Naah, I just thought I’d put in a title like that to grab a few eyeballs. The brother is going to the Munster Biarritz game this weekend in Cardiff. He got flights to London and is travelling up with the Brother in law for the game. Outrageous price to go to Manchester for the weekend – something in the range of €300, so the mammy has delayed her trip to visit the uncle until early june, where it’s a much more reasonable €140. I’m not going to the game, as there aren’t any spare tickets. If I’d known that Liz was in the US this week, I could have connived to get the ticked to Brian in New Zealand who promised to come all the way to see the game if he was guaranteed a ticket. That would have been silly.
I’m about half way through the evening course I’ve bene taking. It’s interesting. Some things I knew, some things I didn’t, but overall educational to have everything you need lined out in front of you. When I couple it with the Maths grinds for the niece, I’m busy in the evenings, and more than a bit tired. It will be a matter of time before I’m too tired to watch my favourite ‘Boston Legal’ on the telly. Maybe I should stop watching it pre-emptively; or even record it.
Mark, sorry for not getting in touch sooner. I’ve been distracted and just haven’t gotten back to you.
The perils of the food we eat
The Luther burger is something I had seen referred to a few times but I never pursued the definition with any vigour. To discover after the fact that it’s the genuine article makes my heart hurt. Scary, scary Homer Simpson like incidents involving six pounds of rich, creamery butter.
I’m Teal Green, in case you want to know
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Humourous look at 24
The Robservatory (good pun there by the creator), has a wonderful listing of the 24 rules of the ’24’ universe. Pretty much all true.
It really is annoying, they keep hitting the same problems again and again and again. You would think they could get to the solution without having to suffer through so many problems. Case in point, season 2, I think, and the Israeli agent gets dragged out of the SUV and beaten to death by the racist hicks just to add another two hours to the storyline (minimum). In a movie there wouldn’t be a twist like that because it kills the bloody story, and drags things out so much that you just want to shout at the TV to speed things up.
Of course I was watching the show on DVD, so it made all the delays more painful. I presume if it was on TV that the delays would not have felt so bad. I gave up after season 2, I just don’t have patience for a directed yet unfocused show.
Hang on a minute, my favourite shows over the last while have all be japanese anime, which has the distinction of regular bouts of aimlessness. The advantage is that they’re only 22 odd minutes each which makes them a lot easier to digest.
Anyone else got a tune-in?
AIR, which really touched me. Kanon is another show that got me.
Splinter Cell – I really should have read the manual
I didn’t know about the electronic disruptor until the last level. I’ll have to replay it now that I know about it, to see how much of a difference it makes.
Poor little pacman
It turns out that pacman sees dead people! I really enjoy the vgcats.
Penny haha
It’s roleplaying. It’s Penny Arcade. I laugh (you may not be able to view this directly.
Dancing the Weinerschnitzel waltz
Anyone, anyone?
Waiting for a Darwinia
I just love the retro look of Darwinia I’ve pre-ordered it on steam, but can’t wait for it to come out, so I’ve been looking for illicit copies of it. I thought I had one, but it turns out to have been released as a ‘Don’t steal our game‘ exercise. Even then, it’s just increased my desire to have the game. The interation model has been changed in the 1.3 version – you can use either gestures or an icon based environment. I use the gestures when I’ve got a mouse, the Icons when I’m on the touchpad of the laptop. It works quite well providing I tweak the configuration file, putting RenderLandscapeMode = 1 (corrected 2005-12-20) into the settings.txt file. Otherwise I get a crash in iglicd32.dll when you enter the game. I’ll probably have to apply this to the game once it’s released.
Correction 2005-12-20 – the entry should read RenderLandscapeMode = 1
Rabo Direct / Truth In Advertising
I was recently reintroduced to the mini-movie ‘Truth In Advertising‘, which is really funny and reminds me that the current batch of Rabo Direct ads are based on it. I just didn’t make the connection until someone reminded me of it.