Watching the Extended Collector's Cut of Avatar. Still ravished by the wildlife. "Making of..." v. cool. Story painful whenever it's anything beyond 'listening respectfully and learning' - I like all those scenes.

Moon v. beautiful. Finishing project report that's taken nearly a year to realize: priceless.

All my thoughts are with friends and colleagues in Sendai, throughout Japan, Taiwan, across the Pacific to Australia and New Zealand and all the Pacific island nations, and of course in Hawai'i: may you and yours be safe and secure.

...anyone else finding that notion faintly hilarious?

See launch of new search engine Blekko: http://blekko.com/ws/+/about?h=1

Yes, well, as a long-time aficionado and lurker here in the groves of fanfiction, I have despaired of finding a way to return pleasure to my favourite authors, in absence of any writing talent of my own ( Read more... )

...serendipitously in time for the start of Season 3.
Wonder how long they're planning on spinning out the story of Uther's court in Camelot...

Words just don't equal the machine of sophisticated rock, roll, r, and b sound that is Eric Clapton and his current collection of touring musicians: God's bar band. Really.

Eric Clapton: Royal Albert Hall, Saturday, 23 May 2009.

...I followed her over from lj (she graciously sent me an invite code).

hmm. [kicks wheelrims.] will take a while to feel out the difference between this and livejournal.

time to take my sore throat (NOT swine flu) to bed.

zz. zzz. zzzzz.

The Cherwell Boat House, next door to our flat in Wolfson College, launches splendid Guy Fawkes' fireworks displays over the Cherwell River. With a penthouse terrace flat we have prime seats: like sitting at eye-level with the core of the fire-flower ( Read more... )

All our futures seem so much brighter tonight.

...so I watched episode 1 of Atlantis season 5 on YouTube, because iTunes didn't seem to have it listed anywhere. Pretty damned displeased that no-one at iTunes could tell me if they would be selling it (this was the day before the premiere). Wasn't until I was looking on AppleTV for an old episode of Farscape that I noticed a "Stargate: Atlantis ( Read more... )