♠ There's nothing like watching all three Jurassic Park movies in one sitting, for demonstrating just how fantastic the first one is and exactly how awful the second and third are. The descent from science fiction to monster moive is one of the main reason why the transition movie (2) sucks worse than 1 and 3, but there's also a very obvious slip ( Read more... )

Obviously, sending this unsolicited didn't bear any fruit - I didn't really think it would - but here's that thing I wrote for a science communication workshop before going to Belgium ( Read more... )

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  Misheard lyrics: Oh, four tuna
  
  I'm only about half way doen the first page of my friends list and already I have two vids of the day.
  
  (tags: vids humour)
  
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  Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
  
  I wasn't welcome watching the first because I complained about the historic inaccuracies...
  
  (tags: vids dinosaurs movies)
  
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  If women like sex ( Read more... )

Good afternoon, Livejournal! How are you today? What's that, you say? Xenophobic? Oh dear. Luckily I can't report you for hate speech, because LJ's policy only lets me report for hatred of a particular ethnic, religious or ethnic group, so you're safe there.*

OK, OK, I'll stop being facetious and give you the answers to the question meme. Still ( Read more... )

It's been a week in which I just can't get away from Creationism. Not that I generally try very hard.

First davegodfrey took away a morning by linking me to LOLCreashun, based on the pictures scalzi took on his reader-sponsored trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. That museum in question is painful, but also so ridiculously stupid it's hard to take it ( Read more... )

It'd be nice if lunar eclipses happened when a) there were fewer clouds b) it was actually nighttime in the reasonable part of the world ( Read more... )

Oi, Hollywood.

Keep your greasy grimey paws off both my profession and my childhood, please.

I'll be over here, snuggling Cera and remembering scenes like this:

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Happy Birthday Verilon!Still one of the dearest people in the world to me, for all we rarely talk, I miss you, you crazy boy ( Read more... )

( It's possible I'm disturbed )

The weekend's been a good weekend. There was ninja-fighting with apiphile, requiem2adream and rowanberries and some young people who tried really hard to shag us, I think.

Pictures follow.

( Not in any way dial-up friendly )