If you’ve never seen the Fox teevee show ‘Almost Human,’ you’re not alone. While the show’s ratings weren’t terrible, they weren’t overwhelming, either. Still the show did well enough to warrant getting renewed. Sadly, Fox has a history of prematurely killing good Sci-Fi shows (most famously, Firefly), and they’ve killed this one after one measly season. And there are a lot of unresolved plot lines, too, goddamn it. For those who don’t know, the show was about a cop (played by Karl Urban, the “new” Dr. McCoy in the Star Trek movies) with an android for a partner. The android is a older model that was decommissioned because their AI was just a little bit too human-like (so some of them were a tad unstable). Almost human, if you like.

So, anyhow, while you may not actually care about the show, there’s a petition to save it, and since we’re all about petitions for lost causes around here, I figured I’d pass the link along (they want you to put your name and address in, but obviously you can make something up – put your neighbor’s address in or something).

You’d think at the very least the SyFy Channel would be interested in it, but then you recall that they were bought by NBC Universal (who was purchased by Comcast) and they put “Pro” Wrestling on Friday Nights (not to mention changing Sci-Fi to the ridiculous “SyFy” fer chrissakes). So I don’t hold out much hope, but they have over 15,000 signatures so far, so, hey, who knows.

Otherwise, after a bit of a noisy night (thunder-wise) and early morning (no sleep for me or the terrified 90 pound dog sitting on my chest, panting), it’s turned sunny out there, and is actually supposed to get above 80° today (and then more t-storms later, no doubt). Who knows, maybe we’ll even open the pool this weekend. Or I could just fill up a wheelbarrow full of dollar bills and dump them in the woods.

Basically the same thing.