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Happy B-day Sarg. Hm, life lesson learned this weekend : Eating a large indian curry on the Saturday, followed by some home-cooked traditional Mexican tortillas and such with tequila on the sunday.. does not make for a happy intestinal system on the Monday...

My sleep patterns over the weekend got disrupted. Or at least, I pretty much was awake for most of the weekend with minimal sleep. Therefore I'm hoping I'll make it through a Monday and manage to get some rest at an appropriate time at the end of the day...

Machete Kills! Full of that gloriously silly grindhouse style experience. Gore, disjointed racism in a way to make fun of, silly violence, excuses to do really silly things.. Killer Hookers with Machine-Gun Jubblies, and.. "Machete don't tweet!" That and "Put on your 3d Glasses Now!" flashing on the screen when Amber Heard tries to seduce Machete. Also, the trailer shown for "Machete Kills Again... In Spaaaace!"

Got a bit annoyed with the Corrupted Bothrium Beast after giving it a go, logged off for a break. It's got a super powerful life-draining "Extract" power that you have to disrupt, but somehow it can kick it back in quicker then your disrupt power becomes available. Combine that with the summoning tentacles which it can then zap to self-heal makes it rather annoying. I'd hit it once, it would start the Extract.. I'd disrupt it, hit it a 2nd time, have to run over to kill a tentacle it summoned before it could use it to self-heal, start to run back, and it would startup Extracting again, which kills me before my Jolt to disrupt it became active again. Edit: And then of course, after I've bitched about it, I go back and it dies within moments. Oy vey.

No and it's often a strong contributor. If I need to be social and don't want to go to a club, I go to danceclasses, yoga or some group activity thing. It's very important to remember being around people and especially the opposite sex. Things that really help with having a get-out social life - disposable funds to pay for travel to and from locations, and to gain entry into clubs, pubs, dance classes, etc. I know I have some slight issue because I pretty much grew up with that core group of friends through school, but where I've been at home looking after mom the last decade I haven't really encountered many "new" people. While that core group have all gotten jobs where they meet new people, are out doing various hobbies that have expanded their circles of friends, and the natural evolution of doing "other stuff". Thus what used to be meeting up a couple of times a week has turned into more like once a month or more.. Heh. Half the people I know nowadays are in other countries that I've only chatted to via the internet. If I'm not careful most weeks, the only people I talk to verbally are family members, the pharmacist when I'm picking up mom's prescriptions, possibly tellers at the supermarket when doing the groceries, and the occasional person on "work-related" matters whose trying to help me get my cv in order.

Hans Zimmer Feels Horrible Over the Braaaaahms!

Apparently there was a lot more stuff filmed about Malekith, and Christopher Eccleston has talked about there were more elements to his background, motivations and what he was doing that fleshed him out beyond the two dimensional character. Unfortunately, that got hit by the editors in favour of other stuff when they wanted to cut down the length of the film. So who knows, it might turn up on the dvd in 6 months....

Out of curiousity I took my SI to Oricron. Looks somewhat interesting. However, one thing I did note : Being a character who has mods that are a mix of level 58 , 61 & one piece of gear at 69.. Every single character I looked at was wearing complete sets of cartel gear modded up to 72 and above. That was very.. "Am I not meant to be here yet??" kind of feeling..

The French military kicks ass.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_involving_France_in_modern_history On a more historical basis, the French military always used to be pretty damn good. It's only in this last century that they developed the reputation of being cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

On a semi-related note, the first time I had memory blank was a night out that - I am told by friends - involved 13 tequila shots, and someone finding it amusing to slip a rum shot at the end. I have one clear memory of checking my watch and seeing it being 22:13 as they were discussing leaving the pub we were at and moving elsewhere, the next memory I have was being woken up a little after 0700 by annoyed parents pointing out I had to go in to work that very sunday....

Bruce, for various reasons I won't go into now, some years back I spent a month with a nice supply of tequila bottles at the bottom of the bed. Yes, it lets you get to sleep. But overall, it's just a wee bit expensive on both the wallet and the self-respect when you do it day in day out....

Didn't have the best of nights rest, was still trying to get to sleep when 4am rolled around. Seem to have abit of a headache kicking in as lunch passes, and it's miserable grey weather with sleeting rain hammering on the windows. Still, apparently some friends are wanting to do a Machete double-bill along with tequila and food at some point in the weekend, so that could be entertaining.

This is how the British decided to invade most of the world. "Oh, I was in the mood for a bit of plunder and pillaging and infrastructure destruction, what what?" But we always build them back up after, because it's just such jolly fun..

Hm, didn't it used to be one of the mystery special ingredients you needed for the magenta crystal recipes? Although I vaguely remember hearing something about it being used for healing or some such, but there was a glitch or exploit of people using it in PvP, so it got changed. Puttered around some tonight on TOR, bouncing between toons and working on crafting skills and wotnot, did some of Taris with my Commando, some space missions with my Agent, and even hit Ilum with my Juggernaut for a short run along.

Well it was my first look at the Makeb daily/weekly stuff. Learning experience....

The world is never that nice to me. Anything with marmite is a long way from nice. Closer to the spawn of the devil pits of politicians.

Hm, okay, after having returned to Makeb with my SI, I have to say.. Stage 2: Dissonance Wave is a major freaking drag. It's not a challenging one, it's just bloody annoying. Run over here, have multiple objects which involve you moving back and forth a lot. Then backtrack across half the map to go to this point, where you repeat everything from point A, just with added things to make you backtrack again. Travel back across the map you've already crossed twice to reach location C. Repeat the same process, with a few more difficulties, and having to run around once more, going in circles over where you've already travelled.

Buzzfeed - The Most British Things That Have Ever Happened

Not so much a new scientific discovery, as technical engineering at work,, Lockheed developing new Hypersonic Spy Plane

It is an mmo, but from the start they insisted that you could pretty much do all story arcs within the game as solo or as group. They've got plenty of group specific stuff anyway, but to create story lines that are full of solo stuff (I mean seriously, where would there be fun in grouping up to do the macrobinocular search or digging up the dread seeds?), then that require you to have a group to finish is a bit of a jarring thing.

"So in Las Vegas, you can see signs for "We can get a hooker to your room in 25 minutes", but it still takes 30 minutes for a pizza to get delivered... So to my mind, this says that if you had the resources.. you could just get the hooker to pick up the pizza on the way. Of course, you still have to choose your own toppings.."

The Orion plans don't exclude it. But it's pretty much a problem throughout Nasa. Cost overruns, project management that gets massive delays, political shenanigans. Obama laying out great speeches of "We're going to go to Mars" and then slashing NASA's budget even more. If you can't get your house in order in the first place, your chance of getting to Mars in a decade doesn't really feel that good to me.

Clean up the bureaucracy. While I'm impressed with a lot that NASA does, pretty much most things I read about things they do at the moment are seriously wrapped up in red-tape, bureaucratic coverings, and cost overruns.

So when their budget is slashed, and they're buried in red-tape, they're still making plans to get out there... MSN - Innovation - Orion ; Nasa's Plans to Land Men on Mars

Yeah, the main trouble of that is I spend most of my time killing the continuous swarm of 4 or 5 droids that are turning up to help heal / recharge him, rather then actually fighting him. If I take time to hit him more then twice, there's four droids respawned.