Lamenting the loss of “Jack O’Neill” from cult-favourite sci-fi “Stargate SG-1”. This Cameron Mitchell character is fully sub-par.
Wonder if I’ll finally stop watching a series because its gotten too bad, or if I’m adequately hooked by 8 preceding series…? I suspect I’m hooked, and will watch in the hope that Richard Dean Anderson will make a return…
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Cripes, been a long time since I’ve blogged. Work, as ever, takes responsibility for my crapness (as well as my ongoing addiction to DotA: oh, ok, so its my own fault).
It has been busy: sorting out plumbing nightmare, organising birthday celebs (for Nov!) preparing for parents abortive trip to London (now postponed…), failing to get my shinsplints pounded with ultrasonic waves — despite some efforts. And doing some reading – have finished Zadie Smith’s newest book now – which I loathed and was compelled by simultaneously. A more complete post on that later on…
Also finished Ian Irvine’s “View from the Mirror” series… which, while being really really badly written, was a great story. Looking forward to starting the Geomancer series next…
…it’s quite exciting really. Vic Keegan’s blog about it is quite interesting reading… reminds my of my journalism years… Ah, those were… well, days at any rate.
Much as it seemed like a pointless relaunch (I understand the supposed reasoning behind the move to the Berliner format but it seemed primarily about being perversely different from the other “broadsheets”), and much though I agree with Chris that the masthead is moderately hideous, it does looks like it hangs together well. Look forward to seeing the paper tomorrow.
I do wish they’d be marginally less self-congratulatory about it (Vic’s blog, at least, reads honestly) but I guess that’s marketing for you.
Wohoooooo! I managed to get the Amazon media manager plugin to work almost by myself! Admittedly, it took some help from Chris once again, but I was able to fiddle and google until I’ve got it to display, albeit in a slightly ugly fashion. I will fix this eventually (probably with Chris’ help), but I’ll need to learn about CSS first…
Last night, we celebrated our win of the CIPR’s PR agency of the year award with a great dinner and evening at Soho House. It does continually surprise me how well we get on as an agency, and at how much genuine happiness there was for each others good news – the award, engagements and pregnancies and such like.
Although this is my first workplace, I suspect that David Brent, Ally McBeal and the like had prepared me to be a bit more cynical about the office environment… And its nice not to have cynicism justified, for once.
Was a huge achievement for the agency; as a relative newcomer (5 years old this year) and a specialist agency to win the overall agency award. We really do rock.
Damn. Just finished Harry Potter 6, and am now singularly blue.
Can never make up my mind if those books are good or not, but was definitely enjoyable, and upsetting to finish it. The entire 600 pages was only about 4 hours reading time (somewhat disconcerting), but I think I am – much as I dislike re-reading novels – going to have to plough through the whole set before I read book 7.
Yes he does. What a film.
Had a huge time watching this last night (even if an IMAX cinema was possibly the wrong place to see it).
It is massively entertaining. Words fail me. They might help me out again tomorrow, when I’m not running late for work…!
For rubbish posting once again.
I’ve become slightly addicted to a few things. Work, which continues to be entertaining, exciting, exchilarating and exhausting, hanging out with my girl, which is all the same (minus exhausting), and playing the entirely addictive DoTA, a video game Noel (aka cmorbutt) introduced me to a few months back. It sucks the life out of you.
Have also been on a few good walks lately (good to escape London) and am off to Edinburgh in a couple of weeks to celebrate my sister’s graduation with her (she done good!).
All good, really. Will try to be more regular, but its probably sensible not to make any promises…
I’ve only heard Beverly Hills so far, but its really good.
I’ve just seen a preview screening of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Wanting to spare you all from spoilers, I will just say this: it is good. I mean, really, genuinely good — still plagued by some of George Lucas’ ineptitude concerning how men and women (and human beings generally) interact; but good action, good story development, and really getting into the mood the first trilogy had.
Well done, Georgie boy. You may have redeemed yourself somewhat.