A.K.A THE ONE WHERE LUPIN AND JIGEN FINALLY MEET. WOOOO.


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Which got grating REALLY fast. But anyway: New Lupin III episode, introducing everybody's favourite descendant of that folk hero they boiled in oil.


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Whathisname. Fedora. Chinbeard. Can draw in 0.3 seconds flat (and that number totally got a mention in the episode, gosh!).


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I have finally FINALLY FINALLY figured out how to smoothly play 10bit HD on this dying computer (it involved a billion new codecs, a new player, a lot of scary reconfiguration, halting just about every non-essential process, setting the el-configuration to High Performance, and also physically balancing the computer between my knees so that it ( Read more... )

You probably haven't the slightest idea of what's coming, do you. Like a squishy little earthworm cheerfully crossing a busy footpath.

There's gonna be a new Lupin III TV series starting in April! The first one since 1985! There's gonna be a Lupin TV show in my lifetime ( Read more... )

Finishing The Wire made me hungry for more well-written TV dramas. I've recently started watching two:

One's a historical South Korean drama known as The Great Queen Seondeok - it's got all the things I like (strong female characters, lavish costumes, high-end politics, great leaders, camp villains, etc.) but I'm only a few episodes in so I might ( Read more... )

Back in Bergen again - where I discovered a commode in the shower and the wires and bits of the water heater coiled up on the the bathroom floor. Not entirely certain what's going on there ( Read more... )

The universe is just overflowing with things that makes me happy these days!

There's the two previously-lost Doctor Who episodes from the sixties that have been discovered in Australia! I knew it! I knew the world wasn't so unfair that it'd leave us derived of Patrick Troughton in such a fabulous hat.


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For me, 2011 has been the Year of Learning To Appreciate Tea. After a lifetime of disappointment in the hot beverages department, this year I was finally introduced to one kind I didn't mind too much (Kentish apple loose leaf) and then I drank a cup every night until it had become an essential part of my daily routine ( Read more... )

You lure me in again with intriguing characters, well-written and exciting stories, moving drama, and promises of an asexual Doctor, and then we move on to season six and forget all that and instead it's all just rubbishMy God, we're reduced to pilfering plot elements from PotC: Dead Man's Chest now? And how exactly is the head writer in love with ( Read more... )