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mrspollifax ([personal profile] mrspollifax) wrote2008-10-09 04:07 pm

I need Thor to come save me from my disorganized computer

Okay. So I was just poking around on my hard drive, trying to find a text file that has a post that I wrote half of yesterday and wanted to finish. It was really clever and witty! It would have impressed you all!

Actually, no. It had fannish questions to which I need answers and a lot of outrageous flattery so that you all would feel loved and therefore come give me answers.

I can't find it, but that's really not important.


While I was hunting, I ran across a file from a while ago in which I was making a brainstorming sort of list, trying to figure out a non-hackneyed reason to get our General Jack from Washington to some other planet.

The list never really got very far, and I saved it in a hurry, obviously, because the filename is one of those auto-generated Microsoft Word titles where it steals the first several words from the file and uses them as the title.

My completely innocent file is titled 'Stupid and overused ways to get Jack off'.

*facepalm*

*giggles to death*

Today, my sense of humor is a couple of decades younger than my body.

I also include the really lame list for your entertainment:

Stupid and overused ways to get Jack off-world post-season 8

1) Thor
2) Aliens want to give him presents
3) Aliens want to kidnap him!
4) Jonas! (actually, is that overused?)
5) THOR!
6) OMG, Ancient tech
7) Party! At Thor's place!
8) This is really, really dumb. Or wait, maybe that's me. Crud.

I wasn't kidding, it didn't get very far.

Anyway. Here's what I want to know: does Satterfield really not have a canon first name? Not anywhere? Not, like, an interview or a post someone made on Gateworld or ... you know, anything? Fannish consensus? Seriously, I always thought her first name was Grace. Clearly I just invented that wildly - I assume by conflating the character's name with the actor's.

I hate giving recurring characters first names. It's enough to make me not use a character, which in this case would make me abandon the fic. Somebody needs to fix this. Like right now. =)


(Now edited for much better icon!)

Also ETA: Any aggravation evident in the above list is totally directed at my own brain and not at anyone who has used Thor as an excuse for any activities whatsoever. *g*

[identity profile] supplyship.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Stupid and overused ways to get Jack off

Hee hee hee! *iz twelve*

Hmm. I ran through the transcript of "Proving Ground" and they only ever call her "Satterfield". For some reason though, I always thought her first name was Emily. I'm sure I probably read that in fic and it just stuck.

Wait. Are we coming up with bad reasons for Jack going off world or plausible ones?

[identity profile] mrspollifax.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I am twelve right there with you. And none of the reference sites have a first name for her, so I think I'm dooooomed.

Wait. Are we coming up with bad reasons for Jack going off world or plausible ones?

Hey, either way works for me! [livejournal.com profile] a_loquita was bored at work. I posted my list to give her something to do. ;)

[identity profile] a-loquita.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Let's keep this trend up, giving me something to do while I'm bored!!! Thank you! Because I watched window washers 40-some floors up for far too long today and I don't want to resort to wanting one of them to fall just so I am entertained. It doesn't take much, I'm not even at 12, I'm more like 9 or 10! Terrible. *hangs head*

[identity profile] mrspollifax.livejournal.com 2008-10-10 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
So instead of wishing window-washers to die, you prod me to post the contents of files that will prove to the world that I actually am insane?!? ;)
Edited 2008-10-10 00:02 (UTC)

[identity profile] a-loquita.livejournal.com 2008-10-10 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Um, maaaybeeee....

[identity profile] mrspollifax.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
PS - also, you are very sweet to have gone through the transcript! I did at least check the character bios on several sites before I threw up my hands in despair. =D

[identity profile] a-loquita.livejournal.com 2008-10-09 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been meaning to say that your crazy and my boredom probably means that your company is stealing my company's business! Why can't we just average out?!? Life would be so much better for both of us :)

[identity profile] supplyship.livejournal.com 2008-10-10 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, maybe! We steal a lot of business. :D (I work for IBM)

Seriously though, I hate 4th Quarter.

[identity profile] a-loquita.livejournal.com 2008-10-10 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
IBM... Um, OK, maybe not :)