Archive - 2004 - Blog entry
That's the Dress Rehearsal for Sleeping Beauty done. Tomorrow we do it in front of a live audience. A sell out of 450 seats. The largest audience I've ever been infront of.
I'm not entirely sure that the Muppets should have been promoting the idea of children talking to strangers. Even if it was all of twelve years ago. It was a dangerous world even then.
ONE MORE SLEEP TILL CHRISTMAS
From the film "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992)
Sung by Kermit The Frog
There's magic in the air this evening
Magic in the air
The world is at her best, you know
When people love and care
The promise of excitment is one the night will keep
After all there's only one more sleep till Christmas
The world has gotta smile today
Temple of Raman Ran (Third Level)
Rex thought quickly. There was a rifle next to the overstuffed green kit-bags. And he has his handgun in his hand. The bulk of their little group was four figures. Enough to make the guards hesitate? No, they were soldiers, he realised. Turn and shoot, and hell breaks loose, reinforcements arriving within a minute. Sigh.
"Your jacket," he commanded Hamdija, helping him to take it off. Bemused, but still terrified of his captors, Hamdija struggled out of the too-small jacket
"Wait here," Rex muttered stepping out of the room, handgun at the ready, and started following the figures carefully. They were just in sight as the corridor curved back towards what must be the heart of the Temple. There were five of them plus their prisoner. Four looked like the normal guards, but the fifth towered over them by a skinny foot. Had Hamdija stolen his uniform it would no doubt have fit him a lot better.
BBC - Doctor Who - New Series Teaser
AHH!!!! Downloading....
I'm thinking of going to the cinema tomorrow night. Not sure what to see yet. These look interesting: Beyond The Sea (Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin of Mack the Knife fame), Churchill: The Hollywood Years 'History - Hollywood style!' and The Forgotten (Julianne Moore in what sounds like a riff on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).
Comment spam is one thing. Easily ignored. Offensive comments however ... nope, just as easy to ignore. I don't even need to delete them when they don't have the will to stand by their comments and supply a valid email address so they can confirm their post themselves. There is no reason why I should do it. Is it censorship?
Well I got through Komarr in just Saturday and Sunday, including taking about four to five hours out for a rehearsal in Sunday. Which makes it the eighth book in the last month. That's two books a week!
Temple of Raman Ran (Third Level)
"Oh sugar," said Diane, two guards searching the rooms. She tightened her grip on Hamdija in case the jumpy man were to attempt to make a break for it. She glanced around the room, was there any way that they could hide four people here? If not they might have another fight on their hands and her shoulder was still sore from last time. She hated to imagine the alarm that the sound of Rex's gun would raise if he fired it.
Rex stared hard at Hamdija's eyes, then stood up and holstered his gun.
"Hamdija, you able to help? The second one guard steps in, we cover his mouth and knock him down, then Morton says 'Clear'. When the other guard passes in front of the door, I step after him, he'll be expecting a figure to go after him and he won't realize until I knock him down."
He stands on one side of the entrance and signals Hamdija and Diane to stand on the other side and Nick to join him. "Morton, hide in the shadows!"
Nick leaned against the wall opposite Rex and whispered, "What if there are more than two of them? These nooks are on both sides of the--" He was cut of by a shout from one of the soldiers outside.
"There! Halt!" A brief pause then, "The ... fifth one the right."
I've finally sat down and installed a spam/virus filter on Kemitix.net. I might start reading my email a bit more often now. I used amavis-new using clamav and SpamAssassin. At least it's claiming to. Despite enabling SA, I'm not seeing any evidence of it doing anything, other that nibbling at the processor each time a mail arrives. It isn't catching the spam, or even reporting in the headers that it even saw the main. Amavisd is however.
