Seeing that I have some sort of weird fetish about doing double blinded experiments, I did a test on 4 brands of orange juice from the store across the road.

At first I was planning to do this experiment like I usually do them, but during the start of testing something weird happened.

In the first test one of the juices got a score of 6 (1-10) but in the subsequent tests got 2.5 and 3. The reason for this is “The orange juice deviation”, a law of nature that states that “If you drink two different types of orange juice in a short time span, the second one will taste fucking weird”.

I tried rinsing with water between each test, but that did not help, so I had to do the testing another way to avoid interference between the different samples.

So to avoid the taste testing being influenced by the previous one, I drank 24 cups of orange juice over the course of 3 days with a minimum of 30 minute delay between tests. Thanks to my GF Stacy for helping with the blinding (she suspected it was all a ploy to make her get me juice).

TEST 2 DATA SET
1	lerum		6
2	sunniva		6.5
3	first price	7
4	sunniva		8
5	first price	6.5
6	first price	6.5
7	first price	7.5
8	eldorado	5.5
9	sunniva		7.5
10	first price	7.5
11	lerum		7
12	first price	7
13	lerum		6.5
14	sunniva		7
15	lerum		8
16	eldorado	6.5
17	lerum		8
18	sunniva		8
19	eldorado	6
20	lerum		6
21	lerum		7
22	eldorado	7
23	sunniva		8
24	sunniva		7.5

Test 1 – drinking 4 glasses of randomized juice.

Test 2 – drinking 1 glass of random juice.

So what’s the conclusion?

I’ve always been buying the Eldorado juice, however I clearly think Sunniva is the best (highest score in both tests). however the 1 Liter pack of Sunniva is almost twice the cost of the 2 Liter pack of First Price which is a very cheap brand. Despite that First Price did came in second and who doesn’t love a juice with a small standard deviation?

The joy comes from the fact that I moderately hate SGU, as I may have mentioned before.

To summarize quickly: SGU has NONE of the characteristics of SG1 or Atlantis which I love immensely. None of the Star gate humor, none of the great friendships and cooperation between characters, and science fiction driven stories with lots of adventure, with the exception of Eli, I pretty much disliked everyone of the SGU characters, and if I wanted to watch constant fighting I would watch one of the countless other “reality” shows.

I don’t mind change, but what was the point of calling the show Stargate when it was just a drama series in space which tried (and failed) at copying elements from Battlestar Galatica, Reality television and Lost. If it had been called “Alien ship drama”, I would not have minded it at all, I just would not have watched it, along with lots of other people, which leads me to the proposition that the only reason to append the Star Gate name to SGU was to trick people into watching a totally unrelated show.

I’m also still bitter for the fact that Stargate Atlantis was canceled, and THIS was what we got instead.. This seems to be a common phenomena of SG1/SGA fans, even to the point where Brad Wright actually blames SG-1/SGA fans for hurting SGU. I somehow doubt the blogs and forums where people have been critical of SGU was the cause of the huge and constant drop in viewers. Personally I count at least 20 science fiction shows that I LOVE.. And I only hate a single one (guess which). There are just no redeeming elements of SGU (except the mere fact that it takes place on a space ship).

The sadness comes out of sympathy, while I personally don’t like seeing the Stargate name dragged through the mud, there are (believe it or not) a lot of people that actually love SGU, however I don’t think any of the sci-fi geeks I know were particularly sad to see it go.

I do feel for all you guys who really liked it, cause like most/all sci-fi fans I know all to well how much it sucks when a show you like gets canceled. And there are after all far worse crap on TV than SGU, Sy-fy keeps airing Ghost Hunters, and Oprah even got her own channel.

In conclusion, I feel a little bad about my Schadenfreude, after all why should I care about what other people watch? I don’t really,. I”m just disappointed in that SGU for me and many others did not live up to the previous shows (or any sci-fi show for that matter), and that it reduces the average quality of the Stargate franchise.

This picture looks like something made by Ivo Caprino (Norwegian puppeteer).

I therefor propose this plan to move Norway to a better location, I might seem like lots of work, but if everyone pitch in I’m sure we could move it before next summer.

Suggestion 1:

By using some leftover parts of Finnmark, we could fit perfectly as Portugal’s new neighbor, and the Bay of Biscay would make an excellent lake. This option is also the easiest since we don’t have to move Norway very far.

Suggestion 2:

Putting Norway just outside California might be a good location, and a bridge between Trondheim and Los Angeles would make for a nice 4 hour car trip.. But we would have to move Norway around Cape Horn, so it would be a lot more work than moving to Portugal.. But it would probably be worth it.

I however noticed some rather comical translations / bizarre statements on many of the item descriptions

1. “Provide ultra comfortable touch feeling for your grapping” -Ipod cover
2. “The USB wire is long enough for you” -Keyboard
3. “It is comfortable to use and it is hard for you to feel tired” -Same Keyboard
4. “.. makes it resistant to dirty” -Other Keyboard
5. “It is convenient for you to write some secret to friends and send them out into the black light to embarrass yourself” -Invisible ink pen
6. “Internet & multimedia make you feel more comfortable” -Yet anohter Keyboard
7. “No need to be afrad of falling people down” -Wii wireless bar
8. “Power to the music with a car charger adapter…” - Ninteno DS car charger
9. “The change of LED color will be subject to the temperature of water, which is more modern and humanistic“ –Shower Head
10. “It can remind you when there is a call coming and avoid much trouble” -Key chain phone sensor
11. “Suitable for home maintenance, outdoor activities, hiking, map reading, night fishing, night flying, camping, sailing, caving, hunting, etc.” -Tiny key chain led flashlight
12. “No need to drive” -Webcam
13. “Fantastic gift for your female friends” -Comb
14. “Completely inoffensive to men and pets” -Mosquito repellent
15. “These professional scissors cut straight and accurately in no time with just the press of a button“ – Scissors
16. “Chip-wide design, not more secure smooth hand injury” -Motherboard POST card
17. “Simply insert a photo into the slot on the top and be a plump lady at once” -Wonder Woman photo holder

source: vg.no (norweian newspaper)

Heisenberg went for a drive and got stopped by a traffic cop. The cop asked, “Do you know how fast you were going?” Heisenberg replied, “No, but I know where I am.”

Chuck is a action comedy (more comedy than action) series about a computer nerd who gets a big database of government secrets uploaded into his brain. He works at Nerd Herd (the support department) of a local electronics retailer who has lots of interesting and weird characters.

After getting the database put in his head, he invoulentarily becomes a “spy” working with two operatives from the NSA and CIA.

The series is filled with humor, interesting situations and is really fun to watch. The series started in 2007, and season 2 just finished. Have only watched the first season yet.

I love all of the nerd humor in the show

• Chuck speaks klingon
• Chuck has a sandworm costume (from Dune)
• A ninja tries to steal Chuck’s computer
• Chuck needs bandages after playing to much Call of Duty
• Chuck installs Linux
• etc..

And I cant wait for the episode called “Chuck Versus the Delorean”