PAL edition now available; sorry for the delay folks.

I had no idea we had so many listeners in France.  Bienvenue, et merci mes amis!

Pretty sure it's off of "What am I doing in New Jersey?"

No shit brother.  Flying out to L.A. I flew Virgin America.  Great airline, had a great flight, and I'd fly them again in the future.  My one niggle is that unless you're flying business or first class, it's $25 to check a piece of luggage.  I've always checked my luggage, so I've never given much thought to the whole liquids thing.  Also on this trip I was planning on having a heavier bag coming home than going out, so I just packed my wash bag with everything, knowing I was going to check it anyway.

Getting on the plane there were several people who had their little carry on suitcases with them, the kind you can stow in the overhead bin.  I was only going to be away for about 10 days, and I'd only packed for 5.  I could have easily packed in a smaller carry-on, rather than my duffle, and saved myself $50 and at least an hour at the baggage claims.  I'm pretty sure I could have found shampoo when I landed.

I managed to come up with a few titles that seem to play a similar identity card to Body Snatchers.

Disturbing Behavior: Kids are getting brainwashed, and once you're brainwashed you want others to get brainwashed too.

The Faculty: Space slugs in your brain.

The Thing: Honorable mention since the Thing is only ever one person, and not trying to take over everyone at once.

I'm just reading the book now, but my first thought at that scene was "shouldn't Ford be a penguin now?"  I don't recall any mention of couches.  But yeah, if Kubrick could do the 2001 "stargate" sequence in 1968, why can't we top that in 2005?

Not sure; I've only been living there for about eight months, and it's been at least a decade since I've been to any of the theme parks.

Saw the last launch from too far away with too much cloud cover; going to try to find a better spot for Endeavour.  I live about an hour from the Cape; lemme know if you want to try to link up.

Indeed it is: link

Haven't been able to get the live feed for a while now.  I think whoever was broadcasting the feed gave up.  Guess we'll all have to wait to hear it next week.

Should be the right place; it was working a moment ago and I recognized Cloe. No idea why it's not working now.  Here's hoping we get an official post here or something.

I just stumbled across a series of podcasts Wil Wheaton did for his book Memories of the Future, in which he recounts his experiences making TNG.  In episode 12 The Big Goodbye, he recounts his conversation with Lawrence Tierney.  It's pretty much the same way the guys tell it, but coming from the man himself.

The rest of the episodes are equally good.  There are only 14 podcasts, covering the first 13 episodes of TNG, but still, interesting stuff.

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Chris: I love you man; that video was exactly what I was thinking of.

Back to the topic at hand, I would lean toward the Halo novels.  I haven't read any of them, but Halo has a pretty good story line to begin with; I think that is what makes for a good tie in novel.