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Tintin. Lots of amusing little touches. The opening scene has Tintin getting his picture drawn by a street artist. As the camera pans around, all of the artists previous work is on a board in the background - all the exact illustrations of a horde of recognisable characters from the original books. Then when the artist does the "i think i've captured your essence" and turns the sketch around... it's Tintin from the books.

I think that we can agree that Italian hobos eat better than English royalty. There's a reason the only popular brit plate its fish and chips. Historically speaking, England was the high cuisine capital of the known world (at least the European part) a few centuries ago. The idea that the UK only produces crap food is pretty much recent, or at least just over the last century. Pretty much the industrial revolution and the shift to certain type of foods which are generally considered heavy/greasy to the folks from the continent..

Heh, what I'm finding as twistedly humerous, is that when I attempt to login to the SWTOR website.. I get this message : "This page is not available. This may be because you are not currently logged in."

And there's a whole slew of reviews on Saints Row the Third out now. PC Gamer (UK) PlanetXBox360 GameInformer IGN GamesRadar

They're doing a mass beta weekend for pretty much everyone who's had an account before november isn't it? And a slew of game sites around the world are organising stuff to give away codes for other beta testing times over the next month. So I think pretty much everybody who is actually interested is going to be able to get some basic look at the beta version of the game... Beta Test Weekend

All the numerologists and such are having a happy. Since we had 11 minutes past the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of the current century. so 11:11 of 11/11/11.

Machete must always be watched.

On the semi-related note (and yes, I know it's from a Guardian news article so pinch of salt and all..) Corporate Executives test the same as commited Psychopaths

This is one of those mornings I'm really getting annoyed with my sister. More and more she's running late to get into work, which means she's just grabbing time to feed the dogs and stopped taking them out for morning walks or even just a quick run around the garden. Which means the alsatian is even more hyper, so I can't get a morning cup of tea without having to deal with him. I've lost an hour or so so far with various things with him. It's not fair to the puppy to ignore him or shut him up just so i can get on with work an assorted chores, especially if she's not walking him as much. Trying to find that balance of keeping him occupied/un-bored/somewhat tired while still managing to get moments for myself to work and relax..

So to follow with a more recognisable pop-culture reference...

Not a Doctor Who fan then...

Oy vey. Part of me thinks this has to be a joke. Part of me wouldn't be surprised if it is true. Armed Robbers steal Copies of COD Modern Warfare 3

So an old friend of the family turned up to surprise visit us. Which highlighted the fact we don't get enough visitors, so the puppy goes nuts and won't shut up, which makes the spaniel get overexcited and she joins in. Maybe I should start asking people to turn up randomly just to get him used to strangers coming through the door and into the house. When I manage to get them somewhat settled and away from the guest, I then find that at some point in the day the pup had dug a rather impressive hole in the middle of the lawn.

If Game of Thrones was an old school crpg... And yes, potential spoilers for those who haven't read the books or seen the tv show yet...

Just have to remember Wheaton's Law - "Don't be a ****"

Urf. Had something like 3 or 4 hours sleep with assorted wakings up through the early hours of the morning. It's kind of grim and overcaste, I've got one of those headaches sliding a spike in, kind of really wish I didn't have to get up when the alarm went this morning... and the puppy just spent five minutes honking a rubber chicken near my ear. So I've distracted him with a rawhide chew, that gives me some momentary peace while I juggle ideas around for a report addendum. Hm, and i've got an opticians appointement later this afternoon. Have to remember that.

Feeling the urge to hunt someone down and kill them.. so I'm reinstalling Hitman Bloodmoney and while away an hour or three on that this evening as life allows..

Small fireworks celebration with friends. Found out one of them had proposed to his gf. And made the local news doing so, or at least, BBC solent radio. Apparently a proposal whilst dressed as a bear (for camouflage so she didn't see him coming) and with a 60+ choir scattered around the crowd outside the university library, waiting to burst into song, class as local interest...

Eh, had my sister throw a bit of a hissy because her car battery is flat and she's got a bunch of things to do. She has this habit of jumping on you as you step in the door , insisting you help because she has to be somewhere at x time, then if you help her, she just idles along then ends up leaving late anyway because she's juggling other things. So been trying to keep uninvolved in all that. Killing my time on this grey and windy 5th of November afternoon poking around at various sci-fi rpgs, and constructing a history and galactic map - a little bit of mental exercise, throwing in the mix of hard science and space opera, tannhauser discontinuities for fixed "gate" jumps - each discontinuity linked to another, allowing two way travel between - different systems having a different number of said discontinuities - thereby forming colonisation patterns. So different groups might be astronomically close and mixed up, but if they don't share the "gates", they'll never meet. Heh, not sure why I got wrapped up in that.. something caught my mind on one small thing, and then it just..opened up as I poked at it and I've ended up producing that all half-sketched out with assorted notes to go with it.. Maybe I should worry that I ended up checking the astronomy of it all of star types, planetary conditions and wotnot to go with it...

Quote for the day: "If you identified with the kids from The Breakfast Club when it came out, you're now much closer to the age of Principal Vernon." And to add further insult to the aged.. "Karate Kid's Ralph Macchio has turned 50 today."

People seem to be hitting between 5 and 10 hours on the dlc...

The internet weighs as much as a strawberry

I haven't got anything new to play, but I'm pondering on re-installing Hitman Bloodmoney to see if I can still achieve all those Silent Assassin ratings...