TV Chaos

Last night I watched "Life" and taped "Lost". I thought I had things covered until tonight when I discovered that Nicholas Brendon had been on last night's "Criminal Minds" (he's now listed somewhere as a recurring character which will be good for his piggy bank). Not only was he on but so was Mercedes McNab as the kidnap victim! I couldn't help but imagine an alternate storyline where the kidnapper actually kidnaps Harmony - wouldn't she have a bit of fun with him hmmm?

Tonight my CBS station went on the fritz - I could hear the soundtrack but the accompanying voicetrack (?) was muted so i missed out on half of "CSI" and all of "11th Hour" - I just hope it's all fixed by tomorrow night as that's when JM guest stars on "Numb3rs".

Friday the Thirteenth

Well today is Friday the 13th and, upon signing in at LJ, discovered there was a specific word for the fear of it: paraskavedekatriaphobia. I went to Wikipedia which states:

The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia,^[1][2] a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (φοβία) (meaning fear). This is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen, and is also known as friggatriskaidekaphobia. The term triskaidekaphobia was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953...According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.

Oh how I love to google and find answers so quickly compared to the old days of running to the library to look things up. A world of knowledge is truly at my fingertips. As more and more people are hooked up to the internet I think there may be a fundamental shift in our way of thinking and doing things, hopefully for the better.