Doing my part to save the world

Leaving my Vizio on for 16 hours a day and leaving all the lights on in the house. Turning all the fans on (no A/C) and making sure all my gizmos are plugged in.

You know that day when everyone was asked to turn out their lights? I turned mine on. And you know the kicker about that? More energy was wasted when everyone turned ther crap back on than what was saved.

Can we say thud?

Oh yeah, all those prediction about the world coming to an end? They've been saying that for the past 40 years and it ain't happened yet.

I guess people tend to forget that the earth is a living entity that goes through periods of hissy fits. We're in a global cooling period. In about 25 years, we'll be in a warming stage. Same thing happened 30 years ago. Same thing happend 100 years ago. And ironically the same thing happend 11,000 years ago during the ice age.

LAX Marriott - Again with the extra fees

I saw one post on TX about this and another person emailed me asking me about it.

I was not hit with any "hidden fees" for the 2009 convention, but I do know of several people who were charged upfront for towels and other incidentals.

If you were told about "extra fees" INQUIRE about them with the hotel and have them email you an itemized list of all charges. THEN forward to it to Creation Entertainment telling them about the extra fees.

The Convention Photos

Because people see fit to steal my photos for their stupid, cheezy music videos and profiles I'm going to devise a different method for distribution. As much as it PAINS me to do this, I'm going to have to watermark over their faces with my copyright.

And people wonder why I have issues with the fandom! This is why! You damn thiefs. ASK or at least CREDIT. I spent over $1500 going to the convention, stood on my feet for eight hours and to bring you great photos you f-ing morons have to steal, steal, steal and not give credit.

If you were in the U.S., I'd sue your ass for violating my copyright!

Xena Online Community

According to Google search on my end (it varies), the Xena Online Community is the number one Xena forum. They even list the othe forums on the board! Three cheers for the XOC!

Adrienne Wilkinson added to the 2010 Convention

Adrienne Wilkinson has accepted Creation Entertainment's invention to attend the 2010 Convention.

2010 Xena Convention Update

David Franklin has been added to the guest list for the 2010 Xena Convention.

Today, I also purchased my airline ticket after working Delta's ticketing system. :D YEAH!!!

No 'movie'

Boy, this sure as heck doesn't come as a surprise. Rob Tapert is officially on the record as stating that there will be no Xena movie. It's official. It's dead.

This what he had to say:

“It’s something that just won’t happen,” Tapert told TheTorchOnline.com in an exclusive interview. “I don’t think it’s going to happen for Lucy and Renee. In twenty years or ten years, in some amount of years, like McGyver, like Charlie’s Angels, it [could] happen like that [with other actresses].”

Now that we have that out of the way. I won't slam people that that had some hope of there being a film on the way. I'm too old and far too tired of doing that everytime movie news comes around. But let me just say this: This shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone when for the last four years or so, TPTB constantly said: it's on the way or we'll see in a couple of months.

Personally, I think a lot of it was just mouth music and the reality that they can't keep it up any longer finally settled in and they had to square it all away.

I for one, would like to know JUST what did Ms. Katherine Fugate have in mind for a movie.

You can read more of Tapert's interview here.

The Argument for Anonymous Viewing

A friend of mine gave me a link to a forum to a TV show that I'm a fan. The forum doesn't allow anonymous viewing. Since I have a primarily account that I use for all boards on this particular service, I don't want to change that primary account to "showing my user name."

There are many reasons why a person chooses to remain anonymous. For me, since I'm a moderator of a very popular forum (http://xena.yuku.com) I keep myself "anonymous" because I don't want people to know that a moderator is on the board. It doesn't sound that bad, since there's usually a moderator on the board that has their user handle open. But I also would like to remain anonymous to the rest of the viewing public. I've always had an anoynmous user name for my website and other boards on the service.

Personally, there is no reason why to block anonymous viewing other than board moderators having a stick up their butt about something. It doesn't hurt anything, especially since after the person posts--their user name is revealed as being on the board when the post appears.

So in other words, allow anonymous viewing. There is nothing wrong with it. It doesn't hurt anything and you could be denying good members access to your board.

Redux of things that piss me off

People who post complete episodes of TV shows and movies to the Internet. It's against the law and if you're caught downloading them, you could end up paying a hefty fine.

Jenn's advice: Don't advocate websites who post such things.

Enough said on that.

Things that really piss me off

This is rant.

I did people a favor by posting images. Now, when I go to launch the official gallery, they're going to have a HUGE WATERMARK across the center of the images because some jackass fan decided it'd be okay to take my images.

All you had to freaking do was ask the following: Hey, can I use your photos to make a video?

I would have answered yes as long as you credit me at the beginning of the video.

No harm. No foul.

But now, this fan had to take the images thinking on one would care.

I BUSTED MY ASS STANDING FOR TWO FREAKING DAYS!

What the fuck ever.

People wonder why I have such an antagonistic attitude toward the fandom??? THIS IS FUCKING WHY! Damn thiefs!