Um?

I know there's an entire office dedicated to ettiquette that could be doing better by the new president vis a vis his gifts to foreign dignitaries. I mean, yes, she got some sheet music that was rare, but an ipod? Do you really think the Queen of England can't get one for her damned self? Sheesh. Gordon Brown, whatever, he'll be out again in another term, but this is a woman who has been in power since before our president was born. CAN WE PLEASE TRY A LITTLE HARDER?

Oh, and this is just agonizing icing on the embarrassment cake.

I'll take it

My birthday present to myself, to be amortized over the next kajillion years or if I win the lottery.

Seriously, I don't think they ever even made prop Centurions for the show. That makes me immeasurably sad.

Anyway, barring my very own Centurion, I'd happily take a resurrection tub.

THIS

h/t the_grynne, one of the best commentaries I've read yet on Battlestar Galactica:

( Slight spoiler for the finale )

There's also this post, wherein she, more concisely than I, addresses the issue of culpability among the Cylon:

The problem, however, with trying to denounce anti-Cylon sentiment as mere prejudice, is that when it comes to Cylons a blanket prejudice might very well be the only correct and moral response. There was a twisted sort of sense in Helo focusing on Sharon's race rather than her individual guilt back at the end of the first season, because at the time we were still thinking in human terms. To accuse Sharon of genocide made as much sense as holding a single Wehrmacht soldier responsible for the Final Solution. In the intervening two and a half seasons, however, we've learned that there's no such thing as a Cylon non-combatant or even a foot soldier. Their decisions, we've seen, are made en masse, with each model voting unanimously (Caprica breaking with the other sixes on the question of whether to nuke New Caprica was unprecedented and shocking). Unless the writers make a last minute revelation that the eights opposed the decision to attack the colonies, there's no other conclusion to draw but that when polled, Sharon said that yes, billions upon billions of dead humans sounded to her like a good start.

( Slight spoiler for 4.5 )

It's funny, you know, because I do completely think this, and have said as much before. It's not that I don't recognize the need to move on in the interests of survival as the show moves along in season four, just that the moving on should not imply forgiveness or forgetfulness (willing or otherwise). And that those who aren't able to forgive the losses they've suffered aren't necessarily monsters. (And the ones who can may be pragmatic, but they are probably also fucking sick in the Stockholm Syndrome kind of way.)

Best line since "KNEEL BEFORE TOD!"

Because ivy03 will murder me if I don't...( I put it behind a cut! )

On the subject of fangirling, however, SPN fangirls on my f'list answer me this: ( Spoiler question )