May
04
2006
- I’ve been covering, cataloguing and stamping books all afternoon. My hands feel icky, despite having been just washed. Not dirty, but sorta gritty or something.
- IT guy came down to blow up some computers.
That’s only half a joke. He actually came down to take a look at the two that just won’t switch on. So he goes down, does something[1] and there is this huge bang[2] like a bomb just went off or something. All the students go “woah, dude”[3] and he wanders back up to me. “Yup, they’re on fire. I’ll get them replaced tomorrow.”[4]
- Veronica Mars season 2 dvd has, and I quote “amazing extras”. Now, I know that’s got you interested. What could they be? Special money releasing devices, cause that’d be amazing. Or the cast in miniature so they could do extra scenes just for you? Which’d be equally amazing.
Sadly, no. The extras are Behind the scenes featurette, gag reel and deleted scenes. All good, but hardly amazing. From that srticle it also seems likely that it has gotten picked up for a third season. But not definite yet.
- the end
Linknotes:
- who knows what, it is that arcane IT dept ↩
- look, I’ve said it before, exaggeration is a GOOD thing ↩
- again with the lying but I can’t help it ↩
- what do you mean you want truth? Okay so, some power-thingy is fried most likely due to a power surge. he’ll fix it tomorrow, maybe ↩
May
04
2006
Alien: the director’s cut was on Sky One last night[1] although I couldn’t really tell you what the difference is between that and the theatrical release as I haven’t seen it in a while. And I missed the first half cause I didn’t know it was on.
It is still a good film, still makes you jump, but aren’t those special effects really noticeable. And the cutting between fake robot Ash and real actor Ash were very obvious.
Although, that didn’t really detract from the film[2] Not the way the ropey cgi in Narnia did. Possibly because the effects were very much secondary[3] to the story. Even the alien didn’t look all that great, and in comparison to a lot of films today, the ending wasn’t very climactic was it?
There are posters up all over town with pictures of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, and underneath a sentence reads “murdered by British Imperialists”. Makes me want to print off a picture of Michael Collins with the line murdered by betrayers of the Irish Republic[4]
Course he wasn’t, he was killed in military action. And the leaders of the 1916 Rising weren’t murdered either. They were executed for a failed uprising against the government of the time. Semantics?
Work is busy busy busy. Loads of students around, and quite a few of the lecturers are cleaning out their offices before summer and bringing down donations[5] for the library. I’ve two rather large piles of books to be added to the catalogue. But because it is exam time the students who work in the library are on reduced hours, understandably, and so I don’t have that much time away from the desk.
I’m probably way behind on my paperwork too[6]
Linknotes:
- with surprisingly few ad breaks. Do Sky show less when it is a film? ↩
- not like Jar-Jar ↩
- see previous mention of a certain prequel trilogy ↩
- - course it wasn’t a republic back then, but *shrug* ↩
- and very late returns ↩
- - is there a more stereotypical complaint in the world? ↩
