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It wasn't quite reading it... but during the..hm.. early 80's they did a rather brilliant cartoon series.. Ulysses 31 - Basically Odysseus voyage home.. IN SPACE. I liked the initial setup of Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth series.. but that swiftly went off the rails when he started putting the Aryn Rand influences in way too obviously. With the series finale basically being one big hand-wave deus ex machina movement in the space of a single chapter....

I can ensure to pretty much get stoned at any fantasy group because I don't like Lord of the Rings as a read. I'm impressed as hell on a lot of levels with it, on the details, the way the world was crafted, how it all connects, and the impression it made on the fantasy genre in the years since.. But as an actual enjoyable read.. meh. It's never been one that's struck me as good writing. But then, my parents got me started on the likes of Enid Blyton, C.S. Lewis, and J.T. Edson... maybe that affected me as a kid...

Had another mega-crappy nights sleep, and currently trying to fight through to something resembling proper consciousness of intelligent life... On a side-note, my sister's alienware laptop arrived last night and she went into paroxysms of joy over the "shiny lights". Got me to install Mass Effect on it and when it started up I swear she actually let out a giggled squee. Now I have to try to figure out where I saved the Bring Down the Sky cd key... Edit: Due to sleep deprived spelling and grammar.

I like the place.. I'm just not sure about the people inhabiting it...

One of those days where everything is just feeling.. flat. Trying to figure out if I have any motivation for the day.

I have to step back from the Steam sales at the moment.. while the credit card is being replaced I can't pick up anything new.. and so I'm going to avoid getting all "yes I want that in the sale!"

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I need say nothing else.

Transformers - Dark of the Moon. - Not bad, entertaining in its way. They pushed it a bit overlong in my mind. It's not much of a surprise but its another Transformers film where the robots are the background and plot-movement device for the key humans to take center stage. Actually, I was highly amused by Patrick Dempsey's role. I hadn't been paying attention that much to the trailers so didn't realise he was in it. The way they shoehorned in a new girlfriend for the story felt a little flat, but eh, what can you do. The robot-on-robot action was fun and destructive. Leonard Nimoy's voice..and the amount of spockisms they put in in slightly twisted format probably counts as geek nirvana. And Alan Tudyk's "Dutch" was downright brilliant. Shame he didn't get more screen time.

And so Sky News has acquired audio tapes... Apparently there are "worse allegations to come" according to Rebekah.... Rebekah Brooks speaks to News of the Word Staff

It is a brilliant film. Although somewhat spoiled by the amount of cgi manipulation that happened to have that shot of Jessica Alba in the shower. She was basically wearing lycra exercise pants and sports bra style clothing for it... Is it me or is there something slightly weird about having a "i won't do even partial nudity, but I have no objection to them putting a cgi partial nude based on me in the film for everyone to stare at". I have no problem on her stance of not being nude (well, not beyond any heterosexual guy who appreciates Jessica Alba..), but it seems a little twisted to reach the stage of still playing a character that ends up with a partial nude on film.. As long as its artificial..

Just to slip it in here.. The final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis today.. the last mission. And part of Obama's statement regarding it.. I'd feel rather better about it if he hadn't been cutting their budget over the last year or so..

I just find this amusing.. Swiss party makes dislike of PowerPoint a political issue

Woke from a dream, having serious discussions with the ex and sorting out various issues..and it just felt so damn satisfying..and then I woke up..and I have no idea what actually got said in the dream or why it felt so damn satisfying.. (and yes, it was conversation, not some sex dream. Perverts. I know how your gutter minds work...) The puppy kept pulling up the rug so he could gnaw/bite/claw at the platform base of the cat's climbing frame.... So I've ended up standing the hoover on the corner of the rug (which makes the puppy nervous) and he's leaving it all alone for now.. Cancelled my credit card. Which practically guarantees I'll stumble over it today at some point. Just have to remember not to make any steam purchases until the new one arrives... And tis being a fairly wet and grey day in the background, so we'll have to see how things develop. I think time calls for a fresh cuppa.

So now they've announced the new DCL for DA2.. Legacy.

Heh, I'm not complaining about that move. More it just startles me that they say gun costomization is rpg. Although I guess that threatens to derail into a "what is rp" in a game.

I think its more the "gun customization = automatic rpg'ness!" that makes me blink.

The next behind the world vid.. Behind 2027 - Combat Approach

I'm just not sure how to take all their "we've increased the rpg'ness.. we've put in gun costomisation again"....

Gee.. I never knew Murdoch could do such a great impression of Pontius Pilate...

Still cant find that credit card.. I swear, the only way it's going to turn up will be when I phone up and cancel it. Then the moment I turn round it'll show up somewhere...

It actually worked a lot like the trains here.. Although trying to make sure it's not looking back with rose-tinted specs and all.. They seemed to run a lot more efficiently when they were Nationalised. Which is bloody strange by anything run by the government... But the things get privatised.. and they seem to have both gone to hell.

Heh, I kind of had to put up with the reverse of that. A whole batch of Northeners who'd ended up at my university down south..and they spent a lot of time hassling the non-northeners about being effete slackers and class douchebags regardless of whether the people they hasled were from a good or bad background. I never could figure out why they all ended up down here if they hated the people so much, since there are some quite decent Universities up north. Cultural wars do seem to go back and forth a lot without much reason behind them...

Technically... The Protheans didn't build the Citadel. They found it , just like the Asari and all the rest did... But that's getting a little nit-picky.

Hm, having that rather annoying situation where I pulled out the credit card the other day for Steam.. and now I can't find the bloody thing anywhere..

And did you realise that actually was Boxleitner's real life wife? But no matter what happens, or how space opera it gets.. there's so many good lines and snappy dialogue coming out of various characters..