1 pack of Star Wars Force Unleashed collectible miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £14.99
2 issues of Wargamesd Illustrated, @ £4.00 each
1 issue of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, @ £3.95
Brontosaurus Rex RPG from eBay, @ £9.99 lost in post, money refunded by seller
Total: £26.94
Moffat to replace RTD in 2010.
Steven Moffat should be scared, very scared. If his Who is too much like RTD’s he’ll be damned, if it’s too different he’ll be damend, if every episiode isn’t up to the standard of ‘The Empty Child’ he’ll be damned. Some fans have built him as the solution to everything they dislike about the show that he can’t possibly meet their expectations.
I’m looking forward to the remaining stories that RTD has to tell and hope he continues to write scripts for Moffat; and I’m also looking forward to seeing what Moffat brings to the show when the time comes.
Oh, and the news story above mentions “four specials to be shown in 2009″. I think that’s just sloppiness and counting the 2008 Christmas special as well, unless anyone knows differently.
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The following is a list of Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning novels (not including retro-Hugos)
Bold the ones you’ve finished
Italicise the ones you’ve started but not finished
Underline the ones were you’ve seen the film/tv show
( Long list.... )
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The Music Intelligence Quiz
Your final score was 132/180
Mix-Tape Master (109-144 points)
You are a music evangelist: the person in your network of friends who always has the coolest new song, the one whose iPod gets picked to DJ every party. You understand the art of the segue, how the key to the best mix-tape isn’t just the songs you pick, but how they interlock with each other. You also know who the up-and-coming acts are and are quick to recognise where their influences lie and whether they will make it big. You work hard at the pursuit of this knowledge, scouring music blogs, magazines and record stores. Most importantly, you are generous with your passion – and your friends should be very, very grateful. Still, it’s always good to get new inspiration for your latest mix
Or… I’m just good at trivia.
mellow1 pack of Doctor Who micro-universe figures from Woolies, @ £9.99.
1 pack of Doctor Who micro-universe figures and 1 starship pack from the Doctor Who Exhibition, £18.98 total.
1 pack of Copplestone Castings Cavemen and 1 Walrus, @ £10.00
2 issues of Miniature Wargames, 1 @ £3.50 and 1 @ £3.70
Total: £46.17
Total for the quarter: £31.02 + £22.25 + £46.17 = £99.44 (Bang on budget - £100)
Went to see 10,000 BC this afternoon. Oh boy, history, biology, geography, astronomy - they all get a hammering in this film. I can’t be bothered to even start listing everything that was goofy here.
It was one of the most by-the-numbers renditions of (the easy to understand bits of) Joseph Campbell’s monomyth that I’d seen in a while. I smiled at the bemusement when hunter-gatherers first came across the evidence of agriculture, but of course in Campbell’s scheme there has to be a ‘boon’ to take back home at the end (sorry, that was a spoiler). There were also bits lifted from the Bible, Stargate, Conan and 300, just in case the mention of Campbell misled you into thinking there were highbrow sources being used.
The action and CGI were very good, the actors managed to keep straight face. It’s not a bad movie in the sense that it’s exciting and visual, but it’s certainly one to watch with the brain switched off.
Oh, by the way, the Doctor Who and Star Trek trailers look amazing on the big screen.
sleepyThis blog now has a theme tune courtesy of Brother Typewriter of the Burning Lodge.
Very True Things is a tribute to my friend Steve’s blog of the same name. The idea was to have a 16-note sequence running throughout the whole song and then play different stuff against that - which sort of worked, I think. Actually it was more to do with the fact that I couldn’t be bothered to write any more complex sequence in Moog Modular V. I am VLT - Very Lazy Thing.)
Thank you Howie, I think…
There’s a pro-creationism, anti-science movie called Expelled, in which a number of prominent scientists were conned into providing interviews by the producers describing a very different and more balanced movie. One of these scientists, PZ Myers, tried to attend a screening and was turned away on instructions from the producers, but there’s a twist. To see why this was as about a perfect own goal as can be, read his account of the evening.
chipperToday pink_weasel has been visiting her brother in his new flat. As said flat is in Bracknell, I declined. 
Though mostly I was just too knackered from a frustrating week at work and a lack of sleep. So I stayed at home and cleared out a cupboard, played some computer games (the final cut scene in Unreal Tournament 3 reminds me of the end of Blake’s 7) and chilled out.
The farmers’ market in West Norwood seems to be struggling. Only six stalls this week - two meat, one veg, one bread, two pointless.
My computer runs a lot better with the case open. This probably isn’t a good sign. Still, soon I’ll have a Wii to play with so the damn PC will be relegated to email checking only.
A puzzle: I got a £50 cheque from YouGov. I thought I only had half that amount on my account there and as I haven’t been able to log in for a few months (I’ve requested password resets but the email never arrives) I really don’t know what’s going on.
Hmph.
melancholyJust watched the first episode of Ashes to Ashes. Fun, in a slightly different way to Life on Mars and not sure whether it’s quite as good.
The fact that it doesn’t just replicate the previous serious but is taking the climax of that as a starting point is refreshing; it means that this time around the historical inaccuracies can be more openly incorporated into the storyline and played with. This may nominally be 1981 but it’s really an amalgam of all of Alex’s memories, accurate or otherwise, of the 1980s in general. For example, whilst I wouldn’t rule out the yuppie banker drug dealer he does seem to belong to a slightly later part of the decade, and more concretely - all those posters for Prince Charming? It was released six months after this episode was set.
And Gene Hunt is back. 
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