Archive - 2005 - Blog entry
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has come to an agreement with the North Pole to permit Santa Claus and his reindeer exclusive use of the Shuttle Landing Facility on Christmas Eve.
The jolly fellow plans to use the runway as a rest stop on his global gift-delivery run. Since Kennedy employees have never seen Santa during his past visits, they'll closely watch the runway in hopes of catching a glimpse of him this year.
The kids are getting tall. I feel old.
Goblet is a thick tome compared to the previous three installments. Almost as big as all three combined. Given that each of the previous films had been forced to pare the story down somewhat to fit, there was always going to be large portions missing from the film. This is going to be a trend for the next two or three films, as the books don't get any shorter.
After watching Goblet I'm severely tempted to go back and re-read the book to fill in the gaps that the film had to leave out. I can't remember what that was, as it is four years since I read the first four books.
IGN: Top 25 Sci-Fi Movies of All-Time
25. Captain EO
- never seen this
24. Gattaca
- Uma Thurman and Genetic Profiling gone mad
23. Contact
- Jodie Foster builds up great to a missing climax
22. Planet of the Apes
- There should only have been one
21. Brazil
- Gilliam at his best.
20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Jim Carrey really can act.
19. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- still to see, but Angelina in uniform *drool*
I'm not going to compare Peter Jackson's film to any of the previous versions that have been made. It has been so long since I last saw any of them that I wouldn't be able to do so fairly.
Sign of Intelligence found within the U.S. Judicial System in Pennsylvania:
Advocates of 'Intelligent Design' Vow to Continue Despite Ruling
A federal judge's ruling in Pennsylvania that "intelligent design" is religious fundamentalism dressed in the raiment of science has wounded a politically influential movement.
The aroma of burning plastic and metal is wafting through my kitchen at the moment. Not the most appetizing scent to accompany the Lamb Steaks on the grill. My Microwave oven has finally given up the ghost. Flashing blue-white lights inside and, when I opened it a tiny flame curling around the element.
I have been meaning to buy a new one for a while, but this one just kept soldiering on. Guess I'll be buying myself another present this Buy-Me-Something-Month.
It has been a very busy and emotional week.
On Tuesday night last week my Aunt Margaret passed away quietly in her sleep at 60. She had been ill for some time. It was only earlier this year that she had been diagnosed with Cancer.
I found out on Thursday morning. I had been in the opening night of Mother Goose the night before. The energy buzz I get from a show meant that I had stayed up almost the whole of the night, finally getting to bed around 6.00am. I spent the day watching episodes of House, M.D. and had a guid greet at the end of the episode with the childhood Cancer.
A sound clip of those two curmudgeons has been used to close out (Cool) Shite on the Tube. I'm not sure which character is which, but I've transcribed the lines separating the left and right voices.
Left: That was wonderful!
Right: Bravo!
Left: I loved that.
Right: Ah it was great.
Left: Well it was pretty good.
Right: Well it wasn't bad.
Left: There were parts of it that weren't very good though.
Right: It could have been a lot better.
Left: I didn't really like it.
Right: It was pretty terrible.
Left: It was bad.
I got home from work today to find a nice surprise waiting for me. Sitting there was a jiffy-bag that seamed to slosh as I picked it up. Opening it, the blood oozed out onto my hands. And I was happy.
Earthcore had arrived.
I've been working slowly on this Ajax plug-in for CGI::Application (spiffy new project name coming soon). My original idea had been to build a JavaScript client based on a configuration file. I've since rejected that idea. I had also been including a few different JavaScript libraries (prototype, behaviour, script.aculo.us and rico). Again, I've rejected that functionality for a number of reasons.
