Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:56:42 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
 WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "Sci Fi Channel Changes Its Name To A Typo"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> http://io9.com/5170447/sci-fi-channel-changes-its-name-to-a-typo
>
> It's becoming more and more a living example of Sturgeon's Law.

Yep.  At least they've set the bar pretty low for anyone attempting to
follow their tagline.

So, will the "siffy" channel have any better stuff on it than the
"skiffy" channel did?  Or should I continue work on my Perl script for
generating "made for skiffy" movies?  The one where you pick a (usually
mythological) beast, and a location, and it adds graduate students,
mercenaries, greedy businessmen and/or bumbling or corrupt government
bureaucrats, mixes with a light vinagarette of poorly-understood 4th
grade science, and some indigestible chunks of Green-party propaganda
for the disaster of the month, and prints out the script, no muss, fuss
or bother?

I expect such hits as:

"Crack Fairies"

"Kraken, Hugs From the Deep"

"Cupid, The Lust Archer"  (for sweeps week)

"Chronos -- Time's Up!"

"Rug Rats!!!

"The Thing That Breathed CO2"

"Trash Monster 90210"

Maybe it's time for WSFA to start a channel?  We could put on some real
SF shows.  The way technology is advancing, we'll be able to do
something at least as good as Tron using a laptop in the next couple of
years...in a reasonable time frame (you *could* do it today if you have
some patience), and given how fast we move, starting now should get the
timing right.  By the time we've got programming, the web will be fast
enough that we can just run it off the web page with good quality and
responsiveness for about $10/month.  Of course, by then, if your
programs aren't immersive virtual reality experiences, you'll be in the
"retro" section of the web...

-- Mike B.
--
"TV is a medium because it is neither rare or well done."

                                               -- Ernie Kovacs