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The "Avatar 2" they'll never make
"Asteroid bombardment depopulates the planet Pandora. Lots of explosions, fire, lava. Once it cools off mining robots are sent in. The End."
Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. It is a very pretty film, and the 3D works well.
In the next film unobtanium can only be harvested by torturing cute puppies. Ok, cute puppies or cute kittens.
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Floods
Buses were unreliable this morning due to the flooding in Cork. Being my usual myopic self I didn't realise how bad it was till I got some photos on the internet. Still, I did notice a lot of people were walking this morning, and the traffic being gridlocked. I also heard comments about flooding, and given the river has been high recently and all ( Read more... ) -
Back from Gaelcon
So I made it back from Gaelcon last night, which I enjoyed. It has moved from Clontarf Castle hotel to D4 hotels in Ballsbridge.
I played mostly boardgames, which I find more reliable than RPG scenarios with a random referee at cons these days. I bought a bunch of stuff over the con, which I will sort out over the next few days - the Pegasus ( Read more... ) -
Strangely accurate
http://xkcd.com/627/
Far too close for comfort :) Still, knowledge base search is a critical modern skill . -
An inconvenient discovery
Q: what's worse than losing a banana
A: Finding it in the bottom of your backpack a week later
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funny webcomic
Funny tee hee rather than funny ha-ha, but I enjoyed it.
http://xkcd.com/575/
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Shiny new computer
It's been a while since I posted here. I'm writing this on my shiny new computer, which appears to be superfast even with Vista compared to the more elderly PCs I am used to, despite being a budget PC. The numbers associated it are huge compared to the first computers I used back in the 80s, or even compared to the computers I use on my course ( Read more... ) -
Oíche Shamhna Shona Dhaoibh go Léir
A Happy All Hallows Eve to everyone. -
A new boardgame, playing with logo
I bought a boardgame called Tomb recently, though i haven't had a chance to play it yet.
Anyway I did some editing of the logo to result in this:
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Old friends, 4e D&D
Another big gap since my last update. My internet service from Chorus/UPC has been spotty of late, apparently due to noise problems on the lines in my area. It's slowly improving ( Read more... )