Everything should taste like bacon
Could be well worth waiting for - Radio 4's due to broadcast an adaptation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency starting in October, in six parts, with Harry Enfield in the lead, supported by Andrew Sachs and Billy Boyd, amongst others. For more reading, though, maybe the summer edition of Subterranean holds something of interest, free online, including Unrequited Love by Gene Wolfe, and Make a Joyful Noise by Charles de Lint, amongst other short stories. Via ![]() | Discworld wedding cake! |
Achewood finds the guy who made Comic Sans. =:) (Thanks to
Here's a dream journal with a difference - it's not about a dream as such, but a condition midway between dreaming and consciousness: the body, having just come from REM, remains in its normal state of paralysis, but the mind's beginning to rise from dreamland. You're unable to move, and may be perfectly awake otherwise, or might still be dreaming, overlaid on reality. The writer recounts the two times it's occurred to him.
On the other paw, the trailer for Get Smart provides some hope it could be good, though the writers don't have a particularly distinguished portfolio. Steve Carell seems like a good casting choice for the lead, though.
Musical discovery for the day has to be Wizoo's Xphraze, vaguely like a cross between Reaktor and Dimension Pro.
Found while researching a '56 Stratocaster library, "Fender now offers an extensive line of contemporary cutting-edge Stratocasters alongside vintage reissues, as well as maintaining a Custom Shop service that builds guitars to order. Those who wish period-accurate replicas can request Stratocasters with original-style cloth-coated wiring, pickup and electronics designs, wood routing patterns, and even artificial aging and oxidizing of components using the Custom Shop "relic" process."
Jobhunting's seldom the greatest thrill in life, but occasionally potential clients deviate from the usual turgid text, eg "Discovery Mining has a strict “must wear clothes” dress code".
By | Cheese sauce on cauliflower is a trusted classic, but if you want a pleasant variation on the theme, try adding a dash of horseradish to the sauce. ScaryGoRound, a neat comic with a drily gothic sense of humor, and mysteries far more convoluted than Scooby Doo. And it's daily, too. Not much to catch up on.. only five years' worth. ^_^; (And as a bonus, here's the style of the Diesel Sweeties artist when he's wielding a pencil rather than pixels; and one by Achewood's artist) A very, very puerile game. Be sure to read the comments as well. =:D So, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Quite reasonable, despite lacklustre direction and somewhat off-kilter pacing. I was sorry to see the loss incurred, but.. I suppose there'd been something of an aura of finality, in a Cowboy Bebop way. Witness the Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank, thanks to |
Appropriately, I learned of a current Radio 4 series, Hut 33, via the inimitably sensible
Not a bad deal: the new PSP will be sold with Daxter, a 1GB stick, and a Family Guy UMD, for $199. (And presumably less from places like Amazon)
Good article on the decline of the music industry. '"They left billions and billions of dollars on the table by suing Napster -- that was the moment that the labels killed themselves," says Jeff Kwatinetz, CEO of management company The Firm. "The record business had an unbelievable opportunity there. They were all using the same service. It was as if everybody was listening to the same radio station. Then Napster shut down, and all those 30 or 40 million people went to other [file-sharing services]."' I doubt I could ever cut it as a DJ. I wouldn't be able to resist giving everyone virtual whiplash in the abrupt changes in style in my playlists.. =:) This is what war does to people. Do not go to this link unless you're prepared. It's all work-safe; no images, just descriptions and accounts. |
Well, that's a bit of a nuisance.. I seem to be getting spurious errors with my Pioneer DVR-108, sometimes freezing about a minute into the disc writing. Not a huge matter, given Hyzenthlay's got an internal DVD-R, but it's always good to have multiple routes to the warren, so to speak. Perhaps its retirement is nigh - I could certainly use additional hard drive capacity. Though that's assuming the IDE-FW400 interface isn't the failing component. Certainly would be most welcome to be able to have all the sample libraries, Refills, and suchlike online.