I want to like this show. I love Mythbusters, and I think that the only hope for that other lame-ass show…uh…Smash Labs is to kill it with fire and scatter the ashes to the four winds. I was hoping that with three nerds and one “build it” guy, and what appeared to be fairly interesting challenges, Prototype This would be good. I watched the pilot, and it was okay, and now I’m watching it again, but there’s just no chemistry. Joe is teh hawt, plus he’s an electrical engineer, Zoz is an Aussie and a code monkey with a Ph.D. (I’m ignoring the stupid hairstyle), and “Dr. Mike” is cuter than most Ph.D.s I’ve seen. I can’t stand that other guy–Terry or something–because he’s a whole bunch of annoying and not much geek. He’s somehow managed to take the special effects charm of Mythbusters and fuck it around until I’d like to cockpunch him to make him stop flapping his fucking gums and GTFO camera. Geeks are sexy, and so are engineers. Annoying special effects dudes who dress as if they might be homeless…not so much. Well, there may not be any chemistry and I may be typing this and only half-watching the show (never do that with Mythbusters), but at least they didn’t feel the need to add the “token woman who doesn’t actually bring anything to the show and just tries to look cute with power tools”. Technically, I guess Kari is a token woman on MB, but at least she’s cute and funny, and she’s pretty good when it comes to sculpting/artistic stuff. Maybe that’s what PT needs; a not-annoying woman. Maybe it just needs to be cancelled. Heh.

I was going to do some email, but I decided I’m too goddamned tired to say anything even remotely interesting, so instead, I’m going to sit here like some sort of root vegetable, stuff my face with raw baby carrots and learn how to make graphite hockey sticks, bronzed baby shoes, treadmills and handheld computers. Eclectic mix…I love How It’s Made. I was going to watch Obama on The Daily Show (yaaayyy–finally!), but I’ll watch that online tomorrow.

I may have pissed away my entire day off doing absolutely nothing useful, but it still turned out to be a good one. Cliffie isn’t at 100%, but his eye looks better, his jaw is far less swollen, he’s swimming around more, and considering that a week ago, I was pretty sure I was going to lose him, I’ll take what I can get. He’s old, and probably wouldn’t survive another infection, so I’m going to take him to the limit on the kana and cross my fingers that it will be enough and I won’t cause kidney damage. No crickets yet for Olena and Miss Vee, but the store gets their new stock in tomorrow, and I’ll presume they got their heat fixed so these ones won’t die as well. I haven’t laughed as hard as I did at B.’s “Word troubleshooting” in a very long time (still giggling over that because I can just see him doing it!) and sometimes, even the biggest smartass can be so sweet that I’m not even sure what to say. When Never Shuts Up is at a loss for words…yeah, that’s definitely significant. I’m not really doing anything, just telling him the truth, but it was still nice to know that he hadn’t just been kind of “brushing off” the things I say. Maybe it is some sort of approval-seeking behaviour, and maybe the validation shouldn’t matter, but “shouldn’t” and “doesn’t” are often not the same thing, and it does matter. Besides, although approval-seeking can be a destructive behaviour indicative of self-esteem issues if it means seeking approval anywhere, there is nothing wrong with seeking the approval of people one likes and respects. I suppose it’s like anything else; neither extreme is right, and the sensible position is somewhere in the middle.

I should go get in the shower now, but fuck it–I’m gonna be a rebel and do it in the morning. That’s me…wild and crazy, living life on the bleeding edge! 😉