> I'm with Jason ... I thought most of the seasons currently being broadcast had already finished filming?
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Not really... that mostly holds for cable shows and shows that are intended as replacement programming. Your major network dramas and sitcoms are usually only filmed a couple of weeks ahead of air. Heroes, the Office, and the like are expected to run out by the new year, barring work starting again.
> Aside from that, so much of what I watch is in syndication anyway that it's hard for me to keep track of what's in reruns and what's original-run anymore. In my world, Jerry Orbach will never die, and he will always be Det. Lenny Briscoe on Law & Order.
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Well, then you won't notice much of a difference.
> As for writing, the fact that I have cable and Internet in my name now at my house should make things more convenient, since my housemate who had ordered it had moved out recently, so I was kind of living on borrowed time there. Aside from that, I find myself still paying off the expenses of my move in late August, not to mention a speeding ticket that jumped from $110 to $165 after the post office refused to deliver it to my address (they had the right address, but our local postmaster refuses to deliver any mail to an address unless the receiver has registered themselves as living at that address, which I've never had to do before).
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Yeah, my postman did something similar, insisting that nobody lived at my apartment and so returning all my mail. I had to go through a lot of channels to get it delivered again, and my building manager said she had never heard of anyone having to do that there before. I think the Postal guy was just covering his ass for a mistake on his part though... I mean, it's a freakin' apartment building. Surely finding new names on the mail going to that address is to be expected.
> I'm trying to experiment with my writing style a bit, by taking some of the techniques I took for a test drive in my fanfics and adapting them to my Parodyverse writing. I'm thinking of a point-of-view exploration of a bedroom scene, that focuses more on the spiritual than the physical, by exploring how the characters relate to one another through metaphor.
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Interesting. I look forward to it.
> And with Sasquatch, the key is not the photos, but the footprints, which remain the best evidence. Plaster casts with distinct dermal ridges remain from as early as the 1950s and '60s, made at a time when such fine details simply could not be forged by technology, much less duplicated across the country. Couple this with the width of the strides between many sets of documented tracks (far greater than humans could stretch their legs) and the depth of the footprints in hard soil (which would indicate a weight at least twice that of most humans), and Occam's razor would tend to indicate that a series of hoaxes is actually more implausible than the existence of such a creature. I'd recommend the works of Grover Krantz, former professor of anthropology (and head of the department) at Washington State University in Pullman. Dr. Krantz has since passed away, but when I was in grade school, I got to meet him. The man came to a logical conclusion based on the evidence, and he stuck to his guns, and I always respected that.
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A warning: I really don't believe in Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness monster, or so on. You're never going to convince me, and I'm just going to rain on your happy beliefs (while likely never convincing you). So you may want to just skip this next part.
Occam's razor would likely find that the existence of a never discovered large ape species on a continent with no record of supporting any ape species at all is pretty dubious. Add the fact that the sightings and evidence come from all over the country (these pictures are from Pennsylvania... not far from where I lived. Heavy hunting territory, and a lot of people tromping through those woods which are bordered on all sides by roads and civilization) and now you need a huge breeding population to account for them all.
Large mammal species are not easy to overlook. Every large mammal species that has been "discovered" in the last century was one that was simply a new classification of an unremarkable species for the territory... many of them commonly known (and even domesticated) by the people living in the area, but simply not yet identified in scientific circles.
To coexist in the same territory with man and yet never have left conclusive proof of their existence is more than just improbable.
