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What’s a computer geek to do when his favorite show is canceled? Take some hi-tech action!
That’s what David Simerly, a programmer at Apple Computer, Cupertino, Calif., chose to do. While searching Web message boards for fellow aficio nados of his favorite, recently axed show, Far scape, he came across a suggestion that disgruntled fans create a commercial for the Sci-Fi Channel program.
“I had a digital camcorder and a Mac and Final Cut Pro editing software, so I had all the equipment to put the video together,” he said.
The Internet-spawned “Save Farscape” movement organized rallies to save the show, which is about an American astronaut stranded on a spaceship with escaped alien prisoners.
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