Constitution: Book 1 of the Legacy Fleet Trilogy review

The year is 2650 75 years ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. Without warning. Without mercy. We were not prepared. Hundreds of millions perished. Dozens of cities burned. We nearly lost everything. Then, the aliens abruptly left. We rebuilt. We armed ourselves. We swore: never again. But the aliens never came back. Until now. With overwhelming force the aliens have returned, striking deep into our territory, sending Earth into a panic. Our new technology is useless. Our new ships burn like straw. All our careful preparations are wasted. Now, only one man, one crew, and the oldest starship in the fleet stand between the Earth and certain destruction: ISS CONSTITUTION

Source: Amazon.com

Stop me if you’d this one before: Humanity has survived an attack from robots aliens, we haven’t heard from them in a while, but then they return and only a rag tag group on a broken down soon to retire ship can save the species!

I do poke fun, but this is like the 5th book that I’ve read in a while that has this set up, I imagine it’s one that’s been around far longer than BSG, but not all of the implementations of the trope are as well done as Constitution.  There’s a couple obvious bread crumbs left for the next two books, but I’m satisfied with this one as a stand alone book.  There’s action, there’s adventure, there’s over the top political overtones that slap you in the face to be very very obvious!

Convention Fun

Hamilton Armageddon New Zealand #funtimes

Batmobile.

1938 Bugatti 57S Atlantic

Panda Poster

Masturbation – Male

Batmobile.

1938 Talbot-Lago T150 CSS.

Habits.

High all the time.

Blue Moon

So that’s why I was in a funny mood yesterday.

Batmobile.

1954 Kurtis Roadster.

Superman is such a dick.

Miss Fisher is quite the stylish bird.

Batmobile.

1930 Mercedes Benz SSK Count Trossi

Tiger

Jaffa

Mad Max in his car

Batman Logo

Don’t give a fuck

Wrongulator

mouth of hair

Parrot Dinner

KauKasus Mountain Village

Silk Line

eye brow dog

Panda Hump

Harley and Ivy

Mad Max Mayhem

Festival Downblouse

Very Fit Running Mom

RIP Roddy P (again)

Goddammit! I got so worked up about Meghan Trainor that my original They Live post got the iconic quote wrong!

“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubblegum.”

I put “KISS ass” and forgot about the bubble. A Freudian slip? Who knows. An easy mistake to make when it’s late, you have a migraine creeping up on you, you’re upset by the premature demise of a wrestler in a cult movie and you’re enraged by the mindless witterings of a popstrel.

Please forgive me.

Btw, note the books on the stand – Edgar Cayce On ESP and Two Of A Kind: The Hillside Stranglers.

RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper

They might live, but you don’t.

RIP Roddy Piper

“I came here to kiss ass and chew gum…and I’m all out of gum.”

Stressed boyfriend

TV Shananigans

I’ve had this Mitsubishi WD-65735 65-Inch 1080p DLP HDTV for several years (six? I think six, yes) and it’s always been a little janky, with some overscan issues and taking several seconds to change from input to input or channel to channel. It’s always been just good enough to not replace, always been a great TV, so the minor issues that it’s had haven’t really weighted on me. That being said, it was time to replace my $75 wal-mart sorta surround sound system with something that was actually dolby certified and could handle all the latest gizmos and formats that are floating around my living room (usb music, banana connectors, HMDI 4k, 3d, etc etc) I eventually settled on a Sony STR-DH740 7.2 Channel 4K AV Receiver:

This is a very very good receiver. It pushes the speakers I had previously with gusto and the hook up was as simple as plugging in the newly installed banana clip speaker wires and powering it all up. Excellent purchase and I was very happy with the results. For a while. I had it set up for about a week, and started to notice that after it was turned off it would make random clicking noises, the same exact type of noise it makes when it turns on or off, nothing too loud or exciting, but enough to wake you up if you’re trying to nap off a hangover on the couch. Around this time though, the wife and I started painting the living room from a nasty renters beige to a nice home-owners green, so it was moved to the middle of the room and leave it unplugged for a while. After we moved everything back to where it was going to live and we were sitting around the clicking was getting on my nerves, so I figured I’d go all out and try to figure out what the issues was.

A brief amount of google-fu led me no where, other than people talking about blown capacitors or fuses, and I was pretty sure that there wasn’t anything actually broken on it as it was performing very well. Remember I mentioned that my TV had some issues? Apparently it has something known as “HDMI CEC“, which allows the TV to control HDMI devices and HDMI devices to control the TV. Apparently some manufacturers didn’t use the industry spec though and the interaction between my Mitsubishi TV and my Sony Receiver was causing the receiver to turn on, then immediately turn back off every 30-90 seconds. The kicker was that turning this off on just the TV wasn’t enough, I had to turn it off on the receiver as well, and now my living room is click free.

Warhammer 40k Ultramarines

The Divergent Series: Insurgent review

Tris and Four race to unlock the truth about the past in this star-powered, action-packed second adventure from the DIVERGENT series.

Source: Amazon Instant Video

Man am I happy I waited for this to be out of the theaters, I would have been disappointed to have paid money to watch this completely uninteresting and formulaic film that had nary a moment of real dramatic tension.  Apparently the world is in chaos and teeters on the edge of oblivion, but it’s mostly about knowing glances, spoken love and hot people standing around looking hot with big future guns that they only shoot when absolutely necessary and usually with no blood.  Normally having hot people in a film can somewhat distract (and Shailene Woodley is smoking hot in Insurgent) but it wasn’t enough to capture my attention. Maybe I need more teen angst in my life to really grok this type of film, but really, my adult angst is enough.

Sling TV TakeBackTV: Old TV Company

youtu.be/k2AKQ-aTh7U

Google Cry Baby

Masturbation – Female

Tie Bombshell

fuck your bad vibes

Legends of the Dark Knight

I had this entire run at one point, it was pretty good

Curvey Ice Cream

The Silk

nightmare snack

Growler Guys tapped

Jump

Corn Dog

commuter

The Birth Of Patsy Stone

Back at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, Joanna Lumley finally revealed to the world the natural comedy genius that she’d been hiding behind her looks and cut glass accent. It was only on reaching middle age that she could finally cut loose, and with insane gusto, sent herself up on Ruby Wax’s (co writer of Ab Fab) show. The rest is history…

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