I came home yesterday to find the council marking the pavement behind my Allocated Parking Space(TM) with yellow paint. They’d done the same down the street.
What are they up to? On a related note, why are half the roads in Norwich currently, and somewhat suddenly, being resurfaced?
That’s right. I bought a music download. OK, so technically, I’ve done this before (Virgin Media gave me £50 credit at Music Choice), but that doesn’t count as it wasn’t my money.
And what did I buy? This:
Jeff Goldblum only seems to fit a role if he’s playing a slightly strange scientist. In The Fly, he’s a physicist who develops a teleportation device. Having met a journalist who initially wants a story, but eventually falls in love with him, he manages to work out how to successfully transport living matter. Without turning it inside-out like the baboon it didn’t work on…
He later gets drunk having jumped to conclusions about his new girlfriend’s relationship with her boss, and decides to try his telepods on himself. Success! Only he accidently fuses his DNA with that of a fly also in the telepod.
Over the coming weeks he gradually becomes more and more fly-like, eventually being able to walk on walls and vomit acid with which to digest his food. He ends up a monster, with a terrible theory on how to resolve the problem.
So these days, some of the effects (particularly later in the film when he’s more fly and less man) are rubbish, but the film remains amazing. And, for once, it’s far better than the original film it is (pretty loosely, really) based on.
Verdict: 4/5
Lenovo, them folks what make the ThinkPads these days, are about to release their own machine into the EeePC/Aspire One/MSI Wind/HP Compaq 2133 region of the mini laptop markets.
The IdeaPad S9 and S10 have slightly higher specs than the Wind, but with similar price tags. All these netbooks can only be a good thing for the prices of the things, yes?
Today we went for the 20 week (well, 20 weeks and two days) scan at the hospital. Thankfully, everything was fine, even though we appear to have a wriggler - it wouldn’t stay still to let the nurse get a proper look! It also kept putting its hands over its face, which, although cute, didn’t really help.
We did manage to get a great picture when it finally calmed down though. I suspect it’s the ice lolly (onna stick - see the picture) it has that made it stop fidgetting…
So we’re just over the half-way stage! We bought some paint for the nursery last weekend. It’s blue, because although we don’t know (or want to know) if it’s a boy or a girl, it isn’t going to know, is it? Besides, the carpet and curtains are blue and we’re not changing them.
It’s the other sort of Bento. You know, the food not the database software. Tastes better than databases too!
Part of the “Go Elephants!” thing currently going on. I don’t really understand why it’s going on, but anyway.
After almost two years with the previous theme, I thought it was time for a bit of a change. Is this better? Worse?
OMG! Matthew Broderick looks about 7 years old!
The plot: boy “accidently” kicks off World War 3 by hacking into a military defence computer, thinking it’s part of a video game company, and playing “Global Thermonuclear War”. He’s arrested, escapes, finds a guy who was legally dead (who wrote the “games” on the computer), and obviously, saves the day.
I don’t even know where to begin with regards to the nonsensical way computers are portrayed. But then, every film involving computers as a major plot point has the same problem. At least here the issues (mainly to do with the conversations with the computer - no, really) are relatively minor. It’s not like Minority Report or anything.
But it was pretty good all the same. Especially Malvin the geeky bloke, who didn’t remind me of The Gubbins at all. Oh no.
Verdict: 3/5
