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Stuff has happened. For instance, I've been in Helsinki recently. While there, I played Guitar Hero, switched to Linux on my laptop, saw Gjallarhorn for free at the World Village Festival and generally had a great time with a small bunch of utterly wonderful people-shaped beings.
I was very skeptical about Guitar Hero, but it's simply awesome! All my doubts scattered instantly as I sweat out the first fumbling notes, because the thing with that game is that even if you're shitty at it, you're still having fun. What made it even better was the face-offs and collaborative playing you could have when you have two "guitars". Song selection's a bit iffy on Guitar Hero 2, but I can cheerfully admit that even the crappiest 80's hair metal wankery becomes great when you're playing it on a plastic axe and actually hitting right notes.
I could say something about how things have been with my new operating system, but perhaps I'll leave that whinge fest for later. I have a few things that irk me still, but it's not the fault of the OS, but rather because of my own lack of knowledge. I'll smooth over those few wrinkles somehow, eventually. But all in all, I'm very happy with it. And yeah, I'd prefer to install Linux to the tabletop computer as well. It might be silly, but it feels like this OS gives me room to breathe. MS Windows is restricted, patronising and very claustrophobic in comparison and it pushes my paranoia buttons too damned effectively. Good fucking riddance!
Oh yeah, saw PotC 3 (no spoilers). In the end, it was worth the ticket and it had some fantastic moments of swashbucklery that I wouldn't have wanted to miss, but yeah... I still have to gripe that it was bloated, heavy-handed and at times so hokey it made me wish for the sudden intrusion of railroad spikes into my cerebral cortex. But props, costuming and set design were very detailed, atmospheric and brilliantly in the spirit of swashbuckling adventure. Geoffrey Rush kicked all kinds of unworthy arse and Chow Yun Fat did something enjoyable with the flimsy material he was given, but ultimately he, like some other characters (carefully now...), was wasted.
While I'm at this livejournaling thing, congratulations to skinship for arriving on this mud ball twenty odd years ago! I'm sorry that I couldn't darken your doorstep to steal a piece of that cake type thing, though. And I'll be bribing you with a gift later. :/ I hope the Re-Animator headlined cracky movie night is still classified as a thing that will happen in the nearish future.
And: I stepped on a ring today in my flat and even though it's something I'd happily stick into a dread (...once they've grown back again), it definitely isn't mine. It's silver, has two snakes as decoration and has an open back. Looks like it might've dropped off from someone's toe. Sound familiar? If so, you'll get it back when I come home from Muonio in a few weeks.
I was very skeptical about Guitar Hero, but it's simply awesome! All my doubts scattered instantly as I sweat out the first fumbling notes, because the thing with that game is that even if you're shitty at it, you're still having fun. What made it even better was the face-offs and collaborative playing you could have when you have two "guitars". Song selection's a bit iffy on Guitar Hero 2, but I can cheerfully admit that even the crappiest 80's hair metal wankery becomes great when you're playing it on a plastic axe and actually hitting right notes.
I could say something about how things have been with my new operating system, but perhaps I'll leave that whinge fest for later. I have a few things that irk me still, but it's not the fault of the OS, but rather because of my own lack of knowledge. I'll smooth over those few wrinkles somehow, eventually. But all in all, I'm very happy with it. And yeah, I'd prefer to install Linux to the tabletop computer as well. It might be silly, but it feels like this OS gives me room to breathe. MS Windows is restricted, patronising and very claustrophobic in comparison and it pushes my paranoia buttons too damned effectively. Good fucking riddance!
Oh yeah, saw PotC 3 (no spoilers). In the end, it was worth the ticket and it had some fantastic moments of swashbucklery that I wouldn't have wanted to miss, but yeah... I still have to gripe that it was bloated, heavy-handed and at times so hokey it made me wish for the sudden intrusion of railroad spikes into my cerebral cortex. But props, costuming and set design were very detailed, atmospheric and brilliantly in the spirit of swashbuckling adventure. Geoffrey Rush kicked all kinds of unworthy arse and Chow Yun Fat did something enjoyable with the flimsy material he was given, but ultimately he, like some other characters (carefully now...), was wasted.
While I'm at this livejournaling thing, congratulations to skinship for arriving on this mud ball twenty odd years ago! I'm sorry that I couldn't darken your doorstep to steal a piece of that cake type thing, though. And I'll be bribing you with a gift later. :/ I hope the Re-Animator headlined cracky movie night is still classified as a thing that will happen in the nearish future.
And: I stepped on a ring today in my flat and even though it's something I'd happily stick into a dread (...once they've grown back again), it definitely isn't mine. It's silver, has two snakes as decoration and has an open back. Looks like it might've dropped off from someone's toe. Sound familiar? If so, you'll get it back when I come home from Muonio in a few weeks.