The 1st Law of Thermodynampires

At brunch today, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series came up. On Meyer's website, it explains the idea for the series came to her in a dream...

Well, I've had my share of vampire dreams too, some of them quite amusing. This is one of my favorites, unfortunately, I don't think it would make for a best-selling YA series....

But I'll pitch it to you anyway....

The 1^st Law of Thermodynampires*

When 17-year-old Sadie** stumbles into a patch of freezing mist in an abandoned construction site, she finds herself transported to a realm untouched by time or entropy. She meets a pair of renegade physicists and soon learns that they've found a way to live outside the laws...of the physical universe!

Initially dazzled by their science, Sadie begins to realize that her hosts' hospitality isn't quite as generous as she thought. If all the data points towards a horrific hypothesis, can Sadie save herself from a chilling conclusion?

*I'm sure someone else has uttered/written/thought this before, but as far as Google knows, I just coined the term “thermodynampire!” Wohoo!

**Named for this guy, naturally.

***There'd be sequels, "The 2nd Law of Thermodynampires," "The 3rd Law..." etc.

One More....

I managed to leave off the best show from yesterday's post. Oops. I couldn't think of a suitable title.... Maybe you can?


UNTITLED PROJECT

So, you'd flip through the channels on the T.V. and come across a dramatic argument between Roman Senators, or wide-angle shots of a dying cowboy dragging himself through a dusty canyon, or space aliens subtly taking over the Earth while no one's paying attention. Or maybe it's not a show at all, but a commercial for a new hair care product, or a public service announcement. And maybe you're not watching T.V. but a movie preview, or a video on the web. Anyways, no matter what you're watching, at some point a cat would enter the scene, in the background or foreground, and then......

BOING!!!

Shows I Would Like to See

Tragically, these shows exist only in my dreams... I think...


1. Sparticle
-This movie would be a lot like the movie, Spartacus, except instead of slaves rebelling in Ancient Rome, it'd be about theoretical shadow particles trying to escape from a particle accelerator in Switzerland.

2. Dance of Power
-This reality show would force political hopefuls to learn complicated dance routines and then judge them on their abilities and grace. Home audiences would vote off the least coordinated, or least creative contestant each week. In a stunning twist on the season finale, the winning contestant would become the next president of the US. The masses would be entertained, and the art of dancing would finally be restored to its rightful status in the geo-political sphere.

3.Turing's Angels
-This sit-com would focus on a newly formed computer club at a nursing home. The club-members are eager to learn more about technology, but their only teacher is a one-legged con-woman who's never actually used a computer in her life. In a haze of befuddlement and confusion, the computer club accidentally creates a sophisticated A.I. that exhibits astounding superhuman intelligence. However, due to a complicated carbon-sensitive mechanism, the A.I. refuses to function when any being under the age of 84.657 is within 15 meters.