was I placed the steaks in a ziploc bag with the marinde and let them sit in the fridge for for about two hours. This way there is a lot less clean up.

I took the steak directly out of the bag onto the grill. I was very nervous that the marinade would drip and I’d get flare ups, but I had no problems at all. I like my steak medium, but Sayra has to have hers well done. To my surprise, I was able to cook her steak to well, but still have it juicy and tender.

The steaks came out perfect. I can not rave enough but this stuff. The flavor was amazing. This had to have been the best steak that I have ever cooked at home. It was so good that later in the week I went back and bought a nice porterhouse that I let marinade for 2 days and had it for dinner earlier tonight.

I may also try the Chicago Steakhouse and New Orleans Cajun A1 marinades, just to mix it up a little. I plan on grilling out a lot this summer and I don’t want to overdo it with the New York.

I sat behind this guy at a wedding on Saturday night.  He was about 5 minutes away from that chair collapsing.  How awesome would that have been?

The animation below is an optical illusion, made of 34 frames. Depending on the perception or frame of mind of the viewer, the dancer will spin either in anti-clockwise or clockwise direction.

Some people are also able to make her change direction at will. If you cannot do it, go here - before you loose your mind.

Here’s another one to try.

What I want you to do is, while sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

Now, while doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand.

Your foot will change direction and there’s nothing you can do about it!

Over at flowgo.com is a pretty cool quiz. It only takes a few minutes and is really funny.  See how many you can get right. Of course I scored 100%