Sorry kids, I know what was being attempted. Unfortunately it just killed. The pacing was all over the place. There were too many bad guys. The character development was surreal.
Just too much fun
In the vein of utter an total enjoyment. Last night was Eurovision night – more fun than a room full of exploding baby tigers. Seriously, our country needs to get it’s act together for this, as last place is an utter embarrassment (5 points). Ireland will rise again! Let’s see… we don’t have any death metal, and our ability to choose anything even slightly good has been officially eliminated – seriously, vox populi does not work.
On the plus side, we are officially rid of our flatmate on Thursday. I have a bottle of Chopin, a bottle of Tanqueray and a bottle of Noily Pratt. Well, maybe half a bottle of Chopin by the following weekend – it really is scrummy. It’s a martuni party, and at the strength I make them – it’s martuni’s for everyone.
Monday is the last round of viewings for the apartment,but unless something irrational happens, we’ve already made our decision.
Well, it’s 7am, I’ve been awake since before 6. I’m supposed to be seeing the third spiderman movie tonight. all good!
Assassination is probably too nice a word
Here I am trying to maintain a system that was originally ‘designed’ by an idiot. Dates are stored using unix timestamps. When there is even the slightest kerfuffle involving the timezone everything gets horked as all the code referencing the dates uses the local time to determine when things happen. Blargh!
While I don’t appreciate the deliberate heart string pulling
Forrest Gump is a good movie. I hate movies that make me cringe, this one doesn’t. It is a carefully crafted collection of ups and downs designed at the end to make me feel more happy than sad. I do wish there could be more movies that end on the proper inflection. Sad is more likely than happy, and reality is a drug best served on it’s own.
Grumpy? not really, just watching another of those convincing movies…
For a text mode browser links is pretty useful
How can you tell if your website is usable by anyone? Well one of the simplest ways is to use a text mode browser. It gives you a good idea as to how easy it is to navigate without having to spend the effort getting in a UI designer at infinity$/hour just to tell you that your links should be purple, and not help you in the least bit.
links is a pretty damned good text mode browser. It makes it obvious if you’ve made a mess of the UI for navigating, which is always a good thing. It makes it obvious when you’ve forgotten to put the bloody ALT tags into all your images – like a good designer should. Spacer gifs are evil and must be stopped 🙂
Electric Magnolia
Soooo tired. Long weekend but so much fun. Props to Tara for another great party.
60 shades of pretty
It’s really cute looking, it’s called Trusty Bell: Chopins Dream, and there’s a trailer available through Gametrailers.
Argh, what a load of pussies
I’m sorry, in the last week I’ve heard ‘terrorist leaving out his recycling’ and ‘bag of sand is a bomb’. People could you try to get some effing focus here. The chances of it being a terrorist attack are slim at best. Look at the track record – you’ve been walking around for the past ~20 years and you’ve never seen a terrorist attack in person; what makes you think that it’s going to suddenly jump up and bite you on the ass. London had for many years lived under the spectre of IRA attacks, yet they still managed to do their business most of the time (barring the occasionally delayed train due to a suspect device). Honestly, tiny, piddly city in the US that thinks they’re so important – eh, no, you’re not. Get over yourself.
She, the ultimate weapon
Garm, but the lack of detail about what is happening in the overall story is scary. Because of the lack of global context the story is made more the sadder.
It suffers from the standard syndrome of most shows… we don’t know when we’re going to end, and as such, we’ll just keep stringing along the watchers until the end of the series.
Of all the characters in the show, I feel that Chise is the saddest. We’re not told why she underwent the program to make her into the ultimate weapon, so we can only guess. Throughout the makeup/breakup with Shuji, all we get are disjointed experiences from the front, the end of which is the ultimate destruction of the world.
I would have liked to have seen the other side of the story. What caused it, why it happened. I’m just an analytic nerd.
little (and big) grey cars in the rain
Jesus H christ on a stick! would you people please turn on your lights when you are driving in the rain. You are about as visible as a snowball in a snowstorm when it’s raining. Take a grey car, add grey clouds and a greyed road coutesy of the grey rain. You think you could possibly be more invisible?
This rant was brought to you by the rain on the N7 coming back into the city. I never realized there were so many grey/silver cars.