I'd forgotten how funny it is. 

On the third (at least) watching of Age of Ultron I finally notice that when Tony Stark selects a new interface for his Iron Man AI and picks "Friday", another one he discards is labelled "Jocasta". Of course you clever people already notice that but it made my evening (i'm easily pleased).

From the moment the first trailer appeared I knew this was a film  I was going to see... when it appeared free on terrestrial TV. Last night Channel 4 gave me that opportunity ( Read more... )

I am now 53. Not that that's a problem, after all, don't they say "53 - that's the new 47!" ? They don't? Bugger ( Read more... )

Whosoever, be he worthy, that can pick up the threads of ten previous films and foreshadow the next ten films while still managing to present some kind of a story in the film he's actually making, he shall be the rightful king of Hollywood.

So we went to see Age of Ultron

Mild spoilers but nothing specific or good one-liners
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...it's time to talk about cricket ( Read more... )

Have joined Corflu (just me).
Have joined Dysprosium (all of us).

We - or I - look forward to seeing many of you in March and April. Yes, even you...

In Leicester to do some domestic stuff involving John Lewis but in between...

•  Drinking Oakham Inferno at the Slug & lettuce in Market Street. Stopped drinking Oakham's when they got a supermarket deal and their stuff (especially JHB) didn't seem the same but this was fine. Unfortunately the Blue Monkey Marmoset was off. Tragic that Waterstones ( Read more... )

Have to traipse down to the Co-op for yeast so can make pizza dough. Or no pizza. All pizza available to cook at home not made by self is crap. Grudging approval for self's pizza ( Read more... )

You'll notice I said I was relying on information from someone else when I made the call. I deal in policy and strategy and the error was clearly an operational matter.

For next assistant I call Janet Street Porter.