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Sci Fi = SyFy … Really Now?

Sometimes the geek in me escapes (which explains this totally non garden or food related post) and I’ll put down the garden magazines and read science fiction novels and Wired Magazine, peruse BoingBoing, watch old Star Treks, bore people not into science stuff, tell nerdy jokes, and even turn on the Sci Fi Channel. Stuff like that.

So, when I read that NBC had a “New Coke” moment and had renamed Sci Fi Channel to SyFy, I broke out in laughter. Surely they jest. Was this an April Fool’s joke that got out early? Change the name if you insist, but choose something that doesn’t sound like a disease.

SciFi becomes SyFy

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Island Caretaker

This looks like the job for me … and about a million other people!

Hamilton Island

The website for The Island Reef Job crashed when hundreds of thousands of freezing cold people wanted to apply for a job in the sun! While this is a publicity stunt, the job does appear to be real and some lucky individual wil be spending 6 months on the island.

The Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef is a newly created position. There are a few minor tasks that need to be taken care of, but the most important duty is to report back to Tourism Queensland (and the world) and let us know what’s taking place on the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef.

Other duties include:

  1. Explore and report back
  2. Clean the pool
  3. Feed the fish
  4. Collect the mail

I think I could handle it.

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